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Whether you need to update drivers, check hardware compatibility, or you’re just curious, it’s way easier to check your motherboard model number with these simple tricks than to crack open your case to check the board itself. Here’s how to check your motherboard model number from the comfort of your keyboard. Why Do I Want To Do This? Knowing your motherboard’s model number is important if you’re thinking of upgrading your drivers, buying new hardware (you’ll need the proper expansion or memory slots, for example), or just checking the capabilities of your board if you’re considering upgrading your whole rig....

When you open an Excel worksheet or change any entries or formulas in the worksheet, Excel automatically recalculates all the formulas in that worksheet by default. This can take a while if your worksheet is large and contains many formulas. However, if some cells contain formulas whose values will never change, you can easily convert these formulas to static values, thus speeding up the recalculation of the spreadsheet. We will show you an easy method for changing an entire formula to a static value and also a method for changing part of a formula to a static value....

Odds are pretty good that you create the same types of Excel spreadsheets over and over again. Creating a custom template can help make that process a lot smoother. When faced with creating similar spreadsheets, many people pop open an existing sheet, delete the data they don’t want there, and then save it as a different file. Worse still, some just create the file from scratch every time. A custom template can make this go a lot faster....

Before There is not a lot that you can say about the singular default wallpaper included with the Starter Edition…it just kind of sits there all boring like. Installing Starter Background Changer Since the installer part of the program is in French we have the entire set of install windows shown here with the appropriate buttons highlighted to get you through the whole process without any problems. Using Starter Background Changer...

Microsoft created a new console color scheme for Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, but existing Windows systems won’t get it automatically. A new, official tool allows you to install this new color scheme and other ones for easy customization of your Command Prompt windows. You can personalize the Command Prompt through its Properties window, but the below tool will quickly install good-looking color schemes, saving you the trouble of color-coordinating the Command Prompt yourself....

When you fill out a form, Chrome asks if you want to save the information to speed things up the next time. If you neither use this feature nor like Google storing your information, it’s easy to turn off. How to Disable Form Autofill Fire up Chrome, click the menu icon, and then click on “Settings.” Alternatively, you can type chrome://settings/ into the Omnibox to go directly there. Scroll down until you see the Autofill section, and click on “Addresses and More....

If you have a Nexus or Pixel device running Oreo, you’ve likely seen the “[app name] is running in the background” notification. If you have a Pixel 2, you may have seen this notification, though the verbiage is slightly different—it reads “[app name] is using battery.” While useful, this can also be quite annoying. Fortunately, you can pretty easily turn it off. Why Does This Notification Exist? Before we talk about how to get rid of it, however, let’s talk about why it’s there in the first place....

With Microsoft’s new Fluent Design, announced alongside the Fall Creators Update, Windows 10 is gaining more and more transparency—or, technically, translucency. If you don’t like this effect, you can flip a switch to disable transparency in all parts of Windows 10, from the taskbar and Start menu to apps like Calculator and People. To find this option, open the Settings app from your Start menu. Click or tap the “Personalization” icon in the Settings window....

Spotify lets you save songs and podcasts to your Apple Watch, which means you can go for a run without leaving your music behind. Today, we’re going to show you how to start downloading those songs and podcasts. What You Need to Download Spotify Songs on Apple Watch Before you can download Spotify songs and podcasts to your Apple Watch, let’s check whether the basics are in place. First, this feature is available only for Spotify Premium subscribers....

While it’s convenient to push a Dash Button to order stuff, there’s no confirmation aside from a little green LED to let you know that the button worked. If you walk away and it doesn’t work, you might not figure it out for a while, unless you’re dedicated about checking your open orders. Getting a notification lets you know that it worked. It’s also a handy way to know if an errant child—or roomate—pressed the button for fun....

Verification—that hallowed blue tick—is a pretty big deal on Twitter, but it’s also a thing on Facebook. Let’s have a look at how you can (try to) get verified on Facebook. The Different Kind of Facebook Verifications There are three different kinds of verification on Facebook: Profiles with a blue tick, Pages with a blue tick, and Pages with a gray tick. Profiles with a blue tick are ones where Facebook has verified that the profile is the actual profile of the public figure it’s claiming to represent....

It’s been over five years since The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim landed in gamers’ eager hands, and we don’t seem any closer to a true sequel than we were back then (no, The Elder Scrolls Online doesn’t count). Bethesda is content to port the old game to every new platform possible, but the modding community is picking up the slack, adding tons of new, professional-level content to the original version of the RPG....

What You’ll Need You’re going to need a few things to get started. First, you’ll need a USB drive with at least 8GB of storage space. If you don’t already have one lying around, you can find a decent USB drive online for a reasonable price. If you do already have a USB drive, be sure that there are no important files on it, as it will be wiped clean during the setup process....

The good thing about the Microsoft Office suite is all the programs in the collection work pretty well together. One example is the ability to link or embed Microsoft PowerPoint slides in a Microsoft Word document. Here’s how it’s done. Linking vs. Embedding Whether you link or embed the PowerPoint slide in the Word document, the goal is always the same: providing an external reference that compliments the content within the document....

So you’ve decided to flex your mercurial muscles and start selling products online. High-quality photos are a simple way to attract more buyers, and contrary to what you might think, they don’t require thousands of dollars in equipment. With a simple photo tent and some lights, even a decent smartphone camera can take great photos of small-to-medium objects. Here’s how you can make a photo tent on the cheap with less than $20 spent at your local hardware store or supermarket....

Aero Peek is one of the more useful features added as of Windows 7. Simply move your mouse to the far right side on the Taskbar (on the Show Desktop button) for half a second to hide all open windows and see your desktop. But what if half a second is too long? RELATED: How to Disable Aero Peek in Windows We’ll show you how to make Aero Peek display instantly instead....

Locking your iPhone does a pretty good job at keeping people away from your personal information, but there are still some things someone unscrupulous can do without typing in your passcode. They can: See your Today View with all your Widgets. See your recent notifications. Use the Control Center. Use Siri to make phone calls, set alarms, search the web, and everything else that doesn’t require you to unlock your phone....

Many older (or cheaper) Windows laptops come with traditional mechanical hard drives—which these days, are pretty outdated and slow. Upgrading to a new, super fast solid state drive (or SSD) is the surest way to speed up an old computer. There’s one problem: moving your Windows installation can be tricky, especially since SSDs are often smaller than their traditional hard drive counterparts. However, there is a way to migrate your Windows 7, 8, or 10 installation to an SSD without reinstalling Windows....

Apple’s HomePod is an amazing speaker, but it comes at a price. Not just a dollar amount, but also the toll it could take on your finished wooden furniture. If you’ve discovered white rings appearing on your furniture (or have heard about this phenomenon and want to prevent it), here’s what you can do. Wait, What’s the Problem? RELATED: How to Stop the HomePod from Reading Your Text Messages to Other People...

RELATED: Which Roku Should I Buy? Express vs. Stick vs. Stick+ vs. Ultra If you’ve got a Roku, however, you can search all these and other sites at once. Every late 2017 Roku save the Express comes with a Voice Search remote, including the Streaming Stick, the Streaming Stick+, and the Ultra. Before 2017 the Roku 3, Roku 4, and Roku Ultra all offered voice search on the remote....