Modern PCs that shipped with Windows 8 or 10 have a feature called Secure Boot enabled by default. It keeps your system secure, but you may need to disable Secure Boot to run certain versions of Linux and older versions of Windows. Here’s how to see if Secure Boot is enabled on your PC. Rather than reboot and poke around in your UEFI firmware or BIOS settings screen, you can find this information in Windows itself....
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There are a couple of ways to get a month from a date in Excel, depending on if you want to display the result as a number, word, or abbreviation. And luckily, you can use these same methods to get the year from your date entry. Get the Month or Year With Date Functions If you want to get the numeric value for a month such as 10 for October, 11 for November, and so on, the MONTH function gets the job done quickly....
If you want a little extra oomph out of your PC’s graphics card without spending tons of cash on a new model, overclocking the GPU is a surprisingly simple way to go about it. And it has indeed become simple, on Windows-based PCs at least—while the process is time consuming, it doesn’t require any particular knowledge or advanced skills. Here’s how you go about it. Warning: while the risk is pretty low, there’s still a chance that overclocking your GPU could damage it or other components in your computer....
Windows is designed for desktop use, not gaming. The Windows key, Alt+Tab, and other keyboard options like Sticky Keys will rip you out of full-screen games and back to your desktop — but you can disable them. We’ve seen keyboards with the Windows key pried off and special gaming keyboards that advertise “no Windows key” as a feature. These hardware tricks aren’t necessary — you can disable these obnoxious keys entirely in software....
To maintain transparency, Mozilla has made all of the data Firefox collects about you and your machine available to view. Using a hidden page in your browser, here’s how to see what’s sent to the company’s servers. Mozilla engineers recently starting shipping stable releases of Firefox with a hidden page that details the telemetry metrics used for debugging Firefox test installs. This move ties into its push for an increase in privacy controls and transparency in how the company handles your data....
Toy Day Gifts You can purchase toys and other special gifts at Nook’s Cranny Dec. 1-25, and Dec. 24 is the big Toy Day event. Expect to see plenty of festive, holiday-themed decorations popping up on your island throughout the month at the Resident Services plaza, Nook’s Cranny, and more. The Toy Day items that appear in Nook’s Cranny will come in different color variations. As with most holiday-themed items, you can only pick up one particular color variation for each item from your own Nook’s Cranny store, so check back regularly to collect them all....
Charts are an ideal way to present data from a spreadsheet in a visual way. If you want to insert a chart from an existing spreadsheet into a Docs or Slides file, you can sync it from Google Sheets. First, make sure you have a Google Sheets spreadsheet that contains at least one chart. You can follow our guides to insert a chart manually or with Google’s Explore feature....
Switching to an iPhone from Android might seem like a daunting process. You probably have a deep contact list that has been curated over the years. Thankfully, it’s pretty easy to transfer your contacts to an iPhone. Option 1: During the Initial Setup Process Apple has an official “Move to iOS” app that’s available in the Google Play Store for Android devices. This is a great tool, but it only works while setting up a new iPhone....
If you are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or just somebody who prefers having subtitles while watching videos, it’s easy to turn on closed captions for your YouTube videos. Here’s how to do that on desktop and mobile. What Are Closed Captions on YouTube? Closed captions and subtitles are not much different. In subtitles, it is assumed that you can hear the audio but you need the text version to better understand it....
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Upgrading your desktop PC’s graphics card can give your gaming a pretty big boost. It’s also a fairly easy thing to do. In fact, the hardest part is choosing the right card right card in the first place. Your primary choice in graphics cards is between the two major makers of graphics chipsets—Nvidia and AMD. After narrowing that down, you’ll find that there are lots of card manufacturers making different cards based on either of those chipsets....
Obtaining subtotals for groups of related items is easy in Microsoft Excel. In fact, you have two ways to do this. You can either use the SUBTOTAL function or the Subtotal feature, whichever works best. We’ll show you how. What Is a Subtotal in Excel? As mentioned, SUBTOTAL in Excel allows you to group the same or related items in a list and use a function to calculate the values....
At the time of publishing, it’s hard to recommend Mysterium VPN for anything except getting through to Netflix, something at which it excels, as well as giving people anonymous access to the web at a reduced price. However, if you’re looking for a solid VPN alternative, I don’t think Mysterium VPN, or dVPNs at large, is it. There are just too many issues with speed and security, at least for now....
NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope in December 2021, giving scientists a fresh look at the universe and giving the rest of us some cool wallpapers. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to check out the latest images and save them for your device’s wallpaper. Processed images from the James Web Space Telescope have been published on Twitter, the telescope’s official website, and other locations, but there’s another portal you may not have seen....
How a VPN Works To fully understand how a VPN browser extension works, we need to take a look at what VPNs are and what they can do. Normally when you connect to the internet, you connect to a server run by your internet service provider (ISP) and from there to the site you want to visit. In this scenario, the site knows who you are and your ISP can see what you’re doing there....
For example, what you should expect from a password manager is a password generator that lets you set length and character usage, the ability to auto-capture forms as you fill them, cross-platform and browser support, and the ability to organize your password. Ideally, you should have access to two-factor authentication at the minimum and multi-factor authentication such as U2F. These managers also typically have a password health score or analysis for your passwords that will tell you how strong they are....
The CMD and ENTRYPOINT instructions are two commonly confused Dockerfile directives. Both have a role in determining the command which will run when the container starts. The CMD and ENTRYPOINT can be overridden individually within each image. Effective use of these directives makes your container easier to use by shortening the length of commands you supply. What Is The Entrypoint? We’ll look at ENTRYPOINT first as it’s processed before CMD when starting a new container....
Windows 10 automatically creates the $GetCurrent and $SysReset folders in your C:\ drive in certain situations. These folders can use gigabytes of space, but what do they do, and can you delete them? These are hidden files, so you’ll have to show hidden files in File Explorer to see them. What Is $GetCurrent? RELATED: How to Show Hidden Files and Folders in Windows The $GetCurrent directory is created during the upgrade process....
What Is Smishing? By now, almost everyone has encountered phishing scams that arrive via spam emails. For example, someone might claim to be from your bank and request you provide account information, social security numbers, or credit card details. Smishing is just the SMS version of phishing scams. Instead of a scammy email, you get a scammy text message on your smartphone. “SMS” stands for “short message service” and is the technical term for the text messages you receive on your phone....
