How to Clean Up Your Messy Windows Context Menu

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How to Receive Alerts When Your Garage Door Opens Using MyQ How to Type Long or Complex Phrases with a Few Keystrokes Thanks to macOS’ Text Replacement How to Log In to Your PC With Your Fingerprint or Other Device Using Windows Hello How to Change What You Have Shared with a HomeGroup in Windows How to Convert a VirtualBox Virtual Machine to Parallels Desktop for Mac What Is Adobe Lightroom, and Do I Need It? How to Get Notifications for Only the Emails You Care About in Gmail Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Gasfastness In the context of photo printing, Gasfastness refers to the durability of prints when exposed to elements in the air after printing. 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. Nintendo Switch: One last roll of the dice The Switch needs to be a success. But has it been rushed to market? [ArsTechnica] Low-cost Android One phones reportedly coming to the US Cheap Android phones and the Google Android One platform that drives them are reported to be making the jump from developing markets around the world to US sales. [The Verge] How to Disable the HomeGroup Feature in Windows (and Remove It from File Explorer) HomeGroups make sharing files and printers with other PCs pretty simple. But if you don’t use it and would prefer not to see it in File Explorer at all, it’s not too hard to disable. Read This Article → How to Take Good Street Photos Street photography is about documenting the day to day life of a city. It's about capturing the small, authentic moments that take a city from grey concrete and turn it into a real, living place. It's a really popular genre of photography, so let's have a look at how to do it well. Read This Article → How to Clean Up Your Messy Windows Context Menu If you’ve ever found yourself right-clicking on something and wondering where all that junk came from, you’re not alone. Want to get rid of the cruft you don’t use, and add some actually useful items to the context menu? You can. Read This Article → How Do You Copy Deleted Text in Microsoft Word? Being able to have Microsoft Word track the changes you make as you go is great, but what do you do if you need to copy previously deleted text without rejecting the work you have already done? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful suggestions for a frustrated reader’s text copying woes. Read This Article → How to Receive Alerts When Your Garage Door Opens Using MyQ Chamberlain’s MyQ technology is great for opening and closing your garage door remotely with your smartphone, but you can also receive alerts whenever your garage door opens and closes (as well as receive alerts when it’s been open for an extended amount of time). Here’s how to enable them. Read This Article → How to Type Long or Complex Phrases with a Few Keystrokes Thanks to macOS’ Text Replacement Do you regularly type the same long words, or even phrases? Complex emoticons, addresses, or even commonly misspelled words can be annoying to type, but macOS has a feature that can help. Read This Article → How to Log In to Your PC With Your Fingerprint or Other Device Using Windows Hello Windows Hello, a new feature in Windows 10, allows you to sign into your computer with your fingerprint, facial recognition, a USB key, or another companion advice. It now allows you to sign into apps and websites via Microsoft Edge, too. Read This Article → How to Change What You Have Shared with a HomeGroup in Windows Maybe you’ve changed your mind about what you want to share with your HomeGroup. Or maybe you just want to double-check what you’re sharing. Either way, it’s not too hard to do. Let’s take a look at how. Read This Article → How to Convert a VirtualBox Virtual Machine to Parallels Desktop for Mac If you've been using VirtualBox to run virtual machines and you want to switch to Parallels Desktop for Mac, you can convert your VirtualBox virtual machines to Parallels—whether you're using VirtualBox in Windows, Linux, or macOS. Read This Article → What Is Adobe Lightroom, and Do I Need It? Adobe Photoshop Lightroom confuses a lot of new photographers. It has Photoshop in the name, but it isn't Photoshop? What gives? Read This Article → How to Get Notifications for Only the Emails You Care About in Gmail Email is a powerful tool that we all use, but it can also be exceedingly annoying to get notifications for every single message that hits your inbox. With Gmail, however, there are a variety of ways to keep things silent, yet still immediately know about the messages that are important to you. Read This Article → Advertisement Download the Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. Click here to download