Student-Contributed Wiki An awesome team of students from our education program made this wiki. Pressing the power button does not initiate power in the device. Make sure the battery is charged. If the phone fails to turn on, plug the charger into the phone to see if there is any indication that the phone is charging. A hardware glitch may cause the phone display to remain dark. Remove the battery for 10 seconds....
Compose is a verb that describes the act of writing, creating, or putting something together. For example, when you are writing an e-mail, it can also be said that you are composing an e-mail. If you are writing a document, you are composing a document. You can also compose music and create an audio file. Software programs that compose a document on a computer are e-mail clients, like Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird, and word processors, like Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or OpenOffice Writer....
Adobe Dreamweaver is a software program for designing web pages, essentially a more fully featured HTML web and programming editor. The program provides a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface to create and edit web pages. Dreamweaver supports many markup languages, including HTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript. As for human languages, it supports English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese (both simplified and traditional), Italian, Russian, and many more....
Added in 2018, Facebook Gaming is a videogame livestreaming platform integrated with the Facebook social network. Anyone with a Facebook account can access the platform, allowing them to watch and stream gaming content. You can interact with streams by participating in the live chat, purchasing Stars to donate money to the streamer and broadcast messages, and subscribe to streamers. In June 2020, Microsoft’s streaming service, Mixer, was shut down and merged with Facebook Gaming, causing streamers previously on Mixer to migrate to the platform....
Famicom, which is short for family computer, is an 8-bit home computer and video game console released by Nintendo in Japan on July 15th, 1983. It came with two controllers, and home versions of three Nintendo arcade games: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Popeye. A few years after its release, the Famicom was modified to focus exclusively on video games and re-released worldwide as the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)....
GNU Privacy Guard, also called GnuPG or GPG for short, is an alternative to the PGP suite of encryption software. The Free Software Foundation includes GPG in its GNU software project. GPG is compliant with RFC 4880, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards specification for OpenPGP. It receives funding from around the world, including a large portion from the German government. The production version of GPG was first released on September 7, 1999, and developed by Werner Koch....
Released in 2007, Greenshot is a free software program for taking screenshots on a Windows or macOS computer. You can capture specific areas, a selected window, or the entire screen of your computer. Once you capture a screenshot, you can use Greenshot to resize the image and add vector shapes like text and marquees. You can also automatically share it through websites like Imgur. Greenshot for Windows is free to download from the official website....
You’ll find several system apps & background processes when you launch the Windows Task Manager on your Windows 10 computer. Some of these processes, you’ll recognize. Others, not so much. If there’s a certain “Modern Setup Host” consuming your PC’s CPU in the Task Manager and you’re wondering what it does, we’ve highlighted everything you need to know about the system process in this explainer. As a cherry on top, you’ll also learn how to check if the Modern Setup Host is safe and how to reduce its high CPU usage on your computer....
PowerToys is a free utility for Microsoft Windows that adds useful power user features to the operating system. It is developed by Microsoft, and made available as an open-source project on GitHub. Anyone can download and use it for free. Features PowerToys adds three new features to Microsoft Windows: FancyZones, PowerRename, and Shortcut Guide. FancyZones lets you define rectangular areas of your screen as invisible “zones.” When you drag an application window to a zone border and release the mouse button, the application window automatically “snaps” to resize and fill the zone....
Perhaps you’ve heard the IT person at work talk about GPOs or user policies. Or, maybe, you would like to know how to have better control over your computer. In any case, the Windows 10 Group Policy Editor is the tool to use. With it, you can work with Group Policy Objects (GPO) to customize your computer’s functions and the user experience. In a network environment, the Group Policy Editor is used to configure everything from what programs are allowed to run to desktop customization....
With a computer, thrashing or disk thrashing describes when a hard drive is being overworked by moving information between the system memory and virtual memory excessively. Thrashing occurs when the system does not have enough memory, the system swap file is not properly configured, too much is running at the same time, or has low system resources. When thrashing occurs, the computer hard drive is always working and system performance decreases....
Shorthand for talk to you later, TTYL also sometimes abbreviated as TTUL is an acronym commonly used in chat rooms to tell someone that they plan on coming back later to talk. Below is an example of how this could be used in chat. User1: Ok I’ve G2GUser2: Ok TTYL Chat terms, CYA, G2G, TTLY Related information Top 10 terms every parent of teenagers should know. What are the most important computer terms I should know?...
Unformatting is a capability or command of a software program to undo a format, recovering the information lost during the format process. Operating system terms Related information See the format command page for further information about this MS-DOS and Windows command line command. See the unformat command page for further information about this older MS-DOS command. How to recover missing, lost, or deleted files.
Word wrap may refer to any of the following: Sometimes called a run around and wrap around, word wrap is a feature in text editors and word processors. It moves the cursor to the next line when reaching the end without requiring you to press Enter. For example, in the picture below, as each section shrinks, the sentence is wrapped, so it doesn’t extend past the border. You can see a live example of how text wraps by resizing the browser window on this page....
Unfortunately, because all manufacturers create custom discs, it can be difficult for third-party support companies, such as Computer Hope, to troubleshoot a restore disc problem. Below are common problems encountered while trying to restore a computer. Don’t have a restore disc If you don’t have your system restore/recovery disc or didn’t create one when you first got the computer, you can try restoring your system using the hidden system restore partition....
Computer Hope is a completely free service to the world and tries to help everyone to the best of its ability. Because we are a free service, we receive hundreds of e-mails daily and cannot guarantee an answer to every question. With our limited staff and the requirement of updating our thousands of pages it is difficult to answer all questions we receive. If it’s been several days and you haven’t received a reply, try asking on another Computer Hope service such as our online chat or online forums....
When we outlined this section, we devoted significant space to standard wired Ethernet networking. After all, we’ve been running a wired network in our house since about 1985 the days of ARCNet on RG-62 coax cable and have about a mile (literally) of cable running through our walls, attic, and basement. But then we realized that people nowadays usually don’t want to run network cables throughout their homes. Wireless networking is where the action is....
This guide has more recent changes. Switch to the latest unverified version. Difficulty Very easy Steps 2 Time Required 1 - 5 minutes Sections 1 Hard Drive 2 steps Flags 0 BackXbox 360 S Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide Notify Me of Changes Stop Notifications Introduction What you need Step 1 Hard Drive Orient the Xbox 360 S so that the bottom of the console is facing toward you....
Difficulty Difficult Steps 9 Time Required 30 minutes - 1 hour Sections 1 Xbox One Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 Disassembly 9 steps Flags 2 In Progress This guide is a work in progress. Reload periodically to see the latest changes! Member-Contributed Guide An awesome member of our community made this guide. It is not managed by iFixit staff. BackXbox One Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 Full Screen Options History...
Google Nexus was a brand of Android smartphones initially released in 2010. Its software was developed by Google, and its hardware was manufactured by HTC, Samsung, Huawei, Motorola, and LG. Unlike most Android phones from third-party manufacturers, the Google Nexus ran a “stock” version of the operating system. Stock Android phones receive software updates as soon as Google releases them and don’t have any of the manufacturer’s “skins” on top of the base OS....
