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Hidden Netflix Streaming Settings While you’re watching Netflix on your PC, hit Shift + Alt on your keyboard and left-click your mouse on the screen. That opens a diagnostics window that contains several playback options and settings you can tweak. Note: On a Mac, hit Shift + Option and left-click the mouse to get the same thing. For streaming issues, open the Stream Manager and select Manual Selection, and set the buffering rate that works best for your situation....

Startup Programs in Old Task Manager To manage startup items in Vista or Windows 7, you click Start » Run and type: msconfig. Then under the Startup tab, check or uncheck what you wanted to run. Startup Programs in Windows 8 Task Manager While you can access Task Manager via the MSConfig utility in Windows 8, there’s an easier way. Actually, there are a few easier ways: Hit Ctrl + Alt + Del on your keyboard and select Task ManagerHit WinKey + X on your keyboard and select Task Manager from the so-called power user menuRight click the Taskbar on the Desktop and click Task ManagerFrom the Start Screen type: task man then select Task Manager under the results...

The handy thing is that you don’t have to rack your imagination to figure out what the world would be like without everybody’s favorite system of tubes. The folks at http://www.onlineeducation.net/ have done all the research and in what is destined to become a classic infographic, they’ve told us exactly how our world would be without the Net. It’s not a pretty picture, but all the same, we’re happy to pass the graphic along to you: Via: OnlineEducation....

Jumping right to the end — everything is fine; it is not a virus. Nearly the opposite of a virus, it’s a Windows Update process. Above all, the process updates and keeps Windows 10 security with the latest updates. What is MoUsoCoreWorker.exe? MoUsoCoreWorker.exe is a replacement file for wuauclt.exe related to Windows updates. A long and complicated name for a file, the part of the file name ‘Uso’ stands for; Update Session Orchestrator....

What Is SearchIndexer.exe? According to Microsoft’s definition given in Process Explorer, the process: In other words, it indexes a good portion of the files on your computer so that they will quickly show up in searches done from the Start Menu or Explorer Windows Search. This process was created by Microsoft and comes standard with all versions of Windows. How Does SearchIndexer Affect My System’s Performance? The answer to this will vary depending on what version of Windows you are running....

Block Installation of Desktop Apps To find this feature you’ll need to be running Windows 10 Insider build 15042 or higher. Head to Settings > Apps > Apps & features and then click the first drop-down menu under Choose where apps can be install from. Here you’ll find three options. The first on the list is “Allow apps from anywhere” and is the default. This means you can install desktop apps from sources other than the Windows Store just like you have always been able to do with Windows....

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16193 Story Remix is an improvement to the Photos app that makes it easy to create video stories from your photos and videos. It’s available in today’s new build and Insiders can check out the new features right away. The app analyzes your content to find collections automatically and bring it together into video stories with a theme, soundtrack, and transitions. If you don’t like how the automatic feature works you can edit them yourself manually....

You’ll probably see some other security patches come your way with this update today, too. Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB3124263 There aren’t any major new features in this update, but it does include minor OS improvements and bug fixes. At the time of this writing, Microsoft hasn’t included any notes for the update yet on its Support page, but we’ll update this story when they come in. Microsoft has updated its KB Support page and includes the following: There is also a known issue for Windows 10 users running Citrix XenDesktop not offering the update....

Windows 10 Build 17134 The dev team found a major bug in Build 17133 that had reliability issues and caused many systems to BSOD and decided to hold off on the release. The earlier detected bugs should be fixed with this new build, and it’s likely this will be the actual final version of Redstone 4 that rolls out to everyone. In a new blog post for Insiders, Dona Sarkar notes: “Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17134 (RS4) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring....

First, simply plug in the USB external hard drive into the WHS machine. Plug in the power if the drive came with one. Here I’m using a 2TB Fantom Green Drive. Launch the Windows Home Server Console on one of the computers on your network. The new drive will be listed under Non Storage Hard Drives. Right-click the drive and click Add. In the Server Storage panel, notice there’s only 21 percent of total storage space available....

Editor Update 5/12/21 — Windows Live Photo Gallery is no longer supported. Found on the Create section on the Live Photo Gallery 2011 ribbon is two groovy features: Panorama and Photo Fuse. But it also serves as a gateway to a plethora of plug-ins and photo tools that really take Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 beyond a basic picture and video organization program. Let’s take a look at all of the goodies on the Create Ribbon....

But even though something will be missing from the event next week, there will be plenty to talk about. Here’s a quick roundup of what to look for from San Francisco. New Macs – Barring a big Apple TV surprise, this is likely to be the sole big hardware announcement next week. According to 9to5 Mac, the rumor is that a new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac Pro could be announced on stage....

YouTube on Fire TV in Firefox or Silk Browser Earlier this month, when you would launch the YouTube app on Fire TV or Echo Show, you would see the following message indicating that the change wouldn’t take place until January 1st. If you haven’t installed either one, you’ll be brought to the app store to download.The experience is annoying and clunky at best. Each time you want to use the YouTube app, you will see the message above and need to pick the browser to open it with....

While this might not sound that exciting to watch your typical YouTube video uploader, live entertainment such as concerts, sporting events, and interviews that normally aren’t professionally published online will now have an outlet. YouTube Live is stepping dangerously close to cable television, and thus far without any commercials; though DirectTV can rest easy until actual premium content starts showing up. YouTube has yet to announce an advertising plan for their live service, so we’ll have to wait and see....

iTunes and other popular music libraries use tags in order to sort songs by title, artist, and album. Normally a song has all the necessary tags already included in it’s own mp3 file, but sometimes those lines are left blank. When a tagless mp3 file comes up, iTunes won’t be able to tell you anything about the song, save for maybe the title of the filename. You can customize and fill in tag data yourself, but the problem is figuring out which is the best program to get the job done with....

Add Quick Launch to Windows Context Menu First use the keyboard shortcut WinKey + R to bring up the Run box and type: shell: SendTo and hit Enter or click OK. Note: This works with Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 The SendTo folder will open in Explorer. Right click an empty area and select New > Shortcut. Then copy the following path into the item field and click Next....

Add Webpage Shortcuts iPhone, iPad, iPod touch While on the page you want to save, tap the Options button then Add to Home Screen. Give the icon a name and tap Add or Enter on the keyboard. The page displays as an icon on your Home Screen. Tap it like you do any app to open the page directly in Safari. If you have several pages – put them in a folder....

Adobe Emergency Patch for Flash Player Adobe released a security advisory on Thursday which states the following: If you’re running Windows or Mac, you should be running version 21.0.0.182 and for Linux version 11.2.202.577, and the extended support Flash Player release is updated to 18.0.0.133. Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2016-1010 is being used in limited, targeted attacks. To check the version of Flash that’s running on your computer, go to the About Flash Player page....

Now your Android phone or tablet is all set up for using the Android AppStore. So, with that done we’ll take a look at actually making use of it. The app should automatically start downloading. Once the download is finish, it will automatically ask you if you would like to install the app. The rest works just like any other app on your phone! Conclusion Comment Name * Email *...

The retail giant offers “Black Friday-like” deals for 48 hours. In fact, the company typically offers up “early bird” discounts on a lot of items. We’ll have more on that as the date looms closer. And if you’re looking for ways to save during the sale, check out our piece on how to get the most value out of Prime Day.