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Q&A: Can I reset my Windows login pin, but keep using the same pin?

Posted on September 9, 2016

Question from Bob S.: I had been using a pin instead of a password and that worked just fine.

I had some other issues and needed to do a safe boot. Then back to regular boot. Now it is asking for my password instead of a pin to log in.

I want to use my pin, but I don’t want to change it. The only options I have are change or remove the pin.

Is there a place I can say use my pin instead of my password? I want to keep the same pin I have been using. Don’t want to change it.

Any thoughts on what I might do? Thanks in advance … Bob

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How to delete old ‘Post Revisions’ in WordPress

Posted on September 7, 2016

“Post Revisions” is a very handy WordPress feature that was first released along with WordPress version 2.6, and for active bloggers it can be a veritable lifesaver.

In a nutshell, it creates a new backup copy of the post you’re editing every time you click the “Save Draft” button. That makes it extremely easy to revert back to any previous version of a post at any time.

But there’s a problem with Post Revisions: They can grow your WordPress database exponentially if you tend to make several revisions to every post you write. [Read more…]

Great news! iOS 10 will let you remove many unwanted pre-installed Apple apps.

Posted on September 7, 2016

Have you ever wished you could remove one or more of the stock Apple apps that came pre-installed on your iPhone, iPad or other iOS device?

If so, I have great news for you: Once you update your device to iOS 10 you’ll be able to do just that!

Beginning with iOS 10, Apple will finally give you the ability to remove at least some of the pre-installed apps that you never use. [Read more…]

Review: HGST Touro 1TB 7200RPM High-Performance USB Hard Drive

Posted on September 6, 2016

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Portable USB hard drives make it easy to back up the hard drives in our computers and share large quantities of files among machines that aren’t on the same local network.

If you’re looking for the fastest high-capacity USB drive around, a portable Solid State Drive (SSD) would fit the bill quite nicely.

But if you’re just looking for something that’s faster than the typical USB hard drive yet doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, you can’t beat a 7200RPM USB hard drive.

There aren’t that many consumer-grade 7200RPM USB hard drives on the market right now, but I recently had the chance to check one out. [Read more…]

How to force Outlook.com to check for new mail on a POP3 account

Posted on September 4, 2016

Microsoft’s Outlook.com web mail service is a sleek alternative to Gmail, and I really like it.

That being said, it does come with one major annoyance: It insists on waiting a while between checks for new messages on POP3 email accounts.

But what if you’re expecting an important email that really needs to hit your inbox as soon as possible?

Outlook.com doesn’t come with a Send/Receive button and you can’t alter its built-in schedule for checking POP3 email accounts, but if you really need to check for a new email RIGHT NOW you can force it to check a specific POP3 account any time you wish with this workaround: [Read more…]