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Which CPUs Does Windows 11 Officially Support? Immediately after Windows 11’s announcement, Microsoft had several contradictory web pages up listing different CPU requirements. However, after the first few days, the company’s communication had become more clear. According to Microsoft, Windows 11 will only guarantee support the following CPUs: Intel CPUs: 8th generation or newer. (See list of supported Intel CPUs. ) AMD CPUs: Ryzen 2000 or newer. (See list of supported AMD CPUs....

Before you unplug a removable drive on a Mac, you should always eject it. Here are five ways to do it with ease—and why you need to eject to begin with. Why Do You Need to Eject? Ejecting a disk on a Mac is a necessary step to prevent the loss of data. Here’s why: To speed up the perceived operation of writing data to an external drive, macOS sometimes writes data to a temporary location in memory instead of writing it to the disk....

Let’s take a look at the numerous perks that come with a Prime membership and, for fun, we’ll even estimate (based on comparable services) how much those Prime benefits are worth. Prime Video: Instant Access to Movies and TV Prime Music: All the Tunes? No. Tons of Tunes? Yes. Can Prime Music compete with the serious heavyweights in the streaming music industry like Spotify? Not necessarily. Does the 2 million song catalog cover most of the stuff you’ll want to listen to?...

What It Means to “Hack” an iPhone Hacking is a loose term that’s often used incorrectly. Traditionally, it refers to illegally gaining access to a computer network. In the context of an iPhone, hacking could refer to any of the following: Gaining access to someone’s private information stored on an iPhone. Monitoring or using an iPhone remotely without the owner’s knowledge or consent. Changing the way an iPhone operates by using additional soft- or hardware....

Is Microsoft about to remove the Control Panel from Windows 10? That’s how some websites are spinning recent news. But that just isn’t true. Here’s what is going away—and what’s really going on with the Control Panel. Say Goodbye to the System Screen (Probably) In a new testing build of Windows 10, Microsoft has removed the System page from the Control Panel. This change appeared in Insider Preview build 20161, released on July 1, 2020....

Save 30% on CleanMyMac X No device or operating system is immune to the eventual slowdowns that come with regular use. That includes Apple’s lauded Mac lineup. When your Mac isn’t running quite right, clear out the clutter and reclaim lost performance with CleanMyMac X, now 30% off as part of a special Black Friday offer. CleanMyMac X is a robust Mac maintenance resource that will help regain the power and performance you’ve lost from years of system clutter....

Not every Roku channel appears in the channel store. There are quite a few hidden “private channels” you have to go out of your way to find. On a Roku, channels are basically the same thing as “apps.” This means there’s a universe of additional apps for your Roku, and you can find them with your web browser. They’re easy to install if you know where to look. What’s a Private Channel, and Why Are They Private?...

Staying on top of your favorite TV shows and movies can be difficult given the dozens of streaming services. If you add your favorites to your Google Watchlist, though, it’ll help you keep track of them. The Watchlist feature is part of Google Search, and it’s integrated with the Google TV app, as well. Adding movies and TV shows to your Watchlist is a nice way to easily find them and see on which services they’re available....

Are you sending an email in a second language but not sure if you spelled a word correctly? Microsoft Outlook Online has a quick and easy way to change the spellchecking language to help you out. Outlook Online will detect your browser’s default language, which in turn normally picks up your default language from your computer’s operating system. Fortunately, Outlook Online lets you choose and switch to a second language from a list of supported languages....

The Ring Doorbell is a Wi-Fi-enabled doorbell system with an integrated camera so that you can quickly see who’s at the door. But its internal battery means that you need to recharge it once or twice every year. Here’s how to recharge the Ring Doorbell whenever the battery gets low. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Ring Video Doorbell While you can run the Ring Doorbell off of traditional doorbell wiring and not bother with recharging the battery, its big feature is that it can be powered completely by the internal battery so that you don’t have to mess with any wires, making installation super easy....

If you’re having issues with your Wi-Fi connection, the strength of your Wi-Fi signal may be poor.There are many different ways to check your Wi-Fi signal strength in Windows 10 to find out how good or bad the signal quality is. Use the Taskbar for a Quick Answer Your PC’s taskbar (the bar at the bottom of the screen) has several icons on it. One of these is for your wireless networks, and you can use this icon to find your Wi-Fi signal strength....

You’ve settled into your new island in Animal Crossing on the Nintendo Switch and now you’re ready to show it off to the world. Here’s how to unlock the different multiplayer features in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Unlock the Dodo Airlines Airport On day 2 of your new island, Tom Nook will announce in the town plaza that access to the airport is now available. Head to the Dodo Airlines and talk to Orville, the bird behind the counter....

Using rules in Microsoft Outlook, you can automatically apply predefined actions to the emails that match the specified criteria in your account. This helps avoid manually filtering your emails and automates the process for you. We’ll show you two different ways to make rules in Outlook. RELATED: Use Outlook Rules to Prevent “Oh No!” After Sending Emails Ways to Make Rules in Outlook The first way to make a rule in Outlook is by using an existing email message as the base....

Creating random data to fill an Excel workbook is as simple as adding a few little-known formulas. These formulas come in handy when honing your Microsoft Excel skills, as they give you fake data to practice with before you risk mistakes with the real thing. Use the Formula Bar To start, we’ll enter one of a few formulas in the Formula bar. This is the window below the ribbon, found here....

Mac users who are using Safari 14.0 and higher (available to users who are running the latest version of macOS Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, and higher) will see a new tab management. RELATED: The Complete Guide to Mastering Tabs in Safari Similar to other modern browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, the new tab management feature enables Safari to finally collapse the tabs and only show the favicon when you have more than a dozen tabs open at once....

Adobe Photoshop has many menu items, some of which we rarely or never use. You can hide these unused items so your Photoshop menus look cleaner. If you ever need them again, you can easily restore hidden options. How to Hide Menu Items in Adobe Photoshop You can hide any option in Photoshop’s menus, which means that you can even remove some frequently used options like New and Open....

Normally, Safari on iPhone and iPad displays a list of Favorites on its blank pages whenever you open a new window or tab. Unfortunately, Apple does not provide a simple and obvious way to disable this, but there is a way to do it. Here’s how to set it up. The Quest for a Truly Blank Safari Page Ordinarily, if you have any Favorites saved in Safari on your iPhone or iPad, they will show up on a “blank” page like this after you create a new tab or open a new page....

Companies all over the world sell VPN services to secure your online activity, but can you really trust a VPN provider? If you want, you can create your own virtual private network with the open-source Algo software, and the cloud-hosting provider of your choice. VPNs and Trust Regardless of what the privacy policy says or boasts about security audits on a company blog, there’s nothing stopping a VPN from monitoring everything you do online....

A bar chart (or a bar graph) is one of the easiest ways to present your data in Excel, where horizontal bars are used to compare data values. Here’s how to make and format bar charts in Microsoft Excel. Inserting Bar Charts in Microsoft Excel While you can potentially turn any set of Excel data into a bar chart, It makes more sense to do this with data when straight comparisons are possible, such as comparing the sales data for a number of products....

Apple Watch comes with a feature called Taptic Time. It can read you the time using haptic feedback on your wrist. Once it’s enabled, all you have to do is wake up the watch (by lifting your wrist or by tapping the screen), then tap and hold the watch face with two fingers. The Taptic Time feature comes with three different vibration modes: Digits: This mode alternates between long taps and short taps....