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View HEIC Files in Windows
Microsoft, Technology Support, WindowsIn order to view Apple HEIC images within Windows File Explorer (including thumbnails) you may need to download the HEVC Video Extensions App from the Microsoft Store.
At the time of writing this article, there was no cost to download the HEVC Microsoft Store App (free). However, Microsoft charges for its official HEVC Video Extensions App.
Conclusion
As always, I welcome your thoughts, questions or suggestions on my article on how to view HEIC files in Windows.
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Safely Remove USB Flash Drive on Windows PC
Microsoft, Security, Technology Support, WindowsIf you have a USB flash drive plugged into your Windows 10 PC and would like to safely eject it, locate the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon (which looks like a USB plug, see photo below) in your taskbar notifications area. This icon is in the lower-right corner of your screen.
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Turn off Outlook Thread or Conversation View
Microsoft, Outlook, Technology SupportThe Microsoft Outlook app for mobile devices organizes emails by thread by default.
Organizing emails by thread arranges your messages into conversational threads based on the subject of the emails. In short, it combines messages with matching subject lines into one email.
Some users find this feature convenient, others find it difficult to locate emails quickly as it automatically collapses the content into a conversational thread. As a result, some users find that they end up missing important messages.
Likely we can quickly and easily change this option and revert back to the traditional way of handling emails. This article will show you how to turn off the organize emails by thread option in Outlook on mobile.
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Hide Favorites from Sidebar on Outlook.Live.com
Microsoft, Outlook, Technology SupportThere is no setting to hide of the “Favorites” folder from the sidebar on outlook.live.com.
However, hiding the Favorites folder may be quickly and easily accomplished by simply removing all sub folders from the Favorites folder.
To remove a sub folder from the Favorites folder simply right click on the sub folder and select “Remove from Favorites“.
Once all items have been removed the Favorites folder it should hide automatically.
Conclusion
As always, I welcome your thoughts, questions or suggestions on my article on how to remove or hide the Favorites folder from the Outlook.Live.com sidebar.
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Let me know if you found any errors within my article or if I may further assist you by answering any additional questions you may have.
Set Shortcut Key to Heading Styles in Word
Microsoft, Office, Technology Support, WindowsIn an effort to maximize my productivity I find the use of keyboard shortcut keys valuable. Within Office 365 Word you can use either the built-in styles or custom styles but no keyboard shortcut keys exists for those. That is, until you set them to be associated with a keyboard shortcut key.
In this post, I will show you how to quickly and easily set keyboard shortcut keys to your Styles within Microsoft Office 365 Word.
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Remove Protected, Private from Title in WordPress
PHP, Plugins, Snippet, Themes, Web Site Support, WordPressIn this article I provide a simple function snippet to remove the titles Protected: and Private: from private or password protected pages in WordPress.
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Upload to the Media Library Using Gravity Forms
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Restart Windows into System BIOS
Microsoft, Technology Support, WindowsOccasionally and for one reason or another I need to boot into my computers’ BIOS. For easier access I purposefully instructed my BIOS to boot my computer with a long delay to ensure that I can press the correct BIOS access key in time. However, on other computers the boot delay isn’t set and without looking up the proper access key I waste time trying to guess which one it is.
In this article I cover a handy Windows command which will allow you to restart your Windows computer straight into your Systems’ BIOS.
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How to Use Brave Search in Microsoft Edge
Brave, Technology Support, Web Site SupportIn my opinion and research the Brave Search engine is the industries best privacy focused search engine. In fact, Brave Search is my default search engine knowing full well that if I have to, I can still use pop into Google or Bing.
This article will show you how to quickly and easily add and use the Brave Search engine within your Microsoft Edge browser.
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Clear Open Network Stream History VLC Media Player
Microsoft, Privacy, Security, Technology Support, WindowsThis article will show you how to quickly and easily clear out your Open Network Stream history within the VLC Media Player on Windows.
Begin by locating the vlc-qt-interface.ini file which is stored within the “Roaming” directory under your user profile folder. See example below:
C:\Users\YourProfileName\AppData\Roaming\vlc\vlc-qt-interface.ini
Locate the area labeled: [RecentsMRL]
Under that area clear out the list variable by simply setting it to the following: list=””
Then locate the area labeled: [OpenDialog]
Clear out the netMRL variable by simply setting it to the following: netMRL=””
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