How to Use Your Free Windows 10 License After Changing Your PC’s Hardware

Did You Know? The phrases “no man is an island” and “for whom the bell tolls” are both from the same section in a set of devotions, Meditation XVII, by English metaphysical poet and cleric John Donne. Geek Trivia A Long Awaited Release in Which Film Franchise Is Estimated To Have Cost Millions In Productivity? Star Trek → The Exorcist → Harry Potter → Star Wars → Advertisement Download Security Now: Essentials for IT Defense (eBook Kit, a $50 Value) Kit includes "Securing the Virtual Environment" plus 3 other resources to help you understand the virtual environment and IT security. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. 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[The Verge] How to Uninstall an iOS App You Can’t Find on the Home Screen There's an app you want to uninstall, but you can't find it on your Home screen. If the icon appears to have disappeared, how are you supposed to uninstall the app? Don't panic. There is another way. Read This Article → How to Make Windows 10 Accept File Paths Over 260 Characters With the Anniversary Update of Windows 10, you can finally abandon the 260 character maximum path limit in Windows. You just need to make a minor edit to the Windows Registry or Group Policy. Here’s how to make it happen. Read This Article → How to Set Your Default Location for Windows 10 Apps Windows 10 can find your device’s location in a variety of ways, often by examining nearby Wi-Fi networks. But this doesn’t always work well, especially on desktop PCs. That’s why Windows 10 offers a way to set a “default location” that is reported to apps if it can’t get a solid read on your location. Read This Article → How to Use Your Free Windows 10 License After Changing Your PC's Hardware The free Windows 10 license you receive is tied to your PC’s hardware. You’re still allowed to use Windows 10 on that same PC even after changing its hardware. Activating that license is easier than ever in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update. Read This Article → How to Use Your iPad as a Second Monitor for Your PC or Mac Multiple monitors are awesome. With two screens side by side, you can more easily see all your windows at once, keeping you productive. Got an iPad? You can use it as a second display for your Mac or PC. Read This Article → How to Automatically Turn On Your TV When You Get Home with the Harmony Hub Humans are creatures of habit, and it’s likely that you turn on your TV close to the same time every day after you get home from work, and turn it off close to the same time every night before you go to bed. Here’s how to automate that process by using the Logitech Harmony Hub and an online service called IFTTT. Read This Article → How to Use Signatures in Apple Mail on Your iPhone or iPad If you use an iPhone or iPad to email important clients, friends, and relatives, then you probably want to try to minimize as much unnecessary typing as possible. Read This Article → How to Easily Change the Case on Text in Microsoft Word Did you type a line of text and then realize that it should have been capitalized differently? Instead of typing the line again, you can quickly and easily change the case of any text in Word without retyping it. Read This Article → How to Reset Your Entire Network in Windows 10 and Start From Scratch If you’re suffering network problems in Windows 10 that you just can’t seem to fix, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update now includes a feature that lets you reset your network back to how it was when you first installed Windows. Read This Article → Your Computer Doesn’t Care If You Lose Everything: Back It Up Right Now It only takes seconds to lose everything you value on your computer, but thankfully, backing up everything doesn’t take forever and can be very cheap. Your data is very easy to lose, with malware, hardware failure, and general stupidity lurking around every corner–and once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Security Now: Essentials for IT Defense (eBook Kit, a $50 Value) Kit includes "Securing the Virtual Environment" plus 3 other resources to help you understand the virtual environment and IT security. Click here to download