While passwords have long formed the basis of personal computer security, passwords can be faked, stolen or spoofed. To increase security, newer computers can use biometric information, like fingerprints, to control who can log in to or access the computer. You can install a fingerprint reader on your PC or desktop. Once you have the fingerprint reader enabled in Windows, users must swipe their fingers in order to log in....
If a computer’s “System Restore” utility is not enabled and there is no way to enable it in “System Properties,” it may have originally been disabled in “Group Policy.” This was a largely utilized setting in the early days of Windows XP. This is no longer a recommended method for disabling “System Restore,” but many older systems were manipulated this way. Even someone who originally disabled “System Restore” in “Group Policy” might have trouble enabling it again as the steps are not simply a reverse of disabling the utility....
Over half a billion users frequent Yahoo! properties each month, and the company publishes its content in over 30 languages. Finding user profiles on Yahoo! requires minimal information concerning a user’s online presence, such as her email address or username. To search the Yahoo! user profiles you need a Yahoo! user account. A user’s individual privacy settings may prohibit the public display of her profile information. Writer Bio
Snopes.com states that a version of the current “Nigerian Scam” has been around, even in letter form, since at least the 1920s, when it was called the “Spanish Prisoner Scam.” The basic idea is that someone contacts you requesting money to cover the cost of an emergency or requesting you to act as a go-between for transferring funds. Most people are aware of these types of scams by now, so the scammers have become much more adept at disguising who they really are....
Finding out the manufacturing date of your PC isn’t an exact science. While you may not be able to obtain a precise date, your PC contains several clues to give you a fairly accurate idea of when it was manufactured. Using these indicators can help you determine the approximate age of your computer. Writer Bio
Big-screen televisions can be adjusted for picture. Basic picture settings that are user customizable include the brightness, contrast, color, tint and sharpness. Some televisions feature advanced video settings that can include adaptive contrast, dynamic contrast, color temperature and more. Once you’ve verified that the television is plugged in and turned on, you can perform some settings changes that will fix the problem.
Logitech Harmony remotes are highly-customizable and can be programmed to operate nearly any function of a home theater system, for example. The remotes include firmware that helps them process the correct commands once a button is pressed and send the signal to the device. If your Harmony remote turns on to a blank screen, you may need to restore this firmware to get it working properly again. The restore process is similar for all Harmony remote models....
Screen lag, sometimes also called input lag or display lag, refers to a delay between the time a video input (such as a cable box, DVD player or games console) issues an instruction to a television to display a particular image and that image appearing on screen. It is primarily caused by the need for modern screens, which have a fixed number of pixels, to adjust the incoming signal to fit the “grid” of pixels....
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Updated February 10, 2017 Disassemble your VHS cassette plus a blank VHS tape. Remove the front label off VHS cassette by peeling it off. Unscrew the five screws that keep the two halves of the cassette together. They are located on the bottom of the cassette. Remove the top half of the VHS cassette carefully after removing the screws. Locate the black magnetic tape and remove it from the reels of the blank VHS cassette....
Updated July 21, 2017 Open iTunes on your computer and plug the iPod’s USB charging cable to the computer but not into your iPod. Turn the iPod off. Press and hold the “Sleep/Wake” button (at the top left corner) for approximately 10 seconds until the screen says “slide to power off.” Slide to power off your iPod. Press and hold down the “Sleep/Wake” and “Home” buttons at the same time to power off the device if you do not get the slider....
Western Digital partitions the 2TB My Passport external hard drives into a single NTFS partition which is optimized for Windows operating systems. This single partition makes reformatting the drive possible through Windows 8’s Disk Management utility without needing to create a new volume. However, you should back up any important data on the drive before reformatting it. After the format is completed, any data on the drive will be lost....
Creating a summary worksheet to show the totals from several other spreadsheets is a snap using dynamic links in Excel. If a total on one spreadsheet changes, Excel automatically updates the number on the summary sheet. Not only can you link to worksheets in the same file, you can link to worksheets in other files. Excel automatically checks the other files for changes while your summary sheet is open. Warnings Writer Bio
Net10 is a prepaid Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) cellular service offered by TracFone Wireless. Net10 offers a variety of prepaid cellular plans and bundles of minutes that require no contracts, no credit checks and no monthly fees. Net10 also offers the ability to get a free cellular phone online when purchasing a $25 airtime card. Net10 features a rotating selection of cellular phones that are available as part of this promotion....
Your iPhone may automatically switch to Recovery mode when an error or glitch makes the device inoperable. You can also deliberately enter Recovery mode by pushing a combination of the “Sleep/Wake” button and the “Home” button. An iPhone in Recovery mode has a black screen, and when you plug it into iTunes, it does not register with the software. Instead, an error box appears saying iTunes has detected an iPhone in Recovery mode and you must restore the device....
AT&T Wireless sells phones that are locked to the carrier’s network. If you try to use another carrier’s SIM card in an AT&T cellphone, the device will prompt you for an unlock code. The unlock code is based on the phone’s IMEI serial number. You can purchase the code from an unlocking service, but it’s not necessary. AT&T will give you the unlock code as long as the carrier has the code, the phone is not exclusive to AT&T and your account meets certain criteria based on the type of account....
If you drop a photo with a white background on top of a colored content frame in InDesign, the background isn’t automatically removed. Similarly, text, by default, remains in a rectangular frame. Just because digital images are unavoidably rectangular, though, doesn’t mean that the layout of your documents must inevitably follow straight lines. Instead, you can hide the background of an image, so that whatever is behind it shows through, and wrap text around the contours of any shape....
After CenturyLink activates your Internet service, you may encounter some issues when you attempt to set up your Wi-Fi network; for instance, you might not know the password, or network key, for your wireless router. Generally, you can avoid having to contact CenturyLink’s technical support line by looking no further than the wireless router itself. Most routers provisioned by CenturyLink typically have a label with the network ID and password details printed on it....
The Google Docs online office suite is now part of Google Drive and includes a spreadsheet tool. This application, known as Sheets, includes many of the features you’ll find in comparable desktop software, including the ability to hide rows from view. Rows can be unhidden at any time, enabling you to make part of your spreadsheet invisible on a temporary basis while you focus on other areas of it. Writer Bio
The Nintendo Wii comes with an RCA cable to connect your device to a TV, a cable type that is slowly becoming obsolete in a high-definition, flat-screen TV world. While many flat-screen TVs have RCA inputs, the RCA cable isn’t your only option for connecting your Wii to your TV, or even your best option. You can also connect your Wii to a TV using a component cable that is capable of displaying the Wii picture in high definition....
