All notifications, whether a new text message or an email from someone you know get lined up under Action Center for Quick Actions. Here they are displayed for a brief period. These notifications can turn out to be more useful or at least make some sense if they are visible for a few more seconds. Depending upon your preferences, you can increase or decrease Windows notifications display time. How to change Windows 11 Notifications display time The best way to reach out to missed notifications is to access it via Action Center....

Define & use names in Excel formulas You can define a name for a cell range, function, constant, or table and once you become familiar with the technique, you can easily update, audit or manage these names. For this, you’ll first need to: The approach is useful if you want to reference it in a formula or another worksheet. 1] Name a cell Let us say that we want to create a report of tax rates for different states....

Many users complain, even after uninstalling the iCloud app, the shortcut for the folder continues to appear on the ‘Quick Access‘ bar of File Explorer. Delete duplicate iCloud Photos entries from Explorer Ideally, when you right-click the folder(s), the ‘Delete’ option should become visible. You can then use the option to remove the duplicated entries. However, users sometimes find this ‘Delete’ option missing. Even the Del key serves no purpose....

Hide or Show Recent searches history when you hover over Search icon Enable or Disable Recent Search icon History in Windows 11 To hide Recent Search History when you hover over the Windows 11 Search Icon in the Taskbar via Settings: You can also use the Registry Editor. The process explained below includes modification to some registry keys. The Registry in Windows OS is the hierarchical database that contains essential information and data required for the proper functioning of the Windows operating system....

Turn Off Display of Recent Search Entries in Explorer You can turn off the display of recent search entries in the Windows 11/10/8/7 Explorer search box and prevent entries into the Search Box from being stored in the Registry for future references. To do so, type gpedit.msc in the Start search and hit Enter to open the Group Policy Editor. From the left pane navigate to the following directory: Now from the main window, right-click Turn off display of recent search entries in the File Explorer setting and double-click on it to open its Properties box....

In an Insider build, Microsoft has enabled the support of HDR for certain specific apps, apps that are a part of ICC (International Color Consortium). This HDR functionality will not be found to be automatically enabled on these select apps, users have to manually do so. Thus, today we will be showing you how to enable the HDR functionality on ICC-enabled apps in Windows 11/10 – which will be available in the stable versions soon....

When you open a new tab, Firefox displays most commonly visited sites in groups. These sites are named as ‘Top sites’ and better known as ‘Highlights’. If the browser finds anything unsavory, it just prunes those sites out. This, it does by checking the URLs against a list of NSFW (Not Safe for Work) sites. The filter, on the other hand, prevents tiles for adult sites from showing under Highlights/Top Sites section of the Firefox New Tab page....

How to enable or disable Network Prediction in Google Chrome To enable or disable Network Prediction in Google Chrome, follow these steps: Let’s learn more about these above-mentioned steps. To get started, you need to open the Local Group Policy Editor on your computer. For that, search for gpedit.msc in the Taskbar search box and click on the individual search result. Then, navigate to the following path: User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Google Chrome Here you can find a setting called Enable network prediction....

How to find games on Steam Steam has several tools that gamers can use to find new video games to play, and we’re going to list the options that make sense. Some of these options you may already know of, while others you may not have. Rest assured though, they all work pretty well. 1] Steam Curators Feature Folks who rely on the recommendation of others to find great games to play must take advantage of what the Steam Curators feature has to offer....

How to find RAM Serial Number and related information in Windows 11/10 To find RAM serial number, part number, capacity, manufacturer, speed, memory type, form factor, etc. in Windows 11/10, follow these steps: Using the WinX menu open Windows Terminal or the Command PromptType the following command and hit Enter: You will see all the details displayed. If you wish to all the details about your RAM, execute the following command: This MemoryType list will help you identify the memory module in use:...

What are the causes of Outlook error 0x800CCC67? You may experience this error in Outlook due to one or more of the following reasons: Incorrect IMAP or POP3 settings: When you create a new Outlook profile, you get two options, automatically set the IMAP or POP3 settings or manually configure them. If you do not know about IMAP and POP3 protocols, it is advised to select the automatic setup option because, in manual setup, the chances of incorrect configuration are high....

The chrome web store offers various themes that you can pick that best suit your user interface. However, most of the themes don’t help distinguish the active tabs from the rest of the background’s open tabs. If you are looking out for ways to highlight an active tab and not particular about the aesthetics connected to the theme, chrome’s black & white theme is the simplest way to highlight the active tab from the background tab....

Firefox is one of the popular web browsers and is free and open-source. It is available for different platforms including Windows, Mac, and Android. Apart from this, its compatibility to install a large number of addons make it suitable for business environments. To make Firefox faster, Mozilla released Firefox Quantum, which is better and faster than the previous Firefox versions. Though Firefox Quantum is a fast web browser, some users still face the issue of slow download speed....

Basic Calculations in Excel – Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division As mentioned earlier, you need to make use of the basic operators like +, -, *, / here. All you need to remember is that all the formulas need to start with a (=) sign. In the Excel sheet below, in the first table, you can see two numbers 10 and 5, which is our data. In the other table, you can see the operations to be carried out by applying appropriate formulas....

Let’s assume that you want to show the title of a chart in a different look than the regular text. There are two methods to do that. One – you can apply a bigger font, change the color, make it bold/italic, etc. Two – you can use WordArt to have more flexibility on the styling. As long as you use Google Sheets for the web, you can use the Google Drawings integration to insert WordArt in any spreadsheet....

What is checked by the Document Inspector in Word? The Document Inspector will search for various hidden metadata in your document, namely: How to inspect documents in Word using Document Inspector Follow the steps below to inspect documents in Word using Document inspector: Launch Word. Click File. Click Info on the backstage view. Click Check for issues on the right pane. Select Inspect Documents in the drop-down menu. A Document Inspector dialog box opens, listing various hidden data you will find in your document....

TIP: Windows 10 user? Go here to see how to install or uninstall Microsoft Store apps in Windows 10. Install UWP Apps Windows Store First, locate the ‘Store’ tile in the Windows 8 Start screen and click on it. Check the screenshot below. If not, access the Charms bar from the corner of your computer screen, choose ‘Search’ and then select ‘Store’. The action should immediately bring up the Windows Store....

Install Windows 7 on a PC having less RAM From the installation sources folder search for a file named winsetup.dll. Move it to your desktop, and make sure you make a copy of the original dll file. Download a free hex editor like HxD. There are many other good freeware hex editors available too. Open HxD as Admin. From its toolbar, click File > Open. Open winsetup.dll. Now search for string : 77 07 3D 78 01....

How to merge and split tables along with cells in Word The information below will explain in as much detail as possible to ensure by the end; you have the knowledge needed to merge and split tables and cells where Microsoft Word is concerned. First, we will look at how to join cells in the Microsoft Word table to begin with. 1] Launch Microsoft Word OK, so as usual, the first thing you will want to do here is to fire up Microsoft Word from either the Desktop or the Start Menu section....

If you have ever noticed that apart from maximizing and minimizing a window, there is one more option available in Windows 11/10, i.e., Restore. Before we begin our discussion on the different ways to maximize and minimize windows in WIndows 11/10, let’s see the difference between these three terms. Maximize: When we say maximize, we refer to the app that has covered the entire screen of a user’s computer irrespective of his screen size....