How to set up a scheduled recycle garbage can cleanup in Windows 10

 

How to set up a scheduled recycle garbage can cleanup in Windows 10

Using the built-in "Memory Control" feature, you can save disk space by setting Windows 10 to automatically delete files of a certain age that are in your recycle garbage can. You can enable a schedule to delete files in the Recycle Bin every day, every week, or once a month. To enable automatic recycle garbage can cleaning you need to: - Press "Win+I" (Options), select "System" → "Memory" → "Configure Memory Control or run it" - Activate the "Memory Control" function - Activate the option "Delete files that have been in the Recycle Bin for more than 30 days". If you change the "When little disk space remains" option to "Every month", the Recycle Bin will be emptied monthly, even if there is still plenty of space on the PC.

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How to disable the Windows Firewall

 

How to disable the Windows Firewall

The Windows firewall is a free and built-in protection tool. But sometimes you have to disable it if it interferes with program installation or conflicts with other antivirus software. Let's take a look at some simple options: In the Start menu search, look for and open the Windows Defender Firewall. On the left, click Enable or disable the Windows Defender Firewall. Disable it for all networks. Open the command line as an administrator. To disable it, use the command netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off. To enable, replace off with on in the command.

How to use multiple profiles in Chrome with your bookmarks, extensions, and settings

 

How to use multiple profiles in Chrome with your bookmarks, extensions, and settings

If you share a computer with someone (or separate personal and work profiles), you can install multiple browsers, but Google offers a more convenient option. You can switch between different profiles right in Chrome, and each browser version will have its own settings, bookmarks, extensions and browsing history. You can add a new account or profile through a menu that appears when you click on the avatar to the right of the address bar. Enter your username and password (if you need to confirm login to your account on your smartphone, do so). You can add as many Chrome accounts as you like. Now you'll have two copies of your browser that you can sign into using different Google Accounts. You can switch between them in the same menu through which you added the account. You can also pin different copies of Chrome separately to the taskbar so you can launch them faster.

How do you know which games are sure to run on your computer?

 How do you know which games are sure to run on your computer?

To find out if a game will run on your computer, you only need to compare the characteristics of your hardware with the system requirements of the game. But there is a much faster and more informative way to do this - the Technical City service technical.city is designed to provide detailed information about computer hardware to those who are interested. The site will also help to compare different models of video cards or processors. In our case we need it to check the compatibility of game requirements and the characteristics of our PC. To check it go to the site (https://technical.city/ru). Go to the section "Will the game work" and specify the hardware of your computer. Choose a range of game requirements in the form of the year of release and rating, or just enter the name of the game. After that, the service will offer detailed information on compatibility. https://technical.city/en

How to completely disable all notifications in Chrome

 

How to completely disable all notifications in Chrome

When visiting various sites on the Internet, we often get messages inviting us to sign up for a mailing list. Sometimes this is done so aggressively that you don't even want to be on the site anymore. In the Chrome browser, we can completely disable notifications for sites. To do this, open the settings and in the left menu, click Privacy and Security. Next, click on the link Site Settings. In the Permissions section, click on Notifications. Select Deny sites to send notifications. To go directly to the Notifications section, you can go to the internal address chrome://settings/content/notifications.

How to clean your computer from junk quickly.

 

How to clean your computer from junk quickly.

Win10Clean allows you to remove any installed applications, even if they are system applications and should not be removed in the standard way. At the same time, the service does not remove any settings from the registry, all changes made during the configuration can be undone. Also with Win10Clean you can easily disable Windows Defender, ads in Start menu, get rid of Homegroup, disable reinstallation of uninstalled applications and uninstall OneDrive. Use it! https://github.com/ElPumpo/Win10Clean

Blocking any program from accessing the Internet in Windows

 Blocking any program from accessing the Internet in Windows

If for some reason you need to block a certain program access to the Internet, it is relatively easy to do this with the help of the system's built-in functions. Windows Firewall is one of the easiest ways to block a program's access to the Internet that does not require the installation of any third-party tools. The steps for blocking will be as follows: Press "Win+R" and enter the command "firewall.cpl" On the left, click "Advanced Settings" and then "Rules for Outgoing Connection" On the right side, click "Create Rule", select "For Program", specify the path, check "Block Connection", then "Next", specify "Name" and click "Done"

Easily copying the path to a file or folder

 

Easily copying the path to a file or folder

The context menu of Windows Explorer has a function to copy the path, but it is hidden from ordinary users. It is much easier to use Path Copy Copy It can do lots of things: copy data in long and short formats, Unix-style and Cygwin-style, convert paths into web addresses, work with network folders and devices. If you wish, you can even create custom commands based on almost half a dozen basic ones with the right options. https://pathcopycopy.github.io/

Handwritten text generator

 

Handwritten text generator handwrittner.com is a handwriting generator service. It's a great solution for school and college students. Type any text and apply one of 54 fonts to it. You can also set one of the available backgrounds, such as a notebook page. After generation, you'll get an image or a PDF of the handwritten text. The editor allows you to add various modifiers: lifting the text up or down, setting different letter sizes, including different blots in the text, stroking or coloring the letters. https://handwrittner.com/?lang=en

Hiding your face when recording video

 Hiding your face when recording video

Facial recognition algorithms are already at full strength, and identifying a person from a photo or video is not too difficult. But there is a way to hide from prying eyes and keep yourself safe. The App Store has an app that automatically hides your face in photos and videos while you're recording. You can also choose to hide your whole body at once. Anonymous Camera is the name of the app. In addition to hiding your face, the app can also remove all metadata from a photo or video. There are several types of face hiding, from the usual "blurring", to putting a circle of a single color on the face area. Full body hiding is available on IPhone XS and higher, it is not supported on previous models.

How to make a blank screen on iPhone

 

How to make a blank screen on iPhone

Sometimes you want to put a beautiful wallpaper on the iPhone home screen and not have any apps, folders or widgets overlap it. It is also sometimes useful to hide absolutely all applications from the home screen of the device and make a blank iOS screen visible. To make a blank screen you need: Hold the screen blank until the icons start wiggling, then move the icon of one of the apps to the blank screen Then by pressing the three dots at the bottom, turn off all other screens Remove the application icon you moved earlier from the home screen and remove the other icons from the panel below If you remove all apps from the home screen, new downloads will still appear on the screen that has been cleared of icons. To avoid this: go to settings, select "Home screen" and check "App Library only".

How to rollback from Windows 11 back to Windows 10

 How to rollback from Windows 11 back to Windows 10

Windows 11 is a great operating system, but some users may want to roll back to a previous version of Windows after installing it. After all, not every PC pulls all its features and decorations, or because of incompatibility with hardware, programs and games. Fortunately, Microsoft has provided an easy way to roll back to Windows 10. Not only is it easy, but it's also quick - the whole procedure takes just a few minutes. Just open "Settings", go to "Windows Update Center" → "Advanced Settings" → "Restore" and click "Back to Windows 10". You may need to select or specify a reason why you decided to go back to the previous OS. If the option to revert to Windows 10 is not available, it means that it has been more than ten days since you installed Windows 11, or you deleted a saved copy of your old operating system to save space.

SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk

 

SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk

Users may encounter messages such as: SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk, SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure, S.M.A.R.T. Status Bad and others. All of the above messages say that a self-diagnostic S.M.A.R.T. HDD or SSD is telling you that the drive is about to fail. Moreover the message usually suggests to back up and replace the drive. Check CrystalDiskInfo to see if the hard disk drive is working and not error free.