How to Run Any Program as a Background Service in Windows

Did You Know? The Statue of Liberty weighs 450,000 pounds, but only 60,000 of those pounds are made up of the copper skin that gives the statue its iconic form, the rest is accounted for by the internal steel support structure and other components. Geek Trivia Despite The Common Belief, The Word Sushi Does Not Refer To Raw Fish But? Seaweed Wrapping → Pickled Ginger → Wasabi Sauce → Vinegared Rice → Advertisement Download 2016 Ultimate IT Security Kit (over $25 value!) FREE for a limited time Kit includes "Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices" plus 3 other resources to help you understand 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. 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 Manually Add a Photo to a Contact on an iPhone or iPad How to Put an iPad Into “Kiosk” Mode, Restricting It to a Single App How to Run Any Program as a Background Service in Windows How Can a VPN Improve Download Speed? How to Make Your Nest Automatically Detect When You’re Away How to Name Folders with Emoji on iOS and Android How to Hide Contact Photos in Messages on the iPhone How to Remove an Old Computer from a Windows Homegroup How to Hide Sensitive Notifications From Your iPhone’s Lock Screen The Best Android Shortcuts You're Probably Not Using Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Turnkey System A Turnkey System is a computer system with all the necessary hardware and software already “put together” so that it is ready to run as soon as a user or customer receives it (just “turn the key” and go). 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. Death by GPS Why do we follow digital maps into dodgy places? [ArsTechnica] IBM Is Now Letting Anyone Play With Its Quantum Computer 'I think that someone out there will learn things about the behavior of this quantum computer that its developers never thought of.' [Wired] Which Came First on Earth--Habitability or Life? - Scientific American One astronomer suggests that we cannot necessarily disentangle the two [Scientific American] The thumbnails are always changing on Netflix because you're being tested You're not just imagining that your Netflix thumbnails are always changing--they're testing which ones you like better. [The Verge] Cicada Calls Are Literally Deafening It's time for cicadas to emerge from their 17 year pupal stage and bring with them their deafening 100+ decibel calls. [Motherboard] How to Manually Add a Photo to a Contact on an iPhone or iPad That boring, grey circle may give you a slight indication of who you’re calling or texting, but wouldn’t it be nice if all your iPhone contacts had photos to go with them? Here’s how to manually add a picture to a contact. Read This Article → How to Put an iPad Into “Kiosk” Mode, Restricting It to a Single App An iPad makes a great “kiosk” device–a tablet restricted to one specific app for your home or small business. You can create a makeshift kiosk using the Guided Access feature, or enable Single App Mode for a true kiosk environment. Read This Article → How to Run Any Program as a Background Service in Windows If you’re like most Windows users, you have lots of great little utilities that run when you start Windows. While this works great for most apps, there are some that would be nice to start even before a user logs in to the PC. To do this, you’ll need to run the app as a Windows service. Read This Article → How Can a VPN Improve Download Speed? We can all agree that faster download speeds are preferable and would assume that a VPN might slow things down a bit, but what if the opposite happens and your VPN actually increases the speed? With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Make Your Nest Automatically Detect When You’re Away When you leave for work, you likely turn down your thermostat before you head out the door to save energy. But the Nest Thermostat can automatically do that for you, by detecting when you’re away and when you come home. Read This Article → How to Name Folders with Emoji on iOS and Android It’s easy to think you’re stuck using boring old letters and numbers to name your smartphone’s app folders, but with the wonderful world of emoji, your folders will take on a new life of their own. Read This Article → How to Hide Contact Photos in Messages on the iPhone By default, on an iPhone 6/6 Plus or 6S/6S Plus, photos for your contacts are displayed in the Messages app. If you don't want to see those photos, though, you can hide them with a simple setting. Read This Article → How to Remove an Old Computer from a Windows Homegroup Windows Homegroup is great for sharing documents, pictures, and printers between computers on your home network. If you’ve had it set up for a while, you may have noticed that the ghosts of old computer hang around in your Homegroup list. Here’s how to banish them. Read This Article → How to Hide Sensitive Notifications From Your iPhone’s Lock Screen If you have notifications enabled, apps normally display your messages right on your lock screen. But you can hide the text of those messages without disabling the lock screen notifications entirely, allowing you to see you have a message while preventing people from reading those messages over your shoulder. Read This Article → The Best Android Shortcuts You're Probably Not Using The beauty of technology isn’t just doing more stuff–it’s doing stuff quickly. Whether you want to call a specific contact with one tap, keep your phone unlocked when you're at home or work, launch the camera in a flash to quickly capture the perfect moment, or search for an app while in a rush, here are some of the best shortcuts built into Android that you're probably not using. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 2016 Ultimate IT Security Kit (over $25 value!) FREE for a limited time Kit includes "Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices" plus 3 other resources to help you understand IT security. Click here to download