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Do you wish Outlook would let you get rid of their annoying folders for features that you don't use? I don't use their Archive, Clutter, Conversation History, Junk Email, or RSS Feeds, but from the Outlook UI you can't delete those folders like you can other folders. Give us a ... read more
I have a 500 GB "C" drive on my Windows 10 PC. Guess how much of that is used for iPhone backup data? Close to 200 GB or about 42% of the drive. That is just for me and my wife. I guess I can't back up my kids phones ... read more
There are 8 gajillion pages on the web telling you how to do this. Pretty much none of them work. The only one that I've found that does is to remove them from here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths Use at your own risk - could cause hard to your system... seemed to work ... read more
It is really annoying. I don't know this to be entirely safe, so proceed at your own risk... but it seems you can change this behavior with the registry keys named {F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83} in these two locations: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders Supposedly you can just delete them (but I renamed them to {F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}.disabled) ... read more
I kept getting an error on login saying something like "Microsoft Account Problem. We need to fix your Microsoft account before you can use shared experiences. Select this message to fix things." I had two Microsoft accounts associated with my PC and just had to remove the offending one that ... read more
Well the title says it all. Even though I disabled the automated processing of junk email in Outlook by checking the very clearly labeled option which says "No Automatic Filtering. Mail from blocked senders is still moved to the Junk Email folder." Unfortunately, no matter how clearly labeled it is, ... read more
I had the WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme with the Two Column layout. I added a child theme and then wanted to change to the One Column layout but the "Appearance > Customize > Theme Options" menu item wasn't there. To fix, I reset my theme to the standard Twenty Seventeen (non-child) theme, ... read more
Seriously, I just want to annotate a PDF with my Apple pencil on my iPad. I refuse to print out paper to sign and scan anymore. It is 2017 for crying out loud. It seems like a simple enough task but I've tried every free app I could find and every one ... read more
For the longest time, I couldn't sign into Chrome on iOS and was getting the following error: ChromeSigninError -206. I found the solution here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/kb8RlssVKbY I'm storing the answer here in case that goes away and since the actual solution was buried way down in the thread and was not ... read more