Mute or turn off Sound in auto-playing Video You can mute the sound in auto-playing videos in Chrome as well as Firefox browser using a browser extension. Let us take a look at them. Block audio auto-play in Google Chrome The name of the extension is Silent Site Sound Blocker, and you can download it from the Chrome Web Store. If your sole intention is to turn off the sound on all websites then you need to simply download and install it – and you will be good to go....

Dropbox is a popular cloud storage service and an excellent Google Drive and OneDrive alternative. Whether you need to store images or documents, you can upload them to Dropbox and keep them for as long as you want. When you install the Dropbox app on your Windows 11/10 PC, it lets users open and explores files through the Dropbox desktop app. It looks good, and an average user should not have any problem due to the interface....

How to open Email Attachments in Reading View in Word To open email attachments in Reading View in Word, follow these steps: To know more about these aforementioned steps, keep reading. To get started, open Microsoft Word on your PC and click on the Options menu visible in the bottom-left corner. Then, make sure that you are in the General tab. If so, head to the Startup options section and tick the Open e-mail attachments and other uneditable files in reading view checkbox....

Open File Explorer Options in Windows 10 There are several ways to open Folder Options or File Explorer Options in Windows 10: Let us see how to do this. 1] Using Windows Search Simply type File Explorer Options in Windows 10 search bar and click on the result you see. The box will open. Read: Windows 11 File Explorer Tips and Tricks. 2] Via Control Panel Open Control Panel > Small Icons View and click on the File Explorer Options applet....

Open new File Explorer app To access this new hidden File Explorer app in Windows 11/10, open File Explorer and copy-paste the following folder path in its address bar and hit Enter: Here you will see a FileExplorer.exe file. If you click on it, nothing will happen. To open it, you will have to create its desktop shortcut. To do this, go to your Desktop, right-click in an empty space and choose ‘New’ option....

How to open a ZIP file on Android mobile phone Windows PCs have this built-in feature to zip or unzip several files but if you are receiving a ZIP file on your Android phone or tablet, you have to use a third-party app to open that file. There are many free programs available on Google Playstore but recommend using Google Files. Google Files is a free file-sharing app available on Google Play Store....

How to Password Protect Bookmarks in Chrome, Firefox & Edge We have covered a separate extension/add-on to password-protect bookmarks in Google Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browsers. And, each extension can be used in private or incognito mode as this is a browser feature. The extensions are: Let’s check what these extensions include and how to use them. Password Protect Bookmarks in Google Chrome using the Secure Bookmarks extension For Google Chrome, you can use a free Secure Bookmarks extension that lets you add bookmarks of your choice and secure them with a master password....

Defer Feature Updates in Windows 11/10 Earlier, when an update was available, a notification would appear, prompting you to either, The last option – Snooze allowed delaying the install of the update for three days. Following that, you were given another notification about the update, and you could click the Snooze button again. This way, one of the ways of delaying the install of the update. Windows 11/10 offers a simple solution for the same....

You can continue to access all the items present in Quick Settings. The only thing is neither you will be able to add new items nor remove the existing ones. Don’t worry as you can also enable editing Quick Settings whenever needed. Prevent editing Quick Settings in Windows 11 computer If you want to prevent or disable editing Quick Settings on your Windows 11 computer, then you can do this using two native features....

How to recover a disabled Facebook Account If you deactivated your Facebook account, you can cancel its deletion within 14 days. After the passage of 14 days, there is no way to reinstate your deleted Facebook account.If your account was deactivated by Facebook, then you’ll need to submit an appeal to Facebook.com. Depending on the reason for the deactivation of your account, Facebook may never reinstate it.The only option, then, is to create a new account and forget the old one....

Can you recover data if your Windows PC is not booting? Yes, it is possible as long as the storage device or hard disk is working. If the computer cannot boot, it could be because of corrupt system files, missing MBR, or anything that is stopping the BIOS to boot into the OS. How to recover files when Windows 11/10 won’t boot An easy method would be to connect the hard disk to another computer either directly or through an adaptor....

How to drop a Pin on Google maps? Dropping a Pin on Google Maps is easy. Simply scroll to the exact location at which you want to drop the Pin. Then click there.When you drop a Pin, it will initially appear as a small grey Pin. Asmall information box will appear at the bottom of the window.When you click on the window, a detailed information box will appear on the left-hand side of the window....

You can pin almost any app and open them as per your needs. However, if you have pinned a lot of apps and you want to get rid of them, you can do so. Resetting the Taskbar can help you in different ways. For example, if the Taskbar has disappeared from the Desktop, you can get it back. There are mainly two different ways to perform this. You can find all the paths where pinned apps are saved and delete them manually – but it takes a lot of time....

Rename files and folders in serial order Arrange all the files or folders you’d like to rename serially, one next to the other. Select them all. Right-click the first one and select Rename. The file or folder name will get highlighted. Rename it to whatever you want it to be, say Voila. All the files or folders will get renamed serially instantly. More Windows quick tips here.

Today we will show you how to change or rename the network profile names in Windows 10/8/7; there are two methods to do the same. The first one happens to be via Registry Editor and the second one happens to be via Local Security Policy Editor. First, you will need to know the name of the Network! Open Windows 11 SettingsOpen Network & InternetOpen the Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection whose name you want to changeYou will see its name displayed at the top...

How to repair Windows 11 There are many different ways you can use to repair or fix issues on Windows 11/10. We have listed a few methods that can be helpful when you face any issues with Windows 11/10. Let’s get into the details of each method and know more about them. 1] Run Troubleshooters on Windows Troubleshooters available in the Settings app of Windows are the best way to fix basic errors or issues that we come across on Windows 11/10....

The Chat app in the Taskbar in Windows 11 lets you open and access Microsoft Teams account, messages, calls, etc. Instead of opening the fully-featured Microsoft Teams app, you can use it to get the job done. For obvious reasons, you must have to sign in to your account to continue getting messages. However, what if you want to use a different Microsoft Teams account? In such a moment, you need to reset this app to sign in to another account....

Additionally, Chrome supports a display cutout that allows users to utilize the broad areas of the screen including the cutout space behind the display. This huge release offers a plenty of other features, along with a visible change with respect to the themes. Chrome users can easily customize the background images, enable the colorful tab bar instead of the old gray ones and personalize the new tab. One of the most visible changes in the new update is that it has the profile icon shifted to the menu bar and has a round-edged tab in order to ease the visibility of the website icons across a large number of the opened tabs....

No matter if you have JPG, HEIC, BMP, PNG, or some other common format images, you will be able to rotate them to 90 degrees, 270 degrees, or 180 degrees. You can also save the rotated image. How to rotate an Image on a computer These are the options that can help you rotate a picture or photo in Windows 10 without using any 3rd party tools: Let’s check all these options....

Run WordPress on Microsoft Azure Recently I attended an event in Chandigarh, India organized by WordPress Chandigarh and Microsoft User Group – Chandigarh. The event’s title was – How to run blazingly fast WordPress on Microsoft Azure. We discussed various possibilities for using Microsoft Azure to deploy websites and WordPress. And the facilitator of the day, Mr. Jasjit Chopra shared his knowledge and conducted a workshop on running a WordPress website on Microsoft Azure....