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How to Start Windows XP in Safe Mode Windows XP Safe Mode can help you diagnose and solve many serious problems, especially when starting normally isn’t possible. Here’s how to start up in Safe Mode. Just before the Windows XP splash screen, shown above, appears, press the F8 key to enter the Windows Advanced Options Menu. Here, you’re presented with three variations of Safe Mode you can enter: Safe Mode: This is the default option and is usually the best choice....

How to Switch the Face on Apple Watch Every Apple Watch comes with a selection of watch faces. These pre-installed faces give you all sorts of options, including styling your Apple Watch to look like a mechanical watch with a minute and second hand, spotlighting Siri and its suggestions, displaying a favorite photo, and giving you tons of useful information. Here’s how to switch Apple Watch faces: Get New Apple Watch Faces From the Watch App The faces preinstalled on your Apple Watch aren’t your only options....

The EICAR Test File The EICAR test file is the easiest way to ensure your antivirus software is working. It’s a virus simulator developed by the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research and Computer Antivirus Research Organization. EICAR is a non-viral string of code that most antivirus software have included in their signature definition files specifically for the purpose of testing — therefore, antivirus applications respond to this file as if it were a virus....

How to Transfer Text Messages from iPhone to iPhone With Messages in iCloud Perhaps the simplest way to transfer text messages from iPhone to iPhone is to use Messages in iCloud. This iCloud feature was introduced in iOS 11.4. When you enable it, it works just like iCloud syncing does for other data: you upload content to iCloud and then all other devices signed in to the same account download messages from iCloud....

How Do I Unlock My iPhone With Apple Watch and Mask? To unlock your iPhone with your Apple Watch while wearing a mask, you’ll need first to set up the feature via your iPhone. Here’s how to do so. Can You Use Apple Watch to Unlock iPhone? Once you’ve set up your iPhone to unlock via your Apple Watch, it’s simple to use your Apple Watch to unlock your iPhone. Here’s what to do....

How to Update AirPods Firmware from an iPhone To check what firmware version your AirPods are running, and to update AirPods firmware, follow these steps: How to Update AirPods Manually You can also try to force an update. If an AirPods firmware update is available, it will be installed after you follow the instructions below. Do AirPods Need to Be Updated? Yes, AirPods do need updates. However, unlike the iOS and iPhone, it’s not as easy to update them, and Apple doesn’t release new AirPods firmware versions nearly as often....

How Office Updates Itself In the early days of home computing, Microsoft Office didn’t update between new versions. Instead, every time the company pushed a new release, people purchased disks or CDs or DVDs with the latest version and installed it. In the mid-2000s, Microsoft started pushing online patches to Office 2003, a practice it maintained through Office 2010. Those patches used Office Online, so you had to open an Office product and check for updates or install an Office updater utility....

You can add an additional screen to boost monitor real estate. Here are guidelines for setting up dual monitors and working with Microsoft Office programs on multiple screens. How to Connect Two Monitors to a Windows 10 Computer This process involves getting a PC to recognize more than one monitor. How to Connect Two Monitors to a Windows 7 Computer The process is a little different if the PC has Windows 7 installed....

What Is the Illustrator Image Trace Tool? When converting an image into vectors, the areas of contiguous colors are converted into solid shapes. As you add more shapes and vector points, the file size becomes larger and it requires greater CPU resources to map those shapes, points, and colors to the screen. This process works best in images with a subject that stands out clearly against its background, such as the below image of a cow standing against the sky....

Access the PowerPoint Slide Master The PowerPoint Slide Master is like a style sheet for your presentations. Changes made to the Slide Master apply to the slides that are created after you format the Slide Master. To access the Slide Master in a PowerPoint presentation, select View > Slide Master. Change the Layout in the Slide Master The Slide Master view contains all the slide layouts used in PowerPoint. The Slides pane displays thumbnail images of the slide master (the top thumbnail image) and the related slide layouts (the smaller thumbnail images located below the slide master)....

How to Round Numbers in Excel Use the ROUND function to round numbers up or down. Rounding numbers is not the same as changing the number format or changing the number of decimal places displayed in a worksheet. These only change how the number appears in the worksheet. When you round a number, you change how the number appears and how Excel stores the number. Excel stores the number as the new rounded number, the original value is removed....

Configure Complete Message Source Availability in Outlook Outlook takes messages it receives from the internet and stores the headers and individual message parts independently from the message body. When you select a message, Outlook collects the pieces to show just what is needed. Except when you want Outlook to display the headers. By default, Outlook removes certain header lines. Here’s how to configure Outlook to preserve the complete source of email messages....

Game developer SNEG is bringing multiple old-school D&D PC games to Steam, according to a press release sent out by the game dev. These games, dubbed the Gold Box Series, began their original release in 1988. There will be multiple Gold Box Classics to choose from, each featuring various games tied to different D&D campaigns. There are three Forgotten Realms collections, for instance, one Pool of Radiance collection, a single Savage Frontier collection, and many standalone titles....

The Arc line was announced earlier this week, with details about the GPUs shared in a video presentation at the Architecture Day 2021 event held Friday. According to ArsTechnica, the Arc series is set to compete against Nvidia’s GeForce and AMD’s Radeon graphics cards. The upcoming GPUs are based on Xe-HPG architecture that will feature “hardware-based ray tracing” and support DirectX12 Ultimate. The architecture and features allow the hardware to access more of its own resources to portray higher-quality graphics....

Check for large-scale outages across AT&T’s network.Troubleshoot common internet, cell phone, and television problems on your end. How to Tell If AT&T Is Down If you suspect AT&T might be having a widespread outage of some sort, there are a couple of quick ways you can get confirmation. What to Do When You Can’t Get Connected to AT&T If no one else seems to be reporting an outage, the problem is probably on your end of the equation....

How to Tell If Microsoft Teams Is Down If you think Microsoft Teams is down for everyone, try these steps to confirm: What to Do When You Can’t Connect to Microsoft Teams If you can’t connect to Microsoft Teams and it seems to be working for everyone else, there are several things you can try to fix it. While you’re on Twitter, you can also check Microsoft Team’s Twitter page for any updates on the service....

How to Filter Similar Messages in Gmail Follow these instruction to filter similar messages in Gmail, including how to set certain criteria for filters. If you want to filter messages from the same sender, you’re all set.To filter messages to a mailing list or one of your addresses, enter it in the To line.Use the Subject field to filter for words and phrases in the subject line.Use Has the words and Doesn’t have to look for or exclude words or phrases in the message body....

This isn’t an exact Smash clone, like the recently-released MultiVersus, as it brings some new ideas to the destructible table. First up, there isn’t a character roster like similar fighting games. Players make their own characters out of LEGO bricks and related accessories. All told, the developer says there are 77 trillion customization possibilities. That’s a lot. You don’t just create the exterior, as the system also allows players to choose from different play styles, including move sets....

Both projectors support 4K resolution and HDR, plus features to enhance the viewing experience like a Filmmaker Mode, an operating system for streaming services, and a high contrast ratio. The models will go on sale starting Q1 2022, but the price points have yet to be announced. Ultra Short Throw refers to how close the projector can be to the wall to display the image. Unlike most projectors, the HU715Q can be as close as 8....

How to Complete the Lost Souvenir Quest Before you can attempt this quest, you’ll first need to collect a few items: What’s the Reward for Completing the Lost Souvenir Quest? Your reward for solving the Mysterious Datapad riddle and completing the Lost Souvenir is the Obsidian Accelerator. Deliver it to Ada-1 in the Tower, and she’ll give you the Obsidian Dreams emblem. You’ll then be able to enhance Black Armory weapons....