Tired of that boring sound your Windows computer makes when it boots up? There are two things you can do about updating your Windows 10 startup sound. You can either turn off the startup sound or change it to your preferred jingle. Better yet, you can take things up a notch by customizing the Windows 10 startup sound. Perhaps to your favorite song or the theme song of your favorite TV show....
Google Chromecast is one of the best devices to cast videos on your TV from your mobile device. The problem is, it can only store one wireless network at a time. This means that if you change your Wi-Fi network or password, your Chromecast will need to be reconnected. But don’t worry, it’s easy. In this article, we’ll show you how you can change your Wi-Fi network on Chromecast. This guide should work for Chromecast with Google TV, Chromecast 3rd Gen and older, and Chromecast Audio....
Let’s be honest, Google Chrome’s default theme is nothing to write home about. Sure, every once in a while to celebrate a holiday or global event, Google will change their logo to match, giving us a sliver of something visually appealing. Yet, it’s nothing more than flair. Where’s the personalization? Investing in Google Themes really allows your personality to shine. Quickly spruce up your Chrome theme with varying colors and characters to add to the homepage, new tab background, search bar and bookmarks tab....
If your Apple TV is not responding , it’s probably because the remote is out of charge. All Apple TV and Siri Remotes have a rechargeable battery, so you just need to connect the remote to a charging source. This tutorial will show you how to do it if you’ve never charged your Apple TV remote. Find and Use a Charging Cable Your Apple TV or Siri Remote does not come with a charging cable, but you can easily use one from another device you own....
The Apple Watch is one of the most advanced wearables out there, passing any Fitbit or smartwatch on the market. On average, a single charge of the Apple Watch should last 18 hours. The charge will last through a typical day of heavy use, but if you moderate your use to only a few basic tasks—checking steps and text messages, for instance—you can potentially get two days of use out of a single charge....
Keyboards will get dirty, no matter how careful you might be. Dust naturally makes its way onto your keyboard and between the keys. Crumbs from a hastily-eaten muffin as you rush to meet your deadline can fall beneath the spacebar. If your Macbook keyboard isn’t responding like it used to, it might be time to clean it. The key is doing it the right way. If you don’t know how to clean your Macbook Pro, you could end up causing further damage instead of clearing away grime....
If your preferred web browser on the iPhone or iPad fails to display sites correctly or behaves unusually, the chances are that an obsolete web cache is at play. Clearing it can help resolve the issue since the action forces the browser to fetch up-to-date site data in subsequent visits. Read on to learn how to clear the cache on all major browsers—Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc.—for the iPhone and iPad....
IMG and ISO files are two common disk image file formats. They are often used to store, distribute, or backup the content and file system of optical discs (CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc) to another disc or device. Despite having many similarities and practical usage, ISO is widely accepted as the standard/format for disc images. ISO files are compatible with almost all operating systems (OS) as well as disk burning software....
One of the best ways to hear the music you love is to collect songs in a playlist. We’ll show you how to create a playlist on Apple Music so you can listen to your favorite tunes anytime. You can set up several playlists with different songs for holidays, romantic evenings, commuting, or just hanging out with friends. Remember, you can also share Apple Music playlists you create with pals who enjoy the same type of music....
Every Mac user knows the Dock—it sits at the bottom of the screen, giving you quick access to your favorite and currently open apps and folders. Using the Mac Dock shortcuts, you can launch Finder and Launchpad, throw files into the Trash folder, as well as access your Downloads folder directly. To keep your Dock icons tidy, you can begin to categorize the apps on your Dock into shortcut folders. This will let you organize the Dock better, reducing clutter and letting you focus on your most important apps....
The Apple Watch lets you reply to iMessage chats and text messages. Since it’s harder to type on a watch, saving a few customized replies lets you get back to people with just a couple of taps. You don’t want to be typing simple messages such as “I’ll call you back in a minute” over and over again. You can customize Apple Watch’s default replies and use these with the Messages app, Apple Mail, and Telegram....
Note : If you want to delete your purchase history, you can close the old account and create a new one. This way, you can start with a clean slate and build a new purchase history. Sign in with the Amazon account you want to delete. Click Help at the bottom of the page. Scroll down and click Browse Help Topics > Need More Help? Click Contact Us . At the top of the customer support page, click Prime or Something Else ....
Does your Apple Watch or Apple Watch Ultra have trouble communicating with your iPhone? Briefly cutting off the Bluetooth connection between the devices can help resolve various issues related to notifications and data syncing. This tutorial will guide you through disconnecting a watchOS device from an iPhone. Disconnect Apple Watch From iPhone Your Apple Watch automatically disconnects from your iPhone when it’s outside Bluetooth range (~30 feet). However, there’s a much easier way to cut the connection; just turn off Bluetooth on the watchOS device....
Sixty-five million developers and three million organizations can’t be wrong. Hosting over 200 million code repositories, GitHub is the development platform of choice for individual coders and companies across the globe. Developers use GitHub to build, maintain, and even distribute their software so users like you can download files and view code straight from GitHub. GitHub makes it easy to download and view an app’s source code. This guide will show you how to directly download files from GitHub’s website so you can view a project’s code yourself....
If you organize files, you probably have a web of folders and subfolders holding all your data. If you ever find that you’ve over-organized a bit, you might want to merge two folders into one. But changing an existing folder structure is trickier than it sounds. There is no folder merge button to combine multiple folders– you need to manually go into every directory, press Ctrl + A to select all files, create new folders at the destination, and copy-paste the files....
Google Docs is a very flexible word processor in many ways, but what many people don’t realize is that you can embed HTML into a Google doc. There are several ways to do this. One is to actually copy an HTML document straight from a browser and paste it into a Google Doc. The other is a trick using the importHTML function in Google Sheets to customize HTML formatting that you can then embed into a Google document....
Despite being slow, outdated, and a security risk, you still need Internet Explorer (IE) for older websites and apps that don’t play well with modern browsers. But if you use Microsoft Edge for normal web browsing , you don’t have to keep switching between the two. That’s because the latter comes with an integrated Internet Explorer Mode capable of rendering sites in IE’s Trident MSHTML engine. However, before you can use Microsoft Edge to load legacy web content, you must activate Internet Explorer Mode....
There are times when you may need to bypass a lost admin password through a reset of your Windows 10 PC to a clean slate. If you’ve been given an old PC with an existing user account, you may not have the details you need to wipe your PC and repurpose it. To factory reset Windows 10 without the admin password, you’ll need to follow these steps. How To Factory Reset Windows 10 From The Login Screen If you don’t have the admin password for a Windows PC, you can reset Windows 10 easily from the login screen....
One thing I’ve always enjoyed about working in IT over the last 8 years is trying to successfully find a solution to tough Windows error messages. I’ve written about many before, such as The Device Cannot Start , Stop: 0x00000F4 error blue screen , etc. Another one I came across recently was the following: Microsoft (C) Register Server has stopped working I got this message when trying to register a DLL using the regsvr32 command from the command line on Vista Ultimate x64....
Do you keep running into an “NVIDIA Installer cannot continue” error when attempting to install or update your PC’s NVIDIA drivers ? It typically shows up when the NVIDIA installer detects incompatibilities with Windows, the graphics card, or both, even when it shouldn’t. Several techniques can help you fix the “NVIDIA Installer cannot continue” error on Windows 10 and 11. This troubleshooting guide will walk you through each of them step by step....
