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We have probably all been there. The gigantic folder full of — insert a data type here — is taking ages to display all files that it contains. It does not matter if we are talking about pictures, videos, audio files, documents, or a mix of files. Sometimes, File Explorer seems to take ages to…
Super Drag & Drop is a new experimental feature of the Microsoft Edge browser. The main idea behind the feature is to improve the opening of links and running web searches in Edge. Once enabled in Edge, it allows you to drag and drop links just a short distance to open them in the browser….
Google Chrome has a hidden setting to enable scrolling on the tab bar. This guide explains how to enable the feature in the browser. When you open a lot of tabs in Chrome, you will come to a point where no tab gets added to the tab bar anymore. This is only a visual limitation…
The ability to create tab groups is a powerful feature that most browsers support. It allows you to group tabs together, which improves management of tabs significantly. Tab groups can be collapsed to reduce them to a single icon on the tab bar. Excellent if you need space on the tab bar for other tabs….
YouTube publishers and YouTube may use age restrictions to limit a video’s accessibility on the website. Users get a “sign in to confirm your age” message when they try to open such a video on YouTube. The most recent Xbox Developer Direct video is age restricted. Age-restricted content does not violate YouTube’s community guidelines, but…
This guide explains how to remove all history entries of a specific websites from the browser’s Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox. It should work in most other browsers as well. All web browsers record the websites that you visit while using them. The browsing history serves two main purposes: to…
Windows users have several options when it comes to zooming in on any video. This guide lists two of the best options to zoom videos on Windows. The first works for any local video file, the second for any video that you play on Windows. Zoom is a useful feature to enlarge an entire video…
YouTube Shorts is an integral part of YouTube and very similar to videos on TikTok. Not every YouTube user likes the short video format and some may find it outright annoying. There are several ways to remove the entire Shorts section and all Shorts videos from YouTube. Removing in this regard refers to hiding YouTube…
Hard drives may become obsolete from time to time. Maybe your are switching to a new PC or replaced a hard drive with a new one. You may also sell a PC or laptop, or hand it over to someone else. Data on hard drives may be recoverable, even if you format the hard drive….
Microsoft released the 2023 feature update for Windows 11 yesterday to the public. It is already available via Windows Update, but only if the device meets all hardware requirements and has no known issues. Most Windows 11 devices can be upgraded via Windows Update immediately. The situation is different for devices that don’t meet the…