Besides the security flaw found in its Download Your Data feature, which leaked some users’ passwords, there are several other ways the platform poses a threat to your privacy. For instance, there’s the default setting that automatically tracks a user’s location, the update to their DM service that informed other users when you’re active and the last time you were active, plus sharing your in-app activity such as comments, likes and more with other users....

The good news is that you don’t have to throw out your Alexa in the name of privacy. You can delete your Alexa information. How to Delete Your Echo History You can go into the Alexa app and look at previous requests to the hardware, but it can be hard to know what else is heard and recorded. There are options for stopping the Echo from listening all the time, but those require unplugging the device or purchasing a peripheral accessory....

Instagram Stories is one of Instagram’s best features. It allows you to see the most updated snapshots and short videos of friends or public figures. Since stories disappear after 24 hours, you might want to download it for watching later. If you want to know how to download Instagram stories, you’re so lucky to be here! Instagram doesn’t come with an option to save stories but it’s possible to download photos or videos using third-party apps....

The good news is that you can not only clip on Twitch, but you can also download those clips for posterity. It doesn’t matter if you’re the one who made the original clip or not–you can use third-party tools as well as Twitch’s own features to download clips. How To Download Twitch Clips If you make clips of your favorite Twitch moments, you can find them in your Creator Dashboard....

Users can add additional locations using the Classic indexing option to include additional content. The Enhanced indexing option indexes your computer’s entire contents, all hard drives, and partitions, including your libraries and desktop by default. Choosing the Enhanced indexing options may reduce your battery life and increase CPU consumption. That’s why the PC must be plugged in for initial indexing. After you change the setting to Enhanced, the search indexer begins indexing the additional files....

Windows 10 comes with plenty of tools that promise ease and convenience to users. One of the essential tools brought by this platform is Group Policy Editor. This administrative feature enables users to adjust important settings on network computers or a single computer. How to enable Group Policy Editor to configure startup programs and other settings? Enabling Group Policy Editor is not as difficult as you thought. The term itself may sound techy but you don’t have to be a computer geek to understand it....

The Task Scheduler service allows you to perform automated tasks on your computer. You can schedule any program to run at a convenient time based on the event criteria that you choose. By default, the Task Scheduler tasks history is disabled. Task Scheduler will show the “Last Run Time” for tasks only. If you want to see the history for all tasks, you can enable Task Scheduler history. When enabled, you will see the history for all tasks as well as in Event Viewer under Event Viewer (Local) > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > TaskScheduler > Operational....

Since a huge majority of WordPress setups use MySQL or MariaDB databases, this post also applies to those settings. In fact, as long as phpMyAdmin can connect to the database, it doesn’t matter what the database server is, you should be able to use the tool to get the job done. For those who don’t know what phpMyAdmin is, it is an open-source web-based tool that allows anyone to manage MySQL, MariaDB, and other databases easily from their web browsers....

If you need to export your password stored in Google Chrome to migrate to other password managers, the steps below will show you how to do that. When you export passwords from Google, it is stored in . a CSV file format which can easily be imported to other password managers. You can then use this file to take account of all your passwords or import them into a secure password manager....

For some reason, Windows 10 struggles to let you use your webcam across multiple apps. In most cases, when webcams think they are being used by an app, they will light up and won’t be usable in other apps. So let’s take a look at how we can identify which app is using our webcam so that we can stop it. How to Find Your Webcam Process in an App to Stop it To find our webcam, we’ll need to understand what the name is in the device manager....

The Task Manager is a tool that provides a quick, and easy method of viewing what programs, background processes, and apps are running on your computer. Using this information, one can quickly find and discover issues related to performance or threats, including viruses and malware. The Task Manager comes with multiple tabs, with the Processes tab being the default tab which always opens with Task Manager. From the Processes tab, you can stop or end any app that is not responding or using too many resources and impacting the system performance....

A common reason you can’t download your files is that Chrome has experienced a minor glitch. Other causes include your computer being infected with malware, your antivirus blocking the file download, browser extensions causing various problems, and more. Quit and Reopen Chrome to Successfully Download Files When you first encounter the “Virus scan failed” error, close and reopen your Chrome browser to see if that fixes the issue. You can resolve most minor problems by simply restarting your browser....

However, when I logged into a computer external to my network using remote desktop and tried to send an email to an account I created on the Exchange Server, I got the following message: Followed by some kind of message relay error : Note that if you have come to this page because you are trying to send an email to someone and you’re not sure if it’s a problem on your side or with the receiving side, it’s definitely with the receiving side!...

The following list of troubleshooting tips and fixes should help you sort out the “Faulty Hardware Corrupted Page” BSOD error on your computer. Note: If the “Faulty Hardware Corrupted Page” BSOD prevents you from accessing the Windows 10 desktop, try booting the operating system in Safe Mode instead. 1. Disable Fast Startup Windows 10’s Fast Startup feature caches core components such as the system kernel to make your computer boot faster....

One of the trickier BSODs is the wdf_violation error in Windows 10. Its cause is somewhat challenging to track, but fixing it is pretty easy. In this article, we’re going to guide you on how to fix a wdf_violation BSOD in Windows by following a series of simple troubleshooting steps. What Causes a wdf_violation BSOD in Windows WDF stands for Windows Driver Frameworks. It’s a collection of tools and libraries from Microsoft used to create drivers....

If you’re using genuine Adobe products, then you shouldn’t be seeing an Adobe Genuine Software Integrity service error. These errors will usually only appear when software has been corrupted, installed incorrectly, or if you’ve previously had pirated versions of Adobe software installed. To fix it, you’ll need to follow these steps. What Is the Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Service? As the name suggests, the Adobe Genuine Software Integrity service is designed to ensure the integrity of its software....

Some fixes include disabling offline mode, ensuring your internet connection is working, and turning off Outlook’s problematic add-ins. Fix Outlook by Disabling Offline Mode The Outlook client’s offline mode allows you to work on your emails while being disconnected from the internet. If you’ve enabled this mode, that may be why Outlook can’t establish a connection. You can resolve the issue by disabling the offline mode. Make Sure Your Internet Is Working If Outlook doesn’t connect to your email server after disabling offline mode, your internet connection may be facing issues....

If you’re swiping at your laptop and the two-finger scroll is not working, this guide presents some fixes you can try to get the two-finger scroll feature working again. 6 Ways to Fix Two-Finger Scroll Not Working on Windows 10 Touchpad gestures are a quick way to overcome the limitations found with traditional touchpads. Try the following methods to fix the problem. Before moving to more advanced solutions, it’s good to check whether you’ve enabled the two-finger scroll feature via the Control Panel or Windows Settings....

In Ubuntu Linux and other Unix-like systems, generating and managing SSH keys and using key-based authentication is pretty easy. Below is a post that shows you how to create an SSH key pair in Ubuntu Linux which might also work in other Linux distributions. How to create an SSH key for key authentication When you’re using a Windows machine the steps above might be a bit different. Windows 11 comes with a built-in OpenSSH package and commands that one can use to generate and manage keys from the Command Prompt, Windows Terminal, or PowerShell....

It turns out that there are many options that can make your computer a lot more talkative than you’re used to. We’re going to look at both native and third-party solutions to converting on-screen text into the spoken word, most of them are already at your fingertips! Let’s make your computer read some text aloud. The Windows 10 Narrator Windows 10 has a built-in application known as Narrator.This acts as both a screen reader and a text-to-speech (TTS) tool....