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[Solved] Option to Skip Windows Spotlight Wallpaper Doesn’t Appear

October 8, 2021 October 8, 2021 / Windows / By Drew Jones / Leave a Comment

If the option to skip the current wallpaper on your Windows 10 lock screen doesn’t appear, there is a power shell command that can be run in order to force skipping it. Open a power shell prompt as administrator and run the following command to reset Windows spotlight. Get-AppxPackage -allusers *ContentDeliveryManager* | foreach {Add-AppxPackage “$($_.InstallLocation)\appxmanifest.xml” …

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How to Find Your PC’s Wi-Fi Password in Windows 10

December 30, 2020 December 30, 2020 / Networking, Windows / By Drew Jones / Leave a Comment

If you’re already connected to a Wi-Fi network but have forgotten the network key, there’s a simple way to retrieve it. Windows 10 stores the passwords for all the Wi-Fi networks that you’ve connected to. In this guide, we’ll show you the step by step instructions to find your PC’s Wi-Fi password.

How to Create an Autoexec for CS:GO

December 16, 2020 December 21, 2020 / Gaming / By Nick Thomas / Leave a Comment

After a while of playing CS:GO you start to notice that there are countless settings you can change and adjustments you can make. But, the only problem is that given the sheer number of settings you can change, it becomes ridiculous to have to keep changing them back to the settings you had every time …

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How to Change Your Keyboard Language in Windows 10

December 14, 2020 December 14, 2020 / Windows / By Nick Thomas / Leave a Comment

If you’re looking to type on your PC in another language, gain access to certain characters, accents, etc., Windows 10 has a feature that allows you to download officially provided language packs. There exists a wide variety of language packs available for downloading, from Afrikaans to Yoruba. So, there will be no problems getting the …

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How to Create Your Own Course on Memrise

December 13, 2020 December 14, 2020 / Web / By Nick Thomas / Leave a Comment

Memrise is a website and a mobile application that offers free language learning courses for a wide variety of languages. The courses are made officially by Memrise themselves. While these courses are reliable and effective, you may want more specificity or perhaps things done in a particular style. This is where the “create your own …

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How to Highlight Duplicates in Google Sheets

December 12, 2020 December 13, 2020 / Troubleshooting / By Nick Thomas / Leave a Comment

Google Sheets can be used to highlight duplicates in a spreadsheet. How the repeats are displayed is fully customizable in the formatting style options. This can be used to represent specific reasons for why a duplicate was highlighted so it makes sense to anyone looking at the data. For instance, you can highlight the entire …

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How to Use Neofetch on Linux With Examples

December 11, 2020 December 19, 2020 / Linux / By Drew Jones / Leave a Comment

Neofetch is a nifty command-line tool that can output relevant system and distribution information in the terminal. In this guide, we’ll show you how to install Neofetch on any Linux distribution. We’ll also show example screenshots of the output on various systems.

How to Change the Default Window Size of an Application

December 9, 2020 December 9, 2020 / Windows / By Drew Jones / Leave a Comment

Have you ever opened an application, like a web browser, and had the window be a strange size? You have to resize the window every time you open the application, because it keeps reverting to this random size whenever you open it. We’ll show you a simple fix to this annoying problem.

How to Play Old Multiplayer PC Games Online With Hamachi VPN

December 7, 2020 December 7, 2020 / Gaming / By Drew Jones / Leave a Comment

Creating a virtual private network (VPN) is a good way to play an old game with one or more friends across the internet. Plenty of old PC games have multiplayer support, but connecting to players these days can be tricky due to the obsolete methods that those games relied on. When you have a VPN, …

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How to Play Old Multiplayer PC Games Online With GameRanger

December 7, 2020 December 7, 2020 / Gaming / By Drew Jones / 2 Comments

GameRanger is one of the most viable and easy ways to play an old PC game’s online multiplayer with friends and/or other random players. It’s free and supports popular games such as the Age of Empires trilogy and over 700 other titles.