Windows Help & Advice – May 2019

9 Message workaround Create a new Basic Task, and set it to run five minutes before the Logoff task every Friday. There’s an app ...

he Action Centre in Windows 10 gives you quick and easy access to important tools and features of theoperating system, as well a ...

5 Connectivity options The Action Centre also gives you quick access to various connectivity options, such as turning Bluetooth ...

9 Where’stheoldActionCentre? If you’veusedpreviousversionsofWindows,youmaybe wonderingwheretheoldActionCentreis.Thiswasquitea di ...

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7 Closing desktops When you have finished with the extra desktops you’ve created, you can either leave them to run in the backgr ...

Quickly Build 2D Games in yy GDevelop Go exploring GDevelop opens to a welcome screen [Image A], with the choice to open a proje ...

Click‘Usea CustomCollisionMask’toedityourhitbox, whereyoupositionrednodestodefineyourshape.Add morenodesbyclickingthe‘+’signinth ...

46 |^ |^ May 2019 under ‘resources/examples/platformer’. Choose Grass.png, then back in the Properties window, click Apply. You ...

Windows 10 Build your own 2D games May 2019 | |^47 interface works the same for these as for normal events, although GDevelop in ...

48 | | May 2019 Find out if your accounts have been hacked, and what you should do about it, with Nick Peers f there’s one thing ...

y 01 | 49 Windows 10 Protect your online accounts ...

Set up a VPN We’re big fans of virtual private networks (VPNs), and for good reason. They mask your identity and encrypt all dat ...

Windows 1 Protect your online account May 2019 | |^51 Password managers offer a Windows app and browser extensions to make it ea ...

The perfect password The days of securing your online accounts with short, easily guessable passwords are long gone, but what co ...

Windows 1 Protect your online account An extra layer of protection You can practically eliminate the threat from a brute-force a ...

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56 |^ |^ May 2019 I f your PC is constantly falling over, or you’re suffering performance- related issues with no obvious cause, ...

May 2019 | |^57 Windows 10 Your PC reborn Give Windows a health check 6 SHOHFWDQGÀ[ There are 47 repairs in total – switch to ...