Category: How To
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Disable Facebook’s automatic play feature in the iOS app
Last week, I showed you how to disable Facebook’s automatic play feature when using Facebook in the browser. However, this annoying feature is also automatically enabled in the iOS (and I assume Android) apps. Luckily, they can be disabled there, too. Here’s how: Open Settings (that’s from the Home screen, not from Facebook), then scroll…
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Disable Facebook’s auto-playing videos feature in the browser
Facebook recently added a new feature; whenever you scroll to a video in your timeline; it automatically starts playing. If you like it; well, good for you. You have no need for this. If, however, you, like me, think it’s an annoyance, here’s how to disable it: On the right-hand side of the facebook top menu, click…
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Deleting protected EFI disk partitions
A while back, one of my laptops kicked the bucket. The cost to repair it was too high, and I opted to get the laptop back to scavenge the parts. In particular, I wanted to get my hands on the hard drive, a solid state wonder with a capacity of 240 GB. I invested in…
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Exporting a list of a given users group memberships from Active Directory
A while back, I showed you how to export a list of all members of a group, as well as all computers, from Active Directory. On a related note, here’s how to export all group memberships held by a single user: Log on to your Domain Controller Open a command prompt Enter the command dsget…
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Understanding Active Directory Distinguished Names
In Active Directory, and I assume any system using LDAP, a Distinguished Name (DN) is a way to identify a given user with confidence. It is a string of Relative Distinguished Names, separated by commas. There are a number of different RDNs in existense, but for our purposes, these are the ones we might need:…
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Outlook: Disable new mail notifications for all but main account
When adding extra email accounts in the regular way, Outlook will notify you of new emails in each and every account. Though this can be annoying, it is simple enough to do something about. Here’s how: Click File Under the Info tab, find Account Settings, then Account Settings In the E-mail tab, remove the accounts…
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Hiding the Office Ribbon menu
For most of my time as a computer user, my main text editing tool has been Microsoft Office. I have grown accustomed to using, and even sort of liking the ribbon menu. However, as I often work on a laptop with its severely limited monitor real estate, I needed to find a way to hide…
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Outlook: Delegate sending permissions
Last week I showed you how to send as a different address. You might also want to allow someone else to send on behalf of you. Here’s how: Click on File Go to Info > Account Settings > Delegate Access Click Add Search for, and select, the person you want to grant permissions, then click…
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Outlook: Sending as a different email address
So, you’ve become responsible for answering questions to your company from the public. Congratulations! You’ve been instructed to use the no-reply address when doing so, and told that you have been given the permissions necessary to do so. Now you need to set that up. Here’s how: Write the response as you normally would Once…
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How to find who is locking a file on a network share
Every now and again, a user will call in to find out who has a file open from a network share, effectively locking everyone else out from making edits to that file. Here’s how: Assuming the file is on a remote server, log in to the remote server Right-click the computer icon, and select “Manage…