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Jun
24
2024

How to Work Around a Broken Keyboard Key on a Windows 10 PC

Method 1: Remap the Key with Software Using Microsoft’s free PowerToys utility for Windows 10, you can assign the function of a broken key to another you don’t use often, like the Scroll or Caps Lock, or a function key. To do this, download Microsoft PowerToys, if you don’t already have it. After you launch it, click “Keyboard Manager” in the sidebar, and then click “Remap a key.” We’ll use Esc as the broken key in our example, an.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Get Someone Off Your Best Friends List on Snapchat

How Does Snapchat’s “Best Friends” Work? Your Best Friends list on Snapchat keeps track of the people you chat with most often. It appears at the top of your main friends list, making those users more accessible when you’re sending a new snap. But how does Snapchat calculate who your Best Friends are? It’s pretty simple. You may have noticed that every user has a Snap Score a measure of the total number of Snaps sent and received since joining. A similar score is.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Find Your Router’s IP Address

What Is My Router IP Address For? While some routers use text-based URLs, many use an IP address that you can use in your browser to access the device’s admin panel. In this panel, you can change settings, install firmware updates, troubleshoot issues, and configure your preferences. However, the only way to know your router’s IP address for sure is to directly check it through a connected device like your computer. Otherwise, you’ll be stuck typing in all the variations of c.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Get a Tethered Android Connection On Any Carrier, Anytime

A Note About Tethering The below apps will allow you to use the tethering feature without paying your carrier any additional money, but you’ll still have the same data limit you normally would. If you have limited data and go above your allowance, your carrier will charge you extra or throttle you as if you’d used the same amount of data from your phone. All the below apps do is bypass the additional fee that carriers charge to actually use this data from another device. Carriers s.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Fix Android’s Bad Performance and Awful Design

What is TRIM, Anyway? We need to explain what TRIM is, before elaborating on how the LagFix app eliminates latency experienced on Android devices: Your solid state storage device doesn’t actually erase files, even through you’ve uninstalled or removed them. This is a peculiarity native to solid state storage. Erased files are simply invisible to the operating system. TRIM command is a Linux executable that solves this issue by making erased files visible, and thus eraseable. If the.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Change the Boot Order on Your PC (So You Can Boot From USB)

Why You Might Want to Change Boot Order There are various reasons why you might want to change the boot order. For instance, you might have added a new hard disk drive and want to use it as your primary boot device; changing the boot order will enable you to install your operating system. Alternatively, you might have problems booting Windows. Setting an optical drive or USB drive as the primary device will allow you to use a disc, flash storage, or external HDD to provide assistance to recov.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Use Microsoft Teams

What Is Microsoft Teams? Microsoft Teams is a collaboration and communication platform for businesses, professional teams, and organizations. Users switch between multiple teams on the app, each with their own members and channels. Microsoft Teams is an alternative to Slack, but also includes a range of additional features thanks to its compatibility with other Microsoft apps and software. A few of Microsoft Teams’ features include: Text channels that Team members can join and follow.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Set Up BitLocker Encryption on Windows

How to Encrypt a Drive with BitLocker To use BitLocker for a drive, all you really have to do is enable it, choose an unlock method password, PIN, and so on, and then set a few other options. Before we get into that, however, you should know that using BitLocker’s full-disk encryption on a system drive generally requires a computer with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) on your PC’s motherboard.  You can encrypt a non-system drive or removable drive without TPM and without havin.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Stop Spam Emails in Gmail

1. Use the Block and Report Spam Features Gmail has a few tools built into the service that allows you to report spam and block annoying senders. They’re the easiest way to cut off spam that keeps coming from one address. To report a message as spam, first, open it as normal. Click the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of the message and find the Report spam button. Doing so will report it to Google and send it to your spam folder. On the same menu, you’ll find a Block &ldquo.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Download Your Gmail MBOX Data and What to Do With It

Step 1: Download Your Gmail Data With Google Takeout First, you need to download the export of your Gmail data from Google Takeout. By default, all of your Google service data will be selected, so this includes stuff like Chrome and Drive. If you just want Gmail, click Deselect all at the top of the list. Scroll down to Mail and tick the box. You will see that the MBOX format has been selected. You can click this, but you cannot change the format for Mail, though you can for other Google serv.

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