GIMP is a great tool to edit vector and scalar images. In addition to its existing functionalities, it also supports external plugins to enhance its feature set. Using the Batch Image Manipulation Plugin (BIMP), you can also batch resize images in GIMP. We will find out in this article about the plugin and steps you need to perform to resize images in bulk using GIMP. So, let’s get started!...

Block Adult Sites on Windows 10 These websites offer IP which acts as Filter on top of DNS. Whenever a website is accessed, they check if it had been marked for any adult activities. If yes, access to the website is blocked. You can thus block inappropriate adult sites on Windows 10 using these DNS Services: To configure all of them, you need to configure IP addresses in the DNS field of the adapter or router....

How to start Windows 11/10 in Safe Mode There are three easy ways you can start Windows 11/10 in Safe Mode: Let us take a look at them in detail. 1] Press Shift and then click on Restart The easiest way to boot Windows 10 into Safe Mode, would be to press Shift and then click on Restart. This will reboot your Windows 10 computer into Advanced Startup Options. 2] Open Recovery section and click on Restart now In Windows 11, open Settings > System > Recovery > Advanced startup and click on Restart now....

How to boot Surface from USB Drive at Startup Starting your Surface from a USB drive can be useful if you want to change firmware settings or Windows startup settings or if your Surface device does not turn on, start, boot, or wake from sleep. Booting from a USB device doesn’t refresh or reset your Surface. Instead, it lets you start your Surface using Windows or another operating system that’s on your USB device....

Browse and edit the Registry from Explorer The Windows Registry is a directory that stores settings and options for the operating system for Microsoft Windows. It contains information and settings for all the hardware, operating system software, most non-operating system software, users, preferences of the PC, etc. Windows Registry shell extension Download and install Windows Registry shell extension. It is a Shell Namespace Extension that allows you to browse and edit the Windows Registry from the Computer folder....

Let’s assume that you have a text file showing some unusual characters such as “ð???”. If you want to extract the original human-readable text out of these strange characters, you may need to switch between character encodings. We have already shown the process to change the character encoding in the Outlook app, now let us see how to do it for Notepad. While Notepad allows you to change the encoding while saving the file, it is better to change it while creating or editing a file....

Windows 11/10 operating system periodically checks with Microsoft to see if any updates are available and if any are available offers to download them and install them for you automatically. How to check for updates in Windows 11 While creating Windows 11, the developers made sure to analyze the data for which settings are used more and which are used less. No doubt Windows Updates were prioritized and a separate menu was created for the same....

What is HDR in Windows? HDR or High Dynamic Range is a video style that inculcates a lot of different shades of colors. Since the human eye has a very high dynamic range, it is good to have a monitor that matches that. When you enable HDR on your system, your monitor will start rendering more accurate images with higher details, contrast, and brightness. Comparing HDR with the standard SDR is not difficult without doing a lot of pixel-peeping, you can see the difference easily....

How to check Registry for malware in Windows 11/10 It is not easy to tell if your PC is infected with any of such registry malware. Fileless Malware sometimes may also hide in Rootkits or the Windows Registry. However, if you doubt malware has infected your machine, you may either remove it or have antimalware do it for you. Once the malware infects the system registry, it hijacks the command center, which may result in system and data collapse that sometimes is beyond recovery....

How to connect a USB printer manually in Windows 11/10? Connecting wired printers i.e., ones with a USB or ethernet cable is a much easier process than with their wireless counterparts. Let us look at the steps you need to follow for the same: Connect the printer’s cord to the PCOpen the ‘Printers and Scanners’ settings Connect the printer’s cord to the PC The first step is to connect the printer’s wire to your computer’s port....

How to convert Photo to Watercolor Painting in PhotoShop Making any image look like a watercolor painting is quite easy to follow and will be even easier to do alone after going through it a few times. Whenever you are working in Photoshop, try to observe and remember how each change you make looks. This will help you to know how to do other effects and what tools and layer styles to use to achieve a certain look....

Fillable PDF is a printer output put into a file. The blank fields are editable and allow you to fill the editable form fields using a keyboard on any digital device and submit them online. In simple words, you can create an interactive PDF form that can be filled by a user on a keyboard rather than a conventional method of publishing forms wherein the user had to print the document to fill the form fields on paper and scan the filled document to submit it online....

Why you may need multiple Firefox Profiles Some users may want to have multiple profiles for different reasons. For example, having a single profile for work, and another for personal reasons all on a single computer makes a lot of sense. This is important since not all companies can afford to give employees a work computer, which means, they are forced to use their own. For those who do web development work, having different profiles is beneficial....

How to use Hanging Indent in PowerPoint Some folks will know it as a negative indent but worry not for both are one and the same thing. Now, as for what it does, well, it indents the first text in most situations instead of the first line. This is also a feature found in Microsoft Word, and in fact, it is more used there. We can say for certain that creating a hanging indent in Microsoft PowerPoint is super easy, so keep reading to learn something new....

There are countless emojis available to use on your Windows computer, and you can insert them in different ways. However, if you do not rely on external emojis and often insert emoji using the Symbol feature, you can create a keyboard shortcut within moments. AutoCorrect in Word, Outlook, or any other Office apps lets you replace a random set of characters with a meaningful text or even a sentence. You can use the same to get your job done....

How to create Tables with Table Designer in Access You can view an Access database as a collection of related tables. A table in Access is a subject-based list of rows and columns. Each row in a table is called a record while every column is called a field. There can be no two fields having the same name. Any value entered in a field represents a single category of data....

A Music Beat is an essential part of music and music theory. It basically defines the rhythm of a song or audio. Now, if you want to make your own custom music beats, this post is for you. Here, we are going to discuss different methods that you can use to make custom beats. You can make your own beats and then add them to your songs using a music maker or an audio editor software....

In Windows 11/10, the Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter is used for Projecting to this PC feature which mirrors or shares the screen of other devices to your PC (or vice versa) via a direct Wi-Fi connection (using Miracast). How to disable or remove Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter In some cases, Device Manager displays multiple virtual adapters with an index showing as Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter #2, Microsoft WiFi Direct Virtual Adapter #3, Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter #4, etc – and only one of the virtual adapters can be active....

If you want to disable automatic spelling and grammar checking in OneNote 2016 or OneNote app for Windows, you will have to change the settings in the former and use the Onetastic addon in the latter. Disable Spell Check feature in OneNote OneNote has the same spelling and Grammar check feature as seen in Microsoft Office. We’ll cover the method to disable the feature in both OneNote 2016 and OneNote app for Windows 10....

Emails are an efficient and productive way of transmitting all kinds of data. It is the most sought after way of communication for a lot of companies, business and is the go-to medium for a lot of people in the workplace. However, sometimes you may receive an email with a subject line which is empty or a subject which doesn’t deliver an appropriate description for you to identify the email for later use....