How to Open a HEIC File in Windows 10 Assuming your PC is up to date, you don’t actually have to do much to open a HEIC file. Here’s what’s involved. How to Open a HEIC File in Windows 7 and 8 Opening a HEIC/HEIF file is a little trickier on Windows 7 and 8 since there’s no direct support for the file extension. The best solution is to download a tool called CopyTrans HEIC for Windows....

How to Perform a Netsh Winsock Reset You must be logged in as an administrator or know the Windows admin password. After restarting, open a website in Chrome or another browser to see if the problem has been resolved. What should return is a message like the following: When to Perform a Winsock Reset If you can’t view any web pages despite having a stable Wi-Fi connection, resetting Winsock could fix the problem....

How to Play Roblox on Meta (Oculus) Quest and Quest 2 Here’s how to play Roblox on your Quest or Quest 2: What if You Can’t Play Roblox in VR Mode? If you have successfully linked your Quest or Quest 2 to your PC, and you’re playing Roblox in a virtual desktop mode on the headset, but you don’t see an option to enable VR, there are a handful of potential issues....

How to Print From an iPad Using AirPrint You need an AirPrint-compatible printer and a Wi-Fi connection to print from any iPad using AirPrint. Here’s how: How to Print From an iPad Using Third-Party Apps Most manufacturers—including Canon, HP, and Brother—produce their own apps. These apps can usually be downloaded from the App Store for free. To print more than one copy of the page or image, select the + button next to 1 Copy....

Turn Off the Automatic Signature To stop Gmail from automatically adding a signature to every email you compose, perform the following: By turning off the automatic signature, you can add your own personal signature for different emails. If you decide to use your old signature, simply select it and Save Changes again. Signature Best Practices If you turn your email signature back on, ensure that it follows best practices: Keep it simple....

How Do You Take Your Birthday Off of Facebook? The steps are nearly identical whether you’re doing it from a computer or the app: Hide Your Birthday on Facebook Via the Website Go into your profile settings, to the Contact and basic info section, to change who can see your birthday month/day or year. Hide Your Birthday From the App Editing your birthday privacy settings from the mobile app is just as easy as it is on the website....

This process is similar across all of Sonos’ products. Still, these specific instructions are intended for the Sonos Beam alone, so if you want to reset a different Sonos speaker, check your device’s user manual. How to Soft Reset a Sonos Beam Soft resetting or rebooting Sonos Beam only takes a hair over 10 seconds. After a soft reset, there are no permanent changes to your device, so no further setup will be necessary,...

Turn on Low Data Usage Mode WhatsApp has an option that lowers data during chats and calls. Selecting it reduces the amount of data consumed, which reduces the audio and video fidelity of the calls you make. You can test the option by activating it, placing a call, then monitoring the change in quality. To activate this data saving option, open WhatsApp, then from the three dot menu select Settings > Data and Storage Usage....

How to Send Mail From a Different Account in iOS Mail The Mail app in the iPhone iOS sends and receives emails from as many accounts as you have on the phone. After you configure a second (or subsequent) email account, you unlock the functionality to specify the outgoing account for a given message. To choose the account from which the email or reply you are composing in iPhone Mail will be sent:...

How to Set Up Apple Family Sharing Before you can share Apple TV+ with any members of your family, you first need to set up Apple Family Sharing. It’s a simple process. You’ll find the option in your settings on an iPhone or an iPad, or you can access them on a Mac from the Apple menu > System Preferences > Family Sharing. In either setup method, you’ll need to agree to be the person who is responsible for any purchases made by shared family members....

How to Set Up the Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch setup is pretty straightforward and quite intuitive, but it’s helpful to know what to expect. Here’s a look at how best to set up the Nintendo Switch so you can be gaming in no time. How to Use Nintendo Switch the First Time Using your Nintendo Switch can be a little confusing at first, so here’s how to get started. How to Link a Nintendo Account to Your Nintendo Switch If you’ve set up your Nintendo Switch and you wish to add a Nintendo account, here’s how to do it....

Speed Up Downloads by Closing Games and Apps On the Xbox One, video games and apps download in the background. This is a convenient feature as it allows you to play a game or watch videos on YouTube, Netflix, or DC Universe as your purchase downloads. Unfortunately, performing another activity while something is downloading in the background can dramatically decrease the download speed, especially if it requires online connectivity. Quitting all games and apps can be a great way to speed up downloads on an Xbox One....

Pop-up Ads They just keep appearing. If you shut one down, sometimes many replace it. It seems that the “shadier” the website you are visiting, the more likely you are to encounter a seemingly endless cascade of pop-up web advertisements. But, even reputable sites like Weather.com or Lifewire.com might use pop-up ads as a marketing tool. So how do you stop pop-ups in your web browser? For computers not kept up to date with patches from the operating system and respective application vendors and machines that aren’t running current antivirus or firewall software, these pop-up windows could also pose a security risk....

Available on Netflix Netflix has a range of movies available all the time, so it’s not surprising that you’ll find some of the Oscar nominees there. If you have a subscription, watching these highly-acclaimed movies is easy. If you don’t have a subscription, it’s not hard to start one. Don’t Look Up This star-studded satire about climate change has shifted the Academy’s perspective on straight-to-streaming movies. Don’t Look Up is a Netflix exclusive, so you won’t find it streaming anywhere else....

Why Sync Your Windows Desktop With OneDrive? Putting commonly used folders such as your Windows desktop in the cloud is a great solution if you use your desktop to store downloaded files or frequently accessed items. That way, you always have those files synced across your devices. You can also connect other PCs you use with OneDrive sync. How to Move Your Desktop to the Cloud With OneDrive Before you begin, install the OneDrive desktop sync client on your version of Windows....

When in doubt, refer to your service provider and phone manufacturer for instructions, but here’s some information to get you started. What You Need To set up your cellphone as a modem, you need the following: The device you want to use with the internet—your laptop or tablet, for example. A data-capable cellphone that you’ll use as the modem. Some feature cellphones can’t access the internet, so they won’t work....

Why HDMI Problems Happen HDMI is supposed to make it easy to connect all your devices with one HDMI cable for both audio and video. To do this, connected devices must be “licensed” to communicate with each other through a standard known as HDCP. This ability to recognize and communicate media and devices is referred to as the “HDMI handshake.” If the handshake doesn’t work, that means the HDCP encryption embedded in the HDMI signal is not recognized by one or more of the connected devices....

How to Stop Google From Sharing Your Photos Disabling link sharing is the quickest way to restrict who can view a shared album or individual picture. Only people you’ve explicitly invited will have access (we’ll look at removing their access, too). Disable Album Sharing First, here’s how to turn off photo sharing if it’s an album. Do this if you’ve created a share link from an album and you want to deny access through that link....

How Do I Temporarily Turn off Notifications? Turning off all notifications on your iPhone is easy. Enable the Do Not Disturb feature on your iPhone either through Settings or the Control Panel. Do Not Disturb will turn off all the notifications that come into your phone, including app notifications, mail and message notifications, and call notifications. If that’s not what you had in mind, there are a few other ways to manage your notifications, too....

How Do I Turn Off Sleep Mode on My iPhone? Sleep Mode is designed to turn off automatically each morning based on the settings you used when you first set up Sleep Mode, but you can also turn it off manually from your iPhone or Apple Watch. You can turn it off from the Control Center on your phone or watch, or directly from your iPhone lock screen. This is useful if you’ve woken up earlier than normal and don’t want to have to wait to start using your phone....