Assuming your Windows device has an optical media drive capable of writing content to a CD/DVD, Windows 11 makes it easy to write “burn” a CD-R or DVD-R disc. Burning or writing content to a CD/DVD is like making a backup of the original content on the computer. The burned disc can then be transferred to another device or stored in a secured location for safekeeping. A CD/DVD can also be used to perform a full Windows image backup....

Adding a language in Edge is pretty straightforward. However, not everyone is comfortable doing it. We’ll show you how to do that below. When a secondary language is added, Edge won’t prompt you to translate when you visit a web page written in that language. It will display in its native version. This should work on all Edge browsers installed on any operating system, including Windows, macOS, and Linux systems....

Ubuntu Linux allows users to add, change and remove pictures from their accounts. Photos you add to your profile are associated with your account and what the account represents. You can add pictures to your profile to distinguish and identify you on the login screen from other accounts. You can change the picture to any already included in Ubuntu or add a unique picture of you from your camera or phone....

Windows allows users to assign access and restrict people to using only one Windows app so their Windows device acts like a kiosk. When the kiosk account signs in, the app are launched automatically. The person using the kiosk cannot do anything on the device outside of the kiosk app. Because you can only assign one app at a time, changing the assigned app requires that you go to the Windows Settings app and change it there....

Editing documents in Google Docs can be challenging. Despite it looks more like Word documents, some slight differences can make you puzzled. A thing that can make new users overwhelmed is how to change margins in Google Docs. Default margins of one inch in new documents can be changed as desired. However, changing the margins can be a bit more complicated than you think. Margins are basically the empty space that you can find on the new document in Google Docs....

Thankfully, it’s an easy process to change your password in Linux. You can change your password (or other user’s passwords) from the terminal locally or remotely, or set expiration dates to force other users to change it themselves when they next sign in. Here’s what you’ll need to do to change a user password in any Linux distribution. Why You Should Change Your Linux Password Regularly While a Linux-based operating system offers greater security than a typical Windows installation, that doesn’t mean it’s infallible to hackers....

However, with more users opting to purchase custom PCs that are relatively cheap, it’s now possible for pretty much a novice to overclock a CPU just by picking a different setting in the BIOS. I’ve previously written about the tools you can use to overclock your RAM, CPU, and GPU and a couple of tools you can use to benchmark your PC. When overclocking, you want to keep a close eye on the temperature of your CPU....

Some things only work in certain versions of WSL though, and you’re not sure which one you have. So, we’ll show you how to check the WSL version on both Windows 11 and Windows 10, plus a few other tricks. What’s the Difference Between WSL Versions? There are only two versions of WSL; WSL 1 and WSL 2. The primary difference is that WSL 2 has the full Linux kernel whereas WSL 1 does not....

vRAM helps speed up your computer graphic processes and tasks, since the video RAM is right next to the GPU, and holds information that the GPU needs to process quickly, including game textures and lighting effects, and more. Instead of the GPU going to the main systems’ RAM to process tasks, vRAM is used instead to process these tasks quickly and efficiently. If you run into issues frequently when playing graphic-intensive games or experience your PC running slowly when performing certain video editing tasks, you may have checked your system’s vRAM to see if there’s enough for your system to run smoothly....

Hanging indents are most commonly used for citations, references, and bibliographies. You can also use a hanging indent for a table of contents since the typical format involves a header with an indented list of items under it. Google Docs has a built-in tool for creating a table of contents, but in case your document’s headings aren’t formatted as H1, H2, etc., you can use hanging indentation to format it like a table of contents....

Even though it takes a couple of clicks to leave some websites and social networks, there are those that make you jump through more hoops, while others make it near-impossible to leave. In some cases, legality may prevent a service from permanently erasing everything you’ve posted publicly in the past, which means some relics of your relationship remain in perpetuity. If you’re ready to make a clean but permanent exit from Gmail, read on to find out how to delete a Gmail account....

If you use the Mac or Windows desktop version of Word, you won’t find the dictate button unless you subscribe to Microsoft 365. However, you can use the free Microsoft Word web app or smartphone apps to dictate to your heart’s desire. We’ll assume you have a good internet connection and a device with a microphone enabled. How to Use Dictation in Word on Macs, PCs, or the Web The steps for dictating documents in Word are largely the same, no matter whether you’re using the desktop app or the browser-based version....

Google Chrome works best when it’s up-to-date. New features aside, that’s when it’s the most stable, with fewer bugs, glitches, and performance issues hampering performance. You also have fewer security and privacy threats to deal with. On rare occasions, though, new updates can break Google Chrome and stop it from working correctly. It makes sense to downgrade to an older browser version when that happens. Downgrading Chrome to an older browser version can be complicated, mainly because of its ability to perform automatic updates....

Bing wallpaper app lets you explore the world one image at a time with a new background each day. It helps you bring new life to your background in Windows 11. Bing Wallpaper includes a collection of beautiful images from around the world that have been featured on the Bing homepage. You will see a new image on your desktop each day and can also browse images and learn where they come from....

GitHub makes it easy to download and view an app’s source code. This guide will show you how to directly download files from GitHub’s website so you can view a project’s code yourself. Install a Code Viewer Before you download any code, you’ll need to install a program capable of viewing that code. Visual Studio Code is a free, open source, and streamlined code editor that allows users to view and debug code and run tasks....

Starting with the most recent version of Snipping Tools, you can now enable or disable automatically saving screenshots. In addition to being copied to the clipboard, they’ll now be automatically saved in PNG format in the Screenshots folder under Picture in your home folder. This feature is enabled by default. If you don’t want to automatically save screenshots, you can simply disable it, and the steps below show you how to do that....

The short answer is maybe you can disable Microsoft Teams chat history with a workaround, and maybe you can delete your chat history too. Disable Chat History in Teams for Business All one-on-one chats in Microsoft 365 for business are retained in a hidden folder in your Outlook mailbox for eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, or training purposes. The default retention policy for Teams chat conversations is forever. However, you can change that by creating a new retention policy....

In Ubuntu Linux, if your device has a touchpad, you can click, double-click, drag, and scroll using only your touchpad, without separate hardware buttons. Your device’s touchpad can perform similar actions as a mouse or other pointing devices easily without the need to have a separate mouse or additional device to point and click. Natural Scrolling is also known as Reverse Scrolling. When enabled, you can drag content as if sliding a physical piece of paper using the touchpad....

For example, right out of the box, VirtualBox’s virtual machines cannot communicate with each other while attached to the default NAT network. VMs configured with the default NAT network configurations can only get to the Internet, with no VM-to-VM or host IP communication. To allow virtual machines to communicate with each other, you must change the VM network settings to use NAT Network, but you can’t use that network setting if you haven’t already created it....

We’ll go through a few ways you can export or download Gmail emails. You can import them into apps like Outlook or Thunderbird or online email services like Yahoo or ProtonMail. You also can create a Gmail backup to store on your hard drive or in a cloud service like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Microsoft OneDrive. How to Use Google Takeout to Download All Emails You can easily download a single email in Gmail as a ....