Restart your PC A simple system restart can sometimes resolve update errors. So before you try anything else, reboot your PC and see if that will take care of the problem. If not, you can try the other solutions below. Check Your Settings Some Windows settings can stop it from installing necessary updates. Here are some of the things you should check. Metered Connection Windows have features that prevent it from downloading updates over a metered connection....

This might be because iTunes doesn’t get the primetime attention from Apple developers that it used to when it was the main app in Apple’s arsenal. Or it could be simply because it’s iTunes. Either way, there are a few things you can try to get the houses of Microsoft and Apple to play nice again. 1. Check Your Audio Output Before you start troubleshooting audio settings, make sure that your audio hardware is set up correctly....

When this happens, calculations and different formulas don’t work quite right, or may not work at all. In this article you’ll learn how to identify when a column or row of numbers are actually formatted as text, and how to convert text to numbers so that they’ll work in formulas and calculations again. This is one of those basic Excel tips everyone should know. Is Cell Data Text Or Numbers?...

They also offer some unique features and customization options that make them stand out from the crowd. To help you, here are some of the best lightweight browsers you can use on your Linux PC below. 1. Midori Midori is a simple and elegant browser that uses the WebKit rendering engine and the GTK toolkit. It is part of the Xfce desktop environment and comes pre-installed with beginner-friendly Linux distros like Elementary OS....

For instance, did you know that Office Online lets you work with any Word document free of charge? Or that you can use open-source software such as OpenOffice and LibreOffice for a Word-like experience offline? Probably not. Here’s a rundown of the best methods to open and edit Word documents on any device without having Microsoft Word installed. 1.WordPad & TextEdit You can open any Word document with nothing other than WordPad or TextEdit on the PC or Mac....

Given the diverse nature of the causative factors, you may have to try multiple troubleshooting steps to fix the problem. This tutorial covers possible ways to stabilize a crashing app on Android devices. 1. Force Stop the App An Android app might keep stopping if it cannot complete a task or operation. Most times, force-stopping and reopening the app can set things back in order. Reopen the app and check if it runs without crashing....

These days you can choose between a computer with an Intel or AMD processor (x86) or a device with an ARM processor. So when it comes to ARM vs. Intel processors, which is better? ARM vs. Intel: Differing Origins Modern Intel and ARM-based CPUs can trace their technologies back to early chips in computers brought to market in the early 1980s, specifically the Acorn Computers BBC Micro and the Intel 8088 found in the first IBM PC....

By loading up a flash drive or external hard drive with these apps, you simply have to plug the device into a compatible computer and all your software and data is right there. What’s a Portable App? When you install most applications on a computer, it makes changes to the system and integrates itself. Windows applications, for example, pick a folder on your local hard drive, make entries in your registry and generally expects Windows to provide certain amenities so that it can do its job....

Improvements in memory technology are a key part of why computer performance is so good. The fastest CPU in the world can only work at a snail’s pace if it’s being fed data by slow, obsolete RAM. At the time of writing, there are three types of RAM to contend with when building or buying a computer. There’s DDR3, which is well over a decade old but still present in plenty of computers in use today....

Whoops! That definitely didn’t sound too good. A DNS cache poisoning attack is basically the same thing as DNS spoofing, which basically means the DNS name server cache has been compromised and when requesting a webpage, instead of getting the real server, the request is redirected to a malicious computer that can download spyware or viruses to the computer. I decided to perform a full anti-virus scan and also downloaded Malwarebytes and did a scan for malware too....

Hmmm, of course I have a license! The product key was valid and it had activated fine over the Internet when I first installed it, so I wasn’t sure exactly why I was getting this error. Anyway, after playing around with a couple of possible solutions, it’s now running without the error message popping up. In this article, I’ll list out the various steps I tried to solve the issue and hopefully it will work for you....

RAID or Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks is a method of combining multiple disks into one to improve performance, reliability or both. With SSDs quickly taking over from mechanical hard drives, this presents us with a choice: HDD Raid Vs SSD Raid. There’s no absolute winner here, so let’s take a close look at the considerations. A Recap Of RAID Levels While there is no universal standard for RAID configurations, there are several so-called RAID “levels” that have become pretty commonplace....

Using an Ethernet connection, you can connect two devices together, or create a local area network with multiple devices. These require a router or switch device to allow the connected devices to communicate with each other. Let’s explore the Ethernet standard a little further, as well as compare and contrast it to WiFi. Different Ethernet Standards What is Ethernet? The Ethernet standard has evolved to cope with the changing demands of modern computer networks since it was first developed in the 1980s....

So if you want to access the full-fledged desktop version of a website on a mobile device, you must manually configure the browser to load it in desktop mode. Some browsers also feature the ability to always load sites in desktop mode. The instructions in this tutorial will demonstrate what you must do to activate desktop mode in all major browsers for iOS and Android devices—Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, etc....

Telemarketers, phone scams, market surveys, and debt collectors all have two things in common. The first is that they are all annoying. The second is that they don’t use fingers to dial the phone. That takes too much time, and they’re in the business of volume. How much volume? In the U.S., over 4.7 billion robocalls in January 2020 alone. That’s an average of 14.4 calls for every person in the U....

More often than not, the problem is with your network, WiFi connection, or in some cases, your microphone. Issues with your microphone can affect the sound and quality of your video or voice calls besides making recording audio on Windows 10 a problem. The issue is particularly pronounced when using your microphone with conferencing apps like Skype where sometimes the quality of voice sinks, or when gaming within the high octane context of a multiplayer game....

You could choose to avoid this situation by setting Windows to automatically log you in whenever you boot up your PC. It can save you precious seconds, bypassing the login screen in its entirety, and it’s a rather simple process to boot. So long as you can bother to remember your password in the first place. But what if you can’t? What if it were to suddenly slip your mind?...

As long as you have the correct network setup, it’s an easy process to connect an Xbox to a PC. You’ll need both devices on the same network and, if you want to stream content, an ethernet connection is preferred. If you want to know how to connect your Xbox to a Windows PC, here’s what you’ll need to do. Connecting an Xbox to a Windows PC Using the Xbox App The Xbox Console Companion app gives you full control of your Xbox One console from your Windows PC....

In this post, we’ll discuss the difference between GPT and MBR. We’ll also show you how to convert GPT to MBR in as few steps as possible. What Are GPT and MBR? Both GPT and MBR are both methods of partitioning information on a hard drive. GPT is meant to improve upon the limitations of MBR including storage limitations. It also reduces the risk of file corruption and performs redundancy checks to keep your data in place....

If you’re one of the users that find that restrictive, you must be looking for a way to convert your AAX files to MP3. Unfortunately, since Audible doesn’t offer a native option to change the files format from AAX to MP3 (or any other audio format), you’ll have to use one of the following third-party options to do it. Why Convert AAX to MP3 What if you’re not a fan of Audible’s native media player and want to listen to your audiobooks on a different platform?...