What Is the AppData Folder in Windows?

Did You Know? The plot of the 20th episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles hinges on a plot to kill the governor of California—in a fun real-life plot twist, the then governor of California was Arnold Schwarzenegger, famed for his role as the original Terminator in the 1980s. Geek Trivia Which Star Trek Character Was Added Specifically To Appeal To Teenage Viewers? Ensign Chekov → Nurse Chapel → Commander Spock → Captain Kirk → Advertisement Download Host Your Web Site in the Cloud ($29 Value FREE For a Limited Time) This eBook is your step-by-step guide to this revolutionary approach to hosting and managing your web applications. Cloud computing gives you the tools you need to prepare and cope with a traffic onslaught. You'll have the confidence to withstand a traffic surge without melting your servers or sending you into bankruptcy.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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How to Mute (Most) Spam Accounts and Trolls on Twitter How to Track Sales and Price Drops on Amazon Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Answer Only Modem An Answer Only Modem is a modem that is capable of receiving messages (answering a call), but cannot send messages (initiate a call). 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. The Ancient Reasons Why We Have So Many Languages Why is it that humans speak so many languages? And why are they so unevenly spread across the planet? [New York Magazine] Elon Musk knows what's ailing NASA—costly contracting "As soon as you don't have any competition, the sense of urgency goes away." [ArsTechnica] How Checkers Was Solved The story of a duel between two men, one who dies, and the nature of the quest to build artificial intelligence [The Atlantic] How to Avoid Abusive Online Gamers A wise man once said that a normal person, plus anonymity, plus an audience, equals…well, something we can’t reprint on a family-friendly website. But the tendency for anonymous crowds to be abusive is well-known, and adding in the competitive nature of online multiplayer games doesn’t help things. Read This Article → How to Add a Voice Filter to Your Video in Snapchat Snapchat has always been the most fun social network. It's a place where you send bad photos without fear that your boss will see them. To that end, Snapchat has broken one of the features previously only available as part of Lenses into its own thing: Voice Filters. Read This Article → What Is the AppData Folder in Windows? Windows applications often store their data and settings in an AppData folder, and each Windows user account has its own. It’s a hidden folder, so you’ll only see it if you show hidden files in the file manager. Read This Article → How to Figure Out the Size of Screws, Bolts, and Nuts If you have some stray screws and bolts (a.k.a. fasteners) lying around and aren’t quite sure what size they are, or if you need to replace a missing bolt on a piece of machinery and need to know what size to get, here are some methods to easily figure that out. Read This Article → How to Test Your Internet Speed from the Command Line Want to quickly check the speed of your current Internet connection? With speedtest-cli you can run a test in the command prompt, on any operating system. Read This Article → What Is Xbox Game Pass, and Is It Worth It? Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass promises access to over 100 games for a $10 per month subscription fee. Microsoft wants Xbox Game Pass to be the “Netflix of video games”—but is it really worth it? Read This Article → How to Erase and Format a Drive in Windows Most hard drives come “preformatted” and ready to use these days. But you occasionally might need to format one yourself. Read This Article → What Is Intel Optane Memory? In the quest for ever-faster computers, Intel is constantly introducing new upgrades to its products to try and get a bit of extra cash out of enthusiasts and corporate customers. One of the company’s most dramatic introductions as of late has been its branded Optane memory, launched alongside the seventh generation of Core-series processors. Read This Article → How to Mute (Most) Spam Accounts and Trolls on Twitter I love Twitter, but there's no denying it has long had a spam and troll problem. Tweet about a popular product or service, and you'll often get weird replies from random accounts. Poke your head out and take a political stance, and anonymous trolls will try to cut you down. Read This Article → How to Track Sales and Price Drops on Amazon Amazon adjusts prices on its products all the time. If you have time to wait for a good deal, you can track prices on stuff you want (and even get alerts) using a web site called CamelCamelCamel, and its browser extension The Camelizer. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Host Your Web Site in the Cloud ($29 Value FREE For a Limited Time) This eBook is your step-by-step guide to this revolutionary approach to hosting and managing your web applications. Cloud computing gives you the tools you need to prepare and cope with a traffic onslaught. You'll have the confidence to withstand a traffic surge without melting your servers or sending you into bankruptcy.Click here to download