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It’s that time again, and we’ve got a lot of inquiries at our inbox. Some of today’s questions are complicated, but we’ll tackle them like always! Whenever you submit a question to MTE, a Windows expert reviews it and answers the question in the most concise manner possible. To submit your own question, send an email to windows-help [at] maketecheasier.com. Now, let’s get to the fun part! Q: I cannot remove McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise from my computer through the control panel....

Back 4 Blood has an Open Beta that releases on 12th August 12:00 PST and runs up to 16th August 12:00 PST. The actual game comes out on the 12th of October. So, the Open Beta is a good way for players to get a taste of the game. If you have pre-purchased the game you get to access it even earlier as part of the Early Access program. Now with all this out of the way, let’s find out more about this new Open Beta....

From tubes to plasma, there are more television models on store shelves than covers of magazines. Before exploring analog versus digital, SDTV, HDTV, and EDTV, look at the types of televisions in today’s consumer market. Direct View Also known as tube television, this is the closest thing to the one baby boomers watched as kids. A cathode-ray tube, which is a specialized vacuum tube, powers it. CRTs come in all shapes and sizes up to about 40 inches....

On Discord, you can do a lot of fun stuff like playing music, sharing memes and yes, you can also play games together. It gives you a feeling of having a community like no other platform as of now. If you want to add more spice to your dormant server and increase activity, here are the best Discord game bots that you can invite and add. This list will constantly stay updated and currently includes an anime game, a quiz/trivia option and more!...

Writing allows you to unleash your thoughts, happiness, pain, desire and whatnot. It takes years to be a writer who is read widely. But the long time does not necessarily mean that one is going to make it big. All it takes to be a writer is lots of patience, practice and of course reading. Patience is upon you but there are lots of apps out there which can help you in your practice and reading efforts....

The iPad doesn’t come with an instruction manual, although you can download one from Apple’s website, but how many of us actually do that? The iPad has always been an easy device to pick up and use, but it’s also packed with a variety of cool features you may not know about. Put an Extra App on the Dock The easiest shortcut isn’t always the most obvious, and that’s true for the iPad....

From Firefox 57 onward, Mozilla’s browser has gone through a whole load of changes, overhauling its under- and over-the-hood functions to ostensibly run faster than ever. Firefox Quantum, as it’s currently known, finally has a shot at overtaking Chrome – in speed if not popularity. The switch to Quantum also means that a lot of trusty old tricks to speed things up don’t work any more (bye-bye pipelining). The good news is that there’s a slew of new tips to replace them, and we have them for you here....

Photo editing is the process of modifying a photo by focusing on the image and highlighting its key aspects, transforming it from an ordinary to a truly phenomenal and magnificent photo. Today, there are a lot of photo editing software, both free, open-source, and paid, commercial software that one can choose. So the upcoming article about free photo editing software for pc will indeed give you myriad choices to choose from, including GIMP photo editing software....

The Advanced Startup Options in Windows is nothing new. It provides you with different options which can be used to repair your Windows installation, reset or restore Windows 10, perform diagnostics, open UEFI settings, access the command prompt, etc. As useful as it is, it can be quite troublesome for beginner users to access the advanced startup options. Fortunately, there are multiple ways to access the advanced startup options. If you ever need to access the advanced startup options, here are the different ways to do that....

The older Android gets, the more Android Twitter clients there are. We’ve gone over the many different options before, but so much has changed over the years. It’s time to take a look at what’s currently offered in the Play Store. Here are some of the latest Twitter clients available for Android going into 2015. Talon Talon is known for keeping up with Android’s latest visual trends. The app originally ran on KitKat, drawing attention for its use of transparent system bars....

Maintaining one’s hard drive space is admittedly a less pressing task in the age of cheap and available storage, but it’s never a bad idea to keep an eye on your disk usage. Here are three visualizer programs and a handy Finder trick related to file size and available space. 1. Disk Inventory X Disk Inventory X was one of the first drive-visualization programs for OS X, released initially in 2004....

The website has millions of products that sellers from around the world have listed on the platform. For keeping the competition alive as well as for making customers interested at all times, the website more often than not keeps fluctuating the prices of the products as well. What a price tracker does is that it keeps track of the fluctuation in the price of a product as well as notifying you about the price drop....

2018 wasn’t the most glamorous year for Windows 10, beset as the system was by broken updates that led to strange occurrences like people losing their data and having their operating systems deactivated. In its defence, these incidents were relative outliers in the so-called “forever” operating system that’s steadily improving in reliability and accessibility. 2019 looks set to continue Windows 10 on the right path. Here are five major updates and events that are likely to come to Windows 10 in 2019, which should change the OS for the better and cut down on its niggling problems....

The Web is enormous, and it’s not getting any smaller. As a collective, we seem to suffer from information overload and FOMO (fear of missing out) at the same time – we can’t digest all the content that’s coming our way, yet we’re still concerned about staying in the loop. This is why it’s important to focus only on things that matter to you. If you’re looking for a simple, centralized solution to collect all your content, you’re in the right place....

These days, there are many uses for a presentation slideshow other than giving an actual presentation. You can use a presentation as a sales tool, upload them to a social site or even embed them onto a page on your own site. However, to create a presentation, you need some sort of software. Or do you? If you are going to create a presentation slide deck, you would likely think of PowerPoint....

If you want to make the most out of your WordPress menus, you need to try some of the available plugins. There is quite a lot to choose from because there are plugins for various menu enhancements such as megamenus, responsive menus, menu buttons, etc. Here are eight of the WordPress menu plugins I consider best. 1. Responsive Menu If your menus are not responsive yet, then the Responsive Menu plugin is a must for any self-respecting WordPress site owner....

Creating a Discord server is easy; however, maintaining its momentum is harder. One way to keep the spirits up and engagement high is to add gaming bots to your Discord server. It’s a good way to pass time, bond with community members, and stay connected. 1. Wordle Wordle is all the rage these days – so much so that NYT decided it was a great idea to buy it. It’s a web-based word game where you get one new five-letter word every day....

Unless something stops working, you probably don’t think to check PC health regularly. However, through a series of simple tests and tools, you can keep an eye on your PC’s health and performance before any major issues arise. This gives you a heads-up that something might be wrong, such as early signs of a hard drive failure or devices not starting up correctly. The earlier you notice issues, the less chance you will have of permanent damage or data loss....

We all use Snapchat for clicking stunning photos as well as sharing them with our family and friends. Snapchat is popular for providing amazing filters. Snapchat is also considered the fastest way to share a moment. You can share your pictures with your contacts in no time. Moreover, you may also capture small videos with Snapchat and share them with your friends. You may share Snapchat stories or view what others add to their stories....

Mars is finally here to boss Dota 2, he was announced back in August but it took a bit of time before he was unveiled and now we have him as a playable character. His page on the Dota 2 site describes him as “The warrior deity Mars thrives in the heart of strife, guarded by the bulk of a deadly shield as he skewers enemies with his legendary spear. He revels in facing opponents in an arena ringed with loyal spearmen—who guarantee that no one escapes and that whatever odds he’s facing, the god of war can dictate the terms of battle knowing the crowd is forever on his side....