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Google has announced that it’s officially winding down the Stadia game streaming platform. Effective immediately, the company has shut down the Stadia store and disabled all e-commerce on the platform. If you’re a Stadia user, you’ll still be able to use the service through January 18, 2023, at which point the service will be completely shut down for everyone, removing users’ access to their game library. As for purchases you’ve made on Stadia, Google isn’t just taking your games from you and walking away with your money....

RELATED: How to Change Your Netflix Plan How to Cancel Netflix From the Web Once you’ve logged in to your account on Netflix’s website, you’ll want to select the icon in the top-right corner that shows all of the users. When that menu opens, click the “Account” button to get to your account’s membership menu. You will now see your account information. Underneath the “Membership & Billing” heading, select the “Cancel Membership” option....

By default, Windows formats dates with slashes (3/23/16). However, if you want to use a different format for the date, such as using periods instead of slashes (3.23.16), that’s easy to change in Windows’ settings. You can also change the format of the time. RELATED: How to Use Periods in Dates in Excel The format of the date and time affects the clock on the Taskbar, as shown above. It also affects programs you run in Windows, such as Excel, unless you override the format in the program itself....

People often use Zoom for work and conference calls, but it doesn’t have to be all work and no play. You can use an interesting photo or video virtual background during the call to liven things up! How to Change Your Background on Zoom You can hide your background during video calls on Zoom. This setting replaces your actual background with a video or photo. To do this when you’re on a Zoom call, click the up arrow next to “Stop Video....

By default, your Apple Watch will remind you to stand, notify you of your goal completions and achievements, and give you a weekly summary of your activity. Tired of seeing all these notifications? No worries. They’re easy to disable. RELATED: How to Use Activity Monitor on Apple Watch to Track Your Fitness Now, the Activity app on the Apple Watch can be useful. I sometimes like knowing how many steps I’ve taken in a day, but I want to check on that myself and not get a notification on my progress, or lack thereof....

There’s a lot here that’s recognizable from Window OS variants running all the way back to 95, but as with many of the other standard Windows features, 10 has taken an old horse and coded an array of new tricks stashed in its toolkit. Folder options may not have received the sexiest facelift out of everything we’ve seen in 10, but there are still enough new tweaks to talk about that a new user to the OS may not immediately recognize right off the bat....

Office 2007 saw the addition of the Ribbon feature, which some users found confusing. However, you can use it to your advantage by adding your own custom tabs containing commands you use often. This allows for quicker and easier document creation. We’re using Word in our example, but you can create custom tabs in the other Office apps as well. This process should work in Office 2010, 2013, and 2016....

Kodi 17.0, codename Krypton, is here. There are all kinds of new features, but the most obvious is the new default theme: Estuary. This theme looks great, and is very functional, but it gets better. Unlike default themes of the past, Estuary gives you a lot of room to customize things. You can choose which sub-sections show up under sections like TV and Movies, and also pick custom backgrounds and colors....

Google Chrome for Android, iPhone, and iPad shows “suggested articles” from the web on its New Tab page. You can hide those if you’d rather clean up your New Tab page and avoid the distractions. If you’ve signed into Chrome with your Google account, Google uses your web and app activity to choose these suggested articles. Android On an Android device, you can’t really disable the article suggestions, but you can hide them so they’re not as distracting....

The search feature in Windows’ File Explorer saves recent searches by default to make it easier to search for the same terms again. However, if you don’t like this feature, you can turn it off. RELATED: How to Delete the Search History in Windows File Explorer Maybe you share your computer with others, and you may not want your search terms to be stored. The search history display can be disabled by either changing the registry or by using the Group Policy Editor....

Microsoft has been trying to improve the touchpad experience on Windows 10 laptops. Laptops with “Precision Touchpads” are optimized by Microsoft, support standard gestures, and can be configured from the Settings app. Unfortunately, PC manufacturers can opt out of using Precision Touchpads. Now, there’s a way to install Precision Touchpad drivers even on laptops that don’t ship with them. We tested this on a 13-inch HP Spectre x360 (2015 model) and on a 14-inch Dell Inspiron 14z (2012 model)....

When your iPhone or iOS device has a flaky connection with Windows, it’s more than a little bit frustrating. With a little troubleshooting, however, you can banish the detected-but-not-identified error for good. Not only have multiple readers written in to ask for help about the “An iPhone has been detected but it could not be identified” error, it’s an issue that we ourselves have suffered through. We tried a wide variety of solutions but found all but one of them lacking....

Yesterday, fellow How-To Geek writer Eric Ravenscraft recommended a Steam game in our office chat room. It’s all about writing…and also it’s about anime-style schoolgirls and the wooing thereof. But what gave me pause more than the warnings of implied cartoon coitus was the idea of said game appearing on my public Steam profile, visible to people like my grandmother and my boss and anyone who might be Googling me before a first date....

Most people know that you can enable or disable the optional Windows features through the Control Panel, but today we’re going to show you how you can do the same thing through the PowerShell command line in Windows 8. Manage Windows Optional Features From PowerShell The first thing you will want to do is see what features you have enabled, to do this we will need to pass the output of the Get-WindowsOptionalFeature cmdlet down the pipeline, where it can be filtered and formatted:...

Google is a company that loves Easter eggs. It has hidden games inside the Chrome browser and the Play Store on Android. But did you know that the Google app for iPhone and iPad has a hidden game, too? Chrome’s game is about a dinosaur, the Play Store’s hidden game is a hot air balloon, and the Google app’s Easter egg is pinball. It’s colorful, simple to play, and a fun way to pass the time....

One way to acknowledge or appreciate a message on Discord is to react to that message with an emoji. Discord offers a full emoji picker to let you choose the perfect emoji for your message reaction. Here’s how to do it. RELATED: How to Add a Different Reaction to a Facebook Post (Like a Heart or Emoji) React to a Message in Discord on Desktop To use an emoji reaction for a message on your desktop, first, launch the Discord app or Discord for the web on your computer....

Mechanical keyboards have legendary longevity, but like any long-lived tool, that doesn’t mean they don’t require occasional replacement parts. Let’s take a well-loved mechanical keyboard and give it a brand new set of keys. Why Replace Your Keyboard Keys? RELATED: If You Haven’t Tried a Mechanical Keyboard Yet, You’re Missing Out If you have a keyboard you love, why would you ever need to swap out the keys? There are two main reasons:...

What Does Restricted Mean on Facebook? When you restrict a friend on Facebook, they can no longer read your private posts. Facebook doesn’t notify the people you restrict, nor does it remove them from your friends list. The restricted profile simply won’t be able to access posts you’ve made available to only your friends. Like everyone else on Facebook, the people on your restricted list can still read posts that you’ve chosen to make public and see the photos or videos that you’ve tagged them in....

You can play the new Nintendo Switch on the TV or on the go…which means your kids can get twice as addicted to it. Here’s how to set time limits, bedtime reminders, and content restrictions on the Switch. RELATED: Nintendo Account vs. User ID vs. Network ID: All of Nintendo’s Confusing Accounts, Explained While the Switch comes with some basic parental controls, like filtering games by their rating, the real star is a new parental controls companion app that you can use to set time limits, monitor your child’s activity remotely, and even block access to the console entirely....

iOS 10 includes a feature that gives you quick shortcuts to apps it thinks you want to use—either based on your location or other factors. Here’s how to turn these suggestions off. You have probably noticed these suggested apps when they appear on the lock screen in the bottom-left corner. For example, every time I go to the park where I play Pokémon Go, my iPhone suggests the Pokémon Go app....