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Using Group Policy, domain administrators can create a special Start Menu layout that is applied to all the computers of all the users on the domain and provides the administrator with the ability to control what applications are pinned onto the Start Menu, the arrangement of the Menu tiles and the size of the Menu tiles. This option is exclusively available on the Education and Enterprise versions of Windows 10 and, once enabled, takes away the domain’s other users’ ability to tinker around with and edit the Start Menu and the apps and tiles on it in any way....

These formatting techniques are not that tough to do but until they become first nature, you may have to constantly refer back to them to know how to do certain things. You can bookmark this article, take some screenshots, or jot these basic things down somewhere. The text formatting we’re about to get into relies upon the built-in text manipulation allowed in the Markdown markup language. Getting Familiar With The Basics Going in, familiarize yourself with some of the mighty characters that make these text formatting manipulations possible....

Method 1: Define Compose Key Specifications System-wide You’ll need root administrator access to define compose key settings for all users, so type and push enter to get started. If you haven’t used sudo yet in your session before, then you’ll be asked to enter your password to continue. You’ll be presented with a text file offering different lines for setting keyboard options. In between the quotes on the line that starts with XKBOPTIONS=”” type compose:sclk and then push Ctrl+O to save the file followed by Ctrl+X to quit....

When we mention updates, it is not limited to Windows updates only. There are third-party apps that we use all the time in our daily lives which need to be updated. Nonetheless, there is no running from updates as they usually contain security updates that are very important to organizations or other networks. It even can be your own little space with multiple computers that need updating. As it turns out, having to install updates on multiple computers can become quite the task....

How To Automate Home Appliances Using Arduino? As we have the basic idea, now let’s move towards gathering the components, assembling them to make a circuit and writing the code to automate your home appliances. Step 1: Components Used (Hardware) Step 2: Components Used (Software) After downloading the Proteus 8 Professional, design the circuit on it. We have included software simulations here so that it may be convenient for beginners to design the circuit and make appropriate connections on the hardware....

How to make a Unit which will extract information about the quantity of water present in the tank? Let’s move on to the designing part in which we will first design the circuit and then do the conversion from A/C 240V to the regulated 5V for operating the circuit. Step 1: Collecting The Components. The components used in this project are easily available in the market. Step 2: Setting Up The Apparatus....

As it turns out, the apps that are running in the background can be for several purposes which includes sending any notifications or looking up for any available updates. While this sounds good, there is a caveat. What essentially happens is when the apps in the background are doing whatever they are, they are using system resources even if it’s a small amount. This can affect the performance of your computer depending upon the number of apps that are running in the background as well as factors like how powerful your computer is....

Every network administrator has to optimize their network and monitor the network devices present. If you wish to keep track of your network thoroughly, netpath is definitely a feature that you should be looking forward to implementing in your network. Packed inside the infamous Network Performance Monitor, a tool developed by SolarWinds which gives you the ability to monitor your network performance thoroughly, NetPath is a basically a graphical version of your typical traceroute....

Instagram videos have a length limit of 60 seconds for posts and 15 seconds for the stories. The user can either record a video or upload from the phone library. Most community pages on Instagram upload videos rather than photos. You can use any of the methods below to download Instagram videos on PC. Method 1: Downloading Instagram Video through Third-party Application Using third-party application is always the best choice to add extra features to existing applications or sites....

There are different reasons why Windows key is not working, including keyboard issue, system settings, game settings or application settings. We will show you how to solve the issue by using 5 different methods. These methods are compatible with operating systems from Windows XP to Windows 10. I hope you are using minimum Windows 7 because previous operating systems are not anymore supported by Microsoft. If you are one of the users who want to disable Windows key when playing games, you will be able to do it after reading this article....

Follow the steps as mentioned below to find a book for which you don’t remember the title or the author’s name. There are two ways to go about it. Using Google Search Tips to Remember: Assuming that you don’t remember what the books name was, or who the writer was, you obviously remember the storyline right? So just use the keywords that would go with that storyline and write those in the search bar....

Turn On ‘Find My Phone’ If you haven’t switched on ‘Find My Phone’, then you won’t be able to use the feature. If you haven’t done it yet, be sure to switch it on now. This means that if you ever lose your device in the future, you’ll be able to receive information relating to the whereabouts of your device. To switch on ‘Find My Phone’, scroll to the ‘settings’ option on your app screen, and tap ‘System’....

More reasons can be included for causing this issue. We have listed some main of them below:- Not having Administrator Privileges- If you do not have proper administrator privileges, you may not be able to install Windows. Without administrator privileges, you cannot make significant changes to your system. TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 are Turned Off- TLS provides security for sending data to applications on the internet. As per the research, if the TSL1....

What Causes the “Failed to Connect to Lvmetad” Error on Ubuntu? After receiving numerous reports from multiple users, we decided to investigate the issue and devised a set of solutions to rectify it completely. Also, we looked into the reasons due to which this error is triggered and listed them as follows. Now that you have a basic understanding of the nature of the problem, we will move on towards the solutions....

This can be annoying sometimes when you are trying to play your favorite game while listening to your favorite artist, the music just gets paused, disturbing you and killing the vibe. This error occurs when the music that you’re listening to is being transmitted through your mic. Whether you’re doing that intentionally or unintentionally this is against discord’s and Spotify’s policies The application thinks that you are transmitting audio to other people who have not paid to listen to songs....

It is practically not possible to list down all the reasons for the streaming error on Ring but the following can be easily marked as the chiefly responsible for the error: Update the Ring App to the Latest Build A user may encounter the streaming error on Ring if the Ring app is outdated as it can cause incompatibility between the Ring device and phone due to which the phone fails to parse the video stream from the Ring device....

One of these problems concerns the lock screen. Before the Anniversary Update, when you hit a key or swipe up the lock screen to get to the sign-in screen, you had a choice between a solid color and Windows’ default image, and this was changeable through a registry key. However, with the update, Microsoft have changed this a bit, and now you can select your lock screen background to appear in the sign-in screen as well....

If you investigate, you will likely find that there has been a huge spike in your FPS and the latency has increased sporadically before the eventual crash with a BSOD error. The root cause of the reported issues has mostly been related to the graphics driver and settings on the PC in question. If you look up the hex-code in the error look up tool, it generally indicates that the “resource requirements have changed”....

When trying to delete these files you could possibly encounter errors stating that the files is being used, or that you don’t have permissions to delete them, or sometimes even error codes that are difficult to understand to the regular user. These methods will allow you to delete most files that are not allowing you, but specifically those that show the error 0x80004002: no such interface supported To solve this we just need to make sure that the file is not being used by any other process, and that you have the right permissions to delete it....

This has been happening with Windows 10 users for a while now, and it happens most often when there’s a new, important update to the OS as that is when there’s peak usage of Microsoft’s servers. It’s frustrating for a lot of people, as Store apps are among the best parts of the new editions of Windows. Fortunately, however, there are a few things that users facing this issue can try, and they have been confirmed by the general user base to work....