Web User - UK (2019-07-10)

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70 10 - 23 July 2019

PRIVACY

Delete recent purchases from
Google’s trackingtool
Googletrackseverythingyou buyonline,
andthenusesthisinformationto
advertise‘relevant’ productsto you when
you’re next browsingtheweb. However,
you candelete thisinformationfromyour
profilebyvisitingmyaccount.google
.com/purchases,clickingany purchase
andselectingRemove Purchase. Simple.
Martha Mortis, via email

SECURITY

Update and scanwith security
software
If you useWindowsDefenderfor security
in Windows10, it’s easy to leave it
runningin thebackgroundwithout

payingit muchattention.However, if left

aloneit onlyperformsquickscansof the

places malware is most likelyto lurk,so

it’s worthupdatingthevirussignatures

manuallyandperforminga thorough

scaneverynow andthen.

Right-clicktheWindowsDefendericon

in thetaskbarandselect‘View security

dashboard’. Click‘Virus& threat

protection’,thencheckfor updates by

clickingthelinknearthebottom.Click

‘Scanoptions’andchoosea ‘Fullscan’,

followed by‘Scannow’.

You shouldn’tneedto update

WindowsDefender’s virusdefinitions

manually, butif you do, you can

downloadthemfrombit.ly/wddef4 79.

Evenif you useothersecuritytools,

it’s still worthdoinga thoroughmanual

scanonce in a while.

Chris Mahon, via email

BROWSERS

Print selectedtext

In thepast, whenI wantedto print

somethingfroma web page, I’d printthe

entire page. Sometimesit cameouton

more thanonesheet,whichwas a waste

of inkandpaper. However, I recently

discovered that you canchoosehow

muchof a web pageyou want to print.

If you opena web pagein Chrome,

thenright-clickandselectPrint,Chrome

printsthewholepage. However, if you

clickanddragto selectpartof a page,

thenright-clickandchoosePrint,

Chromeprintsonlytheselectedpart.

This workswhetheryou selecttext,

imagesor both,andpreventswaste.

Bill Tate, via email

BROWSERS

Enable Hover Cards to

preview Chrome tabs

Asyou know, hoveringyour mouse

pointer over a tabin Chromerevealsthe

nameof thepage, butI’ve discovered an

evenbetter wayof checkingwhat a tab

containswithoutopeningit. You’llneed

ChromeBeta(www.google.com/chrome/

beta)for thisbecausethefeature isn’t

availablein thestandard versionyet.

Openchrome://flags/#tab-

hover-cardsandselectEnabledfrom

thedrop-downmenu.Next,goto

chrome://flags/#tab-hover-

card-imagesandEnablethat too. Once

you’ve relaunchedthebrowser, you’llfind

that hoveringover a tabrevealsa card

containinganimageof what’s onthe

page. It’s ridiculouslyuseful.

Paul Sterling, via email

GENERAL PC

Addmore timezones

Didyou know that you canaddtwo more

clocksto theclockin thetaskbarso you

canseewhat timeit is in differentparts

of theworld?This couldbehandyfor

TOPTIP

If you have limitedinternet

bandwidthandyou’re

worriedabouthow muchof

it Windows10 updates are

using,there’s a niftywayto

limittheirsize. Download

andextracttheMach2Zip

filefrombit.ly/mach4 79.

RunCommandPromptas

anadministrator, then

paste in thelocationof the.exe file. It

shouldlooksomethinglike this:

C:\Users\username\Downloads\

mach2_0.3.0.0_x64/mach2.exe

Press space, typeenable, then

press space againandtype 21425853.

Limit the size of Windows 10 updates

GENERAL PC

Press Enter andrestartyour PC.Finally,

openSettings,Update & Security, then

DeliveryOptimisation.Click‘Advanced

options’,andyou canlimitbandwidth

usageunder‘Absolute bandwidth’.

Brodie Macmillan, via email

Hover Cards lets you view the contents of

unselected tabs in Chrome

Remove details of itemsyou’ve purchased
from Google’s database

Don’t let Windows Updates use up your bandwidth

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