Windows has two network profiles one can select Public and Private. Depending on where you use Windows, one of these network profiles will be selected. When you are setting up Windows and choose to use Windows in a work or school environment, Windows 11 select a private network profile. If you select to use Windows at home, the public network profile is chosen. At home, your PC will typically be hidden from other devices....
When you log in to Ubuntu Linux, you’re logged in as a normal user who can use root or administrative privileges to perform administrative tasks using the sudo command. Once you are in as a normal user, it’s not quite easy to open File Manager or nautilus with root privileges. There is a tool called nautilus-admin that used to work, but not anymore. That tool claims to open files and folders as administrator from the context menu once installed....
We’ll show you how to prevent your antivirus from deleting files automatically without your approval. This tutorial will cover steps for Windows Defender and popular third-party antivirus software—Avast, AVG, BitDefender, etc. Before you proceed, confirm that the file(s) is safe and won’t damage your PC and data before exempting it from antivirus scans. Excluding a (harmful) file from being deleted may increase your PC’s vulnerability to malware attacks and other threats....
Luckily, Microsoft Word lets you create and print your own envelope designs. Here’s how. Step 1: Add Delivery and Return Addresses The first step is to add the relevant addresses to your envelopes. To do so: Note: If you’d rather use labels to print your delivery and return addresses, Word lets you create and print labels, too. You can add a single address in the labels dialog box under Mailing > Labels....
This tutorial will cover four easy ways to uninstall the Microsoft Teams Chat icon from the Windows 11 taskbar. What is the Microsoft Teams Chat App? Users updating to Windows 11 from Windows 10 will notice the addition of a few widgets, apps & features, including several new taskbar items. The Microsoft Teams Chat icon was added to the taskbar in Windows 11 to encourage more users to utilize the Microsoft Teams app and make it more accessible for personal and professional users alike....
Instagram story is a feature that allows you to post snapshots or videos that will disappear after 24 hours. Besides making your own story, this social media platform lets you repost someone’s story to share with the audience. Do you know how to repost an Instagram story? Reposting stories on Instagram takes only a few seconds, especially if you are tagged. If not, you might need to take a few more steps to save the story on your device and post it manually....
In this article, we will discuss how to back up emails from the top email clients for Windows, Mac, and Linux. What Is An Email Client? An email client is a program that enables users to compose, receive, send, access, and manage emails from multiple accounts in one place. Users typically create folders and labels to organize emails so they can be searched for by details such as time, subjects, senders, and content....
It’s great for people who want to keep their personal and business apps and data separate, for dedicating space to specific tasks and in organizing groups of related jobs. This article will explain how to: Create a new virtual desktop.Switch between desktops.Work with apps and windows on virtual desktops.Close virtual desktop windows.Customize multiple desktops. Create a New Virtual Desktop in Windows 10 In your taskbar, look for the Task View button and click on it....
No database servers are required, all data is stored in JSON files which makes it easier to install, faster to use, and very suitable for Ajax transfer. This CMS platform is designed for ease of use to allow webmasters to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile. For more about CMSUno, please check their Homepage This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install CMSUno CMS on Ubuntu 16....
This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users an easy way to get Flarum working on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 and 18.04 with Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP 7.1 support. If you’re looking for a feature-rich, efficient and free community forum platform, then you may want to consider Flarum. Install Nginx HTTP Server Nginx HTTP Server is the second most popular web server in use. so install it, since Flarum needs it....
Fork CMS is a user-friendly open-source content management system (CMS) built on the LAMP or LEMP stack. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, ForkCMS can help you manage great content on every device. If you currently running your website and content on other CMS like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla and they’re not working right for you, then you may want to give ForkCMS a try. It’s a great alternative to those PHP-based content management systems....
Our previous tutorial showed you how to install GLPI on Ubuntu with an Apache2 web server. This one shows you how to use Nginx instead. GLPI is a free, open-source ITSM platform built with PHP that allows IT decisions makers with large IT infrastructures to solve problems efficiently when they emerge while getting insights into every IT asset in the company with automated inventory discovery. GLPI comes with inventory management that automatically discovers computers, peripherals, and network printers, including asset lifecycle management, incidents, requests, problems and changes management, and many more....
Our previous tutorial showed you how to install MantisBT on Ubuntu with an Apache2 web server. This one shows you how to use it with Nginx instead. MantisBT is an open source issue tracker platform designed to be flexible and user-friendly and helps a tool you collaborate with different teams to resolve bugs and issues as quickly and professionally as possible. For more about Mantis, please check its homepage To get started with installing Mantis, follow the steps below:...
Pydio is an open-source file-sharing and sync platform that fits your infrastructure and provides a single point of access to all your data storage. It is an alternative to software such as ownCloud and Nextcloud that provide storage services, file sharing, and sync. If you’re looking for an enterprise file-sharing platform similar to Dropbox and other storage platforms that you can host in your environments, then Pydio is a good place to start....
This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install and configure Varnish with Apache2 on Ubuntu 17.04 | 17.10. In this post, we’ll set up Varnish to be the doorway or front-end to Apache2 to quickly serve HTTP requests. When you configure Varnish to be the font-end to Apache2 or other web servers, it can greatly enhance the server’s performance. This is because Varnish stores web caches in the system’s memory ensuring faster retrieval in subsequent requests for the same resource....
To sideload apps, your PC must have Hardware Virtualization enabled. Additionally, your device’s region must be set to the United States. Refer to our tutorial on installing Android apps on Windows 11 for more details about these requirements. You can sideload Android apps in Windows 11 either through Command Prompt or third-party Android installers. We’ll show you how to do both. Sideload Android Apps in Windows Using Command Prompt First, you’ll need to set up the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) and Android Debugging Bridge (ADB) on your computer....
When you talk about navigation, what comes to your mind is the direction. If you have an Android smartphone, you can use Google Maps as a navigation service. But there is one more thing that needs to be mentioned here, and that is Waze. Waze is a GPS-based map application that aims to help users get to their destination. However, the use of Waze is always active, so you need to find out how to turn off Waze....
When you connect a printer to your PC or add a new printer to your home network, you can usually start printing right away. In many cases, you won’t have to install a printer driver for your printer to work. Windows 11 comes with many printer drivers already installed and ready to use. By default, Windows automatically make the last printer used as your default printer. Your default printer is automatically selected in your print dialog box....
Ubuntu Linux comes with a feature known as sticky keys which are there to help people who can’t hold multiple keys on the keyboard at once. For example, to copy a text or files, one can simply use the CTRL + C keys to get it done. However, everyone can do that. When you enable sticky keys, copying can also be done by pressing the CTRL key, and then the C key to doing the same function, without the need to hold down CTRL while pressing the C key....
Windows comes with a feature called Storage Sense that can automatically free up drive space for you by getting rid of items that you don’t need, like temporary files and items in your Recycle Bin. By default, Storage Sense is disabled and only works on your Windows system drive only, and typically has a drive label Local Disk (C:) when enabled. Even though the feature is disabled by default, Windows may turn on Storage Sense to manage select temporary files, then notify you....
