The Ultimate Checklist Guide to Reinstalling Windows on Your PC

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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. What Is the M.2 Expansion Slot, and How Can I Use It? How to Remove Chromecast’s Network-Wide Android Notifications Wireless Earbuds Used to Suck, But They’re Good Now The Ultimate Checklist Guide to Reinstalling Windows on Your PC How to Import Photos from iPhone to Mac How to Reset Your MacBook’s Touch Bar When It Gets Stuck What Is 1-Click Ordering On Amazon and How Does It Work? How to Find and Install a Color Profile for a More Accurate Monitor on Windows and macOS The Cheapest Ways to Stream NFL Football (Even If You Don't Have Cable) How to Disable Google Assistant (or At Least Take Its Shortcut Back) What Is “Medium Format” in Photography? Do I Really Need Antivirus If I Browse Carefully? [PRO] How to Extract a Single File from a .tar / .tar.gz Archive [PRO] How to Randomize Uploaded Filenames in WordPress Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Clan A Clan is a group of gamers who play as a team in multi-player online games. Clans may be “official” and are a built-in part of a particular game’s mechanics or they may be “unofficial/informal” and simply exist by mutual agreement. In MMORPGs, the groups of gamers are referred to as Guilds. What Is the M.2 Expansion Slot, and How Can I Use It? There’s a new open format sweeping the world of performance PCs, and it’s…well, complicated. The M.2 format is designed for manufacturers to replace a variety of specific devices, do it in a tiny space, and require very little power. But actually upgrading to an M.2 drive or accessory requires a little forethought. Read This Article → How to Remove Chromecast’s Network-Wide Android Notifications In an effort to unify all devices on the same network, Google added a feature to the Google Home app (formerly called "Chromecast"). Now, if someone is playing something on a Chromecast in your home, it'll show a notification on all the Android devices on your network. That means if your daughter is watching My Little Pony all day, you'll have to deal with notifications letting you know. Read This Article → Wireless Earbuds Used to Suck, But They’re Good Now I hate wires. For a long time I've wanted to exclusively use wireless earbuds, but they just haven't been good enough. It was impossible to pair them over Bluetooth, they sounded awful, and the battery life lasted about fifteen minutes. Things, however, have changed. Read This Article → The Ultimate Checklist Guide to Reinstalling Windows on Your PC Reinstalling Windows isn’t as simple as just clicking through an installer. You’ll want to have important data backed up first, and then you’ll need installation media and a product key before continuing—and those are just the basics. This checklist will walk you through reinstalling Windows and ensure you won’t forget anything. Read This Article → How to Import Photos from iPhone to Mac There are several ways to transfer photos you took with your iPhone over to your Mac. Some of these methods are better than others, depending on how many photos you have. Read This Article → How to Reset Your MacBook’s Touch Bar When It Gets Stuck It’s rare, but every once and a while your MacBook’s Touch Bar can get stuck, showing you only one set of buttons and not responding to touch. For me it was displaying the “Unlock With TouchID” message long after I logged in, but it’s hypothetically possible for this to happen while running any application. Read This Article → What Is 1-Click Ordering On Amazon and How Does It Work? Amazon became a household name by letting you order almost anything you could possibly want from a single website. Naturally, Amazon wants to make it as easy as possible for you to buy stuff. Arguably, their greatest innovation towards this end is 1-Click Ordering. The company has probably tried to push it on you already, but it’s worth knowing what it is and how it works before you do. Read This Article → How to Find and Install a Color Profile for a More Accurate Monitor on Windows and macOS Color profiles, also known as ICC or ICM files, contain a collection of settings that help calibrate how colors appear on your monitor. You can install them on your Windows PC or Mac to help get more accurate colors. Read This Article → The Cheapest Ways to Stream NFL Football (Even If You Don't Have Cable) Football season is almost upon us. That means one thing: expensive cable or satellite TV packages. Okay, it also means beer commercials and overpriced stadium tickets and quarterbacks trying to sell you car insurance. But in terms of immediate costs, premium TV is up there. Read This Article → How to Disable Google Assistant (or At Least Take Its Shortcut Back) Google Assistant should be available on basically all modern Android phones at this point, but not everyone loves it. If you find yourself disliking Assistant more than you use it, you have some options: you can change how you use Assistant, or you can disable it completely. Read This Article → What Is “Medium Format” in Photography? Before the rise of digital photography, things were a lot less standardized. There were countless films available in different sizes that you could shoot on cameras from a dozen different manufacturers. Read This Article → Do I Really Need Antivirus If I Browse Carefully? Whenever antivirus software is mentioned, someone always seems to chime up and say they don't need an antivirus because they're “careful”, and “common sense is all you need”. This isn't true. No matter how smart think you are, you can still benefit from an antivirus on Windows. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Get ~100 amazing Mac apps in one signup Setapp is a growing collection of top-quality software for all kinds of tasks. In a single suite you get apps for productivity, studies, creative endeavours, budget planning, and a dozens of time-saving Mac utilities. Plus, it's 50% off for students and educators around the world.Sign up now!