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How to Crack Your Forgotten Windows Password

Here at How-To Geek, we’ve covered many different ways to reset your password for Windows—but what if you can’t reset your password? Or what if you’re using drive encryption that would wipe out your files if you changed…

Justin Garrison Sep 28th, 2010

This Pineapple Can Hack Wireless Networks

This is no ordinary pineapple. It can actually hijack people’s wireless connections and get them to use the pineapple to connect to the internet instead of the router they meant to connect to—and then monitor what they are …

Lowell Heddings Sep 25th, 2010

How to Prevent Yum from Updating the Kernel

When you’re running production servers, the one thing you don’t want to do is upgrade the kernel every time a new update comes out. Why? Because that’s the only Linux update operation that requires a reboot once it’s done—a…

Lowell Heddings Sep 2nd, 2010

Help Computer Users Remotely with TeamViewer

Before remote software, helping your friends and family with computer problems often meant hours on the phone trying to remember what a menu looked like or where a file was saved. Here we look at helping them remotely with Te…

Justin Garrison Sep 1st, 2010

The How-To Geek Guide to Windows 7 Media Center

If you’ve moved from XP to Windows 7, this might be the first time you’ve had access to Media Center. Here we’ve created a guide for our best tips, tricks, and tutorials for using Windows 7 Media Center….

Brian Burgess Aug 31st, 2010

Beginner: Make Outlook Always Display Images in Emails from Trusted Senders

By default Outlook will block images in HTML formatted email until you allow them to be downloaded. This is due to possible malicious code that may be included. Here is how to always accept images from trusted senders….

Brian Burgess Aug 30th, 2010

Keep Your Windows Computer Secure on Public Wireless Hotspots

If you have a Netbook or Laptop that you would like to use on a Public Wi-Fi hotspot, there are security precautions you need to take. Here we look at keeping your computer secure at public Wi-Fi hotspots….

Brian Burgess Aug 24th, 2010

How to Create a Family Friendly Ubuntu Setup

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Zainul Franciscus Aug 18th, 2010

Keep Those Hard to Remember Card Numbers Available and Secure with LastPass

Banks, libraries, and points programs have the annoying habit of making you dig out your card to find the magic number that will let you log in to their web interface. Rather than make the ten foot walk to get your wallet, us…

Trevor Bekolay Aug 18th, 2010

How Do I Hide from Specific People on Facebook Chat?

Everybody’s got that one family member on Facebook that you just don’t want to talk to, but they bug you every time you sign into Facebook chat anyway—here’s how to sign on without them seeing you….

Lowell Heddings Aug 9th, 2010

Quick Tip: Erase All Content from Your Zune HD Before Selling It

Before selling your Zune HD online or to another individual, you’ll probably want to erase all of its content. Here we show you how to erase all of the content through the Zune Desktop Player.

Brian Burgess Aug 4th, 2010

Turn Your iPhone or iPod Touch into a Remote Control for Your PC

Are you looking for a way to control your PC from across the room? Today we look at how you can turn your iPhone and iPod Touch into a remote control with HippoRemote Lite.

Andrew Gehman Aug 3rd, 2010

Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPod Touch with iOS 4 the Easy Way

In case you haven’t heard the news over the past couple of days, there is now an incredibly easy way to jailbreak your iPod Touch or iPhone running iOS 4. Here we will take a look at how easy the process is….

Brian Burgess Aug 3rd, 2010

Install Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Beta on Windows Home Server “Vail”

Last week Microsoft announced that MSE 2.0 was available for public beta testing. The cool thing is the new version of MSE installs on Windows Home Server. Here we’ll take a look at running it on WHS “Vail”….

Brian Burgess Aug 3rd, 2010

Beginner: Deauthorize All Computers Associated with Your iTunes Account

If you have had several different computers over the years that were running iTunes and authorized for your account, you might need to deauthorize them all. In this mini how-to we show you how.

Brian Burgess Aug 2nd, 2010

Beginners: Connect Your iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android Phone to a Wi-Fi Network

Have you ever wanted to connect your phone or mobile device to a Wi-Fi network at home or your favorite coffee shop but aren’t sure how? Today we’ll take a look at how to connect to Wi-Fi on an iPhone, iPod Touch, and And…

Andrew Gehman Jul 29th, 2010

Screenshot Tour: The New Hotmail Wave 4

Microsoft is in the process of updating the millions of Hotmail accounts to the latest version that runs faster and includes more features than before. Our account was recently updated, so here’s a tour of the new feature…

Matthew Guay Jul 28th, 2010

Make Sure Microsoft Security Essentials Has Updated Definition Files

If you’re a new user of Microsoft Security Essentials, you might be unclear on how to update definition files manually or automatically. Here we’ll show you a few methods you can use to make sure MSE is always up to date….

Brian Burgess Jul 26th, 2010

Watch Netflix Instant Streaming Content Through Zinc TV

There are many ways to watch your streaming Netflix content through various applications. Today we show you how to do it with Zinc TV.

Brian Burgess Jul 26th, 2010

How To Make a Private Tumblr Blog

Tumblr is a great service for sharing media and blog posts, but what if you don’t want to share your experiences with the world? Here’s how to create a private, password-protected blog for your family or business….

Matthew Guay Jul 23rd, 2010

Screenshot Tour: Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Beta

The new beta version of Microsoft Security Essentials was launched yesterday to a limited amount of users. Here we’ll take a look at what you expect from the new version of How-To Geek’s favorite PC security application….

Brian Burgess Jul 21st, 2010

Tweaking a Dedicated Virtual Web Server

When you get a dedicated virtual server to run your website, chances are good that it’s configured for everybody, and not customized to maximize performance for running a website.

Lowell Heddings Jul 16th, 2010

Add Automatic Website Encryption to Firefox

Would you like to have websites automatically open encrypted and secure? Enable a set list of websites and the ability to create encryption rule sets of your own with the HTTPS Everywhere extension for Firefox….

Akemi Iwaya Jul 15th, 2010

Keep Your IM Conversations Private With Off-the-Record

There may be times when you don’t want “the man” knowing what your IM conversations are. Today we look at an Instant Messenger plugin that will keep your conversations completely private.

Brian Burgess Jul 12th, 2010