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If you receive a new Chromebook, it’s important to create a system recovery image if something goes wrong, and a Hard Reset or Power Wash (resetting it to factory settings) doesn’t work. Create Chromebook Recovery Drive Grab a USB flash drive or SD card that’s 4GB or higher and insert it into one of the open USB slots. Then open the Chrome browser and type: chrome://imageburner into the address bar to get the following screen....

Maybe you secretly had a fondness for the Tanner’s as a kid, and binged watched the Full House reboot Fuller House, and don’t want people knowing you viewed it. Whatever the reason is, getting rid of your history is easy. Delete Netflix History It also gives you the option to remove an entire series, which is much easier if you don’t want to delete each episode of a show individually....

Disable Office 2013 Startup Screen To disable the Start screen in an Office 2013 program, open a new document, then go to File » Options. Select General and under Start Up Options, uncheck “Show the Start screen when this application starts” then click OK. The next time you launch the program it will display a blank document. Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post....

Disable Windows 7 Startup Sound Open Start Menu and go to Control Panel. Click on Hardware and Sound. Under Sound Options, click on Change System Sounds. From the Sounds Settings window, uncheck Play Window Startup sound as shown in the screenshot below and click OK. If you want to enable it again, follow the same steps. Then check the Windows Startup Sound option. To get to the sound settings without clicking through the UI, click Start and type: sound options then click Enter....

Turn Off the Downloads Flyout Menu on Microsoft Edge To stop the menu from popping up when you download a file, first, click the Settings and more (three dots) button. Then click on Settings from the menu. Then from the “Settings” page, click on Downloads from the list on the left panel. Then from the list on the right-hand side, turn off the “Show downloads menu when a download starts” switch....

By popular demand, grooveDexter wrote up a tutorial on how to disable the Mini Toolbar on select, which is a simple enough fix. But getting rid of that Mini Toolbar permanently and completely is more of a trick. Luckily, it is indeed possible. Read on to find out how to get rid of that right-click Mini-Toolbar once and for all. Note: Before beginning this How-To groovyPost, since we’re going to show you how to tweak your Windows registry I recommend you first create a Windows System Restore Point....

The good thing is most of the big tech companies offer a way to view, download, and even delete collected data from their servers. We’ve shown you how to delete your voice recordings from Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana, and Siri. But when it comes to Cortana on Windows 10, there are more than just voice commands. In fact, you might not talk to Cortana at all. But a copy of what you use it for via the keyboard is stored, like your Reminders, Lists, and Notes....

Check Your Version of Edge To check if you are running Microsoft Edge version 88 or above, click the Settings and more button (three dots) at the top-right corner. Then click on Help and feedback > About Microsoft Edge. On the “About” page you can see which version of the browser you are currently running. Enable and Use Vertical Tabs in Microsoft Edge If the feature hasn’t rolled out to your version of Edge yet you can manually enable it....

Now, one negative side effect of the 2-step verification service from Google is each time you log in, Google will send you a text message with the 6 digit code. Now if you’re like me and don’t have an unlimited text message mobile plan, this has the potential to eat into your checkbook. The solution – The Google Authenticator App. How to enable the Google Authenticator App for your Google Accounts Remember, if you’ve not enabled 2-step verification on your Google account yet, stop here and do that before continuing....

Open Firefox and click the top-left orange Firefox > Options menu button. In the options menu visit the Advanced tab and check the box labeled “Search for text when I start typing.” Click OK to save changes. Now when browsing a page with Firefox, you can start a page-wide search by simply typing. A search box will automatically appear at the bottom-left and matching text will be highlighted throughout the page, just as it would if you used the Ctrl+F search....

Why Everyone Should Have an Encrypted System DiskHow to Encrypt Your Entire System Disk Using TrueCryptHow to Permanently Decrypt Your System Disk Why Everyone Should Have an Encrypted System Disk Okay, let me qualify this. Not everyone should encrypt their system disk. Just everyone who has personal or financial information on their computer, such as tax returns, stored passwords, browsing history, emails, resumes, address books, photos and videos, utility bills, account histories, etc....

Step 1 Launch Windows Live Mail. You can also launch Microsoft Outlook now. It’ll save you a step down the road. Step 2 Click the File menu (it’s the top-leftmost tab) and choose Export email > Email messages. Step 3 At the Select Program prompt, choose Microsoft Exchange and click Next. Click OK when asked for confirmation. Step 4 If you do not have Outlook open already, Windows Live Mail will ask you which profile you’d like to export to....

Ready for the Challenge? As such, getting what you want from AT&T’s customer support line can be quite a challenge. This issue is partly because the AT&T representative has a duty to follow a particular protocol that’s in the best interests of AT&T’s bottom line. But here’s something that most customers don’t realize: There are written and unwritten rules of engagement for the caller that play a significant role in determining satisfaction....

So how do you improve internet safety in your home? As with most things to do with security, the approach needs to be multi-faceted and needs to protect several fronts. Protecting Your Network From Hackers So, what aspects of your network must you protect to keep your home and family safe? These include all of the following: Locking down the gateway from the internet to your home, the router.Making sure even if hackers get through your router, that they can’t access your smart home devices....

The first answer is SuperFetch, which works with ReadyBoost to identify your storage device. Readyboost assigns your flash device as a makeshift RAM component then Superfetch stores pre-fetch data from commonly used applications into the device thus reducing load times. Flash devices, although having slower read and write times, have faster random seek times than a Hard drive so this allows commonly used program data to be called as if it were on speed-dial....

Custom Fonts Apple’s custom font API makes it possible to change the fonts used across iPhone and iPad. On iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 and later, you can find the listing of custom fonts by: By default, there are no custom fonts installed in iOS 13 and iPadOS. You’ll need to find these through apps on the App Store. Installing Custom Fonts When iOS 13 launched in September, the most noticeable freemium font-related app in the App Store was Font Diner....

Exiting the iOS 13 Public Beta, Restoring The following directions assume you backed up your iPhone data before you updated to iOS 13 either through iTunes or iCloud. If you didn’t, the only way to retain your data on your device is to continue using the iOS 13 public beta, then exit the Apple Beta Software Program once the first public version of iOS 13 is released later this year. Otherwise, going back to iOS 12 on your device will mean starting from scratch....

For example, take a look at the StumbleUpon home page. The logout button is nowhere to be seen. It reminds me of Hotel California: you can sign in whenever you want, but you can never logout. Fortunately, besides clearing your cookies or history, there is still a secret backdoor URL that lets you logout. Well, it’s not really a secret, but there isn’t any easy way to find it. Here: http://www....

How To Make A Google Voice Conference Call Note: If you need to organize a larger conference call, I highly recommend you give join.me a try. It’s fast, simple, and can host 250 people at the same time. The bridge number is not toll-free, so I recommend using join.me with Google Voice or Gmail. For smaller conference call needs, however, Google Voice just works! Have you ever used Google Voice to set up a conference call?...

The News Feed on Facebook more often than not is filled with junk that you probably could care less about. Application updates, comments of comments, links, spam, you name it, but you probably don’t want to see it. Facebook does provide a solution, we can simply filter out all the junk and just see what our friends are saying, aka Status Updates. Ready to minimize spam? This tutorial is quick and easy, let’s get started....