How to Run Windows Software on a Chromebook

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[Neowin] How to Run Windows Software on a Chromebook Chromebooks don’t normally run Windows software—that’s the best and worst thing about them. You don’t need antivirus or other Windows junk…but you also can’t install Photoshop, the full version of Microsoft Office, or other Windows desktop applications. Read This Article → How to Send Text Messages Using Your Amazon Echo The Amazon Echo has had calling and messaging capabilities for a while now, but you can finally send text messages from your phone via your Echo using Alexa. Read This Article → How to Recover From a Bad GPU Driver Update NVIDIA and AMD send out new drivers for their current graphics cards at roughly monthly intervals. These often improve performance, especially on the latest AAA games…except when they don’t. Read This Article → How to Prevent Videos from Autoplaying in Chrome Look, autoplaying videos are awful. No one likes them, and I honestly don’t understand why this continues to be a thing that happens on the web. Thankfully, if you’re a Chrome user, you can easily stop this from happening. Read This Article → How to Spot a “Deep Fake” Face-Swapped Video Recently, Reddit has been making news again with a subreddit in w hich people use a machine learning tool called "Deep Fake" to automatically replace one person's face with another in a video. Obviously, since this is the internet, people are using it for two things: fake celebrity porn and inserting Nicolas Cage into random movies. Read This Article → How to Get Rid of “Suggested Apps” (like Candy Crush) in Windows 10 Windows 10 automatically installs apps like Candy Crush Soda Saga and FarmVille 2 when you first sign in. It also displays more “Suggested Apps” from the Store, both at the left side of your Start menu and at the right side as live tiles. You can disable these to clean up your Start menu. 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