How to Customize the Lock Screen on Windows 8 or 10

Did You Know? In most cases when you receive a kidney transplant, your old kidneys are left in place unless they are causing an infection or high blood pressure problems. Geek Trivia Julius Caesar Encrypted His Military Communications Using A? Shift Cipher → Fabricated Dialect → Polyalphabetic Cipher → Rotor Machine → Advertisement Download Employees at the Frontline in the Battle Against Ransomware By many reports, ransomware has been already responsible for causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, with no end in sight. Find out how you can help to combat these attacks by training your employees to create a human firewall in the battle against ransomware.Click here to download 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. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Set Up a Picture Password in Windows 10 How to Decide When a Photo Should Be Black and White How to Customize the Lock Screen on Windows 8 or 10 What Is Sling TV, and Can It Replace Your Cable Subscription? How to Add Any Search Engine to Your Web Browser How to Turn Off the Handwriting Interface in iMessage How to Close Your Garage Door Automatically with MyQ What Do the Mac Keyboard Symbols Actually Mean? How to Remove an Image’s Background Using Preview on macOS How to Prevent Windows Users From Changing the Desktop Background How to Add Other File Types to the New Item Menu in Windows 10’s File Explorer How to Stop Legitimate Emails From Getting Marked as Spam What Do the Emoji Next to My Snapchat Friends Mean? How to Digitize Old Photos with Your Smartphone Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Hard Error A Hard Error is a RAM issue (error occurrence) that is the result of a failure in the module due to a physical flaw, defect, etc. Hard Errors may be mistaken for Soft Errors at first sometimes, but the problem will not be rectified when the computer in question is rebooted (and may at times prevent booting altogether). 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. The Asteroid Hunters It's highly unlikely that a gigantic space rock will crash through our atmosphere and destroy civilization as we know it. But it's not impossible either. Which is why a small but growing community of scientists and astronomers are scrambling to spot and destroy dangerous asteroids long before they hit us. [Popular Mechanics] Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster We increasingly let computers fly planes and carry out security checks. Driverless cars are next. But is our reliance on automation dangerously diminishing our skills? [The Guardian] Namco founder and "Father of Pac-Man" has died Masaya Nakamura was instrumental in kickstarting the video game revolution of the 1980s. [ArsTechnica] How to get kids to read more books Gamification might work for getting kids to eat healthy foods or exercise, but it's a poor fit for increasing the number of books they read. [Quartz] How to Set Up a Picture Password in Windows 10 A picture password is an alternative to typing regular passwords when signing into Windows 10. Setting one up is pretty easy, and we’re going to walk you through it. Read This Article → How to Decide When a Photo Should Be Black and White When you first start getting into photography, it's very easy to fall into a habit of converting almost every image you take to black and white. I know I did it. Read This Article → How to Customize the Lock Screen on Windows 8 or 10 The lock screen on Windows 8 and 10 isn’t just a background image or slideshow. It can display notifications and detailed status information from a variety of apps. You can also access Cortana directly from this screen. Read This Article → What Is Sling TV, and Can It Replace Your Cable Subscription? If you've ever toyed around with the idea of moving to a online streaming cable replacement, you've undoubtedly heard of Sling TV. But it can be kind of confusing to figure out if Sling is a good fit for your lifestyle. Fear not, would-be cord-cutter—we've got you covered. Here's everything you want to know about Sling TV. Read This Article → How to Add Any Search Engine to Your Web Browser Web browsers include a few search engines for you to choose from, but you can easily add more. Even if a website doesn’t offer an official search plugin, you can add any custom search engine you like with a few tricks. Read This Article → How to Turn Off the Handwriting Interface in iMessage If you use your iOS device in landscape mode a lot, you’ve likely noticed that it swaps your keyboard with the handwriting interface. Don’t worry! You don’t have to give up on widescreen texting, you just have to set a simple toggle. Read This Article → How to Close Your Garage Door Automatically with MyQ If you ever forget to close your garage door at the end of the day, you can set up a specific time for your MyQ-enabled garage door to close automatically. Here’s how to set it up within the MyQ app. Read This Article → What Do the Mac Keyboard Symbols Actually Mean? Macs are supposed to be intuitive, but a few things are downright hidden from users. For example: in the menu bar, the keyboard shortcuts for various actions are laid out using somewhat confusing symbols. Read This Article → How to Remove an Image’s Background Using Preview on macOS If you need to remove an image’s background on your Mac—so that the background is transparent—you could use something like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. The problem is, Photoshop isn’t cheap, and both applications come with a sizable learning curve. Luckily, you can remove image backgrounds with Preview for free. Read This Article → How to Prevent Windows Users From Changing the Desktop Background If you want to prevent users of a PC from changing the desktop wallpaper, it’s not too hard to do. Here’s how to make it happen. Read This Article → How to Add Other File Types to the New Item Menu in Windows 10’s File Explorer The New Item menu in File Explorer allows you to create a new item for a specific program in the currently open folder. You can add items to this menu for other programs not included on it. Read This Article → How to Stop Legitimate Emails From Getting Marked as Spam Email services automatically classify messages as “spam” if they look spammy. And in general, they do a pretty good job. But those filters aren’t perfect, and occasionally you may see messages you want getting sent to the spam folder. Read This Article → What Do the Emoji Next to My Snapchat Friends Mean? Next to some of your Snapchat friends, you'll see little emoji. Read This Article → How to Digitize Old Photos with Your Smartphone We all have old photos that are important to us. Vacations, family members who are no longer with us, good times in our lives—you know, important stuff. The thing is, pictures fade. The best way to keep these precious memories safe is by digitizing them, and what was once a lengthy process can now be done—with pretty exceptional results—directly from your phone. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Employees at the Frontline in the Battle Against Ransomware By many reports, ransomware has been already responsible for causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, with no end in sight. Find out how you can help to combat these attacks by training your employees to create a human firewall in the battle against ransomware.Click here to download