How to Pin Documents to the Taskbar To pin a document or application to the taskbar, follow the instructions below. Now, Organize All that’s left to do is sort out those documents sitting on your desktop. Don’t pin a program to your taskbar for every possible document you need to sort out. Instead, look for the most commonly required programs or the most essential (depending on the types of documents you have)....
How to Purge Deleted Messages in Outlook If you delete a message in an IMAP account that’s accessed through Outlook, it’s not deleted right away and Outlook doesn’t move it to the Deleted Items folder. Instead, these messages are marked for deletion and are sometimes hidden on purpose since you don’t really need to see them. So, you have to purge the half-gone emails to delete them from the server. Here’s how to set up Outlook to permanently delete messages marked to be expunged in IMAP email accounts:...
How to Reset an iPad Mini The option to reset your iPad Mini is a couple menus deep in the Settings app. Here’s where to find it. When Should I Reset My iPad Mini? It’s important to reset an iPad Mini that is activated on an iCloud account before you sell, donate, gift, or otherwise transfer the iPad to another user. Apple’s activation lock feature forces users activating a previously activated iOS device to enter the iCloud username and password of the previously used iCloud account....
Back Up Your Data Before You Reset Your MacBook Pro Even if you never plan to use your data again, make sure to back it up, just in case. The last thing anyone wants is to permanently delete something important. MacBook Pro users should use Time Machine to back up your MacBook in case you need to restore your information. How to Erase Content and Settings in macOS Monterey and Later Macs running macOS Monterey (12....
How to Return a Book on Audible There are a couple of caveats to returning an Audible book: You have to be an Audible member.Your return needs to occur within 365 days of when you originally received the book. Provided these two things are true, you can take a few simple steps to return your book, and you’ll get a refund via whatever payment method was used for the initial purchase....
Screenshot on an Acer Laptop With Print Screen You can take a screenshot by pressing the Print Screen button on the laptop’s keyboard. It is usually found in the function row and may be abbreviated as PrtSc. Print Screen will save a screenshot to the Windows Clipboard. You can then paste it into apps or web pages with Ctrl+V. Screenshot on an Acer Laptop with Windows + Print Screen To save a file rather than have it on the clipboard, press Windows + Print Screen....
How to Set Disney Plus Parental Controls On an Existing Profile If you already have a profile you have designated for one of your kids, or for all of your kids to share, switching it to a child’s profile is pretty easy. By doing so, you will limit the type of content that can be viewed via that profile. How to Create a Child Profile On Disney Plus If you don’t already have a profile set up for your kid, you can also create a child profile from scratch....
Sideloading a Fire TV device is not very difficult, but it is significantly more complicated than downloading and installing official apps. Why Should You Sideload Fire TV Apps? Before You Begin: Prepare Your Fire TV Device for Sideloading Regardless of which method you use to sideload your Fire TV device, the first thing you need to do is prepare your device for sideloading. For security reasons, Fire TV devices are not able to sideload apps unless you change two settings....
How to Pair Alexa and Skype There are three requirements to make this process work. First, make sure you have a Skype account and you know your login credentials. Next, grant Alexa access to your Skype account. Finally, tell Alexa to make calls using Skype. To use Skype with Alexa, you first need to allow Alexa to access your Skype account. You must do this through the Alexa app. Here are the steps:...
How to Stream on Facebook Gaming After you’ve set up your equipment and software, follow these steps to begin streaming: Monitoring Your Facebook Gaming Streaming After going live, Facebook takes you to the Creator Studio, where you’ll see helpful information like your number of viewers, stream health, and comments. You can return to the Creator Studio at any time to manage your streams and upload videos. Select Insights to see your viewer metrics and earnings....
How to Stream the Rose Bowl With ESPN ESPN owns the rights to air the Rose Bowl, but cord-cutters have many options to stream the game online. Time: 5 p.m. ET Location: Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California Teams: Utah vs Penn State Channel: ESPN Stream it on: ESPN.com or the ESPN app, DirecTV Stream, Disney+, ESPN+, fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV ESPN.COM If you’re on your computer or laptop, you can stream the Rose Bowl on ESPN....
How to Sync Your iPhone Calendar With Your Google Calendar Apple’s iOS operating system supports connections to Google accounts. To sync your iPhone and Google calendars: Limitations Google Calendar supports several features that do not work on Apple’s Calendar app, including the room scheduling tool, the creation of new Google calendars, and the transmission of email notifications for events. To use the features, you must access your Google account. When the sync is complete, Gmail appears in the Calendar list....
If you’ve never used your iPad for playing music or if you need a refresher on how to do it, use this step-by-step tutorial to learn how. Before Connecting Your iPad To ensure that the process of transferring iTunes songs to your iPad goes as smoothly as possible, make sure you have the latest version of iTunes. Updating iTunes is normally an automatic process when your system starts up or whenever you launch iTunes, but you can also check for updates manually....
How Does Taming Cats Work in Minecraft? Minecraft is a constant work in progress, and it hasn’t always included cats. Ocelots made it into the game first, followed by the ability to tame them. In that earlier version of the game, the only way to get a pet cat in Minecraft was to tame an ocelot. It was still technically just a tame ocelot and not a cat, but it was the closest you could get....
How to Transfer Photos From an Android Phone to a PC You don’t need special software. You can transfer photos from your Android phone to a PC using the cord that came with the phone. How to Transfer Photos From an Android Phone to a Mac Depending on the age of your Apple computer, the first thing you’ll need is a cord that converts from micro-USB to whichever input your computer accepts....
How Do I Manually Turn Off My Nest Thermostat? If you don’t have a mobile device with the Nest app, you can turn your thermostat off directly from the device. Because it’s not immediately obvious how to do so on the device, follow these steps: How Do I Turn Off the Thermostat on My Nest App? If you aren’t near your Nest thermostat but you still want to turn it off, you can do so from the Nest app, as long as you’re connected to a network....
How to Power Off iPhone XR Need to turn off your iPhone XR? It will be familiar from the process for turning on an iPhone XR, but there are two extra steps. Press and hold the Volume Down and Side buttons at the same time. When the slide to power off slider appears, move it from left to right. After a few seconds, your iPhone XR will turn off. What to Do if iPhone XR Won’t Turn Off In some cases, your iPhone XR might run into a problem that prevents it from turning off using the steps from the last section....
How to Turn off CC on Discovery Plus The steps for turning off closed captions and subtitles vary slightly depending on your device. Discovery Plus Web Player Follow these steps to turn off closed captions when you’re watching on the Discovery Plus website: Discovery Plus Mobile App Follow these steps to turn off closed captions in the Discovery Plus app for iOS and Android: Roku To turn off captions in the Discovery Plus app for Roku TVs and streaming devices, you must disable closed captions on your Roku in the device settings....
How to Unblock Someone on Snapchat Because blocking people on Snapchat hides their accounts from you and yours from them, you can’t search for their names and then unblock them. Instead, access your list of blocked users from the Snapchat settings. Here’s how. What to Do After Unblocking Someone Blocking cuts off all contact between you and the blocked user, and the person is removed from your Friends list. After unblocking, you’ll need to search for the friend and add them back....
How to Update Quest and Quest 2 Meta (Oculus) Quest is designed to update itself using its built-in Wi-Fi connection, but that doesn’t mean the process always works as intended. If you suspect that your headset is out of date, you can check for updates and force an installation any time you want. Here’s how to check for updates on Quest and install them if necessary: How to Turn on Automatic Updates for Meta (Oculus) Quest and Quest 2 If you prefer to receive your updates automatically and you’re tired of performing manual updates, you can turn on automatic updates in the Meta Quest app on your phone....
