Creating a shortcut to another folder or drive shared on the network means you are mapping its location. Moreover, you can even create a shortcut to the network drive on your desktop for easier access. How to Map a Network Drive in Windows 10 Mapping a network drive in Windows 10 allows you to quickly access data stored on a different machine. A mapped drive is a quick and easy way to access a remote hard drive....

This can make it very difficult to browse the internet on an old PC. Fortunately, plenty of lightweight browsers exist. Here is a selection of the best browsers for old computers. 1. K-Meleon K-Meleon is probably one of the least resource-intensive browsers out there. It can run on just 256 MB of memory and 70 MB of storage. Better yet, K-Meleon supports almost every Windows operating system. Windows XP, Vista, even Windows 95 – every version of Windows can run K-Meleon....

But maybe some repetitive tasks don’t have shortcut keys. Wouldn’t it be great if you could create your own keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Office? Well, you can. How to Create Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Office Let’s go through these steps in Word first. The steps are identical in Excel and PowerPoint on the desktop. Scroll down to see how to do this in Outlook. The FileSendPdf shortcut will automatically convert the document into a PDF, create a new email message in Outlook, attach the PDF, and give the email a Subject....

Anyway, after playing around with all kinds of stuff, I managed to get my touchpad and cursor under control and working normally again. A few friends told me they had similar problems, but had to resort to other solutions to fix the problem. In this article, I’ll try to list out all the different methods you can try to fix it. Method 1 – Update Driver for Touchpad If you’re using a touchpad on a laptop and you’re having this problem, the first thing you want to try is to download the latest driver for the touchpad from the manufacturer’s website....

The most popular surround sound formats are DTS and Dolby Digital. Both audio compression technologies allow moviemakers to record quality surround sound that can be reproduced at home by your audio system, but which one does it better? Learn the difference between DTS and Dolby Digital and see which one delivers the most spine-tingling and immersive sound. What’s Dolby Digital? Dolby Digital is a multi-channel audio format created by Dolby Labs....

There’s no need to worry. In this post, we’ll go over some of the most common issues along with their fixes. The CD or DVD is Dirty Let’s eliminate one of the usual suspects. Try inserting more than one CD/DVD if possible. If the drive reads the other CDs, then the first one is probably just dirty. There are cleaning kits designed to keep CDs in pristine condition. When wiping a CD, wipe against the tracks....

If you’ve come across this notorious disk error, you know how annoying it can be. Luckily, it’s often easy to resolve. This article will show you four ways to fix the Non-System Disk or Disk Error in Windows. What Causes the Non-System Disk or Disk Error Message? There are several potential causes for the Non-System Disk or Disk Error message including: An incorrect boot orderA corrupted or damaged boot device or system filesCorrupted or damaged OS filesIncorrect SATA/IDE cablesImproper hard drive configurationMalware...

Even if I ran the spell checker manually, it would complete without marking or correcting any of the misspelled words! Annoying! After doing some research, I found a couple of possible solutions. You might run into this problem in Word 2007, 2010, 2013 or 2016. Method 1 – Enable Proofing in Word Since Outlook uses Microsoft Word for spell-checking, you have to make sure that spell-checking is working in Word first....

When you download it, you can just double-click to run the program, there is no need to install it. This is really useful because you can copy it to a USB drive or upload it to your Dropbox folder and run it on any computer from anywhere. The main interface will automatically start listing out all of the wireless networks that the program finds. As you can see, it’s got very detailed information and you can add more columns if you like....

The audio and video are split into two separate streams, which are fed to separate monitors or TVs at the same time. If you don’t have enough inputs on your AV or TV receiver, and want to connect multiple TVs to a single source, you can use an HDMI splitter to split the HDMI signal for this purpose. It’s also an inexpensive way of sorting out all the wires around you for a neater space when you have too many cables to swap, and keeping your gear useful and relevant....

Scenario A: You’ve finished building a PowerPoint deck for the Big Meeting tomorrow, and you get an email from your boss asking you to add one more slide to the beginning of the deck. You create the slide but then notice that all the subsequent slide numbers are off by one. Since you manually added slide numbers to every slide using text boxes, now you have to go through the entire presentation, slide by slide, and update the slide number on each slide individually....

For many Windows 10 users, using the brightness adjustment keys on their keyboards is a quicker way of manually adjusting the brightness level on their PCs. If, for some reason, the keys fail to work as they should, there are other methods you can use to adjust brightness on your Windows 10 PC. How to Adjust Brightness on Windows 10 You can adjust the levels of brightness on Windows 10 manually or automatically based on surrounding light, battery life, or using a power plan....

Thankfully, it’s easy to change your mouse speed in Windows 10. You can use the built-in Windows settings for your mouse to do this, or you can use a third-party solution. Your mouse may even include an easy-access sensitivity button to switch between settings. To change your mouse speed, here’s what you’ll need to do. Change Mouse Speed In Windows 10 Settings If you want to tweak your mouse speed and overall mouse sensitivity, the best place to start is in your Windows 10 settings area....

The answer is they are lost, and your hard work to create your site according to your brand and messaging guidelines and preferences will also be lost. A child theme enables you to create a separate CSS stylesheet and add additional functionality that will not be lost or affected when the parent theme is updated. This can be done manually or by installing a child theme creator plugin. Let’s start with the manual process....

What you might not know is that Spotify offers a super simple way to share music. You can create a Spotify code for a song, album, playlist, artist profile, band profile, or even a podcast. Then share that code with a pal who can enjoy that shared item, too. Here, we’ll show you the different ways you can create this barcode-like image and then scan Spotify codes if you receive them yourself....

As part of its efforts to help troubleshoot the Windows 10 user experience, Microsoft logs data about the apps and features you use, your system information, your system settings, and more. If you’re worried about this data being shared, you can disable Windows 10 telemetry by following these steps. What Is Windows 10 Telemetry? Windows 10 isn’t the first Windows release to collect and share system data with itself, but Microsoft has certainly increased the amount of data it collects and shares in this release....

However, in some versions of Windows, editing the hosts file directly isn’t allowed. In fact, you’ll get an error if you try to save the changes. Fortunately, there’s a simple tip you can use to edit the hosts file in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, or XP. What Does The Hosts File Do? The purpose of the hosts file was originally to be what DNS servers do now – map friendly domain names to unfriendly IP addresses....

Now there are two ways to manage Cisco switches: from the web-based GUI interface or from the terminal-based command line interface. I have found that the web-based GUI is not nearly as stable as the Cisco IOS available from the CLI. On several occasions, after trying to save a configuration change on the GUI, the entire switch crashed and I had to reboot it in order to access the GUI again....

A password protected, encrypted Zip file prevents this, locking down the archive so that only specific people can access its contents (or anyone who has luck with a Zip file unlocker). Why Use a Zip File? There are several reasons to want to use a Zip archive versus just storing the files in a folder, but what they all have in common is ease of use. Zip files organize data into one single folder that acts just like a file, meaning that you can store hundreds of files and folders in one location without fear that you might accidentally delete some of the content....

What you’ll learn in this guide are the different methods to find the MAC address of iOS (iPhone & iPad) and Android-powered devices. As a plus, we’ll also show you how to change your device’s MAC address easily. Static Vs. Random MAC Addresses: All You Need to Know Your device may have multiple MAC addresses: a “Static” and “Randomized” MAC address. The “Static” address is hardwired to the device’s hardware while the “Randomized” address is generated by your device’s operating system to prevent network operators, ISPs, and websites from tracking your online activities....