Why You Should Replace Windows' Default Image Viewer With IrfanView

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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. What Is “SmartScreen” and Why Is It Running on My PC? How to Customize Your Command Prompt’s Color Scheme With Microsoft’s ColorTool How to Leave a Facebook Group Why You Should Replace Windows’ Default Image Viewer With IrfanView What Is YouTube TV, and Can It Replace Your Cable Subscription? Screen Savers Haven’t Been Useful For Decades. Why Are They Still Here? How to Stop and Restart Applications On Your Synology NAS How to Enable Auto-Lock for Your Kwikset Kevo Smart Lock How to Securely Send Large Files to Anyone With Firefox Send What Is Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, and How Is It Different? Why Are the PCI Express Ports on My Motherboard Different Sizes? x16, x8, x4, and x1 Explained How to Add Attachments in Gmail for the iPhone How to Use Snapchat Without Sharing Your Location A Brief History of BonziBuddy, the Internet’s Most Friendly Malware Geek Comic Today's Tech Term FSCK FSCK (short for File System Check) is a system utility used to check the consistency of file systems in Unix and Unix-based file systems (i.e. Linux and macOS) and repair any inconsistencies found. 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. Here's what happens to your retina if you view an eclipse without protection Ahead of the rare solar event, eye doctors describe the dangers of risky viewing. [ArsTechnica] A photographer shows what happens if you try to shoot the eclipse without a filter The employees from Dubuque, Iowa's Every Photo Store decided to demonstrate what would happen if you try and and shoot the eclipse without a filter for your camera. [The Verge] Eventually, Total Solar Eclipses Will End Forever - When Is the Last Total Solar Eclipse? The moon is slowly moving away from the Earth, and one distant day, it will be too small to block the sun entirely. [Popular Mechanics] What Is “SmartScreen” and Why Is It Running on My PC? Windows 10 includes SmartScreen, a feature that helps protect your PC from downloaded malware and malicious websites. The “SmartScreen” process—with the filename “smartscreen.exe”—that you see in Task Manager is responsible for this feature. Read This Article → How to Customize Your Command Prompt’s Color Scheme With Microsoft’s ColorTool Microsoft created a new console color scheme for Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, but existing Windows systems won’t get it automatically. A new, official tool allows you to install this new color scheme and other ones for easy customization of your Command Prompt windows. Read This Article → How to Leave a Facebook Group One of Facebook's most annoying features is that any of your Friends can add you to a Facebook Group. I've had several acquaintances who are selling Herbalife or similar things add me to Groups promoting their dubious products. If the same thing happens to you or you just want to leave a Facebook Group because it's no longer relevant to you, here's how. Read This Article → Why You Should Replace Windows’ Default Image Viewer With IrfanView As its feature set expanded, Windows became something of an omnibus. It now includes not one, but two built-in browsers, a defragmentation tool, and even Candy Crush. But like most do-it-all tools, just because Windows can do almost everything doesn’t mean it’s the best way to do anything. So it is with the default photo viewer. Read This Article → What Is YouTube TV, and Can It Replace Your Cable Subscription? It seem like everyone is jumping on the streaming live TV train these days, and with Google getting YouTube on board, it’s worth a closer look. While there are things to like about YouTube TV, I feel like Google still has a lot of work to do to make this a legitimate option for everyone. Read This Article → Screen Savers Haven’t Been Useful For Decades. Why Are They Still Here? I was walking through the dorms in 2003 when I saw it: a desk with three computer monitors, all with a Matrix screen saver scrolling green text. It’s laughable in retrospect, but I thought it was just the coolest. Don’t lie, you would have too. Read This Article → How to Stop and Restart Applications On Your Synology NAS Just like desktop applications, the application packages on your Synology NAS need an occasional restart—but unlike desktop applications, it’s a little less clear on how you do so. Let’s dive into the why, when, and how of restarting application packages. Read This Article → How to Enable Auto-Lock for Your Kwikset Kevo Smart Lock If you ever forget to lock your door on the way out, The Kwikset Kevo can make your life easy by doing it automatically whenever you leave the house. Here’s how to enable it. Read This Article → How to Securely Send Large Files to Anyone With Firefox Send We may be living in the future, but sending large files over the web remains…complicated. Email is a terrible way to send files over 1GB, and using cloud-based services like Dropbox or Google Drive means filling limited space on a service, and you’ve got to manage permissions or accept that your link might be handed off to third parties. Read This Article → What Is Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, and How Is It Different? Microsoft has announced Windows 10 Pro for Workstations. This is a higher-end version of Windows 10 Professional for expensive PCs with powerful hardware. The included features are already available on Windows Server, but are being brought over to a desktop version of Windows. Read This Article → Why Are the PCI Express Ports on My Motherboard Different Sizes? x16, x8, x4, and x1 Explained The PCI Express standard is one of the staples of modern computing, with a slot on more or less every desktop computer made in the last decade. But the nature of the connection is somewhat nebulous: on a new PC, you might see a half-dozen ports in three or four different sizes, all labelled “PCIE” or PCI-E.” So why the confusion, and which ones can you actually use? Read This Article → How to Add Attachments in Gmail for the iPhone While email is still an incredibly popular form of communication, it’s not always a part of everyone’s daily life. And if the time comes when you need to send a document, picture, or some other file using Gmail, you’ll need to know how to attach it. Read This Article → How to Use Snapchat Without Sharing Your Location Snapchat's new Snap Map feature is incredibly creepy—it shares your location with all your Friends every time you open Snapchat—and might make you want to consider blocking Snapchat from seeing your location at all. This will affect a few Snapchat features, so let's look at what you lose. Read This Article → A Brief History of BonziBuddy, the Internet’s Most Friendly Malware If you had a computer in the early 2000s and didn’t have a ton of common sense (or proper antivirus software), you probably ended up with an allegedly helpful purple ape named BonziBuddy crowding your desktop. He could talk, tell jokes, “sing,” and generally annoy you. He promised to help you use the internet, but mostly he just got in the way. Read This Article → Advertisement Free eBook: Successful Time Management For Dummies, 2nd Edition ($12 Value) FREE For a Limited Time If you always feel like there's not enough time in the day to get everything accomplished, this is the resource that can help change your workday and your life. Click here to download