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If you are upgrading from an older Windows version to Windows 11, you'll get a message that the disk is currently using MBR and must be GPT. The same message may appear in other scenarios as well, where you'll be asked to replace MBR with GPT. You can convert MBR to GPT through different methods, but if done incorrectly, it can wipe out your data. In this guide, we'll learn how to do this…
Nothing's more frustrating than finding out that the Excel file on which you were working for so many weeks is now in a corrupted state. In this case, you may lose extremely important business or personal data. But wait! The good news is that most corrupted Excel files are repairable. There could be one or more reasons that may lead to a corrupted Excel file. In this tutorial, we'll learn all the…
Imagine this situation. Your root partition has reached 95% capacity, your package manager is stuck because it couldn’t download an update, and somewhere in the back of your mind, you’re convinced you’ve allocated too much space to the /home partition. The remedy is simple! Shrink one, and enlarge the other. But expanding and shrinking Linux partitions is not your cup of tea. One wrong move, and…
Here’s an awkward question, just for you. Do you really know, at this very second that you are reading this, what every single one of the apps added to your internet browser is actually doing on your machine? This is never just theoretical scare. Threat research experts discovered a widespread series of over 100 malicious Chrome extensions with over 20,000 installs that stole data via G Suite and…
Whenever you open a browser tab, send an instant message, or play a YouTube video, your computer is sending thousands of communication packets to other computers. That's how internet traffic works! Have you ever wondered what's happening in these data packets? Wireshark is a perfect tool to analyze your network traffic, right on your desktop. You’ll learn not only how to open Wireshark, but also…
Have you ever sent a Word document off and typed, "Just fill in your details", to have it return with about half the answers in the wrong box, with formatting in no particular place, and one form field entirely gone? Yes. It’s usually in this situation we realise that a Word document was never designed to work as a form. The good news? There’s an actual form builder tool in the ribbon, if you know…
There it is. There's an app you've been pining over for months. And it's not on the Play Store! Maybe it was pulled, maybe it’s region-locked, maybe it’s some heavily modified version with exactly the extra features you crave. So you grab the APK from some sketchy-looking website and hover your finger over the 'Install' button. Your internal voice says, "Is this…safe?" That’s the voice that has…
When using a USB port, we generally don't care about the color inside the port slot. What matters to us is the insertion of the cable and the successful completion of data transfer. In this guide, I'll explain what these colors actually mean and the differences between USB 2.0, USB 3.0, and USB 4 ports. We'll also see where this color system does not apply. After going through the information…
Not sure why your Linux system is sluggish and not performing to its full potential? Is the CPU overloaded, is the memory almost full, or is your system’s disk having some problems? You are not alone in facing this problem. Fortunately, Linux collects enough data to analyze the root cause of slow system performance. You need to know where to look for this data. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look…
You hit ‘Send’ on that Word doc attachment. Tidy formatting, zero typos, looks great. Now you’re done. But are you? Deep within that file is an invisible information dossier about you: your real name, company username, the version of the software you used, how many revisions the doc underwent, and even entire sections of text you thought you had removed from previous drafts. Load the same doc into…
