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Every modern browser has a built-in bookmarks bar, usually available at the top near the omnibar, or expands from the side menu (in certain browsers). This bar stores your saved bookmarks which can be opened with the click of a button. Some users prefer saving pages and using the bookmarks bar every now and then, whilst others may find it intruding and a waste of screen space. Thankfully, every web browser allows you to manage the bookmarks bar....

Let us show you how you can automatically fix known issues in the above-mentioned applications with a few clicks. What is Support and Recovery Assistant and how it works SaRA is a utility from Microsoft which helps the general Windows users in troubleshooting and maintaining their applications. This tool helps save time and process technicalities by automatically performing any necessary troubleshooting tasks so that the user does not have to look it up on the internet to perform those tasks themselves....

While laptop manufacturers make it easy to turn keyboard light on or off, many users are not even aware of this feature. In this article, we will discuss some easy ways to turn on the keyboard light whenever you need it. We will also discuss what to do if the backlit keyboard does not light up. Turn on keyboard light on the laptop Normally, there is a keyboard shortcut for turning on the keyboard light on a backlit enabled keyboard....

Although nowadays, mostly people use messaging apps like WhatsApp and other messaging alternatives, a lot of people still prefer Messages app in iPhone. Messages app stores messages and image attachments that you receive over SMS or iMessage unless you manually delete them. Depending on the configuration, the app may save audio and video messages as well. However, by default, it quickly deletes audio and video to free up the space....

Raghav, A tech-savvy friend of mine wrote a programming related book (a pretty thick one!). He knows that his book is good quality and he will be able to sell it without support from a big publisher. To maximize his profits, Raghav wanted to publish it on his own. Self-publishing is in upswing nowadays in India. “I have written this book and I can self publish it, but I don’t know how to get ISBN number....

One of such, rather uncommon, requirement arises when you need to create a list of all file names present in a folder / directory. The other day, I wanted to send my friend a list of songs that I have in the music folder in my computer. Creating such a list is very simple but there is no straightforward way to do this. Lets see how to go about it....

While there is no need to install any update to upgrade to Version 1803, for users who are using older versions of Windows 10 like 1709, 1703, and 1607, Microsoft has released a separate update for them so that they can download and install .NET Framework 4.7.2 separately. .NET Framework 4.7.2 comes with two installers; the web installer and the offline installer. The web installer is the stub installer which will start the download process after it is run, while the offline installer does not require an active internet connection for installation....

Microsoft has brought back a deprecated feature to Edge. However, the “Followable Web” feature has only been introduced to Insiders on Microsoft Edge Canary. That being said, the feature is part of “Controlled feature rollout” and hence is not available to all users on the Canary channel. So do not worry if you do not see it right away. If you do get the feature, it will be enabled by default, thus you do not require to enable an experimental flag....

Links (both web URLs and email address links) in PDF were formatted in blue color and underline (the way they were in MS Word) but they were not clickable. It was important for me to make these links in PDF work. So, I asked Google and did a bit of research on it. I found that this problem was faced by many people. In several forums plugins and online PDF services were suggested as the solution of this problem....

“Hey! do you have that classic boo?” “Oh yeah, I’ve got a good collection of books in my study.” “That’s wonderful. Have you read that book, by the way?” “er… not really. Never got time, you see” A recent survey among “book-lovers” has unearthed a fact that is not amusing but very surprising. This survey has discovered that people usually say they have read a English classic book –but in reality they haven’t read it....

There are several free online proofreading tools and website services that can help you in checking your post content. Let’s take a look at the top 10 free online proofreading websites and see how good they are. Before I begin with the top 10 free and online proof-reading tools, let me tell you that MS-Word is obviously the world’s most used proof-reading facility. It is quite powerful in finding spelling and grammar mistakes....

However, Microsoft Office suites allow you to automatically translate a number of languages into the one which you understand. You can translate documents in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Although this article focuses on Microsoft Office 2021, the steps below are valid for all Office suites. Microsoft Translator Microsoft Translator is a plugin that is installed in your copy of Office, which is used to translate text from one language to another....

Sometimes in your WhatsApp chat, an exclamation mark appears right next to a message bubble. Most people feel clueless as to why this exclamation mark inside a red triangle or circle is appearing. The short answer to this query is that something unexpected happen while WhatsApp was trying to send your message. For more information, see the main article on exclamation mark in WhatsApp chat. The very first thing that you should be aware of are the WhatsApp ticks....

One of the major changes introduced with this flight is the redesigned “Open With” dialog box, which was perhaps one of the only UI design features in Windows 11 that was not in tune with the rest of the OS. Let us see in detail what this update means for us. New in Windows 11 Build 25151 Redesigned “Open With” UI Microsoft has finally brought back the redesigned UI for the “Open With” dialog box that you see when you want to select a program of your choice to open a file/document....

Microsoft has also incorporated other changes in build 22489 which are discussed further down the post. We have also highlighted the known issues along with the fixes and improvements so that you can make an informed decision on whether to update your device to the latest flight or not. Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22489 Changelog Your Microsoft Account Settings Page Users will now be able to manage their Microsoft account directly from the Settings app in Windows 11....

KB5017383 was also earlier released to the Release Preview channel for the Insiders. The same update has now been flighted for the stable channel but with a different build number. This update does not bring any new features to the operating system but does include a plethora of fixes and improvements. Let us see what is update brings and then decide whether it is worth installing right now. New in KB5017383 (Build 22000....

Now, Microsoft has finally introduced the “Windows Backup app” which is a cloud-based backup software integrated directly into the Windows 11 operating system. At the moment, this app is available on Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23466 available on the Dev channel or can be downloaded as a separate ISO image. Using this app, you can backup your files, folders, account settings, apps and preferences, etc., directly onto the OneDrive cloud storage, and then restore them on another computer to begin right where you left off....

We will discuss about this feature in this article and go through the steps to enable and disable this service to limit Internet bandwidth usage by Windows Update and other system processes during specific hours. One of the major reasons for limiting the bandwidth usage is to use the Internet bandwidth for your work instead of Windows hogging your Internet connection and you being unable to work. This is especially useful where you have limited Internet bandwidth available and you want to use it for your work instead of Windows Updates....

So if a user wants to restrict the third person not to make any changes in the settings of its taskbar, he can disable all the Settings of taskbar of his system easily, so now no fear of any change in settings of taskbar by any other user other than the owner. This article will provide you the 2 easy ways to disable the Settings of your System’s Task Bar....

If you are not aware of the terms, you can read about what these are and which partitions style is better in our blog post. The topic we are going to be discussing here is how you can identify which partition style your system is using on a Windows 10 platform. How to check partition style in Windows 10 Check GPT or MBR partition style using Disk Management console To confirm which partition style your device is using, the most reliable method is through the Disk Management console....