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When installing Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP for the first time, you should have been prompted to enter an Owner Name and Organization/Company name. Normally there’s never a need to change these settings. However, what if there’s a typo, or what if you’re not the original owner and you want to modify this information? For instance, if you open up pretty much any application that comes with Windows and Click Help, About you will see the Registered Owner and Organization Name....

Changing your Windows 8 account profile picture or photo is simple if you know where to look. It’s also nice customization that can personalize your Windows 8.1 Installation. It’s also a nice touch if you have multiple users on the same computer. Change Account Picture From the Start screen, right-click your current photo and then click “Change account picture.” You can also change your Account Picture under the PC Settings, where you can also customize your Start screen and Lock screen....

How to Add Your Sources in Google Docs Google Docs offers a handy way to include a list of citations. You can use this list to cite sources directly in your document or simply include them in the bibliography. Continue the same process to add your remaining citations. You’ll see them listed in the Citations sidebar. To cite a source within your document, place your cursor where you want the citation and click Cite for the source in the list....

This can make a Word document look messy, unprofessional, and difficult to read. If this happens to you, the best thing to do is to clear all of the applied formatting and start again. Removing the formatting this way could be time consuming at first, but will save you time once you come to edit your document. To clear formatting from a Word document, here’s what you’ll need to do....

Create a Picture Password in Windows 8 On a PC use the Keyboard Shortcut Windows Key + I then click Change PC Settings. Or on a touch screen, you can get there by swiping from the right side of the screen to bring up the Charms bar and then Settings. Now select User and under Sign-in Options select Create a Picture Password. Next, verify your account password and click OK....

What are Zip Files? Zip files, or ZIP, is an archive file form that supports lossless data compression. It typically contains one or more files or directories that you can compress for easier storage and sharing. Both Microsoft with Windows and Apple with macOS has offered built-in support for ZIP for many years. The ability to create, ZIP, and extract these files on mobile devices hasn’t also been nearly as simple until now....

If you want some of your text to stand out against the rest, however, you may want to add special effects. WordArt is one way to do this, allowing you to curve some of your text in Word. If you want to know how to curve text in Word, here’s what you’ll need to do. Adding Curves to Text in Word There are a couple of ways you can add curves to text in Word....

Deleting a Windows Profile, Other Users Simply stated, you should remove a Windows 10 profile from your computer when you no longer want the person to have access to it. For example, a guest account. To delete the profile, you must use an Administrator account. To delete an account: Continue: Next: That’s it! You’ve deleted the account on your Windows 10 machine. Deleting a Windows Profile, Family Members If the account you want to be deleted was created as a Family Account, you must follow different directions that will take you out of Windows Settings and onto the web....

Or maybe it’s not about the policy change and you’ve just decided to use a different app such as Telegram or the privacy-focused Signal. Either way, deleting your account is easy. Here’s how. Why Cancel WhatsApp? WhatsApp has recently announced some changes to its privacy policy. These changes, the company says, concern the app sharing data with its owner, Facebook, so companies can communicate with users in a simpler fashion....

One thing to keep in mind about disabling geo-location in Firefox is that this doesn’t block websites from obtaining your IP-based location. The short explanation is that whenever you visit a website, that site receives your IP (internet protocol) address upon making the connection. Your IP address has some vague location information based off of the servers that your Internet Service Provider connects you through. Any website you visit use this information to display a location-based ad, though these ads are usually inaccurate by several dozen miles (or more)....

Did you know that on most smartphones, whenever you take a picture there is location information stored in the image file? This is feature is called GeoTagging and it has been available since GPS was first built into personal cameras. The original purpose of GeoTagging was to allow photographers to automatically figure out exactly where they captured photos, but when you post your pictures online –other people can find that out too....

The first, visit Google.com and click the Gear at the top-right and select Search Settings. Scroll about halfway down the settings page and click the bullet labeled “Do not use Google Instant.” Once you’ve done that, don’t forget to scroll to the bottom and click Save Preferences. Alternatively, you can visit Google with a function added onto the end of the URL to disable Google Instant. For those with U....

Facebook Look Back – What Is It and Where Can You Find It? Facebook’s Look Back feature generates a video for each user, showing what it thinks his or her best moments on the social network have been so far. Or, if you like, what Facebook’s script generates for the video. That includes the moment you joined Facebook, your most liked posts, and shared photos. If you’re a user that uses your Facebook profile is a chronicle life moments — the default results can be impressive....

Here, we’ll show you how to enable dark mode in Google Docs on your mobile device and in your browser for the web application. Enable Dark Mode in the Google Docs Mobile App You can turn on dark mode in the Google Docs app on your Android device, iPhone, or iPad in just a few taps. So open the app and follow these steps. Enable Dark Mode For Google Docs Online Turning on dark mode for the Google Docs website involves either a browser setting or a third-party extension depending on which browser you use....

The remote PC “listens” while in sleep or hibernation mode for the data packet. If the packet is detected, your PC wakes up. This allows easier access to other Windows machines across a network, meaning you don’t need to physically touch the other PC to wake it up and begin using it. If you want to enable Wake on LAN on Windows 11, here’s what you’ll need to do....

If you did want to export your Discord chat messages, however, you’re going to run into difficulties. There isn’t a built-in method for downloading your Discord chats, so you’ll need to use a workaround or two. To get started, here’s what you’ll need to know to start exporting Discord chats to your PC or Mac. Can I Export Discord Chat Messages? If you want to export Discord chat messages, you won’t find any built-in feature to do so....

Step 1 In Outlook 2010, Click the File ribbon and then Select the Open tab. Now Click Import. Step 2 The Import and Export Wizard will appear. Select Import from another program or file and Click Next. Step 4 On the next window Select Comma Separated Values (Windows) and Click Next. Step 5 Now you’ll need to browser to where you saved your .csv file that contains your comma separated contacts...

There are a couple of ways you can do this. You could try to update the driver using Windows Update or force Windows to search for new drivers in Device Manager. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always work—you may need to install the device drivers manually on Windows instead. If you’re unsure how, this guide will show you how to install drivers manually on a Windows 11 or 10 PC. Note: The screenshots for this article are for Windows 11; however, the steps are virtually the same on Windows 10....

It isn’t a Windows-only tool, either. You can use Microsoft Teams on almost all platforms and operating systems, including common Linux distributions like Ubuntu. If you want to know how to install Microsoft Teams on Ubuntu, follow the steps below. How to Install Microsoft Teams on Ubuntu Using the GUI The easiest way to install Microsoft Teams is to use Ubuntu’s GUI (or Graphical User Interface) to help you. To install Microsoft Teams on Ubuntu using the GUI: If you cannot use the ....

Windows 11 comes with thousands of them, but you might want more—there are only so many times you can look at Times New Roman. You can find and install new fonts online, and Windows makes it easy by allowing you to install and manage new fonts in the Settings app. If you’ve never done this before, take a look at how to install or uninstall fonts on Windows 11....