How to Make Windows 10 Look and Act More Like Windows 7

Did You Know? Halloween is big business in the U.S., every year Americans collectively spend over 2.3 billion dollars on Halloween candy and over 2 billion dollars on decorations. Geek Trivia Which Of These Animals Has The Fastest Tongue? King Cobra → Gecko → Hummingbird → Chameleon → Advertisement Full License Giveaway | Last Round | Convert Video in A Flash By supporting the world's most advanced Intel QSV, MMX-SSE, Nvidia CUDA/NVENC, Hyper-threading and AMD 3DNow! tech, WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe accelerates the conversion speed significantly, making itself the fastest tool to convert UHD 4K/1080p video and download online video. Download a Full License for Free (time-limited) Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. 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[The Washington Post] Vampire Stars and Franken-Galaxies: The Spookiest Things in Outer Space You can put a Halloween spin on anything, including deep space curiosities. [Motherboard] How NASA Got All 6.25 Gigabytes of Pluto Data Down From New Horizons When your space probe has limited storage, limited bandwidth, and it's zooming past its target--it takes a special kind of dance to ensure all the data you want is collected and sent safely home. [Wired] The Beat Goes Off: Scientists Pinpoint the Loss of Musical Perception A lesion study tracks an acquired inability to perceive music to the brain's right-hemisphere [Scientific American] How to Find Your Missing USB Drive in Windows 7, 8, and 10 USB drives should automatically appear in Windows Explorer when you connect them to your computer. Follow these troubleshooting steps if Windows doesn’t show a connected drive. Read This Article → What Is Apple CarPlay, and Is It Better Than Just Using a Phone in Your Car? You get in your car, connect your phone to the Bluetooth head unit, and toss it in the dock. For the next umpteen amount of minutes/hours, this is your source of music, navigation, and everything else. Apple's CarPlay looks to re-invent the way you use your phone in the car with a sort of "second screen" setup. Read This Article → How to Make Windows 10 Look and Act More Like Windows 7 If you've upgraded to Windows 10 but don’t love what you see, there are ways to make Windows 10 look and act like Windows 7. That way, you can get the familiar interface you love while still taking advantage of Windows 10’s other useful features. Read This Article → How to Install Ubuntu Linux on Your Chromebook with Crouton Chromebooks aren't "just a browser"—they're Linux laptops. You can easily install a full Linux desktop alongside alongside Chrome OS and instantly switch between the two with a hotkey, no rebooting necessary. Read This Article → Five Ways to Customize Android that iOS Still Can’t Match Android is very customizable–many of its features are just defaults, and can be swapped out for third-party alternatives without any rooting required. When it comes to iOS, well…not so much. Read This Article → How to Install and Set Up the Kuna Home Security Camera The Kuna Home Security Camera is a porch light fixture that installs and works just like any other porch light, but with a security camera built-in. The camera is motion-activated, so you can be alerted of any activity going on outside your house. Here’s how to install it and set it up. Read This Article → How to Supercharge Your Halloween Like a Pro with a Digital Projector Halloween is one of those holidays that really brings out the tinkerer in a lot of geeks. There’s a veritable laundry list of things to deploy, modify, and enhance all in search of becoming the spookiest house on the block and throwing the best party. Read on as we highlight how easily you can turn a digital projector into a Swiss Army knife of cool Halloween tricks. Read This Article → How to Reset Your HomeKit Devices and Configuration Apple’s HomeKit home control and automation system is largely plug, play, and enjoy, but sometimes stubborn devices need a nudge to play nice. Read on as we show you how to reset both devices and the general HomeKit configuration. Read This Article → Where Are My Outlook PST Data Files, and How Can I Move Them Somewhere Else? Most people know that Outlook stores email for each account in a personal table storage (PST) file, but figuring out where that file is located depends on what version of Outlook you’re using. Here's where Outlook stores your files and how you can move them if you need to. Read This Article → How to Easily Change the Case of Text in LibreOffice Writer We've all done it before. We're typing fast and then realize that we had the Caps Lock key on and the case on our text is bACKWARDS. That's easy to change in Microsoft Word, but what if you use the free alternative, LibreOffice Writer? Read This Article → Full License Giveaway: WinX DVD Ripper Platinum V7.5.17 [Sponsored] Streaming is perceived as better now and is overtaking discs according to data such as declining Netflix DVD subscribers. But DVD did reign over the world for years, meaning hundreds of millions or billions of DVDs are still in use, which makes DVD-to-video backup tools a must-have to keep your precious DVD movies safe. So this Halloween giveaway of top-notch WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is just too fantastic to let slip. Read This Article → How “Trusted Devices” Work on Windows 10 (and Why You No Longer Need to “Trust This PC”) Windows 8 asked you to “Trust This PC” after you signed in with a Microsoft account. This message is gone in Windows 10, replaced with a new “Trusted Devices” system that works differently. Read This Article → How to Update the Windows Bash Shell to Ubuntu 16.04 Starting with the Windows 10 Creators Update, which comes out this spring, anyone who installs the Bash environment will get Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial). But, if you’ve previously installed Bash in the Anniversary Update, you’ll be stuck with Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) until you manually upgrade. Read This Article → The Biggest Design Mistakes Apple Has Made in the Past Two Years Apple has lost its mojo. Their obsessive attention to detail seems to have slipped away. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Windows 10 Tutorials - 120 of the most popular functions (a $19.95 value) FREE for a limited time You'll learn 120 of the most common features and functions of this hugely popular (and powerful) operating system. 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