By default, Windows automatically downloads the latest updates, drivers, and hotfixes, then schedules an install. Windows will try to automatically install the updates when the computer is idle and not actively in use. These updates are recommended by Microsoft for Windows systems. They are released to fix issues, patch security vulnerabilities, and improve system stability and performance. However, some updates may cause Windows devices to not operate properly and cause issues....

Student lesson 47 shows you how to park or create domain aliases in cPanel. Domain aliases (previously known as Parked domain) is a feature in cPanel that allows webmasters to easily point a domain to the content of another domain. For example, you owned example.com and example.net domains. They are separate domains and will require separate content. With Domain Aliases, you can point example.net to example.com so anytime someone types example....

When looking for a cross-platform, simple code editor for programming and web development, you should probably take a look at Komodo Edit. This simple yet powerful code editor for programmers provides basic functionality, like editing and writing basic programming codes. It’s more like Notepad++ on steroids for Windows systems and other platforms. For a more advanced version of Komodo, you’ll have to purchase Komodo IDE. It comes with all the power you need to create powerful programs....

If you’re accessing your server via SSH remotely and you want to add another layer of security to make sure it’s unauthorized user agents and threat actors can’t log in, then adding two-factor authentication is a great move. Two-factor authentication enables users to provide certain details such as random code, or OTP (Time Password ) to add another layer of security to standard usernames and passwords. We previously showed you how to set up two-factor authentication with Ubuntu using Google Authenticator....

Assuming your Windows device has an optical media drive capable of writing content to a CD/DVD, Windows 11 makes it easy to write “burn” a CD-R or DVD-R disc. Burning or writing content to a CD/DVD is like making a backup of the original content on the computer. The burned disc can then be transferred to another device or stored in a secured location for safekeeping. A CD/DVD can also be used to perform a full Windows image backup....

Adding a language in Edge is pretty straightforward. However, not everyone is comfortable doing it. We’ll show you how to do that below. When a secondary language is added, Edge won’t prompt you to translate when you visit a web page written in that language. It will display in its native version. This should work on all Edge browsers installed on any operating system, including Windows, macOS, and Linux systems....

Ubuntu Linux allows users to add, change and remove pictures from their accounts. Photos you add to your profile are associated with your account and what the account represents. You can add pictures to your profile to distinguish and identify you on the login screen from other accounts. You can change the picture to any already included in Ubuntu or add a unique picture of you from your camera or phone....

Windows allows users to assign access and restrict people to using only one Windows app so their Windows device acts like a kiosk. When the kiosk account signs in, the app are launched automatically. The person using the kiosk cannot do anything on the device outside of the kiosk app. Because you can only assign one app at a time, changing the assigned app requires that you go to the Windows Settings app and change it there....

vRAM helps speed up your computer graphic processes and tasks, since the video RAM is right next to the GPU, and holds information that the GPU needs to process quickly, including game textures and lighting effects, and more. Instead of the GPU going to the main systems’ RAM to process tasks, vRAM is used instead to process these tasks quickly and efficiently. If you run into issues frequently when playing graphic-intensive games or experience your PC running slowly when performing certain video editing tasks, you may have checked your system’s vRAM to see if there’s enough for your system to run smoothly....

Bing wallpaper app lets you explore the world one image at a time with a new background each day. It helps you bring new life to your background in Windows 11. Bing Wallpaper includes a collection of beautiful images from around the world that have been featured on the Bing homepage. You will see a new image on your desktop each day and can also browse images and learn where they come from....

Starting with the most recent version of Snipping Tools, you can now enable or disable automatically saving screenshots. In addition to being copied to the clipboard, they’ll now be automatically saved in PNG format in the Screenshots folder under Picture in your home folder. This feature is enabled by default. If you don’t want to automatically save screenshots, you can simply disable it, and the steps below show you how to do that....

In Ubuntu Linux, if your device has a touchpad, you can click, double-click, drag, and scroll using only your touchpad, without separate hardware buttons. Your device’s touchpad can perform similar actions as a mouse or other pointing devices easily without the need to have a separate mouse or additional device to point and click. Natural Scrolling is also known as Reverse Scrolling. When enabled, you can drag content as if sliding a physical piece of paper using the touchpad....

For example, right out of the box, VirtualBox’s virtual machines cannot communicate with each other while attached to the default NAT network. VMs configured with the default NAT network configurations can only get to the Internet, with no VM-to-VM or host IP communication. To allow virtual machines to communicate with each other, you must change the VM network settings to use NAT Network, but you can’t use that network setting if you haven’t already created it....

Here’s something to remember; If your computer is running low on free disk space, you will not be able to install important security updates or upgrade Windows OS and your computer’s performance will suffer. It is always important to make sure that you don’t run out of free drive space on your computer. If you ever get a message that your computer is low on disk space, resetting Windows might help, but you may lose other stuff doing that and this is like killing a fly with a hammer....

1Pasword is officially available in Linux as a native app. The app was entered into beta the last year but wasn’t stable enough to be used in Linux. Now, wait for it over! You can install 1Password in Linux, including Ubuntu and the steps below show you how to do that with an Ubuntu desktop. 1Password is a password manager that allows the easiest and safest way to share logins, passwords, credit cards, and more across multiple devices when you have it installed....

Gitea is an open-source version control platform similar to Github. It’s probably the easiest, fastest, and most painless way of setting up a self-hosted Git service. Gitea is a clone of Gogs and is 100% open-source and free of charge. All source code is available under the MIT License on GitHub. It is robust, scalable and a great alternative to other git services. Gitea has rich features like issues and time tracking, repository branching, file locking, tagging, merging, and many other features that you will find in a typical source control platform....

When you want the latest HP printer drivers on Ubuntu, you’ll download and install the latest HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) driver package. Updated versions of this package are regularly released with support for the latest HP printers. HP is one of the printer manufacturers that has its driver package for Linux, including Ubuntu. The driver package is maintained by the open-source community but has HP’s full support. HP Linux printer’s driver package is known as HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) and it’s updated frequently to support newer printers as they become available....

Jira is a proprietary project management software from Atlassian which allows bug tracking and agile project management. It comes with a user-friendly web interface that allows users to create stories and issues, and plan and distribute tasks across teams and departments. Whether you’re creating a personal or company setting up a self-hosted project management platform, Jira can help you build and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful user and admin dashboard....

Joomla is a free open source, mobile-ready, and user-friendly content management software used to create many of the websites and applications you use every day. From personal blogs to eCommerce to almost any type of website. To run Joomla, you’ll need to install a webserver, a database server, and PHP server scripting modules. The majority of the time Joomla will be installed on a Linux system, including Ubuntu with either the LAMP or LEMP stack....

Few people have heard of OpenLiteSpeed, not because it’s bad, but because it’s not widely used and not yet popular. Many good things have been written about OpenLiteSpeed, and if you want to test it yourself, continue below. OpenLiteSpeed is an open-source web server developed by LiteSpeed Technology. It is designed to be lightweight and comes with an admin panel to manage the server easily from your favorite web browsers....