New features on Command Prompt in Windows 11/10 Make Command Prompt Transparent in Windows 11/10 You now longer need to take the help of third-party apps to make the command prompt window transparent in Windows 11/10. To do this, right-click on the title bar and select Properties. Here under the Colors tab, you can set the transparency by moving the slider. The minimum opacity allowed is 30%. Using this setting, you can make the console window semi-transparent....

Make Windows 10 look like Mac While Windows 10 has evolved a lot, but there are features I would love to have on Windows. In this post, I have shared a few tools which bring in those functionalities to Windows 10. These will make Windows 10 look like Mac. 1] Lightshot macOS has an inbuilt screen recorder and screenshot feature. It’s extensive and makes macOS a very user-friendly for creators. While Windows 10 has Snip and also a lot of third party tools for taking a screenshot, Lightshot wins by a great margin....

Manage storage in Telegram for desktop In truth, the task is simple, which is a testament to the app itself. The developers over the years have transformed Telegram into a well-coded program that tends to work very well across devices and platforms. If only we could say the same thing about Zoom. By the time this article is done, you will have all the knowledge needed to take control of your store where Telegram is concerned and also to make sure the app doesn’t get too stuffed with unwanted data....

How to mark an email message as Read in Outlook To set the Read Status in Outlook, follow the methods below. Change Mark Email as Read setting in Outlook Launch Outlook. Locate a message in your inbox. Right-click the message and Select Marked as Read in the context menu. The message is marked as Read. Read: Autocomplete not working correctly in Outlook. There is another method to mark a single message as Read....

The company also has some provisions for you if you don’t already have a common Microsoft account. You will need to add a verified email address to your Skype account. This helps Microsoft give you the two-factor authentication, helpful in protecting your password from vulnerabilities. Link Skype and Microsoft Account Let us take a look at some of the questions you may have about this. How to update your Skype account?...

When you are signed out of Skype, the Skype icon is displayed in the Windows taskbar. The status icon is displayed as a blue-colored cloud embossed with the letter ‘S’ in the system tray at the bottom of your screen. If you try to close this Skype desktop software window that appears there, the logo refuses to disappear. If you wish, you can remove the Skype taskbar icon and minimize it to System Tray in Windows by following these steps....

News and Interests is basically a handy news-feed widget that sits on your Taskbar providing you with the latest and greatest in categories that you find interesting. It is expected to be made public from next month’s Patch Tuesday’s update. In my opinion, this will end up easing the work for a lot of people, since all the news that people would want to catch up with would be at their immediate disposal....

Optimize the Outlook mobile app for iOS device Once you have downloaded and set up email in Outlook for iOS, you can customize the mobile app to stay connected the way you want. Scroll through the handy tips below to optimize the app for your mobile. Let’s proceed to configure these settings and maximize your mobile productivity. 1] Configure Focused Inbox Focused Inbox separates your inbox into two tabs—Focused and Other....

Microsoft has offered a strategy that companies can follow to roll out the Windows 10 v2004 May 2004 Update. In fact, it can be followed for any feature update if the time demands. Let’s take a look at the Microsoft’s suggested Plan for Windows 10 Feature Update Deployment Remotely. Plan Windows 10 Feature Update Deployment Remotely Laid out in three phases—Plan, Prepare, and Deploy—Business IT department can follow to deploy Windows Update securely through the internet....

To follow these steps, you must sign in as an administrator. Also, if you want to play custom audio, you need to convert your regular .mp3 file to .wav format. Play a sound when you Shutdown, Lock or Unlock PC To play a sound when you Shutdown, Lock or Unlock Windows 10, follow these steps- Open Task Scheduler on your Windows 10 computer. To do so, you can search for “task scheduler” in the Taskbar search box, and click on the result....

The VLC media player is one of the best media players for Windows 10 that allows users to do much more than playing a regular video. It is possible to download subtitles, convert videos to another format, install plugins, and more. However, do you know that you can use this media player using Command Prompt? If you are one of them, you can walk through this tutorial to get a different way to access VLC media player to play an offline or online video....

Prevent apps from communicating with unpaired devices To prevent apps from communicating with unpaired devices using Windows Settings, follow these steps- Open the Windows Settings on your computer. For that, press the Win+I buttons together or click the settings gear icon in the Start Menu. After opening it, go to Privacy > Other devices. Here you will find a heading called Communicate with unpaired devices. By default, it is turned ON....

Read all standard mail in plain text in Outlook Microsoft Outlook offers an option named the Read all standard mail in plain text option. This option lets you view all e-mail messages in plain text format. So, If you are worried about a virus or other kind of malicious script finding a way to your computer via HTML or through Microsoft Outlook Rich Text Format (RTF), use the Read all standard mail in plain text option and put all your worries at bay....

Recover deleted User account profile in Windows 11/10 Unless you have a recovery system in place, it is impossible to recover any deleted account in Windows 11/10. A recovery system that can either replace the entire OS with a previous backup can help. There are only two options here: Make sure to use an admin account to get this done. Remember, when you choose anything to restore, it will affect all the accounts on the computer....

How to recover Infected or Deleted files after a Virus Attack? All kinds of files can get deleted by computer viruses, and thus, it is handy to know the procedures you should follow in such a case to retrieve your lost data. It is better to scan your PC with an antivirus before doing anything else. It can be Windows Defender at Boot time or any antivirus software that you use, in Safe Mode, for the best results....

Remove Audio from Video in Windows 11/10 We should point out that Windows 11/10 comes with a built-in feature for users to easily remove audio from supported video files. The tool in question is the Video Editor app, and from what we can tell, it works quite well, even better than what we were expecting, seeing as the features are primarily basic. The second option is VLC Media Player, so for those who are not too keen on using the default program in Windows 10, then this third-party option should help a great deal....

GIMP is a free, open-source image editor used to manipulate and edit images. It is available on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Remove Background from Photo using GIMP Open GIMP. Click File. In the file drop-down list, click Open. An Open Image window will appear. Select your photo file from your files and click Open. You will see the photo in the photo editing area. Read: How to create rounded circular images using GIMP....

Today, we will share how you can repair your corrupt videos and play them back smoothly. But before that, let’s understand why the videos get corrupt. Why do videos get corrupted There can be various reasons for videos getting corrupt, right from – wrong camera settings during the time of the shoot to having a virus-infected storage drive. Videos can get corrupted during the shoot, editing, processing, or even while performing a simple file transfer....

Ribbon Customizations are one of them, a key one, as a matter of fact. Given how wide the scope of customizing an app’s interface is using the ribbon settings, one may sometimes want to go back to the initial settings and start afresh. In this article, I will be demonstrating how to customize Microsoft Office Ribbon in just a few, easy steps. What are Ribbon settings in Microsoft Office? In the terms of a computing interface, Ribbon is a graphical control element present in apps in the form of tabbed toolbars....

Reset Mouse settings to default in Windows 11/10 To reset Mouse settings to default in Windows 11/10, here’s what you have to do: Open the Windows settings by pressing the Windows and ‘I’ keys together. Here, select the Devices option. From the options pane to your left, click on Mouse. On this options window, you’ll see some additional options on the right side. There, click on Additional Mouse options....