How to Replace Windows Essentials 2012 After Support Ends in January

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[YouTube] Why lower video game sales don't always mean a flop How to read between the lines of game publishers' holiday silence [The Verge] How to Fix “Enhance Pointer Precision” Automatically Enabling or Disabling Itself in Windows Windows’ “Enhance Pointer Precision” setting helps with some mice, but hurts with others. If you find that it keeps enabling or disabling itself automatically, here are some potential fixes. Read This Article → How to Replace Windows Essentials 2012 After Support Ends in January Microsoft will end support for the Windows Essentials 2012 suite on January 10, 2017. If you use any of the suite’s component apps—Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, OneDrive, Family Safety, Mail, or Live Writer—here’s what you need to know. Read This Article → Are NTFS Compressed Files Decompressed to Disk or Memory? If you are looking for ways to tweak your Windows system to conserve disk space, you might be looking at NTFS compression as an option. But if you choose this option, then how does the decompression process work? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Link Your Google Calendar to Your Amazon Echo If you use Google Calendar and want Alexa to read off your upcoming events without having to take the time to actually look, you can easily link your Google Calendar to your Amazon Echo and have the quintessential personal assistant you’ve always wanted. Read This Article → Change How macOS Handles ZIP Files With These Hidden Preferences When you double-click a ZIP file on your Mac, the files are automatically uncompressed and the ZIP itself is sent to the Trash. What if that’s not what you want? Read This Article → How to Search for Any Menu Option on macOS Ever get into a situation where you know an option exists in a menu somewhere, but you can’t find it? Thankfully, macOS lets you search the menus of any open application to find what you’re looking for. Read This Article → How to Install .Appx or .AppxBundle Software on Windows 10 Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform applications use the .Appx or .AppxBundle file format. They’re normally installed from the Windows Store, but Windows 10 allows you to sideload Appx packages from anywhere. Read This Article → What Is Snapchat? Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've probably heard someone mention the social network/chat app Snapchat. Depending on how you measure things, it's now more popular than Twitter and Pinterest, with only Facebook and Instagram having more users daily. The difference is that most of Snapchat's users are millennials and teens, so it's flown under the radar of a lot of older internet users. Read This Article → How to Change How Long Updates Are Deferred in Windows 10 The Professional, Enterprise, and Education editions of Windows 10 allow you to defer updates so they are not downloaded for a while. 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