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If you’ve already restarted your computer and ruled out temporary bugs and glitches, it’s time to dive into advanced troubleshooting. Below are some troubleshooting tips that should help you fix optional features not installing on Windows 11 issue. Why Windows 11 Fails to Install Optional Features It’s very easy to install optional features on Windows. But sometimes, the installation might fail due to corruption in the important system files or the Windows Update components....

Understanding the Problem As I was not sure what the problem might be, I searched for it at some popular Android forums to see if other users faced similar issues. Well, there were many who claimed to have the same problem, but there was no solution in sight. The only thing I read in most of the posts was to restart the phone and try again, or to pull out the battery to do a power recycle....

UPDATE: The app we discuss in this tutorial is no longer available. We have written another article to help you with the process – How to Install Spotify and Other Country Restricted Apps on Android. Check it out. We have already seen how you can access country-specific web applications like Google Music. Today we will see how to access or force install the country-specific locked apps on your Android. Note: You must have a rooted Android device for the trick to work....

What if you approached life’s challenges from the point of view that you are working you way through a video game. Instead of viewing life’s obstacles as challenges, what if you viewed them as missions or quests to be completed. Superbetter is a game which help us to view our challenges from a different angle in order to cope with and even overcome them. How it Works We will focus on the Superbetter website in preference over the Android and iOS apps since the website is the most general offering with the most functionality....

What’s worse, is that after the fresh install, there’s no option to open images using the native Photo Viewer and one is stuck with the Modern Photo app unless an alternate viewer like Picasa is installed. Microsoft has not removed it completely, but is hidden from direct access. That’s the reason one will not find it in the Control Panel settings while switching the default app to open images. Moreover, the Photo Viewer files is a DLL file and not an EXE, therefore it cannot be launched directly from Windows Explorer....

There are two ways to such battery alerts on iPhones. You can either use the pre-installed Apple Shortcuts app or download a third-party app. Additionally, we will also show you how to get low battery notifications or turn off battery full alerts on your iPhone in this article. Let’s get started. Method 1: Get Battery Full Alert Using iPhone’s Shortcuts App On iPhone and iPad, you need to take the help of the Apple Shortcuts app if you want to be notified in the form of a notification, sound, announcement, etc....

Now, devices running MIUI 9.5 can get almost similar gestures. This feature, known as Full Screen display, is available for those phones which have 18:9 aspect ratio and (obviously) no physical buttons. So, for now, the Mi MIX, Mi MIX 2, Redmi 5 and Redmi Note 5/Pro are the eligible phones. Needless to say, the introduction of a gesture-based navigation makes things smooth. Also, this feature is a good balance of function and usability....

Today, in the age of rampant social media sharing, lifting someone’s work is just so easy. It’s as simple as taking a screenshot of the picture, applying a few filters and sharing it on Instagram (or any such relevant platform, for that matter). Hence, it’s important that we slap our name (and in some cases the names of our precious phones) to our photos. Since iPhones do not have this feature built in, obviously we’d have to borrow it from third-party apps, and well, that’s the only way for now (until Apple gets inspired from Android, maybe?...

Microsoft however decided that this feature wasn’t worth the transition to Windows 8. Today I will show you how you can get back Windows 7 gadgets in Windows 8. We cannot get back the official Windows 7 gadgets, but we will be installing a third-party tool on Windows 8 to get similar desktop gadgets. 8GadgetPack is a software that brings back the Windows 7 desktop gadgets to Windows 8. If you are going to use the desktop mode in Windows 8 more frequently than the Modern UI, you should definitely try out 8GadgetPack....

The two services that we will profile below offer an automated wake up telephone call free of charge and come with some add-ons that we will see in a short while. WakeupDialer WakeupDialer is a free wakeup call service that wakes you up at the designated time you set on the website. You have to set the time one day before. The added benefit is that WakeupDialer can act cutesy and wake you up with a choice of 30 pre-recorded messages selected at random....

The activity sharing functions through Discord’s Rich Presence feature, which automatically sets your activity based on the game you’re playing or even what you’re listening to on Spotify. But, when you turn off sharing activity, Discord will stop showing activity statuses, such as the public Discord stages you have joined, and all the other apps that support Rich Presence. Let us show you how to do it! How to Stop Discord Showing What Game You’re Playing on Windows or Mac It is fairly straightforward to stop Discord from showing the games you’re playing....

Recently I discovered an amazing way through which I could transfer photos directly to my Snagit Editor and then batch edit it. So let me show you how. Note: Snagit is a premium screenshot, screencast capturing and editing tool for Windows from the house of TechSmith. I have been using it for years now in my blogging career. The application is priced at US $49 and is worth every penny....

How to Insert a Table of Contents in Microsoft Word for Windows As a part of Office redesign for Windows 11, Microsoft revamped the Word app on the desktop. The screenshots below feature the latest Microsoft Word app for Windows. Follow the steps below to insert a table of contents in Microsoft Word on Windows 10 or Windows 11. Step 1: Open the Microsoft Word app on Windows 10 or Windows 11....

Screenshots, photographs, infographics, and graphs are some of the types of images you can add to your document in Google Docs. We will also tell you how to perform various editing activities related to images such as cropping, adding a border, resizing, and moving them. So let’s get started with our guide on how to use and modify images in Google Docs on mobile and PC. How to Insert a Picture in Google Docs on PC There are four ways to add images in Google Docs on your computer....

Now, Chrome doesn’t do this. It understands that when you close the last tab you wish to close the browser. While some users like it there are others who suffer the accidental closure of the browser. If you find this happening to you often, I suggest you download Keep Last Tab (UPDATE: This tool is not available anymore) extension for Google Chrome. Once enabled you will never see your browser being shut on closing the last tab (last two indeed)....

How do you find out if he actually did that ? If you want to know what was the exact last shutdown time of your computer, then you can find that out using a simple trick. You’d need to go to the Event Viewer in Windows to get that information. Here are the steps. Step1. If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, click the start icon and type Event Viewer in the search box....

By default, whenever the participants scribble on a shared screen in Zoom, you can’t see the names of the people involved in that. Also, things may get confusing and annoying at times if a person starts drawing inappropriate things. To avoid such scenarios, Zoom offers a setting which shows the name of the participant whenever he/she is drawing on the shared screen in a Zoom call. In this post, we shall tell you how to figure out who is scribbling on the shared screen while using Zoom on the computer and mobile....

For speedy access to such programs you can actually create shortcuts and/or pin them to the taskbar. Or you can use the Run dialog, like I do. But wouldn’t it be awesome if you could bypass all these techniques and launch the desired program right from your browser and that too with a single click? Well, Firefox users can do it, and that’s exactly what we are going to see today....

At times surveyors can get inundated with responses, especially if you have posted the link on a social media platform like Instagram or Twitter. And analyzing and going through all the answers can be a taxing affair, especially if it’s a time-bound survey. So, if you’re looking for ways to limit responses on Google Forms, you’ve come to the right place. In this post today, we will explore three methods....

Most importantly, you can use any color as the background since it is transparent by default. That’s why making an image transparent makes sense. But how does one do that without installing any third-party software on Windows? That’s where Paint 3D, the updated version of our beloved Paint sweeps in. First, you need to remove the existing background by selecting the object. The background can be of any color — white, red, pink, black, etc....