How to Perform a Netsh Winsock Reset You must be logged in as an administrator or know the Windows admin password. After restarting, open a website in Chrome or another browser to see if the problem has been resolved. What should return is a message like the following: When to Perform a Winsock Reset If you can’t view any web pages despite having a stable Wi-Fi connection, resetting Winsock could fix the problem....
How to Play Roblox on Meta (Oculus) Quest and Quest 2 Here’s how to play Roblox on your Quest or Quest 2: What if You Can’t Play Roblox in VR Mode? If you have successfully linked your Quest or Quest 2 to your PC, and you’re playing Roblox in a virtual desktop mode on the headset, but you don’t see an option to enable VR, there are a handful of potential issues....
How to Print From an iPad Using AirPrint You need an AirPrint-compatible printer and a Wi-Fi connection to print from any iPad using AirPrint. Here’s how: How to Print From an iPad Using Third-Party Apps Most manufacturers—including Canon, HP, and Brother—produce their own apps. These apps can usually be downloaded from the App Store for free. To print more than one copy of the page or image, select the + button next to 1 Copy....
Turn Off the Automatic Signature To stop Gmail from automatically adding a signature to every email you compose, perform the following: By turning off the automatic signature, you can add your own personal signature for different emails. If you decide to use your old signature, simply select it and Save Changes again. Signature Best Practices If you turn your email signature back on, ensure that it follows best practices: Keep it simple....
This process is similar across all of Sonos’ products. Still, these specific instructions are intended for the Sonos Beam alone, so if you want to reset a different Sonos speaker, check your device’s user manual. How to Soft Reset a Sonos Beam Soft resetting or rebooting Sonos Beam only takes a hair over 10 seconds. After a soft reset, there are no permanent changes to your device, so no further setup will be necessary,...
How to Send Mail From a Different Account in iOS Mail The Mail app in the iPhone iOS sends and receives emails from as many accounts as you have on the phone. After you configure a second (or subsequent) email account, you unlock the functionality to specify the outgoing account for a given message. To choose the account from which the email or reply you are composing in iPhone Mail will be sent:...
How to Set Up Apple Family Sharing Before you can share Apple TV+ with any members of your family, you first need to set up Apple Family Sharing. It’s a simple process. You’ll find the option in your settings on an iPhone or an iPad, or you can access them on a Mac from the Apple menu > System Preferences > Family Sharing. In either setup method, you’ll need to agree to be the person who is responsible for any purchases made by shared family members....
How to Set Up the Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch setup is pretty straightforward and quite intuitive, but it’s helpful to know what to expect. Here’s a look at how best to set up the Nintendo Switch so you can be gaming in no time. How to Use Nintendo Switch the First Time Using your Nintendo Switch can be a little confusing at first, so here’s how to get started. How to Link a Nintendo Account to Your Nintendo Switch If you’ve set up your Nintendo Switch and you wish to add a Nintendo account, here’s how to do it....
Available on Netflix Netflix has a range of movies available all the time, so it’s not surprising that you’ll find some of the Oscar nominees there. If you have a subscription, watching these highly-acclaimed movies is easy. If you don’t have a subscription, it’s not hard to start one. Don’t Look Up This star-studded satire about climate change has shifted the Academy’s perspective on straight-to-streaming movies. Don’t Look Up is a Netflix exclusive, so you won’t find it streaming anywhere else....
Why Sync Your Windows Desktop With OneDrive? Putting commonly used folders such as your Windows desktop in the cloud is a great solution if you use your desktop to store downloaded files or frequently accessed items. That way, you always have those files synced across your devices. You can also connect other PCs you use with OneDrive sync. How to Move Your Desktop to the Cloud With OneDrive Before you begin, install the OneDrive desktop sync client on your version of Windows....
Why HDMI Problems Happen HDMI is supposed to make it easy to connect all your devices with one HDMI cable for both audio and video. To do this, connected devices must be “licensed” to communicate with each other through a standard known as HDCP. This ability to recognize and communicate media and devices is referred to as the “HDMI handshake.” If the handshake doesn’t work, that means the HDCP encryption embedded in the HDMI signal is not recognized by one or more of the connected devices....
How to Stop Google From Sharing Your Photos Disabling link sharing is the quickest way to restrict who can view a shared album or individual picture. Only people you’ve explicitly invited will have access (we’ll look at removing their access, too). Disable Album Sharing First, here’s how to turn off photo sharing if it’s an album. Do this if you’ve created a share link from an album and you want to deny access through that link....
How Do I Temporarily Turn off Notifications? Turning off all notifications on your iPhone is easy. Enable the Do Not Disturb feature on your iPhone either through Settings or the Control Panel. Do Not Disturb will turn off all the notifications that come into your phone, including app notifications, mail and message notifications, and call notifications. If that’s not what you had in mind, there are a few other ways to manage your notifications, too....
How Do I Turn Off Sleep Mode on My iPhone? Sleep Mode is designed to turn off automatically each morning based on the settings you used when you first set up Sleep Mode, but you can also turn it off manually from your iPhone or Apple Watch. You can turn it off from the Control Center on your phone or watch, or directly from your iPhone lock screen. This is useful if you’ve woken up earlier than normal and don’t want to have to wait to start using your phone....
How to Turn on an HP Laptop The only real way to turn on most HP laptops is by pressing the power button. If your laptop is in sleep mode, you may just be able to open the lid, but if it’s powered down, then you’ll need to press the power button. Depending on which HP laptop you have, the power button will be located in slightly different places. Some have it on the side, others on one of the corners on the back, while others still have it located just above the keyboard on the bottom half of the laptop....
How to Turn On the Keyboard Light on a Lenovo Laptop These steps work for Lenovo IdeaPad and ThinkPad laptops which have a keyboard backlight. How to Turn On a Lenovo ThinkLight Older Lenovo ThinkPad laptops did not have a keyboard backlight and instead used a built-in LED lamp called the ThinkLight. It’s at the top of the display and shines down on the keyboard, providing usable light for both the keyboard and any nearby documents....
How to Update Chrome Manually on a Mac Not sure if there’s an update ready? Check the “About Chrome” area of the settings for details. How to Apply Pending Chrome Updates on a Mac Another situation where Chrome can be updated is if it’s been a while since the update was released and you’ve been putting off applying it. When this happens, the menu button at the top right will change to a different color to indicate the urgency:...
How to Add a Laptop as a Monitor With Miracast Windows 10 systems come with a feature called Miracast that lets you project your present computer’s display to a different computer. The only requirement is that both computers are running a modern enough version of Windows 10 that includes Miracast. If you can use this option to use your laptop as a monitor, it’s the easiest method. Project to Your Laptop Screen With a Third-Party App If both computers aren’t running Windows 10, you can cast your screen to your laptop display using a third-party app instead....
How to Format C From a System Repair Disc You’ll need access to a working Windows computer with an optical disc drive to create a System Repair Disc. Follow these steps to format your C drive: After the drive is finished formatting, you’ll be prompted to enter a volume label, or name, for the drive. You can skip this step by pressing Enter. When you’re back at the Command Prompt, remove the System Repair Disc and turn off your computer by holding down the power button....
What Is an Absolute Cell Reference in Excel? There are two types of ways to reference a cell inside a formula in Excel. You can use a relative cell reference or an absolute cell reference. Relative cell reference: A cell address which doesn’t contain the $ symbol in front of the row or column coordinates. This reference will automatically update the column or cell relative to the original cell when you fill either down or across....
