While you can’t do this on your personal page, you can turn off commenting on Facebook group posts if you have the proper admin privileges. This is a good idea when you want to post a controversial announcement or piece of news that would stir up trolls. How to Turn Off Comments on a Facebook Post Group posts can quickly devolve into arguments, especially if the comment is something controversial....

The main issues one may have with a digital video recorder (DVR) is that you’re stuck with whatever capabilities come included with the device. That, on top of the additional charges tacked on to your monthly ISP bill, can turn people away altogether. So why not just build your own? Building your own DVR is not as daunting as one may believe. With a few pieces of off-the-shelf equipment, you can forego paying the monthly service fee that generally accompanies the use of such a feature....

Both are free tools that you can install on your Windows 10 PC. They include the same information you can see in Windows Task Manager and a whole lot more as well. What Is Process Monitor? Process Monitor is a free advanced monitoring tool included in the Windows Sysinternals suite of Windows utilities. It lets you view detailed information about all processes running on your system. Specifically, these are details about events triggered by specific processes....

It doubles as the F5 or Refresh key and is sometimes called the Windows Switcher, Overview, or Launcher key. This tutorial covers everything you can do with the Show Windows key on your Chromebook. What Does the Show Windows Button Do? The primary purpose of the “Show Windows” key is to provide a bird’s-eye view of all open applications or windows on your Chromebook. When you press the Show Windows button, ChromeOS displays a thumbnail view of active applications or windows....

Software companies have been steadily rolling out new and improved ways to collaborate remotely and in hybrid meeting situations. For example, Microsoft recently released an updated version of its Whiteboard app for Windows 10. It comes with a refreshed user interface and some new features. We’ll show you how to find and install the modernized Whiteboard app and give you a few tips for using it. How to Get the New Whiteboard App The new Whiteboard app is available through the Microsoft Store....

Keep in mind however that Mac address filtering isn’t a single security solution. It only serves as an extra level of difficulty for hackers. It’s a layer that they will still be able to break through (see below), but anything that makes things more difficult for hackers is always a good thing. Why Whitelist Devices? Your router handles all network traffic inside and outside your home network. It decides whether certain devices are allowed to connect to your home network....

Not so with Outlook 2016 or any previous version of Outlook. Nothing is stored in the cloud and therefore everything is based on local files. That is true for the autocomplete suggestion feature also. Basically, every time you type in a name or an email address in Outlook, it stores this into a file and so the next time you type that name or email, it will autocomplete it for you....

For this example, we copied text from an article on the Help Desk Geek website. Highlight the text, right-click on the text, and select Copy from the popup menu. When we pasted the text into Word, the formatting from the article was preserved. Word Paste as Text Only To paste the text only when copied from an outside source, select Options from the File tab. On the Word Options dialog box, click the Advanced button in the left pane....

However, if you unselect the check box, the next time you download a file, it will be automatically downloaded and then the action you last selected on the File Download dialog box (open or save) will automatically be performed. Since the File Download dialog box no longer displays, you cannot turn on the Always ask before opening this type of file check box. In Windows XP, there is a simple way to turn on this check box again....

If Spotify keeps pausing and interrupts your listening experience, here’s what to do. Also, be sure to check out our YouTube channel from our sister site where we made a short video to go over the different options mentioned in the article. Turn Off Low Power Mode All mobile devices have a low power mode option that reduces background activity in order to conserve battery life. In many cases, low power mode cuts off background refresh for apps, shuts off automatic mail retrieval, and stops downloads....

In this article, I’ll write about a few methods you can try if your restore points are missing in Windows. If you’re still having issues with missing restore points, post a comment and I’ll try to help. Method 1 – Disable System Restore The first thing you can try to do is disable system restore. How does this help? Well, the backups are stored in the System Volume Information folder....

To take control of your computer’s administration, you have to understand how Windows 7 is organized when it comes to the administrative accounts. Although a complicated subject, there are three things you should know about administration in Windows 7 to make using your computer a secure but easy-to-use experience. Administrator Account Unknown to many users of Windows 7, every installation of the operating system has a hidden (some call it secret) Administrator account....

Messaging apps have become a crucial form of communication for billions of people worldwide. They’re used in casual discussions about grocery shopping to highly-private information about our personal lives. If you’re looking for a chat app that offers the most privacy, this list of the best chat apps for privacy and security should help you find the right secure app for your needs. What Makes a Chat App Private and Secure?...

Unfortunately, something happened, or I did something wrong and this option disappeared! So I tried to drag the icon to the taskbar, thinking that would work, but it didn’t either! Instead I got a red round sign that meant I could not drop the item to the taskbar. I figured something had gone wrong with the registry because I had tried to delete the overlay arrows on my desktop icons and fiddled with the registry....

What Do VirtualBox and VMWare Do? VMWare and VirtualBox are machine virtualization solutions, also known as hypervisors. They let you run a full virtual computer with its own operating system in a virtualized machine on another computer. But why would you want to do that? For the desktop user, say you use Windows, but you’d also like to use Linux, macOS, or even iOS and Android. Yet you don’t have computers for all of them....

The entire world of computing is moving rapidly towards SaaS (software as a service) and subscription models for software rather than selling licenses outright. Microsoft 365 is a blend of both developments. If you haven’t encountered it before, it can come as quite a bit of computing culture shock. So let’s lay all those doubts to rest and explain exactly what Microsoft 365 is. A Cloud What Now? The “cloud” refers to the computers that run in data centers all over the world....

The problem is that different networks, such as your home network and computers on the internet as a whole, will inevitably have the same IP addresses or have incompatibilities in how their network addresses are set up. NAT solved both the problem of IP address scarcity and incompatible networks that need to talk to each other. Most of the time it’s not something you need to worry about, but sometimes your internet woes are a result of NAT going wrong....

The name is quite mysterious, and this driver only seems to be present from Windows 10 onwards, and it might be behind a few specific performance issues. If you want to know the Microsoft Device Association Root Enumerator, be prepared for a slightly long-winded answer. What Does Microsoft Device Association Root Enumerator Do? In computer science, an enumerator is a program that lists things and assigns them a value. This allows other programs to quickly look up and find whatever the enumerator listed....

However, many users who upgraded to Windows 7 were surprised that the Sidebar was not a part of the Aero Desktop. Learn what happened to the Sidebar in Windows 7 and how to use your gadgets in Windows 7 without it. The Windows Vista Sidebar Introduced in Windows Vista, the Sidebar was a place where another new feature of the new operating system resided. Gadgets are small programs created from XML, HTML, and image files that you can place on the Sidebar in Windows Vista....

Thankfully, nearly any issue that can lead to YouTube TV not working is fixable. In this article, you’ll find a troubleshooting process that will take you from the most common and likely scenario to the less common and more complex ones. By the end of this article, YouTube TV should be working for you again. Note: The following fixes apply to the mobile, desktop, and browser-based versions of YouTube TV....