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Offline Mode Makes Windows Defender Even Smarter

"It's nothing to do with being connected to the internet. It means that Defender runs before Windows has fully loaded, meaning that it can access and scan your core operating system files which otherwise it would not be able to access."

Tips, tricks and shortcuts: make Windows 10 work for you

Tips, tricks and shortcuts: Ed Bott makes Windows 10 work for you | ZDNet:

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How the Internet Is Loosening Our Grip on the Truth

How to Make Windows 10 Look and Act More Like Windows 7

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How to Copy Everything from Your Old iPhone to Your New One

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How to Use System Restore in Windows 7, 8, and 10

How to Disable All of Windows 10’s Built-in Advertising

740,000 Free Images That You Can Search And Download

"Pixabay is one of the few image libraries which is free to use. It claims to have 740,000 photos and videos online, and you are permitted to use them for whatever you like."

Porn is bad!

Porn is bad!: "The logic is simple. Evolution gave us a 'gorging' mechanism when it comes to food and sex, the essentials that evolution selects for. Sex and food trigger dopamine releases that block our natural feelings of satiety. As the researcher Gary Wilson, who studies the neurological impact of internet porn, explains, just as there is an obesity epidemic, there is also an epidemic of 'addiction to sexual excitation.'"

How to Boost Performance on Your Older iPhone or iPad

Social Media Natives: Growing Up with Social Networking

"Summary: Social media use has altered how Millennials think about friendships and relationships. This impact stands as valuable reminder of the consequences of UX-design decisions."

A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop

"Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material."

Is It Safe to Delete Everything in Windows’ 10 Disk Cleanup?

TLDR: Windows ESD Installation Files are important, everything else safe to delete.

How to Add a Tab Leader to a Tab Stop in Microsoft Word

How to Disable Cortana in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update

How to Create a Master Installation Flash Drive with Multiple Versions of Windows

10 Best Free Stock Photography sites

How to Take Better Pictures with Your Phone’s Camera

Amazon is full of Chinese counterfeits and they're driving out legit goods

Find Out Where That Shortened Web Link Will Take You

"With web addresses (URLs) becoming stupidly long nowadays, a number of services offer services to shorten them. If you add a long URL into a tweet, for example, Twitter will shorten it to an address that starts with t.co."

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[Guide] How to Secure Windows 10

Website Forms Usability: Top 10 Recommendations

"Follow these well-established — but frequently ignored — guidelines to ensure users can successfully complete your website forms."

34 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for the Windows Command Prompt

A Free Video Studio In Your Browser.

"Showbox (www.showbox.com) is a web-based video production studio. Use it to create impressive videos for your hobby, business, school, company, or just about anything else. Choose from a variety of templates for backgrounds, add effects and additional footage, and assemble your masterpiece."

Get Classic Windows 7 Games in Windows 8 and 10 for Free

How to Tell If A Website Is Dangerous

How to Encrypt Your Android Phone (and Why You Might Want to)

Alexa, Cortana, and Siri aren’t novelties anymore. They’re our terrifyingly convenient future.

"A.I. assistants can give you the news, order you a pizza, and tell you a joke. All you have to do is trust them—completely."

Things I do for Windows 10 computers

When a friend or family member gets a new Windows 10 computer, or upgrades an existing computer to Windows 10, these are some of the basic things I do to help them out. You should not do any of this on a work computer unless you clear it with your IT group.

1. Uninstall unnecessary apps... including: 
1. apps you don't use (if this is an upgrade)
2. crapware installed on the computer by the manufacturer 
1. the demo edition of Microsoft Office
2. whatever antivirus package they included, even if paid for (it'll be bloated, and Windows Defender, included with Windows 10, is good enough)
3. I suggest trying PC Decrapifyer, it can help determine what's good to keep, and what you should get rid of.
2. Go to Ninite and install the following:
1. Firefox - my web browser of choic
2. VLC - allows Windows 10 to play DVDs (only needed if your computer has a DVD drive)
3. Libre Office - a free replacement for Microsoft Office
4. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Super AntiSpyware - use these to routinely screen your computer for malware (weekly: update, then scan)
3. Install O&O ShutUp10 to turn off Windows 10's worst privacy violations: from the Actions menu, choose "Apply all recommended settings"
4. Turn on System Restore, then use it in the future to back out of malware infections and system problems (your email and personal files will not be affected)
5. Set up some kind of backup routine: File History, some good free backup program like Macrium Reflect Free, something. Files you care about should never exist in only one place.
   My strategy:
1. I have a USB hard drive, and on the first day of every third month I use the aforementioned Macrium Reflect to back up my entire computer (a full image). The first of the month on the next two months, I do an Incremental backup with Reflect (only the files that are new or changed). In this way, I can restore the entire computer a month ago or less if something catastrophic happens. And I keep that drive at a friend's house (so fire/theft/etc. doesn't also get the backups).
2. I use iDrive (look online for discount codes for the first year) to do daily backups of my documents and desktop folders, and my Outlook mail files. I don't burden the network or iDrive's servers with my music and videos, as they change infrequently and are covered by the monthly backups above.

Password Strength Checker

As it says right on that page: "I would recommend that you NEVER trust your actual passwords to a random webpage - type in passwords that are similar but slightly modified and never give any indication of which systems you might use these passwords for."

Artificial Light Is Wrecking Your Sleep, and It’s Time to Do Something About It

My Sleep Button

Android/iOS app that helps you get to sleep faster.

How to manage partitions with the Disk Management tool, in Windows

How to Get Rid of Bloatware on Your Android Phone

Worried that Windows 10 is 'spying' on you? Here's how to take back control

DoNotSpy10

"DoNotSpy10 is an easy to use privacy tool for Windows 10 that allows you to disable various data collecting and sharing features that are activated with a default Windows 10 installation."

Win10 Wizard

"Win10 Wizard is an all-in-one configuration tool for Windows 10 that enables you to tweak various privacy and security settings that are not easily accessible from the standard Windows 10 settings dialog."

Snapfiles.com is a trustworthy website.

How I deal with online hate (as someone with 20k followers)

How to Use Windows’ File History to Back Up Your Data

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How to Figure Out What's Wrong With Your Internet Connection

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Six easy ways to tell if that viral story is a hoax

"... six free, simple tools that any curious news reader can use to verify digital media."

How to Restore System Image Backups on Windows 7, 8, and 10

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