How to Auto-Control Your PC's Fans for Cool, Quiet Operation

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[Seeker] How to Disable Driver Signature Verification on 64-Bit Windows 8 or 10 (So That You Can Install Unsigned Drivers) With Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Microsoft tightened the screws even further. But you can avoid the more restrictive driver-signing requirements by disabling Secure Boot. Read This Article → How to Auto-Control Your PC’s Fans for Cool, Quiet Operation A good set of fans can keep your computer from overheating, but they can also make your computer sound like a wind tunnel. Here’s how to control your PC’s fans for superior cooling when it’s working hard, and silence when it isn’t. Read This Article → How Can I Keep Passwords Invisible When Running a Command as an SSH Argument? Keeping our passwords well secured is something that we all need to take seriously, but what do you do if a particular program or app displays your password in plain sight as you are typing it? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the solution to a frustrated reader’s password problem. Read This Article → How to Bring Back Three-Finger Drag on the MacBook’s Force Touch Trackpad With the introduction of the Force Touch Trackpad on the new 2015 MacBooks, Apple also changed some of the gestures around, including getting rid of the three-finger drag that made it easy to move windows around. However, the gesture is still there—you just have to enable it in the settings. Read This Article → How to Make Reddit Suck Less You used to love Reddit, but it’s just not fun anymore. The jokes aren’t funny, the tips aren’t useful, and everyone is constantly fighting about internal drama or identity politics. Read This Article → How to Set Your Facebook Account to Delete or Memorialize You Upon Your Death Many questions come about when one ponders their final days. Where will we go? Is there really an afterlife? What will happen to my Facebook account? Read This Article → Android Guide: Keeping Your Device Secure Whenever you walk out your front door with your phone, you carry with you the contents of your life. “Security” may seem like a boring topic, but your phone has all kinds of important, personal, and sensitive information on it—even if you think it doesn’t. When it’s so easy to lose your mobile device or have it stolen, you have to ask yourself: why take chances when protecting your data is so simple? Read This Article → How to Delete a User Account in Windows 7, 8, or 10 If you have a bunch of user accounts on your Windows PC that you don't need anymore, it may be time to clean them out. Today we’ll take a look at how to delete a user account in Windows. Read This Article → How to Use the Snipping Tool in Windows to Take Screenshots There are lots of tools out there for taking screenshots in Windows. However, you may not need to install a third party app. Snipping Tool, included in Windows Vista and later, allows you to take screenshots, as well as edit and annotate them. Read This Article → How to Make a Double Exposure Image in Photoshop Double exposure images are popular at the moment. Taylor Swift's Style music video and the True Detective opening theme both used the effect. It's a technique where two separate photos—typically a portrait and a landscape—are blended together into one unusual image. Originally photographers took two photos ("exposures") on the same piece of film to combine them, but now it's usually done with software like Photoshop or GIMP. Read This Article → How to Fix Hard Drive Problems with Chkdsk in Windows 7, 8, and 10 Any time you have hard drive errors—or even strange behavior you might not at first associate with a hard drive—Check Disk can be a lifesaver. Here's a full guide to using the Check Disk tool that comes with every version of Windows. 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