14 Ways to Customize the Taskbar in Windows 10

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. 14 Ways to Customize the Taskbar in Windows 10 How to Repair Disk and File System Problems on Your Mac What Stops Mobile Broadband from Experiencing ‘Interference’ Problems? How to Stop Your Amazon Echo from Listening In How to Customize File Explorer’s Quick Access Toolbar in Windows 10 How to Setup Your New Chromecast Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Big Red Switch The Big Red Switch (BRS for short, a.k.a. the Big Red Button/BRB) is a term used to refer to the immediate (emergency) shut down of a system, server, or mainframe that is suffering an attack that cannot be stopped. It can also be used to refer to a major system reset. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. An Impossible Experiment Shows How Black Holes Might Burp Back Information In theory all that enters a black hole isn't lost forever; the instruments to measure the returned particles may never be built but it offers a tantalizing peak at what could be. [Motherboard] Parenting and sysadminning are remarkably similar The parallels between being a good systems administrator and a good parent are humorously numerous. [Boing Boing] How Alexander Graham Bell Pioneered Li-Fi With the Photophone in 1880 The inventor of the telephone hated wires and ran up against some of the same obstacles making next-gen internet tricky. [Inverse] This is What Outer Space Does to Your Body Spend a little time up at the International Space Station and you'll experience more than a few physical changes courtesy of life in the micro-gravity environment. [YouTube] Learning to Pick Locks Taught Me How Crappy Door Locks Really Are A few minutes with a lock pick training kit will probably convince you that your door lock is more of a social contract than a true deterrent. [Lifehacker] 14 Ways to Customize the Taskbar in Windows 10 The Windows 10 taskbar works much like previous Windows versions — it offers buttons for every application you're running and lets you pin icons for later, and a system tray for icons. The main difference is that Windows 10 has a Cortana search box located right on the taskbar, although you can easily disable it. Read This Article → How to Repair Disk and File System Problems on Your Mac Modern versions of Mac OS X no longer need you to repair disk permissions. However, that’s not the only issue that can occur with a disk or file system. Mac OS X contains a variety of tools for repairing disk, partition, and file system errors. Read This Article → What Stops Mobile Broadband from Experiencing ‘Interference’ Problems? With the constant increase in the usage of mobile devices, what is it that helps keep mobile broadband working as smoothly as it does? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Stop Your Amazon Echo from Listening In The crux of Amazon’s personal voice-assistant Alexa and the companion hardware the Amazon Echo is that she’s always there listening and ready to help but that doesn’t mean that you always want Alexa listening and at the ready. Read This Article → How to Customize File Explorer’s Quick Access Toolbar in Windows 10 The Quick Access Toolbar is a small, customizable toolbar that exposes a set of commands that are specified by the application or selected by the user. It provides a lot of customization opportunities to help make the commands and actions you use most often in File Explorer quicker and easier to use. Read This Article → How to Setup Your New Chromecast When we first reviewed the Chromecast back in 2013 we showed you how to set it up, but the Chromecast now comes in a sleeker, more powerful, and better designed package so we’re back with updated instructions. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Linux from Scratch Linux from Scratch describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the source code of software that you need. Click here to download