🏠🌐 Access Your Home Network From Anywhere The Easy Way

How to Easily Access Your Home Network From Anywhere

Connecting to your home network when you are away is incredibly useful. Here's how to do it safely.

You're away from home but want to access your files, use your computer, or otherwise interact with your home network like you're at home. Here's how to access your stuff when you're not at home on your computer.

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How to Remap Any Key or Shortcut on Windows 10

Would you like to use a key for another function in Windows 10? Thanks to PowerToys, it's easy to remap keys or even multi-key shortcuts. Here's how.

Would you like to use a different keyboard key to perform a certain task in Windows 10? Thanks to PowerToys, it's easy to remap any key to another key or even a shortcut combination on your keyboard. Here's how to set it up.

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How to Get the Old Context Menus Back in Windows 11

Begone, weird new context menu!

Windows 11 ships with a simplified right-click context menu for File Explorer (and the desktop) that is different from the Windows 10 context menu. If you'd like to use the classic Windows 10 right-click menu instead, you can do so by modifying your registry with a few clicks. Here's how.

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How to Make Windows 10 Accept File Paths Over 260 Characters

Want a small novel for a file path? We've got you covered.

Windows Doesn't Accept Long Paths by Default

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What Song is This? 8 Ways to Identify Music You've Heard

There is no shortage of ways to identify a song, whether it's playing on the radio or stuck in your head.

You can identify just about any song you’ve heard using a smartphone, your computer, or a search engine like Google. It doesn’t need to be playing right now; if you can hum it or remember the lyrics you should be good. Here's how.

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How to Use Spoiler Tags to Hide Messages and Images on Discord

With this work-around, you can initially hide a message or attachment in Discord.

Discord is great for catching up with friends in like-minded community servers, but that doesn't mean every message you send is suitable for everyone. Fortunately, you can use spoiler tags to initially hide certain messages.

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What Is about:blank, and How Do You Remove It?

Here's why about:blank pages exist ---and how to stop your browser from showing them.

If you see "about:blank" in your web browser's address bar, you're viewing an empty page built into your web browser. It's a part of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, and other browsers.

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How to Use the rename Command on Linux

Upgrade your Linux file renaming powers and take rename for a spin.

Get to grips with the file renaming powerhouse of the Linux world and give mv — and yourself — a rest. Rename is flexible, fast, and sometimes even easier. Here's how to use to this powerhouse of a command.

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How to Use the find Command in Linux

Use find with xargs and exec to take your Linux file searches to the next level.

The Linux find command is great at searching for files and directories. But you can also pass the results of the search to other programs for further processing. We show you how.

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How to Play Adobe Flash SWF Files Outside Your Web Browser

Flash is dead, but you can still open SWF files outside of your browser with Adobe's standalone Flash Player. Adobe hides the download link---here's how to find it.

Web browsers have dropped support for Flash, but what if you have an SWF file to open? Never fear: Adobe offered a hidden Flash Player download for Windows, Mac, and Linux that is still available from the Wayback Machine. You can open an SWF file outside your browser.

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