Windows automatically suspends your USB devices when they aren’t being used. This helps save power, but may cause problems with some USB hardware. Your USB devices will use more power if you disable this feature, but it can fix peripherals that stop working properly after Windows suspends them. You should only change this setting if you’re having problems with a USB device in Windows. If your USB peripherals work properly, there’s no reason to disable USB suspension....

Tethering is the act of sharing your phone’s mobile data connection with another device—such as your laptop or tablet—connecting it to the Internet through your phone’s data connection. There are several ways to tether on Android. Tethering is useful when you’re somewhere where and don’t have Wi-Fi access, do have cellular data access, and want to do something on your computer instead of your phone. But you may pay extra for the convenience....

On the Disney+ website, log in to your account and then select your profile icon in the upper-right corner. On the mobile app for Apple and Android devices, you’ll select the profile icon in the bottom-right corner. Once the menu is open, select the “Account” option. When you’re on the “Account” page, select the “Billing Details” link next to your subscription type. The “Billing Details” page will show your payment amount, when your payment is due, and how you pay for your subscription....

Everyone knows about cutting and pasting by now. But did you know that your Mac sort of has a second clipboard known as kill and yank? Kill and yank originates from Emacs, which is a “family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility.” If you’ve never heard of Emacs, that’s okay—it’s usually found on Unix and Linux systems. Emacs is said to have over 2000 built-in commands, of which the aforementioned kill and yank are two of them....

Those Pesky Bugs Writing code is hard. Or to be more accurate, writing bug-free non-trivial code is hard. And the more lines of code there are in a program or script, the more likely it becomes that there will be bugs in it. The language you program in has a direct bearing on this. Programming in assembly is much tougher than programming in C, and programming in C is more challenging than programming in Python....

Before we get into it, let’s clarify something. Streaming TV services are live, with commercials and all. But the streaming TV services listed in this article also offer access to FXNow, a streaming website that gives you FX shows on-demand (for no additional charge). You can’t get FXNow without some sort of TV service, even if it’s just live TV streamed over the internet. The thing is, streaming TV services are expensive....

There are pros and cons to both option, so let’s consider which one is right for you. Downloading Is Easier…As Long As Your Internet Is Good Also, if you have a cap on your data usage, keep an eye on it—those closer to their caps may prefer to buy discs as well. RELATED: How to Download PlayStation 4 Games in Rest Mode Furthermore, for brand new games, you may end up playing it sooner if you download it....

The first game on offer is Destiny 2, which is already free to play on all platforms, but most of the main content comes from paid expansions and other downloadable content. From August 23-29, all current Destiny 2 story expansions (Shadowkeep, Beyond Light, and The Witch Queen) are available to all players for free. You also have plenty of choices for playing it, as Destiny 2 is available on PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and Stadia....

There was a time when every geek seemed to build their own PC. While the masses bought eMachines and Compaqs, geeks built their own more powerful and reliable desktop machines for cheaper. But does this still make sense? Building your own PC still offers as much flexibility in component choice as it ever did, but prebuilt computers are available at extremely competitive prices. Building your own PC will no longer save you money in most cases....

Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, is happening now in Mountain View, California. The company unloaded a slew of new features at the keynote, and we’ve been sifting through the debris to find the coolest stuff worth talking about. Android O…h Yeah Baby RELATED: The Best New Features in Android 8.0 Oreo, Available Now The biggest news to come out of I/O is probably Android O, which isn’t technically new—Google released a alpha developer preview of O a couple of months ago....

Virtual machines are demanding beasts, providing virtual hardware and running multiple operating systems on your computer at once. As a result, they can sometimes be a little slow. Here are some tips to help you squeeze every last drop of performance out of your virtual machine, whether you’re using VirtualBox, VMware, Parallels, or something else. Create Fixed-Size Disks Instead of Dynamically Allocated Ones When creating your virtual machine, you can create two different types of virtual disks....

It’s all too easy to get sloppy with your password security as the number of accounts and accompanying passwords pile up. It’s time to start letting LastPass generate and manage your stable of secure passwords. What Is LastPass and Why Do I Need It? LastPass is a password management tool that takes all the effort out of managing your passwords—it’s so effortless, in fact, that it’s the most popular password management tool among How-To Geek readers....

Android geeks often unlock their bootloaders to root their devices and install custom ROMs. But there’s a reason devices come with locked bootloaders – unlocking your bootloader creates security risks. We’re not advising against rooting and using custom ROMs if that’s really what you want to do, but you should be aware of the risks. For the same reason Android doesn’t come rooted, it doesn’t come unlocked – with more power comes more risks....

Add a Bookmark in Word 2010, 2013, and 2016 To create a bookmark in a specific area of a Word 2010, 2013, or 2016 document, simply place the cursor where you want the bookmark. Then under the Insert tab on the Ribbon, in the Links section, click on Bookmark. A Bookmark dialog comes up and you can give it a name. You have to use letters and / numbers without any spaces or special characters....

Digital audio has been around a very long time so there’s bound to be a plethora of audio formats out there. Here are some of the more common ones, what differentiates them, and what to use them for. Before we talk about everyday audio formats, it’s important you understand the basics, and that means understanding PCM. After that, we’ll tackle compressed formats. PCM Audio: Where It All Starts Pulse-Code Modulation was created back in 1937 and is the closest approximation of analog audio....

Whenever you receive an email, there is a lot more to it than meets the eye. While you typically only pay attention to the from address, subject line and body of the message, there is lots more information available “under the hood” of each email which can provide you a wealth of additional information. Why Bother Looking at an Email Header? This is a very good question. For the most part, you really wouldn’t ever need to unless:...

Group Policy is a Windows feature that contains a variety of advanced settings, particularly for network administrators. However, local Group Policy can also be used to adjust settings on a single computer. Group Policy isn’t designed for home users, so it’s only available on Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise versions of Windows. Centralized Group Policy If you’re using a Windows computer in an Active Directory environment, Group Policy settings can be defined on the domain controller....

Over the past few months, a bug in the popular Cloudflare service may have exposed sensitive user data—including usernames, passwords, and private messages—to the world in plain text. But how big is this problem, and what should you do? What Is Cloudflare? Cloudflare is a service that offers security and performance features (among other things) to a wide network of websites. It acts as a reverse proxy, a middleman between you—the user—and a given website....

Using flash memory to run a desktop system, like Windows, was advised against for quite some time. But what made it a desirable and viable option for mobile devices? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader RockPaperLizard wants to know what makes eMMC flash memory viable in mobile devices, but not PCs:...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS “Jammy Jellyfish” was released on April 21, 2022. This latest release of the ever-popular Ubuntu Linux distribution will have long-term support until 2027. Is the Jammy Jellyfish worth the upgrade? Let’s find out. Canonical Release Cycles Canonical releases a version of Ubuntu every six months. One release comes in April and the other arrives in October. The first part of the release number is the year, and the “....