Have you ever had dozens of application windows open and wanted to just close them all? There’s a bunch of freeware apps that will close them all for you, but you don’t need extra software—and here’s how to do it. What we’ll do is use the taskkill command with a bunch of custom arguments that specify to kill everything other than Explorer—but you can really customize it to anything you’d like, and keep in mind you should really read this carefully before proceeding....

What is a Swapfile? Let us start by a rhetorical question: what happens when your computer runs out of memory? In Linux, a special monitoring process – the OOM monitoring/killer process – will monitor whether a system is running out of memory, unless the OOM killer was disabled or configured differently. When that happens, this process will terminate one of the processes running on the system in order to free memory....

The Google Play Store isn’t only available on your Android phone or tablet. You can browse apps and games in the Play Store on the web, but it’s also possible to install them on your phone from the website. The Play Store’s website is a central place for browsing apps, games, movies, TV shows, and books. However, it’s not only for browsing. Anything you download or purchase from the website is added to your Google account....

Think you have the perfect combination of geek knowledge and writing skills? We’re always looking for a few experienced writers to join our team. What We’re Looking For We are looking for experienced freelance writers to cover how-to guides, product roundups and comparisons, and explainers across a myriad of topics, including, but not limited to, things like Windows, Microsoft Office, macOS, iPhone, Android, Google, Smart Home, Cloud Services, Small Business / IT, Gadgets, and many other topics....

CloudWatch is AWS’s monitoring tool. It collects data about the health and usage of all of your AWS services, and allows you to display them on graphs and in custom dashboards, and set alarms when unusual spikes happen. Is CloudWatch Free? CloudWatch is included as part of AWS’s free tier. The free tier only lasts a year, but CloudWatch is part of the “Always Free” tier, so you won’t have to worry about paying for it....

Note: This article assumes you have already created a System Repair Disc and have created a system image in Windows 7. If you can’t boot into Windows because of a hard drive failure or corrupt OS, you might want to restore your system using the most recent image versus a clean install. In this scenario we are assuming that we’ve exhausted every other option, and the only way to save our system is to restore it from an image....

A footnote is a note that appears at the bottom of a page that is commonly used by writers to cite other authors publication in their document. We will show you how to manage footnotes in Microsoft Word. Inserting a Footnote To start inserting a footnote place your mouse cursor at the document where you want to put the footnote and click the ‘Insert Footnote’ button under the ‘Reference’ tab....

Evernote is an increasingly popular note taking application that helps you keep all of your notes, pictures, and even files together on all of your devices. You can use Evernote on your Windows or Mac computer, with the Evernote Web app, or on a wide variety of mobile devices. All notes are automatically synchronized between all of the devices, so it’s very easy to keep up with your information....

Command To get a list with the size of each item in a folder, you’ll want to use the du command like this: The -m argument will return the listing in megabytes (note that you can use -h for human readable, but it won’t sort correctly) Now we will want to run this through the sort command, sorting in reverse order -r and numeric -n: The only problem here is that we’ll get way too much output if there are a lot of files and folders, so we can either pipe it through the more command:...

Since Logitech’s Brio Ultra HD 4K Webcam made waves when it first hit the shelves in 2017, the launch of an updated Brio line for personal and professional use is a move that made sense. The Brio 500 webcam combines flexible camera angles with 1080p HDR, but at $130, it doesn’t feel like a device that’s too pricey for a hobbyist or early professional who wants to chat in clear detail, especially compared to the price of the original Brio ($200)....

Exclude File Types Open MSE and click on the Settings Tab. Then on the left hand list select Excluded file types then add the file formats to exclude from the scan. Multimedia files are a good place to start with if you know yours are not infected with any goofy malware. For example, I have 12GB worth of drum loops that I used for home recording, it’s just a waste of time for MSE to scan those files every time....

Microsoft has announced that Clipchamp is now part of the Microsoft 365 subscription, which mainly includes the Office applications suite and OneDrive cloud storage. It might seem a bit strange to package a video editor with the same subscription as Word and Excel, but Microsoft has been adding other productivity software to the subscription recently (like the premium version of Microsoft Editor). Anyone with a Microsoft 365 subscription now has access to premium features in Clipchamp, which was previously only available with the $11....

Analytics track the behavior of people using your website. For most businesses, this is critical information, as it helps them understand and tailor their service to their users needs. We’ll compare some of the best tools for the job. What Are Analytics Good For? Your business has a goal, and whether that goal is convincing a user to buy your product, download your app, or just look at your content for a while, your website helps you achieve this goal....

NVIDIA has announced that the version of the RTX 4080 with 12GB of VRAM won’t be seeing the light of day after all. Instead, only the 16GB version will be available when the card launches on November 16th. NVIDIA says that it’s a fantastic GPU, but it doesn’t make much sense to launch it under the RTX 4080 branding since having two GPUs with the same exact designation can be confusing to users....

It’s Thanksgiving, and this year we’re going to share all of the great technology that we’re really thankful for. Join us for a look at the tech products that keep each of the How-To Geek writers going. Also, Happy Thanksgiving! Most of the stuff that we like is free or open source, but there’s a few things that we’re willing to pay for. The highlights? Almost all of us use Google Chrome and Dropbox....

Setup Setup for Directory List & Print is quick and easy. Unzip the zip file, add the two files inside (DirectoryListPrint.exe & DirectoryListPrint.pdf) to their own folder in Program Files, and create a shortcut. Now everything is ready to go… Note: The pdf file is the “Help Manual” for Directory List & Print. This is what Directory List & Print looks like when you start it up for the first time....

ProtonVPN has released a new VPN protocol the company claims will help citizens in countries with censored internet to contact the outside world without risk of interception. Called the Stealth Protocol, it’s available now for all ProtonVPN users, including those on the service’s free plan. According to Andy Yen, the company’s founder & CEO of Proton: “Internet censorship has become an arms race.” As certain governments try to control the internet—Iran and Russia spring to mind—more and more people are bypassing these restrictions using VPNs....

Before Here is the example page we chose at YouTube. Obviously this one is not as bad as others that can be found there, but will prove sufficient for our extension test. You can see that there was some profanity (blacked out) and less than stellar writing (i.e. all lower case letters, etc.). A close-up of the comments section pre-extension… After Here is the same YouTube page from before…look at how cleaned up the comments section is....

Many of them still do that, but most have moved up in the world. Robot Vacuums Bumble Less, Clean More Robot vacuums are no longer content to simply scare your dog. Newer ones have the ability to both vacuum and mop, can be integrated with your smart devices, and totally won’t fall down the stairs like a drunken android. Take the Roborock S7 MaxV Ultra. It can recognize the type of flooring it’s on and adjust accordingly (except if the floor is snakes) and uses 3D scanning for advanced obstacle avoidance....

Save Big on Apple Products This week, Apple showed off their latest and greatest gadgets for the 2022 holiday season, which means now is the perfect time to save on a bunch of last year’s models. You can pick up a 41mm Apple Watch Series 7 for $399 ($99 off), AirPods Pro with MagSafe Charging Case for $179.99 ($40 off), 10.2″ iPad 2021 for $279.99 ($49.01 off), and a MacBook Pro 14-inch for $1,599 ($400 off)....