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Windows 10’s file manager is packed with keyboard shortcuts. You can launch File Explorer and use it entirely with your keyboard—without ever touching a mouse. It’s no Norton Commander, but it’s extremely keyboard-friendly. Launch File Explorer To launch File Explorer from anywhere on your Windows system, press Windows+E. You can also use other keyboard shortcuts—for example, if File Explorer is the first icon from the left on your Windows 10 taskbar, you can press Windows+1 to activate that taskbar button....

Windows 10’s included Microsoft Defender antivirus—also known as Windows Defender—has a command-line interface. Rather than using the graphical Windows Security app, you can run Windows 10’s built-in antivirus from Command Prompt, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal. Run a Quick Virus Scan You can run a quick scan to look for viruses, malware, and other threats in some common places, such as the Windows Registry and startup folders. This scan usually only takes a few minutes to finish....

In an attempt to modernize classic Simpsons episodes, Disney+ cropped 4:3 episodes down to 16:9. In doing so, numerous visual jokes were cut out. Thankfully, Disney now lets you watch in the original aspect ratio, but you need to disable a feature to view the original format. The tweet embedded below shows an example of some of the visual humor that was lost when Disney+ remastered classic Simpsons episodes:...

You sit down to watch something, only to realize you don’t know where your remote is. All hope is lost. When you lose your phone, you can ask someone to call it, but your remote can’t do that. Or can it? If you own a Roku 4 or Roku Ultra streaming box, there’s a built-in speaker on the remote. With the push of a button, you can cause it to make a sound so you can find it and get back to what’s really important: sitting on your butt watching TV....

Whether you’re interested in recording live TV using Plex or considering setting up NextPVR, you need a tuner card. But which form factor is best? TV tuner cards for computers come in many shapes. There are USB cards, which you simply plug in. There are the PCI cards, which you have to install inside your desktop computer. And there are network cards, which you connect to via Ethernet. Which one should you choose?...

RELATED: How to Stream Liam Neeson’s Action Thriller Movies in 2022 Collateral Play Video Tom Cruise is genuinely scary as a suave hitman in Michael Mann’s slick crime thriller. Jamie Foxx plays a cab driver who unknowingly picks up Cruise’s contract killer and agrees to drive him to various locations for a hefty sum. Foxx’s Max Durocher soon discovers that the man he knows as Vincent is actually on a killing spree, murdering different targets at each stop....

Choosing the correct portable charger comes down to three key criteria: capacity, size, and charging time. Portable chargers run capacity anywhere from 2,000 mAh to 30,000 mAh. Small 5,000 mAh chargers are typically suitable for two full smartphone charges, whereas a 20,000 mAh portable charger can charge devices with larger batteries, like laptops, several times over. In addition, portable chargers come in different sizes and weights. Pocket-sized portable chargers are easy to carry but generally have a single USB port....

Some Legal Notes Whenever the topic of peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent comes up in conversation, there’s always some confusion about its legality. The simple answer is that the technology itself is not illegal, since it’s simply a file transfer technology. In most countries, however, it is illegal to use this technology to commit copyright infringement or to send or receive content that is intrinsically illegal. Basically, it’s perfectly fine to use BitTorrent, but it’s not OK to break the law with it....

Japanese culture is truly amazing, and a part of that is its shows, dramas, and manga novels. Crunchyroll puts that all on one service and gives it out to everyone around the world. Not only that, but it also doesn’t charge people to use the service, unless you want to pay for ad-free shows and dramas. You can watch Crunchyroll content using the streaming platform’s website, iPhone and iPad app, Android app, and various smart TVs and set-top boxes....

What Is Deep Fusion? Smartphones aren’t complete replacements to professional cameras just yet, but Apple makes the iPhone a better camera every year. This feature is available on the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max. These phones were released with Apple’s iOS 13. They came with several significant improvements to their camera setup, including improved sensors, an ultrawide-angle lens, a night mode, and slow-motion selfies. However, one improvement that didn’t come out of the box with their newest flagships is the Deep Fusion Camera, released with the iOS 13....

The answer comes down to how you use your PC and how hot your CPU gets when in use. It’s All About Keeping Your CPU Cool The key thing that any CPU cooler needs to do, obviously, is to keep your processor from getting too hot. If your CPU cooler does a good job of that, then it’s fine. Generally, this means any temperature above 80 degrees Celsius. CPUs generally have a maximum safe limit of around 100 degrees Celsius, but PC components degrade faster if they are constantly forced to operate at higher temperatures....

You might be thinking that the Task Scheduler is just a way to schedule an application to run at a certain time, but it is so much more than that, and has become an integral part of Windows. In the old days, Windows had a ton of Services running in the background at all times just to do things like trigger system cleanup events or maintenance that had to run at a particular time....

Microsoft Excel contains many functions that allow you to perform tasks without a calculator or extra work. But if you’re unfamiliar with formulas, it can feel intimidating. Here, we’ve listed 12 simple but useful Excel functions to get you started. 1. Add Numbers in Cells: SUM One of the most basic things you can do with numbers is add them. Using the SUM function in Excel you can add numbers in cells....

RELATED: What Is Apple’s Find My Network? You Can See Where People Are Without Having to Ask Do you often meet up with the same people, perhaps a spouse or best friend? Avoid having to send “where are you” texts by simply looking up their location instead. You can do this using the Find My app on any iPhone, or tap on their name at the top of an iMessage chat to see their location on a map....

To put it shortly: if you just picked up the iPhone 13 or 13 Pro, I’d stick with it. The iPhone 14 Pro brings a few new elements to the table, like the dynamic island and an Always-On Display (AOD), but I think these features could use a year or two to establish a real base of use cases and create a “must-upgrade” handset. Design and Display: Still Beautifully Elegant iPhones have definitely gone through a few major facelifts and complete reworks in the design and materials area....

Why Mac Apps Are Signed With Developer Certificates On a Mac, apps you download—whether from the Mac App Store or from the web—are signed with a developer certificate. Whenever you launch an app, it checks the app to verify that it was signed by a legitimate developer and that it hasn’t been tampered with. This helps protect you from malware. For example, when Mozilla creates Firefox, it compiles a Firefox application file and then signs it with Mozilla’s developer certificate....

If you’re connecting to Wi-Fi with your iPhone and you see a message in Settings about “Weak Security,” it can be confusing and concerning. Here’s what it means—and how to fix it. Wi-Fi Security Standards Have Changed Starting with iOS 14, Apple began warning iPhone owners about Wi-Fi networks that use older network security standards, such as WEP, WPA, or WPA2 (TKIP). These are encryption methods specifically used with Wi-Fi to protect your data from snoopers—and to keep unauthorized people from using your Wi-Fi connection....

If you’re saving passwords in Microsoft Edge, then you don’t need to worry about signing in to your favorite websites. If you need to edit or delete a saved password, however, you’ll need to access Edge’s “Settings” menu. These steps relate to the Chromium-based Edge browser that Microsoft rolled out in Summer 2020. If you haven’t updated your PC recently, you’ll need to make sure you’re running the latest version of Windows (and Microsoft Edge) before you begin....

You might already be stopping emails from certain senders from flooding your inbox. But sometimes, you’ll receive several emails with different addresses, yet all from the same domain. You can block that entire domain in Gmail. Here’s how. To block an email address in Gmail, you can create a filter that automatically deletes those messages. So, they go directly to the Trash folder rather than sitting in your inbox. Entire domains, like “@example....

The Status bar at the bottom of the Outlook client contains a lot of information. However, you can use a simple context menu to customize it, and either add or remove different values and shortcuts. Here’s how to configure it. Status bars are often an unloved, ignored part of a software app. This is a shame because they’re often the only part of an app that’s always visible. This is what makes them the ideal place for information and shortcuts....