What Is the $WINDOWS.~BT Folder, and Can You Delete It?

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AT&T explains why it sometimes delays Google Fiber access to poles Google Fiber can't always access AT&T utility poles despite US-wide agreement. [ArsTechnica] A Guide Book For Faking Your Own Death In The Digital Age "Playing Dead" author Elizabeth Greenwood talks to Vocativ about the difficulties of disappearing in the digital age [Vocativ] Sent From My iPhone: how a humblebrag became a key piece of net etiquette Once considered a crass way of showing off, now the sign-off is a nod of acknowledgement that we are doing the best we can [The Guardian] Meet the Facebook group calling out fake nature photography There's a vocal and growing group of people who are downright sick of all the fake nature photos circulating on the internet. [The Verge] Mars simulation ends after a year on Hawaiian mountain Six scientists who lived for a year inside a dome on a Hawaiian mountain emerged Sunday from the experiment, meant to simulate a trip to Mars. [USA Today] 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 → 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 → Everything You Need to Know About Improving Your iPhone’s Battery Life Phones have gotten faster and faster, but their battery life hasn’t improved much. Modern iPhones still struggle to make it through a single day if you’re using them heavily, but there are ways to extend that battery life and keep your iPhone going. Read This Article → How to Turn an Old Hard Drive Into an External Drive So you’ve upgraded the hard drive in your computer, and you’re left with this old, seemingly useless bare hard drive. Don’t throw it away! It takes surprisingly little effort to turn an old (or new) hard drive into an external drive perfect for stashing your extra files on. Let’s look at how you can blow the dust off those old drives and save money in the process. Read This Article → How to Set Your iPhone to Remember Where You Parked It’s no fun to end your trip wandering around looking for you car. Now, thanks to a new iOS feature, you don’t have to–let’s take a look at how to take advantage of the “Parked Car” reminder in iOS 10. Read This Article → How to Share Ring Doorbell Access with Other Household Members If you don’t want to leave your spouse or roommate in the dust with your smart new doorbell, here’s how to share Ring Doorbell access with the people in your home. Read This Article → How to Disable “Raise to Listen” for Audio Messages in iOS Your iPhone’s Raise to Listen feature lets you record or listen to an audio message just by raising the phone to your face. It can be handy, but it can also be pretty annoying–especially if you don’t use audio messages and you’re sick of accidentally recording them. Here’s how to turn it off. Read This Article → How to Watch Any Video on Your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive You probably got that Oculus Rift or HTC Vive to play games, but VR can also offer a seriously immersive video-watching experience. Here’s how to watch a movie on your headset, whether it’s a regular 2D movie, a 3D movie, or a full 360-degree VR production. Read This Article → How to Calculate Your Pokémon's Exact IVs with Pokémon GO's New Appraisal System If you play Pokémon GO, then you of course want the best possible Pokémon you can get. The thing is, knowing how good an individual Pokémon is goes far beyond just looking at its CP and move set. Each Pokémon has its own IVs—Individual Values—that define how it will actually perform in battle. Read This Article → Everything You Need to Know About “Reset This PC” in Windows 8 and 10 Windows 10 includes a “Reset your PC” option that quickly restores Windows to its factory default configuration. It’s faster and more convenient than reinstalling Windows from scratch or using your manufacturer’s recovery partition. 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