How to Protect Your Files From Ransomware With Windows Defender's New "Controlled Folder Access"

Did You Know? Shooting underhand (“granny style”) free throws in basketball is significantly more effective statistically, but professional players shy away from it because it is perceived as uncool and silly looking. Geek Trivia The Only M*A*S*H Cast Member To Appear In Every Single Episode Was? Jamie Farr → Alan Alda → William Christopher → Loretta Swit → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Practical DevOp Harness the power of DevOps to boost your skill set and make your IT organization perform better. DevOps is a practical field that focuses on delivering business value as efficiently as possible. 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 Use “My People” on Windows 10’s Taskbar How to Disable Haptic Feedback Vibrations on Your iPhone How to Protect Your Files From Ransomware With Windows Defender’s New “Controlled Folder Access” How to Use OneDrive’s Files On-Demand in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update Why Does ~ Represent the Home Folder on macOS and Linux? How to Get Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update Now How to Add Two-Factor Authentication to Steam How to Take Good Photos of the Starry Sky What’s New in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, Available Now Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Nibble A Nibble (a.k.a. Half-Byte, Quadbit, Tetrade, and Semi-Octet; sometimes spelled Nybble) is half a byte (four bits). 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 new MacBook keyboard is ruining my life Individual keys can't be replaced, meaning a problem with one key is a problem with the entire keyboard. [The Outline] Xapo's Swiss mountain bitcoin vault in photos It's even crazier than you're imagining. [Quartz] eBay Is Playing Catchup, But Will It Work? Remember when eBay was a big deal? They liked that, apparently. [Racked] How to Use “My People” on Windows 10’s Taskbar Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update includes the “My People” feature originally promised for the first Creators Update. You can now pin up to three of your favorite people to the taskbar and quickly chat with them on Skype or send them emails. Read This Article → How to Disable Haptic Feedback Vibrations on Your iPhone The iPhone 7 and 8 don't have a physical home button. Instead, the feel of pressing a button is recreated by what Apple calls the Taptic Engine. When you touch the home button, the Taptic Engine sends out a small vibration. It feels really like pressing an actual button. Read This Article → How to Protect Your Files From Ransomware With Windows Defender’s New “Controlled Folder Access” Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update includes a new Windows Defender feature designed to protect your files from ransomware. It’s named “Controlled Folder Access”, and it’s disabled by default. You’ll need to enable it yourself if you want to try it out. Read This Article → How to Use OneDrive’s Files On-Demand in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update The Fall Creators Update includes a new OneDrive feature called “Files On-Demand”, in which your PC now shows “placeholder” copies of your OneDrive files. When you or a program accesses them, they’re downloaded as needed. That way, even if you have 1 TB of files in your OneDrive, they can take up almost no space on your PC, and you can still browse through them in File Explorer. Read This Article → Why Does ~ Represent the Home Folder on macOS and Linux? Whether you’ve installed the Linux subsystem on Windows 10 or are getting started using the Linux Terminal, there are all kinds of shorthands you need to learn…none of which are intuitive. Read This Article → How to Get Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update Now Microsoft has started rolling out Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, but it will be a few months before every PC gets it. If you don’t want to wait, you can download the Fall Creators Update from Microsoft right now. Read This Article → How to Add Two-Factor Authentication to Steam If you’ve been playing PC games in the last few years, the accumulated games in your Steam account are probably worth hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of dollars. Perhaps even more importantly, your Steam account might contain in-game items that can be traded for real-world cash…and thus, stolen with some very real consequences. So it’s a very good idea to apply Valve’s Steam Guard two-factor authentication to your account. Read This Article → How to Take Good Photos of the Starry Sky The night sky is breathtaking. If you go somewhere reasonably dark and let your eyes adjust, you can look up and see thousands of pin pricks of light, each one a star or galaxy that's millions of years old. I find it completely humbling. Read This Article → What’s New in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, Available Now Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, codenamed Redstone 3, is available to download now. Here are all the new features you’ll see in the latest version of Windows—and some big, splashy features Microsoft announced that never arrived. 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