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Disable Protected View in Microsoft Office To disable Protected View and remove Read-only in Microsoft Office files, you have to: Let us see the procedure in detail. Open the Microsoft Office program like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc., and click on the File menu. Next select Options. This will open the document or Word Options. In the left side, you will see Trust Center. Click on it. The Trust Center contains security & privacy settings, which help keep your computer secure & safe....

Use Windows Hello with your account How to disable Windows Hello prompt When you sign into apps like Outlook, etc, you may see a Use Windows Hello, Fingerprint or PIN prompt with your account prompt. You can disable the Windows Hello PIN prompt using any one of the following methods: 1] Using the Settings app To disable Windows Hello PIN from Windows Settings: Some users have given feedback that despite disabling the Windows Hello PIN feature from Windows settings, they still received a Windows Hello PIN prompt every time they attempted to sign in....

Display Global Hotkeys in Windows 11/10 1] HotKeysList This is is a simple tool from Nirsoft that displays the list of hotkeys that are currently registered on your Windows system. It is a portable tool which does not require to be installed. Works on all Windows. 2] ActiveHotkeys It is a nifty freeware portable utility that shows you all the currently active global hotkeys in Windows. It displays what global keyboard shortcuts are registered by various applications....

What is ADB? ADB stands for Android Debug Bridge, and as it is pretty clear by the name itself, it acts as a bridge between your Android smartphone and Windows PC. After connecting your Android smartphone with the PC, you can easily tweak the smartphone system applications and functionality. You can use the feature to install custom OTA and manually install or uninstall files on the connected smartphone. Along with all these, you can also use this feature to boot the device in custom recovery or boot to Fastboot....

Microsoft offers you to download ISO files from their website, but only using Media Creation Tool. This tool lets you create a bootable USB. The drawback of this method is you will have to re-download the files, again and again, every time you need it. In this post, we are talking about a procedure to download Windows 11 or Windows 10 ISO files directly from Microsoft servers, without using the multimedia tool....

Edit Music Metadata on Windows 11/10 Local music files on Windows PC come with album art and metadata description. The details include song name, artist name and even genre. While this information is usually accurate sometimes the metadata is wrong. This especially happens when you try to rip a music CD or buy a music album/track from third-party services like iTunes. Thankfully just like a ton of other things in the Windows ecosystem, the Music metadata can also be edited, and yes, we will tell you how....

You can simply use the Search box of Commander feature and type some letters and options related to your search query will visible, just like it is visible in the screenshot below. This feature is pretty good but it remains disabled or turned off by default. This post will help you with how you can enable the Commander feature in Google Chrome and start using it. Once the Commander feature is enabled, you can activate it with a hotkey and use it on any tab....

Bluetooth Device Permissions in Google Chrome To enable Bluetooth device permissions: Open the Google Chrome browser.Go to the address bar, copy & paste the below text-line, and hit Enter. In the below section, you will see a highlighted flag labeled Use the new permissions backend for Web Bluetooth.Next to the right of this flag, click on the drop-down menu and switch it to Enabled.Now click on the Relaunch button, so that it takes effect when you open the browser next time....

Enable Drag and Drop support in VirtualBox Drag and Drop feature allows the user to copy a file from the guest computer and paste it to the host system and vice-versa. An alternative to this feature was copying a file to a USB drive and then pasting it to the other machine, which, as you may have guessed is not efficient. If you want to Drag and Drop support in VirtualBox, follow the steps mentioned below....

Now, let us just check how to enable this new UI. First of all, you need to make sure that you have Google Chrome Version 68 or newer on your computer. To check it, Open Google Chrome. Then click on the Menu button denoted by 3 vertical dots on the right top corner. Now click on Settings > About. There, it will show the version number of Google Chrome installed and if you need an update, the update will be downloaded and installed from there automatically too....

How to Export or Import Data from Excel to Google Sheets You can link Google Sheets with Microsoft Excel by creating a web query in Excel. But this is only one-way integration which means that the changes made to Google Sheets will automatically be updated in Excel but the changes made in Excel will not be updated in Google Sheets automatically. If you want to establish a two-way integration between Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, go through the following instructions....

Extract Image, Video and Audio files from PowerPoint You can follow these simple steps to extract objects including media files from a PowerPoint presentation: Let’s discuss these steps in detail. Firstly, go to the PowerPoint presentation from which you want to extract media files. Now, make a copy of the PPTX presentation in the same or any other folder so that you don’t lose the file later in any unforeseen scenario....

Find if your computer supports Intel VT-X or AMD-V While it doesn’t matter which hardware virtualization your computer supports, if you still want to find out which one your computer comes with, there are multiple ways. The first thing you need to do is find out if your CPU is Intel or AMD. Use WIN + X and then choose System. It will launch the About section, which lists the Processor type....

If you have a device running on Windows 10, the processor is going to play a very crucial role in how fast and smooth the experience will be. Processors come in a variety of types and many manufacturers make them. In most cases, it would either be from AMD or Intel – sometimes Qualcomm with their ARM processors. On Windows 10, you can check your device specifications for almost all your hardware’s in many different ways....

What is Disk Signature Collision Nowadays, Disk cloning has become quite a common practice for upgrading to a larger hard disk drive. Drives are cloned to make a similar copy to use both the cloned copy and original drive together. Also, many virtualization tools are being used to virtualize the physical hard disk drive. The physical hard drives are virtualized to create virtual hard disk drives, and several virtual machine clones are created with the existing Virtual hard disk drives....

How to fix Minecraft OpenGL Error 1281? It is a common error related to the OpenGL debugging settings. OpenGL, formally known as the Open Graphics Library helps in reducing the rendering load on the system, thereby making a game run faster and smoother on a computer. Gaming applications like Minecraft take full advantage of it. So, any error related to it can impact your gaming experience. Let’s cover the above methods in a bit more detail!...

Shift Key not working on Windows 11/10 These are the different ways to get rid of the right or left Shift key not working issue on Windows 11/10: 1] Physically clean the key and keyboard You need to check if anything is stuck or blocking the key from working smoothly. If need be, physically clean the key and the keyboard. 2] Disable Sticky Keys Press WINKEY + I combo to launch the Windows 10 Settings App....

Fix Slow Keyboard Response in Windows 11/10 The following are some of the methods that help you fix slow keyboard problems in Windows 11/10. 1. Run System Maintenace Sometimes cleaning up the unused files and shortcuts will help to fix software glitches. Here is how to do it. On your Windows system, go to the Start menu.Type Control Panel from the search bar and click on it from the search results....

In this article, we are going to see why this happening and what you can do to resolve the issue. How do I fix SteamVR error? Before fixing the SteamVR Error Code 436, we need to know why this happening. More often than not, the issue occurs because of improper connection. You need to make sure that the connection is proper and tight. You should also know that this error can happen because of a glitch as well, in that case, the fix will be effortless....

We cant save the PPTX file because the file is Read-only If you are also facing the same error, look no further. In this post, we are going to discuss various methods using which you can fix PowerPoint can’t save file errors. Let’s check these out! Fix PowerPoint can’t save file Here are the methods that you should try if you find that PowerPoint can’t save your files: Let us elaborate on these methods now!...