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Even if your computer is placed within a secure environment, such as within an organizational domain, you are still prone to attacks, especially insider attacks. Insider attacks are harder to identify and when they are, it is probably too late. Therefore, you need to “harden” your Windows computer. Hardening refers to the configurations put in place to make it more secure by reducing the attack surface, making it less and less possible for any hackers/attackers to penetrate it....

Privacy is of great value to each individual, and to businesses and organizations. Everyone wants their personal information to be shared securely. Hence, we are bringing you the 5 best alternative messaging applications that you can switch to so that your data is shielded. WhatsApp Privacy Policy changes and highlights The internet was taken by storm when the WhatsApp application notified the users of the new policy. Many users didn’t bother reading the policy and clicked “Agree” anyway, but many eyebrows were raised when news hit the Internet about what WhatsApp had intended to do with their data....

If you have a sensitive folder and you want to keep track of changes made in that specific folder then this article is for you. Just keep reading! Although there are many freeware programs to track changes in folders, we will discuss 5 of the best tools to monitor folder for changes in real-time. Watch 4 Folder Watch 4 Folder can perform various actions for the folder that the program is watching....

Although, you should avoid sharing any personal information on Facebook, but here is a list of five things that I think you must not reveal on Facebook. These are sensitive pieces of information which can compromise your Facebook account security: Although it may sound a bit paranoid –but don’t share your pet’s name on Facebook if that is what you are using as password! A recent survey has shown that about 15% people on FB use their pets’ name as their password....

Today we’ll discuss one important aspect of the data backup process: disk imaging. Disk imaging Disk imaging is a type of backup that takes a bit by bit snapshot of the hard disk and saves it into a single file. The disk image file may be compressed to save space. Disk imaging is especially useful for taking backups of the Operating System drives. If the system drive fails, the disk image backup can be restored to start running the system again with the same software installations as before....

This issue can be caused due to several reasons, all of which are discussed further in the article. You can use this guide to troubleshoot your PC yourself to restore your display to the way it was. The problem can be caused by a faulty piece of hardware or wire, due to corrupted display software, or simply because of a little dust and humidity between the contacts. Let us guide you through the steps by which you can identify the problem and then resolve it accordingly....

The next day Harry logs into his AdSense account to see how much he has earned. First thing that might disheartens him is the figure of earning from previous day ($0.00 or may be $0.01)… On top of this, he finds a message from Google that his AdSense payment is on hold. Tension! Even more tension comes in when Harry sees that the following message: Your pages are displaying Public Service Advertisements (PSAs) because you haven’t yet verified your PIN and/or phone number....

A DMG file may contain a specific structure and permissions for software installation. By default, Windows does not support DMG format. DMG can be converted to ISO, which Windows can use to create bootable media, such as USB drives and CDs/DVDs. The DMG file can’t be burned to a USB or DVD drive to make it bootable. You will need to convert it to ISO first, then burn it to a drive....

Easy like a Sunday morning! And you get all the benefits of using Google custom search engine. But at times this trivial task turns out to be like Monday blues! One of the most annoying problems is that the CSE search box does not appear and you simply get no idea why this is happening. Well, I have noticed two small mistakes which, if made, can make the CSE search box disappear....

First let’s begin by knowing the full forms of these acronyms: Full form of CDMA is Code Division Multiple Access Full form of GSM is Global System for Mobile communications, but originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile Full form of SIM is Subscriber Identity Module Although, globally GSM is more used but in the United States of America CDMA is more popular than GSM. Some of the CDMA providers in various countries are: Verizon (USA), Bell Mobility (USA) and MTS Mobility (USA), Reliance (India) and BSNL (India) etc....

A similar feature was first introduced in Windows 10 in 2017 with Windows Sets. However, that didn’t pan out, and Microsoft withdrew the feature. But with Windows 11, this feature has come to stay based on the feedback from Windows users. That said, not everyone is a fan of the feature. Not only the tab functionality is currently faulty and has a few glitches, but not everyone is used to using tabs in explorer....

The company is one of the leading organizations that manufacture microchips, including the wireless Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapters that are commonly used by different PC manufacturers around the world. For November 2021, Intel has decided to release 2 different driver versions for their line of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth products. This update, and probably all other updates to follow, will include the support for Windows 11 which was released on 5th October 2021....

For those who use iPhones and iPads, you know that iTunes is an application you must install on your PC to connect your device to it. If you haven’t already, you can download it from the direct links from Apple shared below, or update your existing version. Unfortunately, Apple does not publish any release notes. However, this update addresses 2 critical security vulnerabilities. Download iTunes for Windows Direct Downloads Click on the direct download links given below to download iTunes 12....

Please note that the “percentage of people”, “number of seconds” and associated video image could vary —so you should be careful about all similar messages. Now the simple thing is: these messages are spam and you should not click on the associated “video”. The fact is that the associated video is not a video at all. What you see is actually a thumbnail picture that looks like a attached video with a Facebook message....

What is International Targeting (Geographic Target) in Google Search Console Some websites have content that is primarily targeted for a particular country or language. As a result, the content of such websites will not be of high importance to the other areas in the world. The said utility in the Search Console allows you to set a geographic area which you think is the target of your website’s content. You can select a country from the given list as your target....

One feature is an auto-hide address bar when Edge is running in fullscreen mode. This is especially useful when you want to browse the Internet without any distractions. Interestingly, this feature is not new and is available in all versions of Edge including Canary, Beta and Stable. Here are the steps to enable auto-hide address bar feature in Microsoft Edge: You can see that there will be no address bar....

An administrative account is required to perform certain tasks and processes on a Windows 10 computer. However, not all accounts, whether local or Microsoft account, have the privileges to perform these functions. Please note that you need to login as an administrator to give administrative privileges to any other user. The first account that is created with the Windows 10 setup is always an administrator account. You can also login as built-in administrator account which is disabled by default....

Using the Command Prompt, you can view and list all sorts of files and folders inside a directory, and even its subdirectories using recursive switches. Not only that, but you can also list all items with a specific file type, or exclude them. Moreover, you can also view hidden items as well directly from the Command Prompt. In this article, we give you a bunch of different examples to list files and folders inside the Command Prompt using the DIR cmdlet....

KeyFreeze locks the keyboard and mouse without locking the computer screen. Normally when we lock a PC, the screen changes to a locked one where we have to enter the password again in order to use the PC again. KeyFreeze gets rid of this situation and freezes the mouse and keyboard while leaving the screen open to make sure that no one can alter anything without your own intent....

If you are running into slow computer performance issues even with an upgraded SSD, you should probably run an SSD disk speed test to ensure your hard drive is not the culprit. In this article, we discuss how to test SSD speed in Windows only using Command Prompt. We will not be using any third-party software for this purpose. Test SSD Speed using Command Line To check SSD read and write speeds using CMD, follow the steps below: In the command above, the “C” partition is on the SSD drive you want to run the test on....