Windows 10's Creators Update Is Getting Massive (and Useful)

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How to Change the Icon for a Certain File Type in Windows How to Tell Which Graphics Chip Your MacBook Is Using (and Switch It) What’s New in Windows 10’s Creators Update, Arriving Spring 2017 How to Upload Your Music Library to Google Play Music How to Factory Reset the Eero Home Wi-Fi System How to Listen to Your Roku’s Audio on Headphones and Speakers at the Same Time How to Enable Full-Disk Encryption on Windows 10 How to Automatically Open the Most Recent Document in Microsoft Word for Windows How to Control What Other People Can See About Your Google Profile How to Convert Images to Black and White on Your Smartphone How to Repair Windows Bootloader Problems (If Your Computer Won’t Start) Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Font Cartridge A Font Cartridge is a plug-in module with a ROM chip inside that contains bitmapped or outline fonts for one or more typefaces that can be installed in a printer so that it can properly print specific fonts if they are not received from a computer. 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. How Old Is the Moon? Scientists Say They Finally Know New analysis paints a picture of a very ancient moon. [Space.com] Cosmos on Nautilus: The Not-So-Fine Tuning of the Universe There's more than one way to build a universe suitable for life. [Nautilus] The Inside Story of BitTorrent's Bizarre Collapse How a group of valley outsiders blew through the company's cash and nearly left it for dead. [Backchannel] How to Change the Icon for a Certain File Type in Windows In the Windows XP days, changing the icon for a specific file type—such as TXT or PNG—was easy. But since Windows 7, you’ve actually had to do some Registry hacking to make it happen. Here’s a great little freeware utility that makes it much faster and easier. Read This Article → How to Tell Which Graphics Chip Your MacBook Is Using (and Switch It) Apple's top end MacBook Pros come with two graphics chips: an integrated Intel Iris Pro chip and a discrete graphics card with more power. That way, you can use the integrated chip when you need better battery life, and the more powerful graphics card when you’re editing video or playing games. Read This Article → What’s New in Windows 10’s Creators Update, Arriving Spring 2017 The Windows 10 Creators Update–also known as Redstone 2–is due to hit PCs in April, 2017. Like other updates to Windows 10, it’s free, and includes a host of new features. Read This Article → How to Upload Your Music Library to Google Play Music Google Play Music offers an unlimited music streaming subscription paired with YouTube Red, but it’s more than that. Even if the music you want to listen to isn’t available in Google’s streaming library, you can add it to your own personal Google Play Music library and listen from any device. Read This Article → How to Factory Reset the Eero Home Wi-Fi System If you plan on moving into a new place, are selling your Eero system, or are just having issues with it, here’s how to factory reset it so you can start fresh from square one. Read This Article → How to Listen to Your Roku’s Audio on Headphones and Speakers at the Same Time One of the coolest features of recent Rokus—including the Roku Premier Plus, the Roku Ultra, and the slightly older Roku 3 and 4—is the headphone jack on the remote. If your Roku came with a set of headphones, you have this feature. Read This Article → How to Enable Full-Disk Encryption on Windows 10 Windows 10 sometimes uses encryption by default, and sometimes doesn’t—it’s complicated. Here’s how to check if your Windows 10 PC’s storage is encrypted and how to encrypt it if it isn’t. Encryption isn’t just about stopping the NSA—it’s about protecting your sensitive data in case you ever lose your PC, which is something everyone needs. Read This Article → How to Automatically Open the Most Recent Document in Microsoft Word for Windows If you're working on a long document in Word, you'll probably be opening it often until it's completed. Rather than opening Word to the Start screen, and then opening the file, you can automatically open it to the last document you were working on. Read This Article → How to Control What Other People Can See About Your Google Profile If you use any Google services—Gmail, Drive, Photos, Google+, etc.—then you undoubtedly have a Google Profile. When you set up your Gmail account, you included information about yourself, like your name, birthday, and even places you’ve lived. If you haven’t taken the necessary steps to ensure this information stays private, then it could be out there for the whole world to see. Read This Article → How to Convert Images to Black and White on Your Smartphone Converting an image to black and white is one of those simple tasks that photographers should be able to do well on any device. Unfortunately, a lot of the apps that do black and white conversions on smartphones don't give the photographer a lot of control. Let's look at how to do it properly. Read This Article → How to Repair Windows Bootloader Problems (If Your Computer Won’t Start) If your Windows PC is throwing an error message at you before it even begins to load Windows, it’s possible that the boot sector on your system partition is damaged, corrupted, or has missing files. Here’s how to troubleshoot those problems. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Your Complete Snapchat Playbook You will learn ways to get a following and build engaging posts. Also, there are some tips and tricks to help you around typically frustrating Snapchat barriers.Click here to download