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Windows lets you choose large, medium, or small desktop icons. But did you know many other size options are available? You can fine-tune the size of your desktop icons with a quick shortcut that involves your mouse wheel. The standard desktop icon sizes are available in the desktop’s context menu—right-click the desktop, point to view, and select “Large icons,” “Medium icons,” or “Small icons.” For extra size options, position your mouse cursor over the desktop, hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard, and scroll the mouse wheel up or down....

You can launch applications and programs using the Command Prompt—and Microsoft Edge is no exception. You can also use Command Prompt to launch Edge in InPrivate Browsing mode, open a specific website, or restore the previous session. Here’s how. To launch Microsoft Edge using Command Prompt, you’ll need to have already downloaded and installed Edge. These steps work for both the Legacy Edge and Chromium-based Edge. RELATED: How to Open Google Chrome Using Command Prompt on Windows 10...

It seems like every news site starts playing video automatically these days. These are incredibly annoying, but thankfully, it’s easy to block in Firefox. By default, Firefox allows autoplay content. However, it won’t start playing until the video frame is visible on your screen. This helps prevent sites from hiding video behind other content or at the bottom of the page. Since you’re reading this article, though, we assume you don’t want autoplay at all....

There are dozens of options for sharing notes across devices these days, but if you use Slack, there’s one more. With Slack’s direct message interface, it’s easy to send yourself quick private reminders and notes that you can read later on any device. Here’s how. First, open Slack using the platform of your choice. This tip works on PC, Mac, Web, iPhone, iPad, and Android. If the sidebar is not visible, open it up and scroll down to the section titled “Direct Messages....

Understand the Light Photography is all about working with light. The better the light, the easier it is to take great photos. While there’s no such thing as “bad” light, some types are definitely easier to shoot in than others. For example, take artificial overhead indoor lighting (like your kitchen light). It’s really hard to take a flattering portrait when the main light source is hanging directly above your subjects’ head....

Just like your car, your house, and even your body, your computer needs a good cleaning every once and a while to prevent dust build-up and overheating. Cleaning a PC is easy to do and only takes about 20 minutes, so today we’re going to cover how to effectively clean the inside of your desktop computer. Editor’s Note: This article shows how to completely clean everything inside of the computer case....

If you find that your old hard drive is bursting at the seams and you want to upgrade to a larger one, it’s really easy to do so without losing any of your data. This is thanks to a process called disk cloning. Cloning a hard drive means that you take your old, existing drive and create an exact, bit-for-bit copy to a new one. When you plug the new one in, your computer will boot right up from it without skipping a beat, and without you having to reinstall Windows from scratch....

You’re spoiled for choice when it comes to commands for searching and finding in Linux. Why so many? Well, they each have their specialties and perform better than the others in certain circumstances. You could think of them as a sort of Swiss-Army knife for searching. We’re going to look at each blade in turn and find out its particular strengths. The find Command The behavior of the find command is difficult to determine by trial and error....

The dedicated Picture-in-Picture (PiP) button makes it quite easy to play videos in a floating, movable window on the Mac. Unsurprisingly, the YouTube player doesn’t support this feature. Thankfully, there’s a hidden way to watch YouTube Picture-in-Picture in Safari on Mac. Many websites in Safari (and the TV app) come with the Picture-in-Picture button. You simply press it to enter the floating media player. The process for YouTube videos is different....

UPnP comes enabled by default on many new routers. At one point, the FBI and other security experts recommended disabling UPnP for security reasons. But how secure is UPnP today? Are we trading security for convenience when using UPnP? UPnP stands for “Universal Plug and Play.” Using UPnP, an application can automatically forward a port on your router, saving you the hassle of forwarding ports manually. We’ll be looking at the reasons people recommend disabling UPnP, so we can get a clear picture of the security risks....

Even so, finding the best value-for-money service is important. That isn’t always about how much space you get, but that is often where we start when looking at storage plans. Unfortunately, it is difficult to know exactly how much storage space you might need until you actually start storing all of your files. Most providers have a free storage plan to get you started, but it is still worth looking at how much the premium plans will cost if you ever need to upgrade....

Spotify has always offered kid-friendly content. By creating a Spotify Kids account, parents can give children their own app that features over 8,000 songs in different languages, as well as stories, lullabies, and sounds for sleeping. Spotify Kids Is a Listening App Built for Kids Many kids have their own smartphones and tablets, and parents often want to filter out age-inappropriate content. Spotify offers a wide variety of songs with explicit lyrics, podcasts with mature content, and many more things that aren’t suitable for young children....

That’s the key when it comes to choosing a streaming service. Bragging about having the most movies doesn’t matter much if few of them are actually worth watching. The same goes for talking about 4K support. Let’s find out which service has the most to offer. RELATED: Which Streaming Service Has the Most Movies? 4K Content by Service Finding the exact number of 4K titles on each streaming service is not a simple task....

Google Chrome automatically updates itself. There’s no easy way to turn off automatic updates, but you can do it in several ways—by stopping the Google Update Service that handles automatic updates, for example. Here’s why you shouldn’t do it. Chrome’s Updates Haven’t Been Buggy Google has a good track record with security updates for Chrome. Google Chrome was originally released in 2008. Now, more than a decade later, it’s hard to point to even one example of a catastrophic update bug that caused problems....

The main feature is the 6-inch glare-free display, which uses an e-ink panel instead of the typical LCD screens you’d find on most other tablets. It has a pixel density of 212 DPI, which is higher than the regular Kindle (167 DPI), but lower than the $140 Kindle Paperwhite (300 DPI). The higher the DPI, or Dots Per Inch, the fewer pixels you can see. The GlowLight 4e’s rating should be just fine for most people, and since it has an e-ink screen, the battery can last for weeks with regular use....

How VPNs and Tor Work To figure out when you should use Tor rather than a VPN, let’s first go over how they both work. VPNs are privacy tools that allow you to connect to servers owned and operated by your provider. Doing so encrypts your connection in a so-called VPN tunnel and also lets you assume the location of that server. Spoofing your location in this way gives you greater flexibility when accessing sites all over the web: you can unblock Netflix regions other than your own, circumvent internet censorship imposed by countries like China or Russia, or even just access internet banking while on holiday....

Whether you want to add new autocorrect entries to Word or just do a little housekeeping and remove some vocab that’s no longer relevant, you can do so in just a few easy steps. Here’s how. Add New AutoCorrect Entries to Word First, open Microsoft Word and select the “File” tab. At the bottom of the left pane, select the “Options” button. The “Word Options” window will appear. Here, select “Proofing” from the list of options in the left pane....

This is a simple, inexpensive process. Buy the right little adapter and you can even take it with you, quickly adding Wi-Fi to any desktop you come across by plugging a tiny device into its USB port. Why You Might Want to Do This If you’re happy with your current Ethernet connection, there’s no need to throw away the cables and go wireless. Good old Ethernet cables are still useful....

Outlook 2013 allows you to customize the font used to display the sender’s name, subject, date received, and size of each message in your message list. Maybe you want to just change the size to make the font bigger or smaller, or change the font to one you like better. To change the font settings for your message list, open Outlook and click on the View tab. NOTE: Even if you closed Outlook when another module was active, such as Calendar or Tasks, Outlook opens by default with the Mail module active....

Even if your MacBook is working fine, you should check for any available recalls—for example, one Apple MacBook battery recall notes that the battery “may overheat and cause a fire safety risk.” If you take Apple up on the offer of free service, you’re both getting a new, fresh battery and reducing the odds your MacBook will burst into flames. How to Check Your MacBook’s Model Number and Serial Number To know whether your MacBook is eligible, you’ll need to know its precise model name....