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If you have confidential PDF files, you don’t want just anyone to access them. Otherwise, they can change what’s inside. The next thing you know, you can’t recognize the original version. To protect your PDFs, lock them up with a password. It’s doable. It’s also easy and free! Don’t worry if you haven’t done it before. As long as you can follow basic instructions, you’re going to be fine. In this post, we’ll walk through the steps on how to password protect PDF files....

Many antivirus software programs automatically delete suspicious files during security scans. Although these antivirus tools let you restore deleted files, they’ll most likely delete the file again during subsequent scans. To prevent a recurrence, it’s best to configure your antivirus to exempt important files when scanning for viruses and malware. We’ll show you how to prevent your antivirus from deleting files automatically without your approval. This tutorial will cover steps for Windows Defender and popular third-party antivirus software—Avast, AVG, BitDefender, etc....

Difficulty Easy Steps 5 Time Required 5 - 10 minutes Sections 1 Lens 5 steps Flags 0 BackEyeglasses Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide Notify Me of Changes Stop Notifications Introduction The lens is that piece of glass that sits in front of your eyes. Sometimes, the frame of the glasses can get loose and the lens may pop out....

Did you end up deleting a file or a folder on your PC by accident? Or did you change your mind after hitting the Delete key on purpose? We can’t promise anything. But first, you must stop doing anything else that can cause the disk drive to write new data. That alone decreases the odds of successfully restoring deleted files in Windows 10. There are several methods to go about recovering data....

To select an entire column or row in a spreadsheet, click the column header or row header. For example, if you clicked the “H” column header (marked in red in the picture below) the “H” column is highlighted. If you clicked the “16” row header (also marked in red), the 16th row is highlighted. Using keyboard shortcuts, To select an entire column press Ctrl+Space. To select an entire row, press Shift+Space....

Using this adapter, I could increase the local data transfer rate on my LAN to somewhere around 400 Mbps or 50 MB/s as compared to the previous speed I was getting with MoCA 1.1, which was around 100 Mbps or 12.5 MB/s. I also recently wrote a post on my other site explaining how upgrading to the new Quantum Gateway is a good move if you have FIOS for your Internet....

To connect to and use FTP from a command line interface, like MS-DOS or the Linux shell, click a link below for instructions. Connect using FTP To connect to another computer using FTP at the MS-DOS prompt, command line, or Linux shell, type FTP, and press Enter. Once in FTP, use the open command to connect to the FTP server, as shown in the following example. FTP is not an encrypted transmission, which means any data sent over it, including your username and password, could be read by anyone intercepting your transmission....

Difficulty Moderate Steps 8 Time Required 25 minutes - 1 hour Sections 4 Keyboard 3 steps Battery 3 steps Heat Sink 1 step Wireless Card 1 step Flags 0 BackHP Chromebook 14-ak041dx Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide Notify Me of Changes Stop Notifications Introduction Before replacing the wireless card, ensure your laptop is not in Airplane Mode. Leaving the laptop in Airplane Mode makes it unable to connect to any wireless network....

Student-Contributed Wiki An awesome team of students from our education program made this wiki. The device will not turn on no matter what With this computer it has a few common issues with the battery. It could be a damaged battery, the way you can tell most of the time is if you can check the bottom of the laptop and see a bump where the battery is placed it’s usually a damaged battery....

Difficulty Very easy Steps 10 Time Required 20 seconds Sections 3 Keyboard 6 steps Top Hardware Cover 2 steps RAM 2 steps Flags 0 BackHP Folio 13t-1000 Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide Notify Me of Changes Stop Notifications Introduction A defective RAM can cause your laptop’s loading speed to deteriorate. This guide will show you how to correctly replace a defective or an outdated RAM for your HP Folio 13t-1000....

Difficulty Easy Steps 7 Time Required 5 minutes Sections 2 Battery 3 steps Back Case 4 steps Flags Action Shots Be an action hero! This guide needs images that better demonstrate how to perform specific actions. Better Introduction Improve this guide by completing or revising its introduction. BackHP iPAQ h4155 Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide Notify Me of Changes...

Difficulty Easy Steps 2 Time Required 5 minutes Sections 1 Optical Drive 2 steps Flags Action Shots Be an action hero! This guide needs images that better demonstrate how to perform specific actions. BackHP Pavilion 15-cc023cl 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 Optical Drive Use a PH000 screwdriver to remove the 4mm screw that secures the optical drive....

Difficulty Moderate Steps 12 Time Required 10 - 15 minutes Sections 2 Battery 4 steps Wi-Fi Card 8 steps Flags 0 BackHP Pavilion 17-g119dx 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 Battery Close your laptop and turn it over so that the bottom is facing up. Close your laptop and turn it over so that the bottom is facing up....

Difficulty Moderate Steps 9 Time Required 25 - 30 minutes Sections 4 Interconnect Cable 2 steps Mute Button Switch 2 steps Motherboard 2 steps Sound Driver 3 steps Flags 1 Featured Student Guide This guide has been the hard work of our awesome students and is found to be exceptionally cool by the iFixit staff. BackGoogle Home Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link...

Difficulty Easy Steps 6 Time Required 20 - 30 minutes Sections 1 Hario Electric Buono Tea Kettle Disassembly 6 steps Flags 0 BackHario Electric Buono Tea Kettle 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 Hario Electric Buono Tea Kettle Disassembly Unscrew the three screws on the base of the Hario kettle....

Student-Contributed Wiki An awesome team of students from our education program made this wiki. The screen being projected does not show a clear image. First, check to see if the projector’s lens is potentially blocked or dirty. Use a micro-fiber cloth to gently wipe the lens of the projector. Verify that the lens of the projector is not cracked or broken. If the lens or bulb of the projector is broken you may need to open up the projector and replace the lens....

Avast Secure Browser comes bundled with the Avast antivirus software in a single package file. It’s a strategy by the cybersecurity company to force users of its antivirus software to adopt the browser. Although Avast Secure Browser has a handful of security and privacy-focused features, its startup behavior and excessive storage consumption will take a toll on your device’s performance. Even more annoying is that the browser remains on your device even after uninstalling Avast antivirus....

Difficulty Easy Steps 8 Time Required 25 minutes Sections 1 How to Fix an Unwinding Tape Measure 8 steps Flags 0 BackTool 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 How to Fix an Unwinding Tape Measure Grab your broken tape measure and inspect so that it doesn’t retract. Make sure it is not locked....

VMware Workstation Pro is paid virtualization software that lets you run another operating system inside your current one. Want to use Linux for some situations but you’ve only got a Windows 10 computer? No problem — use VMware Workstation on Windows to install Ubuntu. This program even lets you run multiple operating systems at the same time. If all you have is Windows 10 but you like to play old Windows XP games and also use a few programs that only work on a Mac, just load up the XP or Mac virtual machine, make it full screen, and use it just like you would if it were the only OS you had....

To list or view the files of a directory or folder on your computer, follow the steps below for your operating system. Show the files in a Windows folder Microsoft Windows users who want to list files on the computer can open My Computer or Windows Explorer and open the C: drive. Once in the C: drive, all files and folders in the root directory of your primary hard drive are listed....