How To View Your Spotify Listening History

Here’s a look a how to access your Spotify listening history at any point. How to View Your Spotify Listening History on Desktop First, we’ll look at how you can access your Spotify listening history using the desktop version of Spotify. To view Spotify listening history on desktop: It’s important to note that while you can find your history, you can only view the history from the list. However, you cannot remove items from the list....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 299 words · Herman Harrison

Igoogle Shutting Down Top 5 Alternatives

Back in May of 2005 Google launched its homepage personalization system, iGoogle. 8 years and some odd months later the search engine giant has decided to shutdown the service and allocate its resources elsewhere. Were you a fan of iGoogle? If so, you may be interested in the alternatives listed below. Most of these homepage sites are relatively identical with only a few varying features. Each one is worth taking for a short spin to discover which suits you best....

December 27, 2022 · 4 min · 703 words · Larry Arthur

Improve Your Workflow With These Internet Browsing Tips

Dragging Tabs Out of Windows You can easily convert tabs into windows by dragging them out of their current window. If you do this while maximized, the new window will also fill the screen. Do it restored, and the new window will be the exact same size as the first one. Snapping Left and Right to Compare If you’re on the web hunting for a new phone or gadget, you’ll need to compare specs very often....

December 27, 2022 · 5 min · 1024 words · Christine Spence

Looking Back At Microsoft Technologies That Died In 2017

Windows Phone Much to the dismay of many Microsoft enthusiasts, the company couldn’t compete in the mobile space that’s dominated by iOS and Android. The writing had been on the wall for a while. Microsoft exec Terry Myerson told The Verge that Windows Phone was essentially on hold back in March of 2016. A few months later, Microsoft cut 1,850 jobs and wrote off nearly a Billion dollars. Also, to put the final nail in the coffin, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore told users to not expect any new features or hardware....

December 27, 2022 · 3 min · 467 words · James Moses

Make Onedrive Files On Demand Online Only In Windows 10 Automatically

We have shown you how to enable and use Files On-Demand in OneDrive in Windows 10 before. And starting with 1809 Windows 10 Build 17692 and above, you can make downloaded files from OneDrive On-Demand online-only after a set time of inactivity. This will allow you to keep files you haven’t used in a certain number of days in the cloud and free up drive space. OneDrive Files On-Demand Online-Only To get started, head to Settings > System > Storage and click the “Change how we free up space automatically” link beneath the Storage Sense section....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 362 words · Juanita Pollack

Make Windows 10 Resume Apps When You Log In

Note: This feature works with most modern apps like Office, Microsoft Edge, and other apps you’ve downloaded from the Microsoft Store. These are UWP apps where the developer has added the feature to resume. It might not work with legacy Win32 desktop apps like Photoshop, for example. If you want legacy apps to launch, add them to the startup list if you removed them. Make Windows 10 Resume Apps After Logging In To get started, click the Start button or hit the Windows key to launch the Start menu and click Settings....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 317 words · Daniel Mclamb

Manage Multiple Cloud Accounts With Multcloud

MultCloud MultCloud is a free service and that has taken every possible precaution to make sure your data is safe. It connects to websites and transfers data using 256-bit AES encryption for SSL, it doesn’t save or cache your data on its servers and it accesses your cloud drives using OAuth authorization. That way the service doesn’t get access to your passwords and you can revoke access whenever you feel like it....

December 27, 2022 · 3 min · 569 words · Charles Hull

Manually Install Cumulative Updates And Virus Definitions On Windows 10

Examples of Individual Cumulative Update For example, you might have multiple PCs, which, even for a large organization such as a school, having each machine connected to the internet can bring your network to a halt. Sure, there is a new way of using one PC on your network to share updates with other machines, but this feature can reduce the performance of your PC, as I’ve observed. Cumulative Updates can also help bring a fresh installation of Windows 10 up to date too....

December 27, 2022 · 4 min · 743 words · Lucy Arreola

Marvel Drops New Trailer For The Falcon And The Winter Soldier Before Its Friday Premiere

New The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Trailer Marvel’s WandaVision just wrapped up and now it’s time to begin a new journey with the characters Bucky Barnes aka “The Winter Soldier,” Sam Wilson aka “The Falcon,” and former S.H.I.E.L.D. special agent Sharon Carter. The events of this six-episode series take place after Avengers: End Game. The heroes will test their abilities against the main protagonist Baron Helmut Zemo, a Sokovian colonel-turned-terrorist who is all about defeating the Avengers....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 404 words · Pearl Bock

Microsoft Skype And 8 Billion Dollars

In 2010 Skype grossed $860 million, which is an impressive figure, that is until you note that the EBITDA was only $264 million. Overall, the company has yet to turn a profit and although they’ve increased revenue Skype still sustained a net loss of $7 million in 2010. On top of the unprofitability, the company has a withstanding debt of approximately $680 million. This reminds me a little of the infamous deal that went through in 2006 where Google purchased YouTube for $1....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 271 words · Matthew Windus

Microsoft Releases Cumulative Updates For Windows 10 1803 1709 And 1703

Windows 10 1803 Update KB4345421 Here is a look at what’s been improved and fixed for Windows 10 1803 in this update: Addresses an issue that may cause some devices running network monitoring workloads to receive the 0xD1 Stop error because of a race condition after installing the July update.Addresses an issue with the DHCP Failover server that may cause enterprise clients to receive an invalid configuration when requesting a new IP address....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 275 words · Frank Norwood

Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Rs5 Insider Preview Build 17686

Windows 10 Redstone 5 Preview Build Improved Local Experience is a new section in Settings that allows you to override default region format settings for Calendar, First day of the week, Dates, Currency, and Time. In addition, Local Experience Packs are available for Microsoft Store apps to improve language quality displays. You can access it by heading to Settings > Time & Language > Region. There are also improved privacy settings for your device’s microphone, Windows Mixed Reality improvements, and more....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 399 words · Wilfredo Harrington

Microsoft Releases Windows 10 20H1 Preview Build 18941

But this week’s build is much lighter on new features other than improvements to the Korean Input Method Editor (IME). It does, however, contain a small number of changes and overall improvements to the system. Here is a look at what you can expect. Windows 10 20H1 Preview Build 18941 In addition to Korean IME updates, here is the list of the changes and other improvements you can expect in today’s new build:...

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 242 words · Audrey Owenby

Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 20262

Windows 10 Preview Build 20262 Here is the list of fixes contained in this latest release to the Dev Channel: We fixed an issue resulting in certain apps launching unexpectedly transparent in recent builds, with no content visible.We fixed an issue where old SleepStudy etls were unexpectedly not being cleaned up.We fixed an issue resulting in no response the first time a pen was clicked after being paired due to an underlying crash....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 320 words · Tina Mcclain

Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Preview Build 19555

Windows 10 Preview Build 19555 Here is the list of general changes, fixes and system improvements contained in today’s latest Insider build: We’ve resolved an issue where certain external USB 3.0 drives ended up in an unresponsive state with Start Code 10 after they were attached.The cloud recovery option for Reset this PC is now back up and running on this build.We fixed an issue resulting in ARM64 devices not being able to upgrade to the previous build....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 277 words · Jeffrey Hawkins

Microsoft Rolls Out Another Set Of Windows 10 Updates

Unfortunately, we don’t know much about what the updates contain other than improving upgrade experiences and enhancements for functionality. The company released the following updates: KB3081448: This update includes improvements to enhance the functionality of Windows 10.KB3081449: This update improves the Windows 10 out-of-box experience (OOBE). This update applies only to the Windows 10 OOBE process and will be available only at the time that OOBE updates are installed.KB3081452: This update makes improvements to ease the upgrade experience to Windows 10....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 309 words · Jeanette Marashio

Microsoft Security Essentials Beta Review Updated

Old Original Article… Way way back in November 2008, I talked about the Microsoft Announcement that they would be giving away a free anti-virus client code-named Morrow. Well, it’s almost a year later, and Microsoft has been busy. On ~June 23rd, 2009 Microsoft announced the product name would be – Microsoft Security Essentials and released the product in Beta with free sign-up for anyone interested in trying out the Beta....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 371 words · Theresa Santana

Microsoft Surface Rt Through Surface Pro 3 Recovery Images

This is true for the original Surface RT to the most recent Surface Pro 3 and each model in between. However, if that part of the drive were to be corrupted or deleted to get more drive space, you need an image somewhere. For more on this, check out our article on how to free up 4GB disk space on Surface RT. Notice that you create a Recovery Drive before deleting the recovery partition — This is actually a best practice you should do with your new Surface or Windows 8....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 317 words · Robert Wolfe

Pokki Is A Windows 8 Start Menu And Windows Store Replacement

Pokki Start Menu and App Store Replacement It includes a Start Button, Start Menu with access to what you’d expect, and also a complete app store. The store gives you access to hundreds of free apps and games that will run on your desktop. Installation is a piece of cake following the wizard. No restart is required, and after it’s installed you’ll see the Pokki style icon where the Start menu would normally be....

December 27, 2022 · 3 min · 529 words · Joel Chavez

Quickly Manage Network Adapters In Windows 7 How To

Since upgrading to Windows 7 or Vista from Windows XP, one thing I’ve missed is the ease of accessing and configuring your Network Adapters/Connections settings. You know, enabling a NIC or configuring an adapter for a static IP, etc. – sure you can still get there by navigating through the Network and Sharing Center. But the extra clicks do get old fast if managing your network adapters is something you often do....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · 302 words · Julie Mcneely