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Adverts on Your Smart TV Home Screen? Here Is What You Can Turn Off

You cannot remove every advert, and you can stop them being targeted and reduce how prominent they are. Here is how, per…

The doorbell is the easy part. Power, storage costs and how much of the doorstep it sees are what decide whether you…

Backups fail quietly for a few predictable reasons. Here is how to find which one and get it finishing again.

A frozen taskbar is usually the shell rather than the whole system. Here is how to restart it and fix the cause.

Resolution is the headline and sensor size and lighting decide the picture. Here is what to look for and what to ignore.

Windows has several places a headset microphone can be disabled. Here is how to work through them in the right order.

A single Ethernet run between mesh nodes removes the biggest limitation of a mesh system. Here is how to set it up.

A smart lock has to fit your door before anything else. Here is what to measure and which features matter day to…

Phones have several microphones and a blocked one changes everything. Here is how to test each and what usually causes the problem.

Most webcam quality problems are lighting and settings rather than the camera. Here is what to change before buying a new one.

Flash drives vary far more in write speed than the listings suggest. Here is what to look for and why capacity claims…

Stuck pixels sometimes recover, dead ones do not. Here is how to tell them apart and what manufacturers will accept as a…