How to Configure a HomeGroup in Windows Share stuff with all your homies A homegroup in Windows makes it easier to share files and printers on a home network. You can share pictures, music, videos, documents, and printers with other people in your homegroup. As a security measure, other people can’t change the files that you share, unless you give them permission to do so. When you set up a computer with Windows, a homegroup is created automatically if one doesn’t already exist on your home network....

How to Delete Blank Rows in Excel A few methods, with pros and cons of each If yourExcel documenthas thousands of rows, manually deleting blank lines can be stressful and virtually impossible. You can useExcel macrosto clean up your data, but it can be difficult if you aren’t familiar with macros. This tutorial will show you different ways to delete blank rows in any Excel version, from Excel 2003 to Excel 2016 and beyond....

Search Inside Multiple Text Files at Once Using third-party apps or command line Ever had to find some text inside a bunch of different text files? If you’re in IT, this issue can come up quite often. Maybe you are looking for a particular phrase in log files or maybe you are a programmer and need to find some code that is inside many different code files. Unfortunately, there isn’t any easy way to do this in Windows....

Enable or Disable Windows Firewall from Command Prompt Easiest way to add port exceptions or computers not in Active Directory There may come a time when you need to write a script or remotely connect to a PC and run a command to enable or disable the Windows firewall. For most IT environments, using Group Policy is the easiest way to configure the Windows Firewall on client computers. It’s also the easiest way to add port exceptions for services such as HTTP, file sharing, software applications, and more....

The Easiest Way to Use Kiosk Mode in Windows 10 For any app in the Universal Windows Store Previously, I had written about how you can use Assigned Access to put Windows 8.1 into kiosk mode, which basically only allows one app to be run on the system and that’s it. It’s great for any public computer that you want to have a high degree of control over. With Windows 10, the procedure has changed quite a bit and this article will show you how to do the same thing, just with the new steps....