How to Get Rid of "Suggested Apps" in Windows 10

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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 Rearrange or Hide the Extension Buttons on the Chrome Toolbar How to Play SteamVR Games (and Other Non-Oculus Apps) on the Oculus Rift How to Get Rid of “Suggested Apps” in Windows 10 Which Name Is Correct, exFAT or FAT64? How to Control Multiple SmartThings Devices at Once with Routines How to “Quit” the Finder in OS X How to Get Windows 7’s Old Folder Icons in Windows 10 Android Apps Will Be Awesome on Chromebooks…Once the Kinks are Worked Out How to Set Up the Oculus Rift and Start Playing Games How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Android Phone Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Delimiter A Delimiter is a unique character or series of characters that separates two pieces of data or marks the beginning/end of a programming construct. Some examples of Delimiters are: backslashes (\), commas (,), semicolons (;), quotes (“), and braces ({}). 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. Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid Over at The Verge they're ranting the rant we all should: Apple's alleged move to ditch the analog headphone jack is absolutely awful on every level. [The Verge] Why The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is getting voice acting and sci-fi elements Zelda's producers wants to touch players' hearts and surprise them [Polygon] The Online Community That's Turning Old Video Games Into an Archaeological Dig Many older video games hold secrets--levels, content, and lore that was cut from the game but left on the cartridge or disk when the game shipped. [Motherboard] New FAA commercial drone rules require "pilot certificate" FAA regulations met with applause by lawyers, calling them "good for pilots." [ArsTechnica] How to Rearrange or Hide the Extension Buttons on the Chrome Toolbar Some Google Chrome extensions add a button to the right side of the toolbar, which usually provides access to the extension’s main features. These buttons are added in the order the extensions were installed, and that order may not be to your liking. Read This Article → How to Play SteamVR Games (and Other Non-Oculus Apps) on the Oculus Rift The Oculus Rift is locked down by default, and will only run games and apps from Oculus’s own store. You’ll see an “Unknown Source” message on the Rift if you try to run something else. But change one setting, and you can use Valve’s SteamVR or any other Rift-enabled app or game. Read This Article → How to Get Rid of “Suggested Apps” in Windows 10 In the Windows 10 Fall 2015 update, Microsoft introduced what they call the “Microsoft Consumer Experience”, which includes some rather annoying “suggestions” in the Start menu–both on the left side, under your apps, and on the right side as live tiles. Read This Article → Which Name Is Correct, exFAT or FAT64? Sometimes it can be a bit confusing or frustrating when you see something referred to by multiple names, like exFAT and FAT64, for example. Which name is correct, or are both of them correct? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Control Multiple SmartThings Devices at Once with Routines If you have a handful of smarthome accessories that you want to control all at once, you can instantly make changes to a handful of things in your house using “Routines” in the SmartThings app with just the press of a button. Read This Article → How to “Quit” the Finder in OS X There may be rare occasions in which you want to Quit the Finder completely–maybe to clean your cluttered desktop for a screenshot, or to close a bunch of Finder windows at once. But by default, the Finder doesn’t have a Quit option. Read This Article → How to Get Windows 7’s Old Folder Icons in Windows 10 Microsoft changed the default folder icon in Windows 10 to a flat, closed folder. If you prefer the open folder icon from Windows 7, you can make that the default folder icon in Windows 10 with a registry tweak. Read This Article → Android Apps Will Be Awesome on Chromebooks…Once the Kinks are Worked Out Android apps are coming to Chromebooks, and the ASUS Chromebook Flip is the first device to get a taste of what that's going to be like. It makes sense, really—it's an ultra-portable convertible laptop-slash-tablet that makes a lot of works well with and without the keyboard. The real question, however, is how practical is this? Read This Article → How to Set Up the Oculus Rift and Start Playing Games The Oculus Rift offers a polished virtual reality experience, even though it doesn’t have the room-scale virtual reality or touch controllers like the HTC Vive–yet. Here’s how to set up your Oculus Rift, and what you’ll need to know ahead of time. Read This Article → How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Android Phone You're having a night out. With dinner down the hatch, you're walking down the street with your sweetheart to the next destination. You reach into your pocket to pull out your phone, when that feeling hits the pit of your stomach: your phone is missing. Did you leave it at the restaurant? Or maybe at home? Did someone steal it? Your mind races. You have no idea. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Microsoft Office 2016 -- Free Reference Card Kit This Microsoft Office 2016 reference kits includes 5 individual reference cards providing shortcuts, tips, and tricks for the most popular office productivity suite in the world. Click here to download