Disable Windows 10 Automatic Updates

There Windows 10 updates whether you want it or not unless you know the trick. An up-to-date PC is less vulnerable to attack, so automatic updates are generally a good thing. But sometimes an update will make thinks worse, rendering a PC problematic or even unusable until the problem is solved.

That's why some people prefer to hold off on an update until other people tried it without disaster. But this requires you to take time out of your day to keep up on the news about Windows updates. And if you are using Windows 10, you've got another problem. It won't let you turn off automatic updates. Luckily, there are two workarounds.

By Change the Group Policy:

If you have a Professional, Enterprise, or Education edition of windows 10, you can turn off automatic updates. But the option is hidden.

Step 1. Press Win+R, type gpedit.msc, press Enter. This brings up the Local Group Policy Editor.

Step 2. Navigate the left pane as if it were File Explorer, to

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update

Step 3. Find and double-click Configure Automatic Updates

Step 4. In the resulting dialog box, select Enabled.

Step 5. In the Options box, pull down the Configure automatic updating menu and select your preferred option.

By Change the Group Policy:

If you've got the plain old Home version of Windows 10, you can stop automatic updates by lying to your operation system. (Morally speaking, this doesn't bother me a bit.)

But there's a more serious caveat. It only works with a Wi-Fi network. Ethernet need not apply.

The trick is to tell Windows that you have a metered connection to the Internet one that can only download so many bits per month without increasing your ISP bill. To tell Windows that you have a metered connection (whether you do or not):

Step 1. Open Network & Internet.

Start > Settings > Network & Internet

Step 2. The Wi-Fi tab should already be selected in the left pane. In the right, main pane, select Advanced options.

Step 3. Turn on Metered connection.

You should do this for any Wi-Fi network you visit. The setting is only for that particular network.

You have two way to manually update: You can turn off the metered connection option. Or you can simply use another network, even one with Ethernet.

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Amazing YouTube Tricks

In today's era, we watch all our videos on YouTube. Even after being so familiar with YouTube, we're still unaware of many awesome tricks it has to offer. Like the listed here. Check 'em out.

1. Type 'Use the force Luke' and watch your YouTube act drunk:

2. Just add 'ss' in the URL after www and before YouTube to download YouTube videos effortlessly:

It'll automatically take you to a download page where you'll find an array of formats you can download the video in.

3. Type 'doge meme' in search bar to make your YouTube colorful:

4. Add 'gif' to YouTube in the URL to convert YouTube videos to GIF:

You'll automatically be taken to a GIF maker where you can choose the length of your GIF.

5. Use the keyboard shortcuts:

Feeling too lazy to reach out to your mouse? Worry not for you can always uae that keyboard of yours to control your YouTube videos.

k = Pause/Play

j = Rewind the video 10 seconds

l = Fast forward the video 10 seconds

m = Mute the video

6. Start your video at a specific time:

Wanna start your video from a specific time? Just add '#t=' forward by time you want your video to start from. For example, '#t=1m2s' or '#t=62s'.

Also, if you're embedding the video and want the video to start from a particular time, all you have to do is right click on the video, and choose 'Get video URL at current time'.

7. Operate your YouTube only through your keyboard:

Don't feel like using your mouse or your touch pad? Just type '/leanback' after https://www.youtube.com and press enter.

Your YouTube is now completely keyboard driven.

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Add a Branding Intro to Your Youtube Videos

The Branding watermark enables you to embed your channel logo across all of the videos on your channel. Since March 2015 the watermark is displayed in the bottom right corner of the player, so a video can have both watermark and cards. 

To enable Branding watermark, follow these steps:

Step 1: Go to My Channel 

Step 2: Click the pencil icon on the right side of your channel just below your banner and select Channel settings

Step 3: From left bar under Channel settings, click on Branding.

To feature your channel branding across all of your videos, click on Add a watermark. You will be able to include a channel branding element that will appear in all your uploaded videos across devices.

You will be able to upload an image to use as your channel watermark. we recommend that you use a transparent background rather than a solid one and include just one color in image. Making good use of transparency ensures that the image will be less distracting, especially on small screens (e.g. mobile phones).

On desktop, this channel will allow viewers to directly subscribe to your channel if they hover over the watermark. This won't show to user that are already subscribed to your channel.

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How to Edit a PDF File Easily

People prefer to create their documents in PDF format such as invoices, letters, presentations and legal forms etc. But many times the pdf documents needed some variations to be done or sometimes they have several mistakes. As it cannot be simply edited in Adobe reader or Adobe viewer where you are viewing it, you need to do something special to edit it according to your requirements.

But unfortunately there is no free desktop tool available to perform this function accurately. Although there are some softwares available which have ability to edit pdf files but all of them are demanding hundreds of dollars and nobody is providing them for free. Still here I am sharing some ways to Edit a PDF file.

Steps to edit PDF files:

Method 1: Using pdf to word convertor

Download any PDF to word convertor software from internet.

It is easily available over there. Convert your pdf document into .doc or .docx format and after conversion open it in Ms office or Open office and here you can edit the text or images in that file. Later when you finish editing you can again convert it into pdf file using Word to pdf convertor.

For downloading pdf to word convertor software you can simply google it. Accuracy of documents after conversion may vary depending on the software you are using and its version.

Method 2: Converting pdf to word online

If you don’t want to download and try many softwares for conversion , you can simply do it online. CutePDF-Editor  is one websites offering this service of converting documents online. You can always use google for more such website.

All you have to do is to upload your pdf file to any conversion website and download its corresponding word file after it gets processed. Once you receive it in word format you can edit it using any word processor software.

Also for converting word file back to pdf format you can reverse the process and do it online. It is a bit time consuming process because it requires an internet connection , uploading and downloading of file but if you don’t need to convert pdf files regularly , it is a good option rather than installing unnecessary softwares for doing this.

Method  3: Using Non-Free Tools

Finally, if you edit PDF files daily and the above solutions are not sufficient for you there are also plenty of commercial PDF editors. Unfortunately, many of these programs can cost several hundred dollars but they will assure you the unwatchable quality and user friendly interface for editing the documents.

• NitroPdf
• Adobe Acrobat
• Pdf Converter Pro

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Schedule Emails to Send in Future

When you are not having time and you are having huge workload. During the times of heavy workload, you forget to do important things which you should have done.

Let’s say you didn’t mailed your friend for his birthday. So, what to do then? To keep yourself on a safer side you can schedule your mails when you are free.

Steps to schedule Emails:

Let’s say you didn’t mailed your friend for his birthday. So, what to do then? To keep yourself on a safer side you can schedule your mails when you are free.

Boomerang for Gmail:

There is a plugin, name Boomerang for Gmail which is available for Firefox and Chrome which will help you to schedule emails. This plugin is compatible with your Gmail account.

How to install Boomerang:

• Open your Google chrome or Firefox Browser and visit the Boomerang website by clicking Here.
• Once you have visited the website, click on the Install Boomerang button which is present on the website and the installation will be started.
• You will come across a couple of steps, follow those steps and your installation will be done.
• Once the installation has been completed, the next time you will open Gmail, Boomerang will be automatically enabled.

How to use Boomerang:

• Using Boomerang is very easy as the interface of this plugin is very user friendly. Read the guide below on how you can use Boomerang on your Gmail account to Schedule emails.
• Compose email like you normally do.
• On the Compose page right next to the Send button you will see a new button named Send Later. This is the button which will help you to send email later.
• Choose the date and time as per your schedule, whenever you want to send the email.

Additional Features:

• Schedule Recurring Message: There is one great feature which comes with Boomerang and that feature is that you can schedule recurring messages/emails to anyone on periodic basis. Let's say you are working in a project and you are the project leader and each week you need to ask your team member about the progress report of the project. Using Boomerang you can schedule that message/email using the Schedule Recurring Message feature. You will see the option to schedule recurring messages once you click on the send later button.

• Deal with emails later: Sometimes we don't want to read the emails we received at that time. Boomerang will remind you to read the received mail at the time you have set. If you have sent an email to your entire team and you want that the person who is max qualified in your team should reply to it then you will be get notified.

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Create Run Commands in Windows

There is no doubt that Microsoft Windows is the most widely used operating system in all parts of the world. Apart from being simple to use, it is quite rich in features as well, which makes our lives quite easy.

The Run command available on Windows operating system is one such power packed feature that lets you to open a document or an application instantly with the help of just 1 command. So, rather than clicking several icons or using multiple commands, you can use the Run command to open any program or document instantly. For that you will need to Create Run Commands for any software of your Choice which you use Frequently.

It is really easy to create run commands, which involves just few steps. Through this article, I will help you to access your favorite applications by creating custom Run commands.

To create custom Run commands first of all, you need to open the Run window by just pressing the Windows Key along with the R key, i.e. Windows + R.

Steps to Create RUN Commands: 

Step 1. The first step is to select the software or application for which you want to make custom Run command. For example, let us consider Google Chrome as the example here. Remember, you can choose any application other than which is already there in the Run command.

Step 2. In the second step, right click on the desktop of your computer system and make a new shortcut.

Right click > New > Shortcut

Step 3. As you select the Shortcut option in the 2nd Step, it will open up a dialog box. And, the dialog box will ask you path of the application or software for which you want to create the Run command.

Step 4. Now, you need to browse through the files and choose the one that shows “chrome.exe”. Well, it is quite obvious that all the executable files can be found in the C drive (or wherever the Operating System has been installed), inside the folder “Program Files”. 

For example

C:\Program Files\Google Chrome\chrome.exe

Step 5. Once you are done with Step number 4, just click on “Next” button and simply provide a relative name to that shortcut. Remember, the same name will be used later in the Run command.

For example

GC for Google Chrome

Step 6. Now, click on the “Finish” button. Once it is done, an icon related to that application or software will show up on your computer’s screen. It means that the process of creating shortcut has been done successfully.

Step 7. In this step, just cut and paste that recently made shortcut icon into your computer’s root drive, in its Windows folder.

For example, C:\ Windows , Make sure you are the administrator of the computer or have its password.

Step 8. Now, you are done with the set up and can run the application through Run Command. Just go to Run and enter the keyword “GC”, and Google Chrome will begin executing.

So this was a Short but Usefull Tutorial to Create Run Commands for any software in windows,I Hope this Post will Easeup your Work, Stay Tuned and Subscribe to this Blog to Recieve Updates Everytime a New article is posted. Subscribe Box.

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