How to Extend Windows 10's 30-Day Limit for Rolling Back to Windows 7 or 8.1

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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 Temporarily Save Your Browsing History in Chrome’s Incognito Mode How to Simplify the Galaxy S7 for Your Tech-Unsavvy Relatives with “Easy Mode” How to Extend Windows 10’s 30-Day Limit for Rolling Back to Windows 7 or 8.1 How Much Wi-Fi Signal Strength Is Lost Per Foot of Antenna Cable Length? How to Fix Netflix Problems on the Apple TV 4 After Resetting Your Password How to Clear Your Internet Explorer Browsing History How to Stop iTunes from Automatically Syncing with an iOS Device How to Stop Pages from Breaking After the First Line of a Paragraph in Microsoft Word How to Easily Mirror Your Android Phone's Screen on Your PC with Vysor for Chrome Remote Desktop Roundup: TeamViewer vs. Splashtop vs. Windows RDP Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Creeping Featuritis Creeping Featuritis is a term that is used to describe the continued addition of features to a particular product beyond its original design that result in increasing complexity and reduced stability/efficiency. 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. The Web's Creator Looks to Reinvent It Tim Berner Lee wants a new web, a web that the government can't control. [NYT] Hacker Lexicon: What Is Password Hashing? Every time there is a major security breach, the topic of password hashing comes up in the news. But what are these password hashes and how do they relate to security? [Wired] Is Flying a Drone Illegal? A Comprehensive Guide to America's Drone Laws "There's no really delicate way to say this, so I'm just going to do it: The vast majority of people have no idea what they're talking about when they talk about drone law." [Motherboard] Is HTML5 the new Windows? The HTML5 Stack provides the standards … that make building a sophisticated app both possible and worth the investment. [TechCrunch] Firefox 48 finally enables Electrolysis for multi-process goodness Mozilla says it's trying to win users and developers back to Firefox. [ArsTechnica] How to Temporarily Save Your Browsing History in Chrome’s Incognito Mode Chrome’s Incognito Mode allows you to surf the web and search for stuff without your browsing history being tracked. However, what if you want to temporarily save your browsing history just for that incognito session, so you can go back to pages you just visited? There's a handy extension that allows you to do this. Read This Article → How to Simplify the Galaxy S7 for Your Tech-Unsavvy Relatives with “Easy Mode” Every tech-savvy geek knows how annoying it is to help their less savvy friends, relatives, or kids work their gadgets. Fortunately, Samsung built-in a way to simplify some of the Galaxy S7's primary apps with "Easy Mode." Here's how to enable it. Read This Article → How to Extend Windows 10’s 30-Day Limit for Rolling Back to Windows 7 or 8.1 After upgrading to Windows 10, you have 30 days–about a month–to roll back to Windows 7 or 8.1 if you so desire. After that, Windows takes the option away from you. But there’s a way to extend this time limit at the cost of some disk space. Read This Article → How Much Wi-Fi Signal Strength Is Lost Per Foot of Antenna Cable Length? If you are getting ready to add an antenna to your router in order to extend the Wi-Fi range in your home, just how long of a cable can you use? Does the cable’s length even matter? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Fix Netflix Problems on the Apple TV 4 After Resetting Your Password If you ever reset your Netflix password, you’ll quickly discover that you’ll have a hard time changing it in the Netflix app on the Apple TV 4 due to what seems to be a bug with the app. Here’s how to remedy the situation by simply re-installing the Netflix app on Apple’s set-top box. Read This Article → How to Clear Your Internet Explorer Browsing History Despite reports to the contrary, Internet Explorer is still very much alive. While it’s browser share has steadily eroded over time, it still commands a 15% share, which means there are quite a few people out there using it. Read This Article → How to Stop iTunes from Automatically Syncing with an iOS Device Let’s face it: iTunes is not great. Even though it got a little better with iTunes 12, it has since devolved into another slow mess of mostly useless features. You can use your iOS device without iTunes or, even better, use a good iTunes alternative. But if you need to keep iTunes installed and just don’t want it to automatically open and sync when you plug your iOS device in, here’s how to make it happen. Read This Article → How to Stop Pages from Breaking After the First Line of a Paragraph in Microsoft Word In typesetting terms, “widows” and “orphans” are lines at the end or beginning of a paragraph that are separated from the rest of the paragraph by a page break. If you think widows and orphans in your Word document are distracting, you can enable a setting that prevents them. Read This Article → How to Easily Mirror Your Android Phone's Screen on Your PC with Vysor for Chrome Smartphones are convenient, but sometimes it's more trouble than it's worth to pick up your phone when you're already sitting at a computer. It would be nice to do whatever it is you want to do from the comfort of your PC—especially if you work at a desk. Thankfully, there's a simple (and brilliant) way to completely mirror your Android device's screen over USB with a Chrome app called Vysor. Read This Article → Remote Desktop Roundup: TeamViewer vs. Splashtop vs. Windows RDP There are a plethora of remote desktop solutions on the market, and it can be tricky to pick the right one for your needs. Don’t worry though, we’ve done the legwork for you, cataloging and comparing the most popular remote desktop solutions so you can easily pick the right one. 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