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Microsoft will likely release the October 2018 Update, codenamed Redstone 5, on October 2. You can pause the update to avoid receiving it immediately—as long as you’re using Windows 10 Professional, Enterprise, or Education. RELATED: What’s New in Windows 10’s October 2018 Update Unfortunately, Windows 10 Home doesn’t allow you to delay updates. So, unless you want to pay $100 to upgrade to Windows 10 Professional, you’ll have to install the update when Microsoft provides it to your PC....

What Is Phishing, and How Does It Work? Phishing is designed to trick you into giving your password or other information to an imposter. For example, let’s say you get an email claiming to be from your bank. The email says your account may be compromised, and you should click this link to take action. You click the link in the email and end up on a site that looks just like your bank’s real website....

If you need to adjust your Google sign-in settings, Android Pay options, Google Fit data, or anything else dealing specifically with your Google account, you’ll need to access the “Google Settings” app. On most Android phones, you can find Google Settings in Settings > Google (under the “Personal” section). Figuring out where Samsung put this on the S7 turns out to be quite the pain—it’s not at all anywhere that makes sense....

If you need to quickly take a photo or video on your iPhone, you can swipe into the Camera app in a jiffy without unlocking your phone. Here’s how to do it. First, wake your iPhone. Place your finger anywhere on the lock screen and swipe it to the left until the Camera app appears. (You can’t swipe on a notification, however. That will reveal options for the notification rather than for opening the Camera app....

You may not think much about using slide titles for your presentations. But for accessibility and the use of other features, slide titles are important. Here, we’ll show you how to add titles to slides in Microsoft PowerPoint. For those using screen readers, slide titles are essential. And if you use features like custom slide shows or hyperlinks to slides in your presentation, slide titles are necessary elements. We’ll show you how to quickly find slides that are missing titles and a few different ways to add titles to those slides....

Sometimes, it’s better to assign a PC its own IP address rather than letting your router assign one automatically. Join us as we take a look at assigning a static IP address in Windows. What is a Static IP Address? A static IP address is manually set to a permanent, fixed address rather than being assigned automatically by your router using a procotol known as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)....

Now search for the order you wish to cancel. Once you find it, click the “Cancel items” button on the right side. On the next page, select which items in the order you wish to cancel. On the left side of the screen, you can select the reason for cancellation in the dropdown box, but this is optional. Once you’ve selected the item or items to cancel, click the “Cancel selected items in this order” button....

Do you have a pile of remotes on your coffee table for each of the items in your home theater? Tired of universal remotes that don’t have enough buttons? Here’s how to solve all your remote control woes with a single Logitech Harmony remote. Logitech’s Harmony line is designed to take the hassle out of controlling your home theater (and, on certain higher-end remotes, your smarthome devices, too). While it doesn’t really eliminate the hassle entirely–since Logitech’s setup software is a little awful–it does give you far more control over the movies, music, and other devices in your living room....

Microsoft Teams gives businesses reliable collaboration and communication tools through desktop, web, and mobile applications. While most audio calls are made through the app, Teams uses audio conferences to let anyone easily dial in using a phone number. How to Get Started with Audio Conferencing in Microsoft Teams If your meeting is going to be audio-only, you can improve quality for those with limited internet access by setting up an audio conference....

You may be using Microsoft Excel to organize a mailing list neatly. However, when you get ready to print mailing labels, you’ll need to use mail merge to create them in Word from your Excel list. Here’s how. Step One: Prepare your Mailing List If you have already created a mailing list in Excel, then you can safely skip this test. If you haven’t created the list yet, despite Excel’s lack of the mailing label function, we still highly recommend you use Excel since it’s better for organizing and maintaining data than using a Word table....

The Nest Secure has three different alarm settings: Off, Home, and Away. Here’s how to customize some of these settings to fit your needs. Here’s how each alarm level perfroms by default: Off: Only doors/windows opening and closing are detected and logged, but the alarm doesn’t sound at all and no alerts are sent. Home and Guarding: Only doors/windows opening and closing are detected and logged, but the alarm does sound and you do receive alerts....

If you don’t like smartwatches, the “Always On Display” feature on your Samsung Galaxy phone is a nice substitute. You can see the time and notifications without unlocking the phone. We’ll show you how to customize it. The Alway On Display (AOD) is a special low-power screen that appears when you lock your device. It displays the time, date, battery percentage, and notifications without killing your battery in the process....

With the new Windows Terminal app, Windows now finally has a tabbed terminal that can run Cmd, PowerShell, and Bash prompts in the same window. It’s deeply customizable, too—you can even set animated GIFs as the background. Beyond the background, you can change the terminal’s theme, too. Whether it’s the colors of the text or backgrounds or the font style, you can make Windows Terminal your own. Microsoft even included several pre-set themes....

Smartwatches are handy tools for accessing information on your wrist. You can receive email alerts, social media updates, and news briefs without taking out your phone. This guide shows you how to customize the News app on your Apple Watch. To start, push the Digital Crown or tap the screen to wake your Apple Watch. Press the Digital Crown again to view the installed apps. The News app is designated by three red stripes against a white background....

Samsung Galaxy phones are very popular, but they include a feature that is very unpopular: Bixby. The Galaxy S22 series gives prominent placement to Bixby once again. We’ll show you how to disable the virtual assistant. Bixby rears its ugly head in a couple of different places on the Galaxy S22. First, and perhaps the most annoying, is that holding the power button brings up Bixby instead of the power menu....

Sometimes, autocorrect gets it wrong, replacing a word you meant to type with something completely different. You can customize it to fix these issues or disable it altogether. How to Access Autocorrect Settings Autocorrect works its magic by pulling from a built-in dictionary that provides automatic text correction. Over time, you can teach the system new words, either by using the “Add to Dictionary” command on the fly as you type new words or by popping open your keyboard settings and adding them manually....

If you’ve upgraded your PC to Windows 11 and want to go back to Windows 10, there are several ways to do it. Here’s what you need to know about switching from the new Windows 11 to stable old Windows 10. Two Ways to Downgrade to Windows 10 There are two different ways to do this depending on how long ago you upgraded to Windows 11. First, if you upgraded to Windows 11 in the last 10 days, you can “roll back” to your previous Windows 10 installation....

How to Enable Dark Mode on iPhone and iPad When you enable dark mode, the entire UI on your iPhone or iPad flips. You now see a black background and white text. Apple has gone with a true black theme which means that the background at most places is pure black instead of a dark gray. This looks great on iPhones with an OLED display (iPhone X, XS, XS Max, 11, and 11 Max) as the pixels just don’t light up....

Windows 10 offers predictive text, just like Android and iPhone. Microsoft calls this “text suggestions.” It’s part of Windows 10’s touch keyboard, but you can also enable it for hardware keyboards. Suggestions will appear floating over text as you type. This setting is available in Windows 10’s Settings app. To launch it, press Windows+I or open the Start menu and click the gear-shaped Settings icon. Click the “Devices” icon in the Settings window....

Your screenshots are readily accessible from within Steam itself. The only other way to find them is to manually search through your hard drive. Steam sorts your screenshots by game, but it doesn’t name the folder after the game. Instead, it names the folder after the game’s application ID — completely inscrutable, unless you’re in the habit of memorizing the IDs. How to Find Your Steam Screenshot Folder for Any Game The simplest way to find your screenshots is directly through Steam....