How to Prevent Your Computer From Waking Up Accidentally

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Read This Article → How to Prevent Your Computer From Waking Up Accidentally Putting your PC to sleep is a great way to save energy while still making sure you can resume work quickly. But what can you do if your PC keeps waking up on its own? Here’s how to figure out what’s waking it up, and how to prevent it. Read This Article → All the Features That Require a Microsoft Account in Windows 10 Windows 10, like Windows 8 before it, is integrated with Microsoft’s online services. Microsoft would prefer you sign into Windows with your Microsoft account, although you can still create a local account. Certain features are only available if you sign in with a Microsoft account, however. Read This Article → Get Out of Auto: How to Use Your Camera’s Shooting Modes for Better Photos If you want to get the most out of your DSLR camera, it’s best to learn its different shooting modes, rather than just using full Auto all the time. With all the letters and symbols surrounding the dial (like M, Av, Tv, and P), though, things can get a bit confusing. Here’s a first-timer’s guide to getting out of Auto mode and crafting better photos. Read This Article → How to Import Articles Between Pocket and Instapaper If you’re considering leaving your read-it-later application of choice for greener pastures, you don’t have to start from scratch. Here’s how to move everything from Pocket to Instapaper, or vice versa, without missing a beat. Read This Article → How to Improve Your Amazon Echo Experience by Training It to Your Voice Like all voice assistants, Alexa isn't perfect at understanding everything we say. If you feel like Alexa’s missing a few too many commands, it might be time for a little one-on-one voice training. Read on as we show you how to train Alexa to recognize your speaking voice and get a better user experience in the process. Read This Article → How to Block a Twitter User’s Retweets (But Still See Their Tweets) Does someone you follow on Twitter retweet constantly, flooding your timeline with nonsense? Do particular accounts you never want to hear from keep popping up anyway? Here’s how to quickly filter that stuff out, without unfollowing people you otherwise like. Read This Article → Learn the Geeky Details of Any Apple Product, Old and New If you’re a fan of Apple products, but your hardware is limited to what you can afford, then you can still have fun taking a trip through Apple’s product history with Mactracker. Read This Article → How to Change Your Home Address in Apple Maps Apple Maps doesn’t automatically detect your Home address. If you move, Apple Maps and its widget will keep telling you how long it will take to drive to your previous home address—until you give it your new one. Read This Article → How to Disable the Fill Handle in Excel If you enter a lot of sequential values in your Excel worksheets, the Fill Handle can help you save time by automatically filling cells with incremented values. What if you find the fill handle doesn't work? Read This Article → The Amazon Echo Is What Makes Smarthome Worthwhile The Amazon Echo and smarthome are a match made in heaven. Alone, both sets of products are fairly useless—but together, they are awesome. Read This Article → How to Change the Default Control Panel View in Windows By default, the Windows Control Panel defaults to the last view you used—Category, Large Icons, or Small Icons. If you prefer, you can make it always open to a particular view using a quick Registry or Group Policy hack. Read This Article → Amazon Prime Is More than Free Shipping: Here Are All of Its Extra Features Millions of people have an Amazon Prime subscription for one reason: you can get just about anything shipped to your house in two days, with no extra shipping fees. But Amazon Prime comes with a ton of other features that you may not know about. Here are all the ways you can maximize the value of your Prime membership. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Learning Network Forensics ($40 Value) FREE For a Limited Time In this new age of connected networks, there is network crime. Network forensics is the brave new frontier of digital investigation and information security professionals to extend their abilities to catch miscreants on the network. Click here to download