How to Change Passwords on Any Device (Windows, Mac, Smartphone)

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Read This Article → How to Change Passwords on Any Device (Windows, Mac, Smartphone) It may seem like a simple thing, but changing your password is a fact of life, and knowing how to do it is something we here at How-To Geek generally take for granted, but the question is: do you know how to change your password? Read This Article → How to Mount and Use an exFAT Drive on Linux The exFAT file system is ideal for flash drives and SD cards. It’s like FAT32, but without the 4 GB file size limit. You can use exFAT drives on Linux with full read-write support, but you’ll need to install a few packages first. Read This Article → How to Improve Your Amazon Echo Experience by Training It to Your Voice If you feel like Alexa just doesn’t understand you as clearly as she should it might be time for a little one-on-one voice training. Read on as we show you how to train Alexa to recognize your speaking voice and get a better user experience in the process. Read This Article → How to Use Activity Monitor on Apple Watch to Track Your Fitness If you own a new Apple Watch, then you might still be getting used to the Activity monitor and wondering what the heck all those circles are about. Today we want to explain to you how to use and configure the Apple Watch’s Activity monitor. Read This Article → How to Change the Default City for the Weather Complication on Apple Watch Complications on the Apple Watch allow you to display various types of information and quickly access apps on the watch. The Weather app on your iPhone provides a complication for watch faces that can be customized, such as the Modular, Utility, and Simple watch faces. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS? Whether you’re formatting an internal drive, external drive, USB flash drive, or SD card, Windows will give you the choice of NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT. The Format dialog in Windows doesn’t explain the difference, so we will. Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Keys to Connection: A Guide to Jumpstarting Technology Comcast Business and Inc. Magazine have teamed up to create a plan that describes the best practices on deploying technology for growing business - so you can increase yours. Click here to download