Sunday, February 19, 2023

MS_Tips Tricks & Info_2023FEB21

 


Microsoft Tips, Tricks & Info


2023FEB21


Table of Contents / Source:

4 vital steps to protect your online accounts from hackers and scammers - komando.com
Find All the Hidden Wi-Fi Passwords on Your Mac and Windows - cnet.com
How to customize your Windows 11 PC - xdadevelopers.com
You Can Defrag Your Hard Drive In Windows 11. Here's How - slashgear.com
6 Ways to Resize Images in Windows 11 - makeuseof.com
Edge vs Chrome: Full Comparison history-computer.com
Using This Search Engine Is Riskier Now, Experts Warn moneytalksnews.com
Why We're Obsessed With the Mind-Blowing ChatGPT AI Chatbot cnet.com
Why some of your email is disappearing - foxnews.com
How to keep your Twitter account secure — without paying $8 a month - marketwatch.com


4 vital steps to protect your online accounts from hackers and scammers

I’m going to go over a few steps you can take to protect your accounts and personal/financial information. Your best protection is to use all of them.


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Find All the Hidden Wi-Fi Passwords on Your Mac and Windows

You should never use the same password more than once, but with so many different passwords for your accounts, it's easy to forget some of them. If you don't write them down somewhere, you may never remember certain passwords, including the one for your Wi-Fi network.  Usually your Wi-Fi password should be printed on the back of your router, but if it's not, don't sweat it. There's another way to find the passwords to all of the Wi-Fi networks you've ever connected to. They're all on your computer somewhere.



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How to customize your Windows 11 PC

In this article, we'll show you how to customize Windows 11 to your liking, both by using the built-in settings, but also via third-party apps.


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You Can Defrag Your Hard Drive In Windows 11. Here's How

When fragmentation happens to every file on the computer, the performance takes a hit. Disk defragmentation solves the issue. The feature is designed to shuffle around the bits scattered across the drive and bring them together. The files, once sorted, end up in continuous blocks again. In the process, defragging also speeds up your computer since it takes less time to search for and read a given file. Windows 11 comes with a user-friendly defragging tool to do just that.


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6 Ways to Resize Images in Windows 11

Almost every general image-editing app for Windows has options for resizing pictures. Windows 11 also includes pre-installed apps you can utilize for resizing images to more ideal dimensions. Here are some ways to resize images in Windows 11 with its pre-installed Microsoft apps and some third-party software alternatives.


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Edge vs Chrome: Full Comparison

  • Windows 10 introduced a new browser to replace its rapidly aging Internet Explorer software, thus Edge was born.
  • It is known by many that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is the slowest of browsers.
  • Chrome was built to be the lightest-weight browser available.
  • Both browsers are available on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOs

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Using This Search Engine Is Riskier Now, Experts Warn

Criminals pushing several dangerous pieces of software are getting the better of Google, according to internet safety firm Spamhaus Technology.


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Why We're Obsessed With the Mind-Blowing ChatGPT AI Chatbot

Even if you aren't into artificial intelligence, it's time to pay attention to ChatGPT, because this one is a big deal.


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Why some of your email is disappearing

You see it one second and then one, two, or sometimes more emails seem to vanish.  Emails are hard to keep track of, especially since we all get flooded with lots of them on a daily basis. Things can get even more frustrating when they are automatically grouped together without your knowledge. You may not know that most email services do this by default. The good news is that there's a way for you to shut this feature off.


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How to keep your Twitter account secure — without paying $8 a month

Twitter users were greeted early Saturday with an ultimatum from the social media app: Subscribe to the platform’s new premium service or lose a popular account security feature.