What Is the ProgramData Folder in Windows?

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Disable the Lock Workstation Functionality (Window+L) in Windows How to Get iOS’ “Raise to Wake” to Work Every Single Time What Is the ProgramData Folder in Windows? How Do You Safely Add Insecure Devices to a Home Network? How to Use Siri to Control Your Philips Hue Lights How to Sort Your Mac’s Folders on Top of Files (Windows-Style) Relax, NVIDIA’s Telemetry Didn’t Just Start Spying on You Managing Your Installed Applications How to Combine Text from Multiple Cells into One Cell in Excel How to Open an Explorer Window from the Command Prompt’s Current Directory How to Develop a Better Eye for Taking Good Photos How to Install Windows on a Chromebook Geek Comic Today's Tech Term DUT DUT (short for Device Under Test, a.k.a. [EUT] Equipment Under Test and [UUT] Unit Under Test) refers to a device or manufactured product that is undergoing testing to verify that it is working properly and free of defects. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. We're Probably Imagining Aliens Wrong Looking for creatures like us (or what we imagine, at least, aliens to look like) is probably limiting our chances of ever finding them. [The Atlantic] Deep Neural Network Learns to Judge Books by Their Covers A machine-vision algorithm can tell a book's genre by looking at its cover. This paves the way for AI systems to design the covers themselves. [MIT Technology Review] How to Disable the Lock Workstation Functionality (Window+L) in Windows By default, using the Windows+L key combination locks Windows, so you have to re-type your password to use the computer. If you find yourself occasionally hitting that combination by accident—and you don’t really have a need to lock Windows—here’s how to disable it. Read This Article → How to Get iOS’ “Raise to Wake” to Work Every Single Time Raise to Wake is a new feature in iOS 10. When you pick your iPhone up, the screen is supposed to turn on so you can see all the revamped notifications on the lock screen. Read This Article → What Is the ProgramData Folder in Windows? On modern versions of Windows, you’ll see a “ProgramData” folder on your system drive—usually the C:\ drive. This folder is hidden, so you’ll only see it if you show hidden files in File Explorer. Read This Article → How Do You Safely Add Insecure Devices to a Home Network? Whether we like it or not, there are just some devices in our homes that are, and always will be insecure. Is there a safe way to add those devices to a home network without compromising the security of other devices? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a security-conscious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Use Siri to Control Your Philips Hue Lights Thanks to Apple's HomeKit home automation system and the versatility of Siri, you can now control your home lighting with nothing but your voice. Read on as we demonstrate this using Philips Hue. Read This Article → How to Sort Your Mac’s Folders on Top of Files (Windows-Style) Switch to a new operating system and there are all sorts of little difference to get used to. The way macOS sorts folders and files is one of those things for migrating Windows users. Read This Article → Relax, NVIDIA’s Telemetry Didn’t Just Start Spying on You Gamers are accusing NVIDIA’s new drivers of spying on you, collecting more data with new telemetry services. But NVIDIA isn’t spying on you—or, at least, NVIDIA isn’t gathering more data than it already was, and most of that data is required for it to work properly. Read This Article → Android Guide: Managing Your Installed Applications So you know the basics of Android, but what next? Our first real stop on the road to mastering Google’s mobile OS is to help you understand how to manage and organize your installed applications, deal with settings and permissions, or get rid of applications you don't want. Read This Article → How to Combine Text from Multiple Cells into One Cell in Excel If you have a large worksheet in an Excel workbook in which you need to combine text from multiple cells, you can breathe a sigh of relief because you don't have to retype all that text. You can easily concatenate the text. Read This Article → How to Open an Explorer Window from the Command Prompt’s Current Directory There are all kinds of ways to open a Command Prompt window from File Explorer—and you can even run commands right in the File Explorer address bar—but did you know it’s just as easy to open a File Explorer window from the Command Prompt? Read This Article → How to Develop a Better Eye for Taking Good Photos Digital cameras have gotten really good. Most of the time, you can put them in Auto, press the shutter button, and, click, you've a perfectly adequate photo of what's in front of you. It won't be anything special (and it'll be the exact same photo that everyone who was standing nearby took), but you’ll have something to share with your friends on social media. Read This Article → How to Install Windows on a Chromebook Chromebooks don’t officially support Windows. You normally can’t even install Windows—Chromebooks ship with a special type of BIOS designed for Chrome OS. But there are ways to install Windows on many Chromebook models, if you’re willing to get your hands dirty. Read This Article → Advertisement Download the Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. Click here to download