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How to personalize your PC

Posted by RCCT INC. on December 27, 2018

What makes your house your home? Is it the furniture? The art? A few favorite collectibles arranged on the shelves? Your PC doesn’t have to be any different. If you’re new to Windows 10, we’ll show you how to personalize your PC to make it feel, well, yours.

From the moment you first power on your PC, you’ll be asked to choose how to manage your privacy and security. But once you complete that short process, the fun begins: you’ll be able to select backgrounds, configure your Start menu, and select apps and shortcuts. Think of this story as a complement to our previous tutorial on how to set up your new PC efficiently and effectively. This is the fun stuff.

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Most GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GPUs cost more than $400, but this MSI model is $339 today

Posted by RCCT INC. on December 27, 2018

The holiday break week is upon us, and now it’s time to spend all that gift money from your stocking, under the tree, or those sweet, sweet cash refunds. If you’ve got money to burn, B&H Photo Video has you covered with a great deal on a new graphics card. The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Aero 8G is $339 today after a $20 rebate. That is a fantastic deal considering most GTX 1070 Ti cards are north of $400 right now.

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A Microsoft 365 subscription for consumers wouldn’t work without the Xbox

Posted by RCCT INC. on December 13, 2018

Microsoft is hiring a product manager to lead a new Microsoft 365 subscription service for consumers—and boy, that person will have their work cut out for them.

The job posting, unearthed by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, pretty clearly specifies that Microsoft wants to orchestrate a consumer version of the Microsoft 365 subscription it has put in place for enterprises. The existing Microsoft 365 service for enterprises covers Windows 10, Office 365 and a bundle of enterprise services called EMS, mainly geared at device management.

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Careful! Windows 10’s ‘Check for updates’ button may download beta code

Posted by RCCT INC. on December 13, 2018

Some users are adventurous, and seek to be the first to use new Windows 10 features via Microsoft’s Windows Insider program. Others aren’t, and just want a stable system to use on day-to-day basis.

If you’re one of the latter, don’t go clicking Windows Update’s “Check for updates” button willy-nilly, or you may unwittingly join the ranks of the Windows pioneers—even if you were simply hoping for a patch to fix a problem with your operating system.

In a blog post this week, Microsoft revealed that those users who click the “Check for updates” button (Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update) are opted in to testing new Windows features on a one-time basis, if they happen to click the button during the third and fourth week of the month. Microsoft calls those updates “C” and “D” releases, and issues them to those who are “seeking” them when they click the update button.

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