How to Lock Down TeamViewer for More Secure Remote Access

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[The Verge] How to Use Custom Views in Excel to Save Your Workbook Settings When working on an Excel worksheet, you may find yourself setting up different display settings at different times, such as zoom level or window position and size. The Custom Views feature allows you to set up and save different views to quickly switch among them. Read This Article → How to Subscribe to Your Favorite Sports Teams' Schedules in Google Calendar If you're anything like me, you basically schedule your life around your favorite sports teams (Go Bulls!). While I generally try to remember what nights my team is playing, sometimes that's just not possible—especially in a league like the NBA where there are 82 regular season games. Fortunately, there's a super simple way to add your favorite teams' schedules to Google Calendar, so you never miss a game. Read This Article → How to Take Screenshots on a Mac On a Mac, you can take screenshots with a few quick keyboard shortcuts. But Mac OS X also includes more powerful screenshot tools, too. Here are some of the many ways you can get a screenshot on OS X. Read This Article → How to Lock Down TeamViewer for More Secure Remote Access TeamViewer is a great free program, whether you want to access your computer from afar or help out friends and relatives with their computer. But its default settings are remarkably insecure, instead favoring ease of use. Here’s how to lock down TeamViewer so you can make use of its features without opening yourself up to attack. Read This Article → Is ATA the Same as IDE/PATA or SATA? When you are shopping for a new hard drive, it can sometimes be a bit confusing when similar, or not so similar terminology is all mixed together in the product’s description. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Restart Your Nest Thermostat If It Becomes Unresponsive The Nest Thermostat is a piece of hardware with circuitry and an operating system, just like any computer. That means it’s also susceptible to crashing, freezing, and other problems. Here’s how to restart the Nest Thermostat if it ever becomes unresponsive. Read This Article → How to Set Up Your Insteon Hub (and Start Adding Devices) Insteon is one of the most popular–and arguably most powerful–lines of smarthome products out there. If you’re just getting started with Insteon, here’s how to set up your hub and your first device. Read This Article → How to Create a Shortcut or Context Menu Item for Nearly Any Windows Setting It’s not too hard to browse through Windows’ settings to find what you need, but if there’s a setting you access frequently, why not make it a little easier on yourself? Windows exposes a number of useful settings through Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) that you can use to create a shortcut or context menu item for quick access to that setting. Read This Article → How to Customize or Remove the Headers and Footers of a Notepad Text File By default, each Notepad document has the name of the document in the header and the page number in the footer when you print a text file. However, you can customize the header and footer with special commands or custom text, or leave one or both blank. Read This Article → How to Adjust Google Keyboard’s Height on Android Google Keyboard continues to get to more advanced customization features, with the most recent version bringing the option to change the keyboard's height (among other tweaks). If you've ever thought "man, I could type so much faster if this keyboard were just a bit bigger" or "I'd love to see a little more of the screen, this keyboard is just too tall!" this is a tip for you. Read This Article → How to Troubleshoot and Recalibrate Your Xbox One’s Kinect Your Xbox One’s Kinect should “just work” after you set it up, but occasionally you may experience problems with voice or people recognition. You can recalibrate and reset your Kinect to fix these and other problems. Read This Article → How to Set Up and Use Open365, an Open Source Alternative to Office 365 If you use the LibreOffice suite of programs, you'll be happy to learn about Open365. Just as LibreOffice is the free, open source alternative to Microsoft Office, Open365 is the free counterpart to the cloud-based Office 365. Read This Article → Advertisement Free Tips and Tricks Guide: Microsoft Windows 10 -- Free Reference Card Use this reference to brush up on the basics and to find alternative methods to your favorite commands. This printable quick reference is yours to use, distribute, and share at your organization! Click here to download