Encrypt External USB Flash Drive Windows 10 Plugin your flash drive (you can do this with an SD card, too) and wait while Windows recognizes it. If AutoPlay comes up, select “Open folder to view files.“ From the Ribbon, select the drive you want to encrypt. Then from the Ribbon, click the Manage tab then BitLocker > Turn on BitLocker. Alternately, you can open This PC, right-click the drive, and select Turn on BitLocker....

Currently, when an update is available for your apps, you will see a notification badge on the App Store icon. You tap the icon and are taken to the Update section of the App Store. There you can update apps individually or all of them in one fell swoop. But with iOS 13, the Updates tab has been removed. Here is a look at where to manually check for updates for your apps from the App Store on iOS 13....

With a handy import feature, you can reuse slides from other PowerPoint presentations. And while the in process for using the feature differs slightly when you use Windows versus Mac, it’s still a convenient one. Reuse Slides in PowerPoint on Windows When you import slides from another PowerPoint file on Windows, you can choose which slides to use. For example, you can pick one slide or insert them all. With your current presentation open, go to the Home tab....

You may sometimes want to use only the main dictionary when spell-checking a document in Word or an email in Outlook. Maybe your custom dictionaries include terms that are not applicable to the current document. We’ll show you how to tell Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook to only use the main dictionary. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel To only use the main dictionary in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel, go to File > Options if you’re in a document....

The apps at the top and bottom in List view (on the right below) get a bit smaller and show with some perspective. Enable Reduce Motion on your Apple Watch To enable reduce motion on your Apple watch, press the digital crown to access the Apple Watch Home screen. Then, tap Settings. Tap Accessibility on the Settings screen. On the Accessibility screen, tap Reduce Motion. Tap the Reduce Motion slider button to turn on the setting....

Backing Up Your WordPress Blog Posts Before you attempt any of the WordPress migration methods, make sure you back up your WordPress blog. If anything goes wrong, you’ll be able to restore the content of your posts from this backup. Step 1 Log in to your WordPress dashboard at /wp-admin. Step 2 Expand the Tools menu and Click Export. Step 3 Choose which data you want to export and Click Download Export File....

Several things determine the amount of mobile data your phone uses: streaming content, apps relaying data in the background, file uploads, and downloads. Your shiny new iPhone has a great camera that takes amazing photos and videos. But the file sizes are large, so it consumes a lot of bandwidth to back up and share. Enable Low Data Mode on iPhone for Cellular Starting with iOS 13, Apple has added a new Low Data Mode that helps save on the amount of mobile and/or Wi-Fi data your phone uses....

Install the New Chromium-based Edge All you need to do is download Microsoft Edge for your OS and log into your Microsoft account, and you’re good to go. The following is the old article and is related to Legacy Edge only: Microsoft introduced its current flagship web browser, Edge, with the launch of Windows 10 in 2015. Edge focuses on speed, security, and compatibility with web standards. That said, Edge is still a maturing platform, but the rapid pace of development continues to give it a fighting chance in a market that’s pretty much dominated by the likes of Chrome and Firefox....

Can My Chromebook Run Android Apps? Most modern Chromebooks (2017 or newer) will run Android apps from the Play Store out of the box. And Google has a running list of models that do support Android apps. However, that list can be cumbersome to search through. So, if you’re running an older Chromebook or just want an easy way to make sure it will run Android apps there’s a simple way to find out....

Scan and Mark up Documents with iOS 11 Notes Here I am using the Notes app on an iPad running iOS 11, but the process is virtually the same with iPhone. Launch the Notes app and create a new note. Then tap the plus (+) symbol just above the keyboard and choose Scan Document from the list. Then line up the document you want to scan and when you’re ready, hit the shutter button to take the shot....

So here’s a look at how to make Windows 10 restart on your schedule. Stop Automatic Windows Update Installs in Windows 10 If you prefer to have control over what your computer is doing, you’ll want to stop Windows from automatically installing updates. To do it, go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > Advanced options. Under “Choose how updates are installed” section change the option from Automatic (recommended) to Notify to schedule restart....

Not all program installers will modify your PATH environment variable to enable this. Fortunately, you can set or modify the PATH system variable in Windows very easily. Here’s how: Click Start –> Computer –> System Properties. Click Advanced system settings. From the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables… In the bottom pane, scroll down to the variable named Path. Select it and click Edit. In the variable value field, add a semicolon and then the path where the ....

Stop Lock Screen Notifications on iPhone To start out, open Settings on your iPhone or iPad and scroll down to Touch ID & Passcode or Face ID & Passcode (for iPhones with Face ID). Next, you will need to type in your phone’s passcode. Then scroll down to the “Allow Access When Locked” section and toggle off the Notification Center switch. While you’re there, make sure to disable anything else you don’t want to be accessed from the Lock Screen....

Most people like to bring a camera on vacation so they can capture the amazing trip for later enjoyment with friends and family back at home. However, have you ever found yourself looking at the photos at home getting ready to upload them to you favorite photo sharing site and thought “Man, these pictures don’t look anything like what I saw on vacation!” Yeah, it’s happened to all of us....

How Do I Know the Registry Key is Protected? When trying to create a new entry within a protected key you’ll an error like this: When you try to edit a protected key, you’ll see an error like this: When you run a ready-made .reg file to add, change, or delete a protected key, you’ll see an error like this: Take Ownership of a Protected Key in the Registry If you encounter the above errors, without a doubt, you’ve encountered a protected registry key....

Move Playlists with SongShift Assuming you’re moving to Apple Music because you have an iPhone or iPad, first, we’ll look at the free iOS app called SongShift. Just download it onto your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and launch it. Tap on the “Setup Source” button. Next, choose Spotify and enter your credentials, then choose Apple Music and sign into it. Note that you will need to have “Apple iCloud Music” turned on in Settings to connect it to SongShift....

Starting with Windows 10 version 1909 aka “November 2019 Update” you can turn off all app notification sounds, and still get a visual notification on your screen. Here’s how to do that or just turn off individual app notification sounds. Disable Windows 10 App Notification Sounds To silence all app notifications in one fell swoop, head to Settings > System > Notification & actions. Then under the Notifications section uncheck the “Allow notifications to play sounds” box....

Unlock Your iPhone When Wearing a Mask You can now eliminate one of the most annoying tech-related obstacles of the ongoing pandemic. On supported iPhones, you can’t open the phone using Face ID when wearing a mask. There’s now a gigantic workaround to this, thanks to new software updates. With iOS 14.5 or later installed on your iPhone and watchOS 7.4 or later installed on your Apple Watch, you can use the wearable device to open your phone....

This addition to the already-long list of features is just one more reason to use this free password manager application. Here, we’ll show you how to use Bitwarden Send from any device, including what you could send and the benefits of it. What You Can Share With Bitwarden Send Because Bitwarden Send secures your text and files, you can use it to share many types of items. You can share customer or client data, private code, and legal documents for business....

Dictation in Microsoft Office Turning on the dictation option in Office is as easy as a button click. On the Home tab in Word or PowerPoint, on desktop or online, click Dictate in the Voice section on the far right of the ribbon. In Outlook, you’ll see the Dictate button on the right side of the ribbon when composing, replying to, or forwarding an email as well as when creating a new event in Outlook Calendar....