Your Computer Doesn't Care If You Lose Everything: Back It Up Right Now

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How to Easily Change the Case on Text in Microsoft Word How to Reset Your Entire Network in Windows 10 and Start From Scratch Your Computer Doesn’t Care If You Lose Everything: Back It Up Right Now Why Do SSD Sectors Have a Limited Number of Writes? Can a Smart Thermostat Actually Save You Money? How to Customize Mission Control on a Mac How to Add a Tab Leader to a Tab Stop in Microsoft Word How to Turn Off Enhanced Notifications for Windows Defender How to Reset an App’s Data on Windows 10 How to Find and Remove Malware With Windows Defender Offline Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Tweet Seat Tweet Seats are seats in a special, reserved area in a theater, cinema, sporting arena, etc. that have been set aside for those who want to tweet during a movie, performance, or event and can do so without disturbing others. 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. When We Exterminate Rats, Do We Unintentionally Cause the Spread of Diseases Like the Plague? A Vancouver rat study is showing us how pest control can backfire. [Nautilus] The Linguistic Turf Wars Over the Singular 'They' Of all the turf wars that have complicated the landscape of grammar over the past few hundred years, the most complicated and frustrating may be that of the singular they. [Atlas Obscura] The Social Network in Your Gut Many bacteria swap their DNA freely—sometimes with disastrous results for humans. [The New Yorker] Chrome starts retiring Flash in favor of HTML5 Non-visible Flash content blocked in September; Flash fully deprecated by December. [ArsTechnica] How to Easily Change the Case on Text in Microsoft Word Did you type a line of text and then realize that it should have been capitalized differently? Instead of typing the line again, you can quickly and easily change the case of any text in Word without retyping it. Read This Article → How to Reset Your Entire Network in Windows 10 and Start From Scratch If you’re suffering network problems in Windows 10 that you just can’t seem to fix, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update now includes a feature that lets you reset your network back to how it was when you first installed Windows. Read This Article → Your Computer Doesn’t Care If You Lose Everything: Back It Up Right Now It only takes seconds to lose everything you value on your computer, but thankfully, backing up everything doesn’t take forever and can be very cheap. Your data is very easy to lose, with malware, hardware failure, and general stupidity lurking around every corner–and once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. Read This Article → Why Do SSD Sectors Have a Limited Number of Writes? Many of us have all heard the same thing, that SSDs have a limited number of writes before they go bad. Why is that? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → Can a Smart Thermostat Actually Save You Money? Smart thermostats are convenient, and claim they can save you a lot of money on your energy bills. But is a smart thermostat actually worth the price and effort? Read This Article → How to Customize Mission Control on a Mac Apple’s Mission Control gives you a good view of all your open windows, desktops, full-screen apps, and apps in split view, and lets you seamlessly switch between them. It works pretty well by default, but it can also be further configured to better suit your preferences. Read This Article → How to Add a Tab Leader to a Tab Stop in Microsoft Word A tab leader in Word produces a row of dots, dashes, or underscores between two sets of text, separated with the Tab key. They are useful for creating tabular lists without using tables, as shown in the above image. Read This Article → How to Turn Off Enhanced Notifications for Windows Defender With the Anniversary Update to Windows 10, Windows Defender now notifies you about a lot of actions that it used to keep in the background. If you want to return to the quieter days when it only alerted you about critical events, you can turn these enhanced notifications off. Read This Article → How to Reset an App’s Data on Windows 10 With Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, you can now reset an app’s data without actually uninstalling and reinstalling the app. This can fix problems when an app has gotten into a bad state, or just quickly restore an app to its default settings. Read This Article → How to Find and Remove Malware With Windows Defender Offline Microsoft has long offered a “Windows Defender Offline” tool you can use to perform malware scans from outside of Windows. With Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, this tool is included with Windows, and even easier to launch. Here’s how to use it, no matter which version of Windows you’re on. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Security Now: Essentials for IT Defense (eBook Kit, a $50 Value) Kit includes "Securing the Virtual Environment" plus 3 other resources to help you understand the virtual environment and IT security. Click here to download