How to Shut Down a Windows PC Without Installing Updates

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Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Facebook fires human editors, algorithm immediately posts fake news Facebook makes its Trending feature fully automated, with mixed results. [ArsTechnica] Why Won't Apple Fix The iPhone's One Huge Design Flaw? Twenty-five percent of iPhones break in exactly the same way. It's not just a design problem—it's a UX problem. [Fast.co] Why We Still Don't Have Better Batteries Startups with novel chemistries tend to falter before they reach full production. [MIT Technology Review] Alien life, or noise? Russian telescope detects 'strong signal' from sun-like star Signal detected a year ago from HD164595, only 95 light years away and with at least one planet, but Seti scientists are scanning the area and have yet to find it. [The Guardian] How to Use Microsoft Office’s Built-In Clipboard Your computer’s “clipboard” is where content that you cut or copy is temporarily stored. Microsoft Office has its own clipboard, however, that’s more powerful. Read This Article → How to Set Up a Shared Network Printer in Windows 7, 8, or 10 Over the years, Windows has gotten much better about how it handles networked printers. But if you want to share a printer over the network, you may still need to do a little legwork to get it all up and running. Here’s how it all works. Read This Article → How to Stop Windows 10 From Telling Your Xbox Friends What Games You’re Playing Windows 10’s Anniversary Update offers new “game hubs” for PC games in the Xbox app. Your friends on Xbox Live will now be able to see when you’re playing a PC game, and what PC games you recently played. Read This Article → How to Shut Down a Windows PC Without Installing Updates You're working on your laptop and you realize that it's time to go. So, you shut down your laptop, but Windows insists on updating. Ten minutes later, you're still waiting for Windows to update and you're going to be late. Read This Article → Beginner Geek: Do I Need a Graphics Card in My PC? There’s always a lot of chatter about computer graphics cards, thanks to bigger and better models every few months. It’s not always clear who actually needs one, though. Let’s take a look at what they are, and whether or not they’re a good fit for your PC. Read This Article → The Basic Tools Every DIYer Should Own They say you can never have too many tools, but everyone has to start somewhere. If you’re just getting into the DIY scene, are are some basic tools that everyone should have in their toolbox. Read This Article → How to View Other Messages While Composing a New One in iOS Mail Have you ever been composing a new message in iOS Mail when you needed to refer back to an earlier email? Instead of saving the new message as a draft, just swipe it out of the way. Read This Article → How to Create Custom Tiles for Android’s Quick Settings Menu Android 7.0 Nougat brings a lot of new features and refinements to the table, like the ability to customize Android's Quick Settings panel with custom tile containing unique toggles and even app or web shortcuts. Read This Article → What Is the $WINDOWS.~BT Folder, and Can You Delete It? The $WINDOWS.~BT and $WINDOWS.~WS folders are associated with the Windows 10 upgrade process. They may appear on either Windows 7, 8, or 10, using gigabytes of disk space. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Windows 10 Bible (FREE eBook!) A $32.99 Value Windows 10 Bible is one of the most thorough references on the market with complete coverage of Windows 10. Whether you're a beginner seeking guidance or a power-user looking for fresh tips and tricks, this book contains everything you could ever hope to know about the Windows operating system. Click here to download