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Managing your open windows and apps can be a challenge. Windows 10 includes some built-in features for this, but Microsoft has another tool with even more options. We’ll show you how to make windows always open in the same spot. Get Microsoft’s PowerToys for This Feature This functionality is sometimes possible with Windows 10’s Snap Assist feature. Sometimes, an app will open in the same spot it was snapped, but this isn’t always the case....

Properly formatting bibliographies has always driven students crazy. With modern versions of Microsoft Word, though, the process is streamlined to the point of almost being automatic, and today we’re going to show you how to add citations and bibliographies to your Word documents. Note: the techniques we’re going to cover here should work for Microsoft Word 2007 and later. The screenshots are all taken in the latest version of Word 2016, so your version might look slightly different, but it works the same way....

Wi-Fi networks like the ones in use at most hotels aren’t private. The login process just lets the hotel limit access to the Internet. It doesn’t keep your Internet activity private. Open Wi-Fi Networks Allow Anyone Nearby to Snoop Open Wi-Fi networks—that is, Wi-Fi networks anyone can connect to without entering a passphrase—are open to snooping. Because these networks aren’t secured with encryption, all data sent over them is sent in “plain text....

Congratulations, you’ve successfully selected parts, assembled your own PC, and installed Windows! Now you can get to…whatever it is that you want to get to, I guess. Do gamers still “pown noobs?” Is that still a thing? Actually, before you jump in to [noob farming and/or ranching/a 12-hour Pinterest binge/watching every Cracked video ever/reading more How-To Geek], you probably want to take a few minutes to update and protect your shiny new PC....

The problem with having a popular phone like an iPhone is that, by default, everyone has the same ringtone. If you want to give your iPhone a more personal sound, here’s how to do it. Go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics on your iPhone. On the Sounds & Haptics page, select the “Ringtone” option (there are also options here to change other tones, like text messages, new emails, and so on)....

How to Access Privacy Settings on PS5 To access your privacy settings, first, navigate to the main screen of the PS5 and select the “Settings” gear symbol on the top right. It’s located to the left of your profile picture. Next, select “Users and Accounts.” In Users and Accounts, select “Privacy” and press right on the D-Pad to begin selecting a privacy setting to change. We’ll go over these options below....

Apple releases new versions of the macOS operating system about once per year. Here’s how to check which release of the macOS operating system is installed on your MacBook, iMac, Mac Mini, or Mac Pro. To find this information, click the Apple icon on the menu at the top left corner of your screen, and then select the “About This Mac” command. The name of the macOS release you have installed appears on the Overview tab in the resulting window....

Excel provides various methods for counting cells including using the Find feature or a filter. But with functions, you can count exactly what you need. From filled cells to blanks, from numbers to text, here’s how to count cells in Excel. RELATED: How to Count Colored Cells in Microsoft Excel Count Cells With Numbers: The COUNT Function If you want to count the number of cells that contain only numbers, you can use the COUNT function....

Starting with iOS 11, you can now customize the Control Center you see when you swipe up from the bottom of your iPhone or iPad’s screen. You can remove shortcuts you never use, add new shortcuts, and rearrange the shortcuts to make the Control Center your own. RELATED: What’s New in iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad, Available Now The Control Center now also has improved 3D Touch support, so you can hard-press any shortcut to view more information and actions....

Duplicate file finders scan your hard drive for unnecessary duplicated files and help you remove them, freeing up space. Here are our picks for the best duplicate file finders, whether you’re looking for something easy to use, an application you may already have installed, or a powerful tool with the most advanced filters. You shouldn’t use these tools to remove duplicate files found in system folders like the Windows and Program Files folders....

Thanks to a new feature in Instagram, you can now follow specific hashtags and get the top posts for that hashtag to appear in their main feed. Here’s how to make it happen. Start by opening up the Instagram app and tapping on the search tab at the bottom. Tap on the search bar at the top. Type in a hashtag that you want to follow, and make sure that the “Tags” tab is selected....

Google Sheets provides a simple function to generate random numbers inside your spreadsheet without having to leave the document or install an add-on. The function returns a random integer between two values. Here’s how to use it. Fire up the Google Sheets homepage and open either a new or existing spreadsheet. For this guide, we’ll use the function RANDBETWEEN to produce a random number. By default, the RANDfunction only generates a number between 0 (inclusive) and 1 (exclusive), whereas RANDBETWEEN lets you specify a range of numbers....

Cross-Platform Family Tech Support Are you the go-to techie for friends and family whenever they run into computer difficulties? It’s always nice to help, but anything that makes the job quicker and easier is most welcome. Trying to talk someone who isn’t tech-savvy through a simple procedure can be frustrating for both of you. Even worse, it can put that person off adopting new technology in the future. Seeing the problem in-person is always helpful, but, sometimes, that’s not possible....

Have you ever accidentally moved an item in your slide and then had to spend time putting it where it was? In Microsoft PowerPoint, you can lock an object in position. This prevents those mistaken moves and wasted time. How to Lock an Object in PowerPoint You have two easy ways to lock an object on your PowerPoint slide. The first is handy if you only have a small number of items on your slide while the second works best for multiple items....

Sometimes a GIF says it best. But other times your own face says it best. Now, you can always convey what you’re trying to say with Gboard on iOS or Android, thanks to its handy new GIF creator. RELATED: How to Join a Beta and Download Early Versions of Android Apps This feature is already available in Gboard for iOS, but to access it on Android, you’ll need the beta build of Gboard....

Microsoft Excel provides you with gridlines on each spreadsheet in a workbook by default. However, the gridlines might be too faint on your screen. If you’d like to make the gridlines darker in Excel, we’ll show you how. There are two simple methods for making the gridlines bolder and easier to see. You can use a darker color than the default light gray or you can apply a grid border to the entire sheet....

The Galaxy S and Galaxy Note are some of the best Android phones available right now. But TouchWiz has a bad rep for being ugly and “bulky” (especially with Android elitists). If this is the only thing holding you back from giving one of these otherwise excellent phones a shot, we’ve got you covered. It’s actually pretty easy to get a near-stock experience on most Samsung phones—you’ll just need to download and tweak a few things....

Most image viewing programs have a built-in feature to help you change the size of images. Here are our favorite image resizing tools for Windows. We’ve picked out a built-in option, a couple of third party apps, and even a browser-based tool. Maybe you need to upload a smaller version of a photograph to Facebook (they do it automatically and badly when you upload anyway) or another social site. Maybe you want to include an image that isn’t so ridiculously oversized in an email....

What’s the ideal resolution for a PC game? Ask most players and they’ll immediately answer, “Whatever your monitor can support.” That’s the obvious solution—after all, it would hardly make sense to render graphics at higher than your equipment can actually output and your eyes can see, right? …Right? A Quick Primer on Supersampling Perhaps not. Now that PC game developers have become experts at getting their games to run at 60 frames per second even on middling hardware, and even under-$200 graphics cards are getting ridiculously powerful and efficient, a new technique to make games look better has emerged....

Routers both modern and antiquated allow users to set static IP addresses for devices on the network, but what’s the practical use of static IP addresses for a home user? Read on as we explore when you should, and shouldn’t, assign a static IP. DHCP versus Static IP Assignment To help you understand the application of static IP addresses, let’s start with the setup you (and most readers for that matter) have....