Using Microsoft Authenticator App with 2-step verification Sign into your account on Microsoft.com and click on ‘Security’. Then, scroll down and choose ‘Additional security options’ > ‘Setup 2-step verification’. If prompted add your security information. Once done, you are good to start. It’s advisable to enable Notifications for the app because, when you sign, Microsoft will send a prompt to your device that you will have to respond to. It won’t spam you with unnecessary notifications....

If you have an iOS device and want to organize music on that device or transfer files from your Windows PC to that device, iTunes is the best option. It is made by Apple to manage your device on your Windows computer. However, you can use the same as a dedicated music player as well. If you already use it for managing songs on your iOS device, you can take advantage of this functionality....

How to Boot from USB Drive within Windows 11/10 Normally, if you are unable to boot into Windows and cannot access your files, you can create a bootable drive and use the media to boot and repair your OS installation. Perhaps, not widely known by PC users, there is an option to boot from a USB drive within a running Windows OS installation. If Fast Boot is enabled in UEFI/BIOS, you may not be able to boot from a USB flash drive unless you boot from the USB within Windows; otherwise, you will have to temporarily disable Fast Boot or Ultra Fast Boot to be able to boot from a USB drive....

Do you think it is very easy to calculate the time difference as it is just subtracting the end time from the start time? If you just go ahead and do the same, you will face two problems. Let us see what are they, and how can we handle them. Calculate Time Difference in Excel It is tough to calculate the difference between two times in Excel. But with a little bit of trick applied, we can achieve the result we want....

How do I cancel my Disney Plus account? If you want to cancel the Disney Plus account, you need to follow the steps we have mentioned in this article. We have a guide for both PC and Mobile. Although you can also cancel the subscription using the steps mentioned for browsers (PC), we have an easy way for both Android and iOS users. So, without wasting any time let us jump right into the cancel culture....

How to change Background in PowerPoint To customize and format the background in Microsoft PowerPoint: Once here, you can do the needful. Let us look at this procedure in detail now. Open PowerPoint and select the layout that you want for the slide. In this case, I have changed the layout of the slide to Blank. Once that is done, go to the Design tab and under the Customize group, click on Format Background option....

Change Content Visibility in Edge browser The new browser has been built in an entirely different way and therefore, offers some exciting tweaks that intend to make the experience somewhat better. For example, you might have noticed when you launch Edge you see Bing daily wallpaper images. In addition to this, when you scroll down, you get all the latest news from around the world. While it’s good to keep yourself updated with the latest news and happenings, all may not like this feature and deem it unnecessary....

By default, Microsoft Word saves all files in .docx format, Excel saves files in .xlsx format, and PowerPoint saves files in .pptx format. However, let’s assume that you want to send some Excel spreadsheets to someone who has an old version of Excel. In this case, you must save the file in .xls format instead of .xlsx. Note: We have included screenshots of Excel. However, if you want to make the change in Word or PowerPoint, you must follow the same steps....

Change default File or Folder Drag and Drop behavior By default, Windows copies anything you Drag and Drop to a directory on a different drive and moves it if you drag and drop it to another folder on the current drive. To force Windows 10 into changing the behavior to either copy or move, regardless of whether you’re dragging items onto the same or different drives, you will need to edit two registry entries....

How to change iTunes backup location in Windows 11/10 The following steps will help you change the iTunes backup location in Windows 11/10: From the above steps, it is clear that you have to create a Symbolic Link between the old backup location and the new one. In computing, a Symbolic Link or Symlink is used to point a file or folder in one location to the file or folder in another location....

How to check if your PC can run Windows 11 The easiest method to check if your PC will run Windows 11 is to run the system requirements checker as follows: Once you get the approval message to install Windows 11, this means that your PC meets the Windows 11 System Requirements. The tool will also mention that you will be further notified when Windows 11 is ready to be installed....

Cloning a Hard Drive — What does it mean? Cloning means creating a replica of the original. The same applies to the digital world. However, please do not confuse it with backup or copy. For example, you may copy entire data or your hard disk to another, but you can not boot from it. On the other hand, Clone is a digital copy and can be used at times of disaster recovery....

While the Microsoft Office requires you to be an Office 365 subscriber, Google Docs and Google Sheets, on the other hand, are available to use for absolutely free of cost. Although the word processing ability of Google docs is not feature-rich like Microsoft Office, Google Docs is excellent when it comes to availability, which provides you with the ability to edit documents online, while you are away from the desktop....

Convert SVG icons to Shapes using Word Multiple options and variations are available that you can try to customize how your SVG image looks in your document. To access those tools, Open Microsoft Word and click the ‘Insert’ tab. Next, choose ‘icons’ from the list of options as shown in the screenshot below. Thereafter, choose the desired image from a section. By default, the gallery offers a collection of pre-defined styles for converting your image to a line drawing or changing the fill color of it....

You can copy it as a backup or send it to someone for reference. This works better than a screenshot tool because it lets you copy the names of the files and folders, and that includes file extensions. Another reason to copy the file names would be if you would like to use the file names in a batch process. For example, you could use the file names to rename the files to something that fits your project....

How to create a 3D Picture Cube in PowerPoint Open PowerPoint. On the PowerPoint slide, insert three pictures from your files. Then right-click on any of the pictures. In the drop-down list, select Format Picture. A Format Picture pane will appear on the right. Inside the Format Picture pane, click the Effects icon on top of the pane. On the Effects page, click 3-D Rotation. The 3-D Rotation is a feature offered in Office to rotate objects or pictures into different positions....

Create BitLocker Drive Encryption shortcut To create a desktop shortcut, right-click on an empty area on your desktop, and click New > Shortcut. Copy and paste the following into the location field, and click Next: Type BitLocker Drive Encryption for the name, and click Finish button. Right-click the new BitLocker Drive Encryption shortcut, and click Properties. Click the Shortcut tab, then click the Change Icon button. Now copy and paste the following into the Look for icons in this file field and hit Enter: Sselect the icon highlighted in blue, and click OK....

God Modes are nothing but developer shortcuts or CLSID (Windows Class Identifiers) to open Windows Special Folders, built into Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista, that enables easy access to certain settings and information about the operating system. The administrative options appear scattered in the Control Panel of Windows but when in the secret mode, the same options appear well organized under a single window. How to create a God Mode in Windows 11/10 To be precise, the so-called God Mode is nothing new and brings in all aspects of Windows 11/10 control in a single place....

In Outlook, there is a quick poll feature, but if you do not see a quick poll feature on the insert tab, there is another method to create a poll. In this tutorial, we will explain this method. How to create a Poll in Outlook Open Outlook. Click the New Email button. In the New Email window, click the Options tab. In the Tracking group, click Use Voting Button drop-down arrow....

Now, when it comes down to adding a Venn Diagram, this is super easy to get done because there is no need to create this diagram directly from scratch. Since this is PowerPoint, the diagram is already there and as such, users must first learn where it is and how to add it. How to create a Venn Diagram in PowerPoint Adding a Venn Diagram is just one part of it because not everyone might know how to customize it....