As I went to launch the Windows Store app today, I encountered an error I’d never seen before. Here’s what I saw:
My first instinct was to see if there were any new updates available for Windows, just in case. I quickly confirmed that I was fully up-to-date, and began to ponder what else I could check. To be safe, I verified that I could successfully log into the Microsoft website, just to confirm that I wasn’t having any authentication issues.
When these attempts failed to resolve the problem, I took to Google to try and find a solution. Unfortunately, most of the articles I found simply didn’t solve my problem. Ultimately, I figured it out, so I’m sharing my solution below.
Solution
Here’s what I did to fix the Windows Store error:
I clicked the Windows start button.
I typed “Troubleshoot” and pressed Enter.
When the “Settings – Troubleshoot” dialog appeared, I scrolled all the way to the bottom, and clicked”Windows Store Apps.” I then pressed “Run the troubleshooter.”
When the “Reset and open Windows Store” dialog appeared, I clicked the”Reset and open Windows Store” option.
After a while, the troubleshooter finished doing its thing, and Windows Store opened successfully in the background. (In my case, the troubleshooting app also said it couldn’t fix a cache issue, but since it didn’t impact my ability to use the Windows Store app, I didn’t bother look for a solution to that particular issue.)
So in this video, I’ll be showing you how to use the Selective Sync feature offered by Dropbox. So you’ll notice in the bottom right corner, I have a Dropbox icon that has a green checkmark next to it. That means the files are fully synchronized, they’re the same on my device as they are on the Dropbox servers. Now, what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna click on this icon, and then I shall click the folder icon here, to show you the actual Windows Explorer version of my Dropbox.
Now what you’ll see is that it’s fairly simplistic, I have a Word document, and I have some photos. What you’re actually seeing here is a selective sync version of the Alternate Scene Dropbox folder, you’ll notice the name here is Alternate Scene. Okay? So here’s the idea, the Alternate Scene Dropbox folder is massive, in reality the true Dropbox size is something like 1.3 terrabytes. Now, synchronizing 1.3 TB to one machine is not necessarily something you want to do in all cases. In my case, that’s what I do, but for this particular test I’m showing you a scenario where I only want to see the example folder. That’s to say that I want to be able to synchronize and work within the example folder, but not actually have to pull the full 1.3 TB down.
Now, where this gets important is if you try to synchronize the 1.3 TB, but the location of the Dropbox folder on your machine, like right here, you see the location is “C:UsersMattRefghi.comDropbox,” okay, so let’s say the C: drive, the actual hard drive behind C:, is like 500 GB, right? And I try to synchronize 1.3 TB, well, eventually, Dropbox is gonna have a panic attack. In the bottom right corner here, you’re gonna see a message, it’s gonna be a red icon, and it’s gonna say “I’m out of disk space, what am I supposed to do?” Not in those words, obviously, but it’s gonna complain about disk space. So to resolve that, selective sync kinda comes to the rescue. What you do is you select specifically the folder that you want to pull from the servers, and you leave the other ones off your machine.
Now let me show you how to actually do this, check it out. You go to the Dropbox icon in your taskbar, left-click it, and then you’ll notice that there’s a gear icon, right there. That’s what I would like you to click, so I’m gonna go ahead and do that, and then in here you’ll notice that there’s a few options, the current status of your drive, you’re up to date, you can pause syncing, and then there’s Preferences, that’s what I would like you to click, so click Preferences. Alright, now, on this screen, you can go ahead and switch to the Account tab. Took a little while on my machine, there. So on the Account tab, you’ll notice, there’s some options, but the one that matters to us is “Selective Sync”.
Okay, so if you click on selective sync, here you can actually see the full structure of my Dropbox folder, so I have a Data folder, which is huge, a Clients folder, also huge, these are all massive, so I’ve chosen to not include them. I’ve just said “hey, I want Example.” That’s all. Alright, so if I click on this little arrow here, to the left of my Example folder, it’s gonna show the Photos folder, which basically means that I can customize not only the top-level folders in Dropbox, so not only the main list of folders that you saw, but I can go into the depth of saying well I want the Examples folder, but I don’t want the Photos ’cause it’s big, or whatever. You actually have that flexibility.
It’s important to note that the Dropbox competitor known as Google Drive has unlocked this feature as of April this year, so for a while it was lagging behind, but right now it has the same thing, the ability to select a subfolder in addition to the top folder.
Alright, so, to show you an example, I’m gonna go ahead and uncheck Photos. Alright. Now it turned into a square, but that’s totally normal, it’s kinda showing you that yes, it’s synchronizing, but not fully, so what I’m gonna do now is I’m gonna click update, and you will see shortly the effect of that change. So I’m gonna click update and it’s suffering a little bit to accept my change. So it says, “unchecked folders will be removed from this computer’s Dropbox. They will still be available on the web and other devices.” This is just to keep you calm, so, I’m gonna – again, I’m trying to click OK and there’s some little freak-out in the Dropbox interface. Okay, but it works. And you’ll notice on the left here, you may have noticed that the Photos folder has disappeared.
So in this case my example is super simplistic, so it’s not totally useful, but consider a case where you’re having space issues on your computer, you’re – not necessarily even your Dropbox folder, right? So let’s say on your computer your Dropbox is fully synced, you’re all good, and then you start adding games and stuff outside of the Dropbox folder, and then Dropbox either has issues synchronizing, or you just realize that “hey I need some space, but I don’t want to remove those games from outside my Dropbox folder.” So what you could do potentially is kinda review your Dropbox folder and see if you can actually pull some of these files off of your computer, and leave them just on the Dropbox servers. This could be a nice way to, you know, gain storage space on your local machine while still ensuring that your data is completely safe.
So that’s the first scenario, really changing selective sync when your Dropbox is already synchronized to your machine. Now there is another scenario I wanted to show you, what if you’re first installing Dropbox, is there a way to immediately tell Dropbox not to pull down the whole world of files in your Dropbox, or must you wait until it’s already set up and synchronized? The answer is you can do it while installing, and I will show you the exact procedure.
Alright, so here’s how you do it when you’re installing Dropbox. Basically, the first time you launch Dropbox after it’s been installed, you’re gonna get this screen. The screen is a “Set up Dropbox” screen – it asks you to sign in with Google, or to enter simply your existing Dropbox credentials. So I’m gonna do that, I’m going to enter my existing Dropbox credentials, and I’ll see you after I’ve authenticated.
Okay, so now I’ve authenticated, and look what we can see. The “set up dropbox” screen now shows the full size of my Dropbox, which is 1.2 TB, or 1,200 GB, roughly, and it says that it’s too large to fit on the computer. This is of course totally valid. And it offers me two options: choose folders to sync, or sync everything. Now sync everything is kind of a crazy choice, which is why that it is not even – oh, it is enabled, but not suggested, okay, interesting.
So I’m going to choose folders to sync, ’cause that’s the logical thing to do in this situation, and you’re gonna see this dialog that we saw earlier. So in this dialog, I can make the same choice that I did earlier, right now I’m going to actually put the Example folder, if Dropbox will allow me to click on the arrow, and have it work, okay, I’m going to click on the Examples folder, and I will also choose to have the Photos. And once I’m done that I will click Update.
Now it says congratulations, it’s been successfully installed, you can now add your personal, I’m not interested, I’m going to click “skip this.” Now what’s happening is that it set up the folder again, so if you look in the bottom right corner, it shows that my Dropbox is currently synchronizing. So what I’ve noticed is that even if I’m pulling a tiny amount of files via selective sync, it still takes a while for the initial synchronization action, I think this has to do with the number of folders that selective sync surely has to consider on the Dropbox side. But for you as a user, as all this means, you select your folders in selective sync, and you just wait for it to synchronize, and once that’s done, you will see the folders that you selected in your Dropbox, which, mine is currently empty, but if I give it time, the folders will appear here. And that’s how it’s done, guys, I hope this helps.
Note: The following is a reading response that I wrote for my Mass Communications class, earlier this year. I’ve added photos, links, and formatting to make the content a little more readable online, but other than that, it is identical to the version I submitted.
In “Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism,” author Anderson (1991) explores the idea of a nation being both a political and sociological construct. In the first three chapters, he starts by defining nationalism in abstract terms, then proceeds to analyze its cultural roots, and finally, he reviews the changes in society that made a national consciousness possible.
While reading the text, the concept of nationalism being “imagined” interested me. “It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion” (Anderson, 1991, p. 6). I could think of various instances in video games, for example, where I took on a certain nationalistic alignment to fit the narrative of a fictional world.
Some games have obvious lines set in the sand – players are either with faction A, or faction B. More interesting to me is a crime-based game, Grand Theft Auto (GTA) Online, which has no pre-established separations between players. It has the concept of “crews,” akin to gangs, but generally, these facilitate the same group of players playing together, rather than instigating crew versus crew conflict. I recently joined a crew tagged “SAFE,” one which shares a unique governing ideology – no player-directed violence is to be tolerated against its members.
GTA Online was not created with this type of cooperation in mind. Its structure is one where multiple 30-player limited sessions exist simultaneously, where random players can join at any given time, and player versus player combat is enabled by default. To achieve its goals, SAFE makes use of the game’s “kick” feature to remove players that refuse to follow their rules. With enough numbers, they can effectively take over a session, turning it into a kind of self-policing nation-state, reflecting the overall SAFE collective’s vision and ideology, despite lacking any pre-established or geographically-set boundaries to their influence.
Membership in SAFE results in a powerful symbolic association – the mere sight of the SAFE tag evokes a certain sense of camaraderie. Yet, while I may not meet all members of SAFE, I know that elsewhere, other members are reinforcing the nonviolent, cooperative nature of the whole – an imagined sense of nationalism ensues.
Anderson (1991) lists three fundamental concepts that had to fade from society to make it possible to “imagine” a nation – I will mention the two most relatable to GTA Online. First, “the belief that society was naturally organized around and under high centres – monarchs … who rules [sic] by some form of cosmological (divine) dispensation” (Anderson, 1991, p. 36). Indeed, in GTA Online, which mimics a contemporary American cityscape, there is no clear, overarching monarch figure to which players can pledge servitude. Second is a “conception of temporality in which cosmology and history were indistinguishable, the origins of the world and of men essentially identical” (Anderson, 1991, p. 36). Within GTA Online, the world and its history are, by necessity, taken at face value.
Combined, these ideas rooted human lives firmly in the very nature of things, giving certain meaning to the everyday fatalities of existence (above all death, loss, and servitude) and offering, in various ways, redemption from them.” (Anderson, 1991, p. 36). This brings us to the crux of my comparison. Though GTA Online is by nature a virtual world, it too reflects humanity’s core desire to live while evading death. SAFE takes this to another level, with further emphasis on avoiding in-game death. This philosophy, I would argue, facilitates members seeing SAFE through a nationalistic lens, as what the author calls an “imagined community.”
References
Anderson, B. O. R. (1991). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.
One of the clients that I work for, Champlain College Saint-Lambert, recently posted the following notice on their blog (emphasis added):
Champlain College Saint-Lambert will become a smoke and tobacco-free campus for all for employees, students, and visitors effective July 1st 2017.
The use of all tobacco products is prohibited on campus properties, both indoor and outdoor, of the College including all buildings and grounds owned by the College. This policy applies to the parking lot as well as the front and side walkways. Tobacco is defined as any type of tobacco product including, but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, electronic cigarettes, smokeless or spit tobacco or snuff.
For those who are interested in stopping their use of tobacco products please contact Health Services (students) or the local HR department (faculty and staff) for a list of resources and programs.
My first reaction was “wow, talk about an aggressive stance.” Now, don’t get me wrong, I totally understand the overall opposition to smoking. (Once you learn about the negative health impact of smoking tobacco, it’s kind of hard to defend it.) I can therefore appreciate the idea of a green, smoke-free campus. I can even commend Champlain for mentioning how people could get help in quitting their habit, right there in the post. However, I still felt there was a certain harshness in the announcement, particularly surrounding the “including all buildings and grounds owned” bit, and how that would play out in the real world considering Champlain’s specific campus design.
Put simply, the layout was such that smokers would be forced to go to the park next door, or across the street in front of the college, to indulge in their habit. The two other sides of the college were too impractical – one faced the highway and had a fence barrier, meaning people were always on college grounds, and the other was a large parking lot. Technically, you could walk completely across the parking lot to go smoke, but this was pointless when you could simply walk to the park next door, or across the street.
Keep in mind, before Champlain’s announcement, in Quebec, it was still forbidden by law to “smok[e] within a nine-metre radius of a door, window or external air intake of a public or private building.” Nine meters, in my opinion, seemed like a pretty good deal. It was the complete ban of smoking on the campus grounds that seemed excessive, especially given Champlain’s layout. While this may seem like a minor issue, consider the meteorological realities of Quebec. In the winter, this would mean getting dressed and going for a walk specifically to smoke. Winter temperatures would make this journey an uncomfortable affair.
Of course, discomfort is likely the intention… don’t like the inconvenience? Stop smoking. But what I’m saying is this: don’t these people still deserve respect, despite their habit? Are they so disgusting and vile that 9 meters couldn’t possibly be acceptable?
2.1. Smoking is prohibited (3) on grounds placed at the disposal of an educational institution governed by the Education Act (chapter I-13.3), the Education Act for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons (chapter I-14) or the Act respecting private education (chapter E-9.1) and providing preschool education services, elementary and secondary school instructional services, educational services in vocational training or educational services to adults in general education;
I never realized exactly how aggressive the anti-tobacco laws were in Quebec. Further googling revealed a page by the Quebec government in which they reveal the actions they took towards controlling tobacco use, chronologically. For 2017, here’s what they wrote (emphasis added):
Health and social services establishments and post-secondary institutions must have adopted a policy for creating a smoke-free environment no later than November 26.
So again, Champlain was simply putting in place the needed policies to be in full compliance with the law. And yes, these policies meant people would be displaced somewhat when smoking, but this would likely be the same at other institutions, also forced to comply with these new rules. I still feel there’s something to be said here about respecting people’s choices, as unhealthy as they might be, without resorting to extreme measures. The 9 meter rule seemed reasonable to me, as a way of minimizing second hand smoke; the Quebec government, however, took it to another level. But I guess the logic on the part of legislators is likely that the significance of the health threat justifies this type of a response. Does it, though? I’ll keep pondering this… feel free to let me know what you think.
So it was the day of my final exam in Law & Society, and there were only a few mins left before I’d have to leave. And yet, casually, I launched Rust on my computer, logged into a server, and stepped away from my machine while the world loaded. As I was cleaning my apartment to pass the time, I noticed in the distance that the game had finished loading. In Rust, when you connect to a server for the first time, you’re placed in a random location, and you have a first person view of your character laying on his side, just having woken up. When you join the world in this manner, you’re known as a “naked” by the community. This, as you might expect, is because you’re completely nude when you first appear in the world, with only a rock and a torch in your inventory.
Despite noticing that the game was ready to be played at a mere keystroke, I continued working on my apartment. At a certain point, through my speakers, I heard the unmistakable sound of someone building a wooden structure in my vicinity. Intrigued, I wrapped up what I was doing, sat at my computer, and left-clicked to make my character wake from his slumber. I looked around for the source, and in the distance, I could see a partially-clothed male looking in my general direction. I could also faintly hear his voice, but not enough to fully understand what he was saying. As I approached, swimming across a stream to reach him, I heard him ask, more clearly, “are you friendly?“
This question was somewhat uncommon, in my experience. In Rust, typically, whenever you make contact with another player, you’re usually attacked immediately. There’s just something about the world of Rust that makes people murder each other on sight, without hesitation. Based on my specific experience, I’d say this occurs about in about 90% of player encounters. Yet, I’m totally not the type of dude that indulges in violence by default. In fact, I’m usually the one that states I’m friendly immediately upon seeing another player, rather than attacking. I’ve always had this angle of non-violence, opting instead to heal, or to simply abstain from combat where healing wasn’t an option.
So the fact that this player would actually ask if I’m friendly, that, was refreshing. I of course stated that I was friendly, and as I got closer to him, I could hear his voice better, I could tell he was likely an 11-year old, somewhere around that age. In game, of course, he was a full-grown adult, but his voice gave me some insight into the person playing the game. I generally prefer to play with people that are 18 and above, as it usually means a higher probability of the player having some basic level of maturity. In this instance, however, I didn’t mind… especially considering his friendly status.
So I told this player, whom we’ll call Kevin, that I’d have to go soon (to my exam), but that I’d help him gather resources until I had to leave. He thanked me, and invited me into his base, which was currently in the process of being built. In Rust, you can build structures using a few different types of materials. Kevin’s base was currently built out of twig, the cheapest, easiest to break material that was only meant as a placeholder until you had more materials to upgrade. It was clear from my experience that this house would not survive any kind of encounter with hostile players. I told Kevin I’d go out and start gathering, and as I left, he threw me a spear, in case I needed to defend myself.
As I ventured out to gather resources, I reflected on the encounter. Kevin was one of the few Rust players that didn’t kill on sight, and given his youth in the real world, I felt that this friendly attitude needed to be protected. Having played a multitude of games in my life, I could safely say that Rust was by far one of the most toxic when it came to player attitude and general hostility. Kevin and his twig house would be an easy target for abuse – I felt driven to get materials to help him upgrade his walls.
And so I focused on gathering wood, given its abundance, knowing it would allow Kevin to quickly upgrade his walls to wood planks, rather than twigs. I also grabbed stone and other random items wherever I could, anything to help him in his Rust experience. Kevin eventually caught up and joined me in the gathering process. After a while, I had accumulated a decent amount of resources, so I gave him the stacks of wood I had gathered, along with other items, and suggested he work on his base, while also saying I’d head out again to gather more while he did that. He thanked me, and threw me a pair of wood armor pants, to give some form of protection against attacks and the elements. Up until that point, I was a naked man with a spear tied to his back – now, I at least had some form of clothing. I thanked him and returned on my quest for resources.
For a while, all was well. I continued gathering resources for him, getting a good mix of wood and other miscellaneous items, until I spotted something in the distance. There was a stream to my left, heading into the distance ahead of me, and at a certain point it lead to a large rock formation, where the water seemed to disappear underneath. Above this rock formation, I could see another Rust player, looking my way. I froze, trying to determine if he was aggressive. My doubts were clarified by a multitude of bullets being fired my way. In response, I immediately turned and ran, in a zig-zag formation. In the distance, I could see an area with the remains of civilized life, concrete walls, as well as other obstacles I could potentially use to protect myself from an attacker. As I ran to this area, I realized that I had not crafted a sleeping bag yet – meaning if I died, I would respawn somewhere random in the world, and would have difficulty finding Kevin again. To solve this, I frantically started crafting a sleeping bag as I ran.
When I finally reached the concrete wall, I slipped behind it and waited for a moment, silent, to see if my attacker was still giving chase. After a few seconds, I noticed him running right past the wall, not noticing where I had hidden. He was wearing armor made of broken road signs, a form of improvised protection, and in his hand, he held an AK-47, the rifle that had attacked me moments earlier. Though I was glad I wasn’t noticed, I realized he was running in the direction of Kevin’s home, which concerned me; however, I knew the first step was to get myself to safety, so I could place a sleeping bag down. So I waited a moment, and then bolted in the opposite direction, where my attacker had come from.
To my surprise, I ran directly into another player wearing improvised street sign armor, holding a handgun. In a panic, I stabbed him in the face with my spear. It then occurred to me that this person might not be hostile like the other, so I attempted to recover from my instant attack reflex by extending a peaceful message via voice chat. I said “actually, I’m a friendly – ” and then was shot in the face immediately, making me fall onto my back, still alive, but injured. In Rust, when you fall like this, people can take stuff out of your inventory, and they can either help you back up afterwards, leave you to bleed out, or just eliminate you. I waited a couple seconds as they looted my body, and said “can you please help me up after you loot all my stuff?” I was still hoping I could place a sleeping bag down, somehow, or that I could still return to Kevin – if he was still alive, he would surely need my help. I feared for his twig house, his trusting, friendly disposition, and what would happen when it came face with the harsh brutality of Rust. Alas, the player looted my body did not help me up… he left me to bleed out. I died without a sleeping bag on the ground, and the game let me know that I had been alive for about 20 minutes. When I respawned, I was someplace else entirely… so I logged out of Rust, and left to do my final exam. I could have technically gotten in contact with Kevin via Steam’s recent players list, but given my exam and how unique the story was, I felt it was best to leave it as is, respecting the realism and harshness of the Rust world.
A while back, Gmail decided to change the look of the Compose Email interface, I’m talking about this feature right here. When you press Compose, in the past there used to be a full screen editor. Right now what they have is a little pop-up like this that writes New Message, to, subject, cc, bcc, has a place to type your message, and then of course you can send, and there’s some controls.
Now, this is different… but let’s go ahead and do what I’m looking to do, which is attaching a file. I have this photo right here. Let’s say I wanna send this photo to myself. My instinct, to get this done, is to drag the photo, and then drop it within the browser. Most modern websites support this – and of course Gmail does. Notice here? It’s saying “Drop files here”… so, this is encouraging… if I drop the file there, it should attach it, right? So I’ll go ahead and put my email up here, and I’ll write “photos,” okay, so it’s attached graphically, it seems. So I will send it to myself, and immediately check my own inbox.
Hmm. Notice what we see here? There is no attachment, normally, there’s supposed to be a paperclip, there’s no attachment. Instead, there’s this graphic built-into the e-mail. There’s a little arrow which then lets the person download it, but initially, they just see a preview. Maybe what I want is the old-school attachment system. That’s what I grew up with, and that’s what I’m used to seeing – I don’t like the idea of the preview – maybe it’s important to me that they see the fullest version of the file in their monitor.
If I want that, here’s how you do it. You simply click Compose, and when you’re here, you have two options. You can either click on the little attachment symbol down here, it says Attach Files. And then select the file from here, by going to desktop, doing whatever you want.
Or, and here’s what’s sneaky. You can actually grab the photo just like I did before, drag it, and instead of dropping it in this super attractive area, here, go down, to here, believe it or not, if you drop it here, Gmail interprets it as an attachment.
Isn’t that kinda special? Anyway, I hope this little trick helps you guys. I thought it was really not obvious to begin with. And I figured this could help a few people.
Now if you watch my videos, you may have noticed that I like to hide the clock in Windows 10, when I’m doing a tutorial – I’ll show you what I mean. So if you look in the bottom right corner here, you see the time, you see the date. Now, I like to hide this because when I make edits in my videos, sometimes it spans a few minutes. The cuts are a few minutes apart. And I don’t want people to see the clock jumping, I think that that’s a distraction, so I like to hide that clock.
Now I’ll show you how you can hide the clock as well in case you’re recording, or if you just wanna hide the time for some reason. It could also be useful during presentations. So to hide the clock, you, instead of right-clicking the clock itself, what I recommend doing is right-clicking the taskbar, so you right-click here, and in the options that appear, you will select Settings, the one all the way at the bottom.
Alright, now when this window appears, you simply need to scroll all the way down, until you see the Notification area, which is a bit in the middle here. And the notification area has two options: “Select which icons appear in the taskbar”, and “Turn system icons on or off”. You’re interested in “Turn system icons on or off”. So click that. And from this point, it’s pretty straight-forward. Clock’s at the top, click it, it goes from On to Off, and you’re done.
Now, if you’re a Windows user, there’s a certain point in your life where you learn that Ctrl+Alt+Del is your best friend. From Ctrl+Alt+Del, you can actually pop up the task manager. So, I can’t show Ctrl+Alt+Del on screen here, because of the way my video capturing software works, but that’s one way to pop-up task manager. The other way is to simply right-click in the taskbar in Windows, so down here for example. And then you’ll notice that there’s a task manager option. I can simply select that to launch task manager.
But regardless how you do it, I wanted to quickly show you a feature that not many people necessarily encounter. So over here you see a simplified list of apps. I can naturally right-click, end them, run a new task, I can do a number of things here. However, if you click More details in the bottom left, you’ll notice that of course, there are more details, there’s more information, multiple tabs, now, I’ll leave you to explore this on your own time, the only thing I wanted to show you that you might not realize is that the performance tab is special.
They don’t tell you why, but if you click here, you’ll notice that there’s pretty little charts, they’re happening in real time, all good, but if you double-click anywhere on the right here, I think pretty much anywhere, but typically I double-click here. You’ll notice it turns into another type of window. It hides all the extra noise, and you just see the chart you care about.
Now this can be useful if you wanna work while keeping an eye on the performance of your computer for example, so I can stick it in the corner, and work on some stuff in the left-hand-side of my screen, and still know what’s happening with my CPU performance.
Now they call this “tiny footprint” mode, but they don’t really explain that it exists. So sometimes people accidentally double-click when they’re in this window, and they find themselves here, and they don’t know how to come back. Well, to come back, you double-click again, simply, to return, but I kind of wish they would explain it, but I still think it’s a nifty little feature in Windows 10.
You can also of course select other sections and have that appear. You can also resize when in this mode, and, oddly enough, other tabs do not have the same feature, so you can go around double-clicking to your heart’s content, yet, it doesn’t work. So, why did they only add it to this tab? Probably because it’s pretty graphs – again, they could have told us, but at least now you know, so go ahead and enjoy.
Alright, here’s how to show or hide file extensions in Windows 10. You’ll notice on my desktop I have a file named Note. I can tell it’s a Word file, but I can’t see the .docx extension. If I really want to see that, I have to enable file extensions in Windows, I’ll show you how to do that.
All you have to do is launch Windows Explorer, and once Explorer appears, all you have to do is locate the tab at the top named View, and then click it. And once you’re in this area, you’ll notice on the right that there’s an option here: File name extensions. It’s really that simple. Click the checkbox, you’re all set. If I go back on the desktop, you’ll see that now it’s docx.
You can of course undo it if you want to hide it, personally I leave it on all the time.
Okay, everybody, here’s how you can add Hibernate to the list of power options in Windows 10, in case it’s missing. You can also use the same steps to remove it, of course.
So Windows 10 has a number of power options: Sleep, Shutdown, and Restart. These are all pretty well known by people. What you need to know about Hibernate is that it’s kind of like Sleep, except it does not keep it in a low power state, it actually shuts down. So Hibernate will take the computer offline, but it will also save the exact state you were in, all the windows, you had opened, all the files you were working on, whatever, it will actually save them to the hard drive in a special file that’s a few gigs in size, usually. So you get to save power, the computer’s off, but when it reboots, it actually remembers exactly where you were.
So here’s how you can add that option. Click the windows button, and type “Power Options”. Now in this particular screen, you’ll see some options on the left that you need to pay attention to. You see the one that says “choose what power buttons do”? Oddly enough that’s the one we need to click. So let’s do that, and in this list, you have a few things you can change, but if you notice at the bottom here: shutdown settings, Hibernate… notice how it’s unchecked? Exactly.
So if we wanna change that, hm, we can’t ’cause it’s grayed out, that’s because we have to have administrator rights, so up here I’m just gonna click “Change settings that are currently unavailable,” and then I’m going to select Hibernate from the list of options. And then I’m gonna click “Save changes”.
There you go. Now I can actually click the Windows button, and if I click the Power Options, Hibernate is there.
