Change the Color of Windows 11 Start and Taskbar To get started, click Start > Settings, or alternately you can use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + I to open Settings directly. Once the Settings page is open, click on Personalization from the list on the left. Then on the right, scroll down and click Colors from the list of options. Now, in the “Choose your mode” box, set the dropdown to Custom....

Note: This is a new feature available in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which is coming this summer. At the time of this writing, the preview version is Build 14316. It isn’t an option in Windows 10 Version 1511 Build 10586.Prioritize Windows 10 App NotificationsTo get started, head to Settings > Notifications & Apps. Then scroll down your list and choose the app that you want to change the priority level....

Clear Outlook Autocomplete Caches Here’s an example: As convenient as the AutoComplete feature is, there are times when you need to remove these cached email addresses from the cache. For example, perhaps someone at work just lost his/her job, and the email address is no longer valid. Or maybe you made a typo while sending an email and now that address is stuck in your cache. The good news is getting rid of that address from your auto-c cache is simple no matter the version of Outlook (2003, 2007, or 2010....

A) Read through the whole thing, swapping each erroneous E for an A B) Just leave it and hope nobody notices, or C) Use Microsoft Office’s Find and Replace function to turn every Berenstein into a Berenstain all at once? Arguably one of the biggest advantages of word processing and spreadsheet software is the power to instantly locate and edit text and data without manually combing through printed pages or ledgers....

Control Chromecast with Google TV from Your Phone To get started the first thing you need to do is download the Android TV remote app to your phone. It’s available for iOS and Android. For this article, I am using an iPhone but the experience is virtually identical on Android. The first time you launch the Android TV app you will need to grant it access to your network. Then it will ask you to agree to the terms of service....

The Siri Remote, which launched in 2015, has been designed specifically for the always-on Siri capable Apple TV and serves as a replacement for the original Apple Remote. It too will work with macOS devices — assuming you install a free third-party app called SiriMote for Mac. Once SiriMote has been installed on your Mac, you can control your favorite macOS apps, including QuickTime, iTunes, Apple Keynote, Microsoft PowerPoint, and many more....

Mail merge is a feature that allows you to create multiple copies of letters and emails to send to your contacts. Each letter or email can include both standard and custom personalized content. The information you use to customize each letter or email is taken from your data source like a contacts list. If you use Gmail as your main email client, there is no built-in mail merge feature. However, there is a mail merge add-on available for Google Sheets that links with your Gmail account....

Customize Microsoft Office Color Theme on Mac Step 1. Open an Office 2016 for the Mac. In my example, I’ll use Word. Click Word > Preferences Step 2. Click General Step 3. Under Personalize, click the Office theme dropdown. Choose between Colorful or Classic. As I mentioned earlier, the options are very minimal when it comes to changing the Color Theme. It’s basically White or Blue. Being that the new Mac Office Suite was just released....

Customize Windows 11 Lock Screen Wallpaper To get started, we’ll first take a look at changing the wallpaper as a refresher. To begin, click the Start button and click the Settings icon. Alternately, you can use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + I to open Settings directly. It’s also worth noting that you can right-click an empty area on your desktop and click Personalization from the menu. Either way, you get into Settings, make sure the Personalization option is selected from the left panel....

Defer, Delay, or Block Window 10 Fall Creators Update First off, let’s look at how to defer the update for up to a full year which you can do if you are running Windows 10 Pro. This will provide you enough time to evaluate your situation as well as learn if there are any issues popping up from other users. This also will allow you to get the security patches installed automatically via Windows Update....

Delete Your Apple ID First, you need to head to Apple’s Data and Privacy portal at privacy.apple.com and log in with the Apple ID and password that you want to kill off. If you have two-factor authentication enabled, you’ll need to take the extra steps to verify your identity. Then click Continue on the Apple ID & Privacy intro screen and then click Get started under the Delete Your Account section....

Disable the Dropbox Camera Auto Upload Prompt Right-click the Dropbox icon from your System Tray and select Preferences. In the Preferences window, click on Change AutoPlay Settings. This will opens up Windows AutoPlay settings. Scroll down to the Pictures category and then change it to Take No Action from the drop-down menu. When that is done, it won’t pester you anymore with requests to sync your photos. If you want a compromise that doesn’t altogether disable the feature, set Pictures to “Ask me every time,” and then you’ll have the option to open the Dropbox Camera Uploader when you connect....

What else does disabling Windows Search do? A few things: Disables the background processes SearchIndexer.exe, SearchProtocolHost.exe, and SearchFilterHost.exe.(SSD users will like this one) No more writes to the search index database at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edbNo more offline caches of external network attached storage or shares.Increased system performance, even if it is barely noticeable. Ready to disable it? Okay, the first thing to do is open Control Panel. From here click on “Programs and Features....

Note: This requires a Registry tweak — make sure to back it up first in case something gets accidentally deleted. First you need to open the Windows 8 registry editor. From the Start screen, type: regedit in the Search field and click the regedit application under Results. Now in regedit browse to the following key directory: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\System Within this key are two otherwise blank entries that need to be modified to activate a startup message:...

16-Bit Apps The solution for such a scenario is to run the operating system on an older version of Windows, requiring setting up a virtual machine. If you still utilize a 32-bit version of Windows 10, you can get the best of both worlds by enabling the 16-bit subsystem. As Microsoft’s future heads toward 64-bit computing, the company is minimizing its support for many of the legacy components in Windows. The best way to add 16-bit support in Windows 10 requires some command line work....

Enable Dark Mode on Windows 11 You might want to enable Dark mode to reduce eye strain and/or improve battery life on your device. Then you might want to go back to the light mode in certain situations. Plus, it offers better aesthetics that can make the operating system more attractive. Here we’ll take a look at how to turn it on or off. Note: If you haven’t upgraded yet, you can still enable Dark mode on Windows 10....

Internet Explorer isn’t the only browser that can do hardware acceleration. Google Chrome has GPU acceleration as well, but it isn’t enabled by default. The feature is still being considered “experimental,” so perhaps it still has a few bugs to work out; but I haven’t had any problems with it yet. Enabling hardware acceleration in Chrome is easy, and we’ll show you exactly where the settings are in the groovy guide below....

In Windows 7, Media Center comes pre-installed – but it isn’t necessarily set up properly. In our two previous articles for Windows Media Center, we showed you how you can set up Windows Media Center for the first time and how you can rebuild your Media Center library. Another thing that Windows Media Center is missing is playback support for Matroska Video (MKV) files. With the rising popularity of the MKV format, this can become quite troublesome....

Enable 2FA for LastPass Sign in to your LastPass account and click the Settings button from the Actions list at the left of the control panel. An Edit Settings window will pop up. Click the Security Tab and then click “Print your Grid”. LastPass will take you to a page with a number-by-letter grid. This grid is unique to your account and can only be used by you. Right click the page and select Print....

Step 1 Login to your Gmail account at http://mail.google.com/. Step 2 In the left pane of Gmail, Click the Contacts tab. Your contacts list should open up on the right. Now Click More actions and Select Export… from the list. ATTN Google Apps Users: Your Contacts button may be in a different location, check just above the Chat list in the left-panel. Step 3 A new dialog will appear, Choose which contacts you would like to export....