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How to opt out of LinkedIn's 'improve the content-generating AI'

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Starting on November 3, 2025, 'LinkedIn will also start to use data from members in your region to improve the content-generating AI tha...

Microsoft introduces Scareware Blocker for Edge

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Microsoft has started testing its new Scareware Blocker for their Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning to detect tec...

How to troubleshoot your Windows computer

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Sometimes, your Windows experiences problems, such as some functions aren't working properly or Windows crashes. [1] Deployment Image ...

Palos: Take Back Control of Your Windows 1.07

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Idea: Fred de Vries Development: The SZ Development On April 23, 2024, Microsoft released an update for Windows 11 that, among other more...

Prey Helper 1.17

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Idea: Fred de Vries Development: The SZ Development Prey tracks the location of laptops, phones, and tablets. The program ensures that y...

How to empty the Windows Defender Security Log

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Windows Defender is Microsoft's antivirus built into your Windows PC to protect you from viruses, malware threats, and attacks. Whenev...

Avast HermeticWiper Ransomware Decryptor

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A large number of organizations in Ukraine have been hit by cyberattacks originating from Russia that involved new data-wiping malware dubb...

How to hide shortcuts on Google's News Page

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If you are using Chrome (or a Chrome-based browser), Google will show shortcuts either simply based on advertising or based on the sites you...

Where can I find my 'Sent Invitations' on LinkedIn?

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LinkedIn's has a new User Interface (UI) and 'Sent Invitations' seems to have gone missing. Where did LinkedIn bury the button t...

How to block LinkedIn 'Promoted Ads'

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If you are a regular user of LinkedIn, you are – like me – probably irritated by the seemingly endless series of 'Promoted Ads'. Scr...

How to convert OpenOffice .odt documents to Microsoft Word .docx format

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Officially, OpenOffice does not support the latest Word format that creates .docx documents. But there's a solution. You can use a fre...

OpenOffice: How to use a dot (.) as a decimal sign instead of a comma (,)

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Some languages, like French, Italian, German, Dutch or Portuguese, use a comma as decimal separator. The appearance of numbers in Calc depen...

SpeedyFox: Speed-up your browser

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Your browser will start working much more slowly over time. The reason is the continuous fragmentation of profile databases, the SQLite-data...

Enroll in Windows Insider Program: OfflineInsiderEnroll

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OfflineInsiderEnroll is a .cmd script that allows you to join the Windows Insider Program, but without the need to sign in to your Microsoft...

Maximize your Windows Defender: ConfigureDefender

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Windows Defender is Microsoft’s anti-malware program. It is an integral security component of Microsoft’s latest operating system. It offers...

From Dial-a-Fix to Tweaking Windows Repair

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Many, many moons ago, when Windows XP was still the operating system your computer used, there existed a very useful little tool called Dial...

[Fix] Blue light from your computer

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Until recently, the sun was the only real source of lighting and people spent their evenings in (relative) darkness. Now, in much of the wor...

Earnings Notifier 1.29

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Idea: Fred de Vries Development: The SZ Development See your current earnings and get notified if you receive new earnings from Googl...

PUMs, PUOs, PUPs and More

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Modern antimalware products do not only try to protect you from viruses, worms, trojans, RATs and ransomware, but also from programs that be...

How to update your Java Runtime Environment

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While most people who view security of the utmost importance think that you should ditch Java Runtime Environment (JRE), most of us still ha...

How to enable Windows 11 Limited Periodic Scanning

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Even if you are not using Windows Defender as your (primary) antivirus program on Windows 10, you can still enable Limited Periodic Scanning...

How to block unwanted mails in Gmail

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Suppose you are being stalked by a former lover or simply get emails via Gmail that cannot be thwarted via 'Reporting Spam' (the but...

How to change the search engine in Microsoft Edge

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Microsoft Edge comes with Microsoft's own default search engine, Bing.com. That's not a problem if you like Bing but it is if you wa...
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