How to Disable All of Windows 10's Built-in Advertising

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How to Hide a File or Folder in an Image in Linux How to Enable Android's "System UI Tuner" for Access to Experimental Features How to Pimp Your Gaming PC: A Guide to Lights, Colors, and Other Mods Why Your PC Hasn’t Received Windows 10’s Anniversary Update Yet and How to Get It Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Differencing Disk A Differencing Disk is a type of virtual hard disk (VHD) that is used to store changes and modifications made to another VHD or to a guest operating system in case those changes and modifications need to be reversed. 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. An OS 9 odyssey: Why these Mac users won't abandon 16-year-old software Why? Nostalgia, specific software or hardware, creativity through limitation. [ArsTechnica] Lights out! Why IT shops are disabling wireless AP LEDs Wi-Fi access point LEDs are keeping some people up at night [Network World] Disney's many, many attempts at figuring out the game industry Digging deep into Disney's 30 year video game history. [Polygon] Asteroid Grazes Earth's Upper-Atmosphere With Only Two-Day Warning Asteroid could have pulverized communication satellites. [Motherboard] How to Open the Terminal to a Specific Directory in Linux By default, new Terminal windows open to your Home directory. However, if there's another directory you use often that you want immediate access to when you open the Terminal, there's an easy way to set this up. Read This Article → How to Get Tons of In-App Purchases for Free with Amazon Underground on Android Android games can be a fun way to kill time, but it gets annoying when they continually try to sucker you into micro-transactions. If you’re tired of needing in-app purchases to play a supposedly “free” game, Amazon is here to rescue you with their Amazon Underground program. Read This Article → How to Move a Steam Game to Another Drive Without Re-Downloading It Steam offers multiple library folders, and you can choose where you want to install games when you download them. There’s no obvious way to move a game to another drive after the fact, though–but it is possible, without re-downloading the entire thing. Read This Article → How to Disable All of Windows 10’s Built-in Advertising Windows 10 has a lot of built-in advertising. This isn’t just about the free upgrade offer: Even if you purchase a new PC that comes with a Windows 10 license or spend $200 for a copy of Windows 10 Professional, you’ll see ads in your operating system. You can, however, disable a lot of it. Read This Article → How to Disable the Lock Screen in Windows 10 With Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Microsoft no longer lets you disable the lock screen using a group policy setting or registry hack. But there are still workarounds–for now. Read This Article → Top 10 Terminal Tricks in macOS You can tweak a lot of settings from macOS’ System Preferences, but if you really want to dig deep and customize your system, the Terminal has a lot of hidden little tricks. Here are ten of our favorites in macOS. Read This Article → How to Stop YouTube From Autoplaying the Next Video on Chromecast When you use your Chromecast for YouTube videos, there’s an annoying feature where suggested videos continuously queue up whether you want them or not. Here’s now to turn that feature off. Read This Article → Why Is My Ring Doorbell Missing Live View? If you have your Ring Doorbell all set up, and were looking forward to a live view of the Ring’s camera, you might be disappointed to find that it’s missing from the Ring app. There’s a very simply answer as to why that is. Read This Article → How to Hide a File or Folder in an Image in Linux If other people use your Linux PC from time to time, you can hide files and folders from prying eyes. But if they know the obvious way to view hidden files, you can use a more secretive method: compress those files and hide them in an innocent looking image file. Read This Article → How to Enable Android's "System UI Tuner" for Access to Experimental Features Starting with Marshmallow, Google included a new hidden settings menu with experimental features. This menu, called the System UI Tuner, is a great way to access tools that may not be quite ready to be called "stable," but are an excellent way to get eyes on possible upcoming features. Read This Article → How to Pimp Your Gaming PC: A Guide to Lights, Colors, and Other Mods So you’ve built yourself a powerful gaming PC, and even gotten a case with a side panel window so you can see all your glorious work. The only problem? It looks a little…drab. Maybe the colors don’t match, maybe it’s too dark, or maybe your build is just a little messy. Here are some tips to take your custom PC from boring to badass–without spending a fortune. Read This Article → Why Your PC Hasn’t Received Windows 10’s Anniversary Update Yet and How to Get It Windows 10 is supposed to automatically update itself. But it might take weeks or longer for a big update like the Anniversary Update to reach your PC. Here’s why that happens–and how to skip the wait. 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