10 Useful Windows Commands You Should Know

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Even though fewer phones support it out of the box, you do have options for adding wireless charging to your high-end phone—though admittedly, maybe not as many options as you’d like. Read This Article → How to View and Delete Your Google Maps History on Android and iPhone If you’re anything like me, you use Google Maps a lot. The thing is, it keeps a detailed history of everywhere you’ve been—regardless of whether you’ve used navigation or not. Here’s how to delete that data. Read This Article → How to Use Instagram’s New Face Filters Over the past two years, Instagram has slowly been cloning Snapchat. Now, they've added Snapchat's last great feature: Face Filters. Here's how to use them. Read This Article → 10 Useful Windows Commands You Should Know There are some things you can only do from the command line—even in Windows. Some of these tools don’t have graphical equivalents, while others are just plain faster to use than their graphical interfaces. Read This Article → How to Limit Windows 10’s Data Usage While Tethering Tethering allows you to get online with your smartphone’s data connection, but you likely have a limited amount of data, and Windows 10 PCs can be very data hungry. You probably won’t want Windows 10 automatically downloading big updates and syncing large amounts of data until you get back to a normal Internet connection. Here’s how to limit that activity when you’re tethering. Read This Article → How to Install Drywall Anchors to Hang Heavy Stuff on Your Walls If you ever plan to mount something to the wall that’s even remotely heavy, you’ll need to use drywall anchors if a stud isn’t available. Here are the different types of drywall anchors, and how to use each one. Read This Article → How to Automatically Pause Your Music When Other Sounds Start Playing You’re listening to music, but then you click a video. Now both things are playing at once, and you have to pause your music manually like it’s the dark ages. There has to be a better way. Read This Article → How to Control Your Philips Hue Lights with Keyboard Shortcuts Being able to turn your lights on and off with your voice is one of the best things about having a smart home. If you don’t have an Amazon Echo or Google Home, though—or just prefer keyboard shortcuts—you can use an AutoHotkey script to control your Philips Hue lights from your computer. Read This Article → How to Force YouTube Videos to Open In The YouTube Gaming Interface Have you seen the dark, chat-focused user interface for YouTube Gaming? Google’s answer to game streaming site Twitch has some interesting features all its own, and it’s a pretty slick-looking to boot. But the distinction between regular YouTube and YouTube Gaming is… well, less than distinct. Read This Article → How to Use “Adapt Sound” on the Galaxy S7 and S8 for Better Sound Quality Samsung’s build of Android Nougat has an incredible new feature that allows users to completely customize their listening experience based completely off their ears. It’s called Adapt Sound, and if you’re not using it, you’re missing out. Here’s everything you need to know. Read This Article → How to Hide a Facebook Post (Without Deleting It) Facebook has a lot of uses. For some, it's just a social network, but for others, it's a piece of professional branding. If you're in the latter category, it helps to keep your Timeline tidy and free of irrelevant information. Read This Article → What Is “Antimalware Service Executable” and Why Is It Running on My PC? Windows 10 includes Windows Defender, Microsoft’s built-in antivirus. The “Antimalware Service Executable” process is Windows Defender’s background process. This program is also known as MsMpEng.exe, and is part of the Windows operating system. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Learn Linux in 5 Days In this eBook, you will learn the most important concepts and commands, and be guided step-by-step through several practical and real-world examples. As new concepts, commands, or jargon are encountered they are explained in plain language, making it easy to understand. The most important material is condensed into five sections, each designed to be consumed in a day.Click here to download