How to Remove Your Windows Disk Encryption Key From Microsoft's Servers

Did You Know? The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was so incredibly loud that it ruptured the eardrums of people up to forty miles away. Geek Trivia Which Of These North American Mammals Has A Sophisticated Language System? Coyotes → Raccoons → Prairie Dogs → Elk → Advertisement Download Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level (Valued at $16.99) In Getting Ahead, one of the top 50 executive coaches in the United States, Joel Garfinkle reveals his signature model for mastering three skills to take your career to the next level: Perception, Visibility, and Influence. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. 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. How to Add Contacts from Gmail, Outlook, and More to Windows 10’s Address Book How to Remove Your Windows Disk Encryption Key From Microsoft’s Servers How to Control Your Smart Home Products with the Amazon Echo How to Create Voice Memos on Your iPhone How to Add a Word or Phrase to Android’s Autocorrect Dictionary How to do a Clean Install of Windows 10, the Easy Way Geek Comic Today's Tech Term CPI CPI (short for Cost-Per-Impression) is the amount of money that an advertiser has agreed to pay each time their advertisement is viewed. CPM (short for Cost Per Thousand [M – Roman numeral for 1,000] Impressions) refers to the “bulk” sized payment/views approach. 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. We narrowly missed a new ice age, and now we won't see one for a long time Before fossil fuels rendered this moot, conditions were nearly right. [ArsTechnica] The Great PC Decline Isn't As Bad As It Looks Reports of the demise of the PC are, perhaps, a bit premature. [Wired] Don't let the game fool you Eats easy to dismiss them as childish but Disney Infinity and Skylanders are the best examples of Apple TV's gaming potential. [Polygon] License to (Not) Drive — Backchannel — Medium An exclusive look behind the scenes at Google's autonomous car testing center [Medium] Americans want privacy at home, but are more open to surveillance at work "American adults were most likely to be okay with their privacy being infringed on where they work, and were more open to sharing health data than other kinds of information." [The Verge] How to Add Contacts from Gmail, Outlook, and More to Windows 10’s Address Book Many of us juggle multiple email accounts between our professional and personal lives. Instead of managing multiple separate address books, you can use Windows 10’s People app to bring together all your contacts into a single, centralized interface. Read This Article → How to Remove Your Windows Disk Encryption Key From Microsoft’s Servers Windows enables device encryption on many Windows 10 and 8.1 PCs out-of-the-box. It also uploads your recovery key to Microsoft’s servers, allowing you to regain access to you encrypted drives even if you forget their passwords. Read This Article → How to Control Your Smart Home Products with the Amazon Echo The Amazon Echo can do a lot more than play music and check the weather. As futuristically as you’d expect, it can actually control a wide range of smart home products so that all your home comforts are just a voice command away. Read on as we show you how. Read This Article → How to Create Voice Memos on Your iPhone Have you ever wanted to use your iPhone as a simple voice recorder to take simple notes? Or to record speeches, lectures, or presentations? The iPhone includes a simple app that will allow you to do just that. Read This Article → How to Add a Word or Phrase to Android’s Autocorrect Dictionary If you type a lot of complex names, acronyms, or made-up words on your Android device, you know how utterly annoying it is for Android to “correct” them to something else. Next time, add your custom words and phrases to the dictionary so they don’t get changed. Read This Article → How to do a Clean Install of Windows 10, the Easy Way The Windows 10 upgrade process drags old files, settings, and programs from your previous Windows system to your new one. If you want a completely fresh system, though, you have a couple options. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level (Valued at $16.99) In Getting Ahead, one of the top 50 executive coaches in the United States, Joel Garfinkle reveals his signature model for mastering three skills to take your career to the next level: Perception, Visibility, and Influence. Click here to download