Disable or Delete Recent Document List in Microsoft Word or Excel

Sometimes when you have lots of documents or files listed on your Microsoft Word or Excel, and some might deemed important that you do not want other of your staff or colleagues viewing them apart from accessing your computer. How to remove them completely? https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-or-Delete-Recent-Document-List-in-Microsoft-Word-or-Excel

6 ways to use public Wi-Fi hot spots safely

Places like Starbucks, neighborhood cafes, Barnes&Noble, and universities are all jumping on the "free Wi-Fi" bandwagon--hey, it's trendy. As a result, more of us are connecting to these networks without realizing the security risks.

But did you read the fine print? Wi-Fi hot spots are unsecured networks that hackers like to take advantage of. Everything--including your data, account information and passwords, Google searches, and finances--can become available to the hacker who wants it badly enough.

So before you pay your bills or write your genius business plan at the local cafe, get to know these six useful practices:

1. Be aware that you're never secure. Wi-Fi hot spots are always unsecured connections, so you and potential hackers are hanging out in the same network bubble. It's not difficult for one to tap into your activity and sniff out your personal information. So, even if a hot spot requires a password or guides you through a log-in screen, you're still at risk.
2. Harness built-in security tools. Mac OS X and Windows have built-in security features that you should take advantage of. Enable your firewall (through security settings) and check off "Block all incoming traffic." This setting will keep most of the bad guys out. Disabling file sharing (shown in the video above) is also an important security measure.
3. Protect your passwords. Hackers can retrieve saved passwords from your Registry or install keyloggers, which make your keyboard activity available to them (including passwords you type in). Install something like LastPass, a browser add-on that stores your passwords in the cloud--you'll never have to type a thing and passwords won't be saved on your computer.
4. Look for the padlock. Web sites that use HTTPS encrypt your activity, so anything you do on that site is confidential. Look for a padlock in the address bar, or simply check the URL for "https://..." Not all Web sites do this, but you can download HTTPS Everywhere, an add-on that will force an encrypted connection on many popular sites.
5. Check the network name. In an attempt to lure you in, hackers might set up fake networks like "FREE Public Wi-Fi", or "Starbucks FREE." Check with the venue's employees to confirm the name of their network.
6. Use common sense. You should treat all open networks as a security risk. Don't do any banking, online shopping, or other activities that would expose your private information. If you wouldn't be willing to share it with the public, it can wait until you get home.

Alternative Remote Desktop to Teamviewer - UltraViewer

I'm sure most of you uses Teamviewer to connect to computers remotely control another computer that is not in your local network or in the same location. Even I personally like Teamviewer as its more familiar with most of my customers and the controls and remote transmission is smooth control. I tried asking for a installment plan from Teamviewer but the software is still very expensive. 

Although, Teamviewer is free to personal usage, at some point when used too frequently to the same remote pc, it will prompt out a message box saying "Your license limits the maximum session duration to a partner, immediate reconnects are blocked. Please try later or upgrade your license." Or "Commercial usage detected". After which you cannot establish a remote connection anymore.

Tricks to bypass
There are some tutorials or tricks on the internet teach you how to bypass this Commercial use suppected. Most of them are relating to changing MAC address of your computer, uninstall and delete some folder created by TeamVIewer. But that's old tricks and didn't work anymore. Believe me, i have tried a dozen times and it not worked so don't waste your time.

If you decided to buy a license of TeamViewer, you will have a little shock because you reliazed that TeamViewer license is very expensive (for just a personal user) or even expensive for commercial user. If you're a United State user, it may cost 749 USD for a cheapest license (for one computer using).

That's not a good idea because you just want to use TeamViewer for a sometimes and will cost you 749 USD...

I found another software that works similar to Teamviewer. You might want to try it. You can find it at http://ultraviewer.net/en/

Here Are 3 Ways to Check Hard Disk Health on Windows

A while ago. I had a customer whose pc had problem. Couldn't start with an error "harddisk not found". I took it back to check and apparently the harddisk has died and cannot even detect it. I tried the "wrap with newspaper and place in feezer" which worked on some of the SATA portable harddisks before. It still doesn't work.

Another expensive way if you really need the data content in the harddisk is to give it to the professional experts. They will charge probably a couple thousand ringgit. And that too, nothing is guaranteed that you will be able to recover your data and if the data is usable.

Well, how do we know how healthy is our harddisk? I found this link. Of course, it doesn't guarantee that it will tell me that the harddisk is healthy now might not be tomorrow or day after.

The point is just to have backups of backups. Cloud might be one of the solution but even cloud backup solution doesn't give us 100% security safe. Somehow, we would have to have endless backups of backups of backups..etc.

Anyway, here is the link for 3 ways to help you check your computer's harddisk health.

Original Post by MakeTechEasier