How to Enable the Favorites Bar in Edge on Windows 10

The Favorites Bar is not displayed in the Edge browser by default. Microsoft thinks that it is more important to save vertical space for websites’ content.

Many people still ask the same question on forums because they can’t find how to enable the Favorites Bar in Edge. Personally I always turn it on in all my browsers because it seems extremely useful to me.

With their help I can access my most frequent websites much faster than from the bookmarks menu.  

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How to rename your Android phone or tablet in Google Play Store

Sometimes Google Play Store gives very strange names to our Android devices. It is not a rare case when Android phone has name i9505-Verizon or even more silly Unnamed in My Devices list of the Play Store.

Nowadays most people have more than one Android device using the same Google Account. So it is very important that you could distinguish all your phones and tablets.

Just imagine that you are about to install a new Android app using your PC, it is time to choose the phone and you have to choose between Unnamed device and another Unnamed Device. That’s annoying. But I want you to know that you can easily rename your Android phone or tablet in Google Play Store

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How to Connect to Windows Remote Desktop from Android. RDP Client App

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a protocol developed by Microsoft. It serves to connect from one PC (client) to another (server) using the local network or Internet connection.

In our days RDP can be used not only on Windows machines but on Android devices as well. Microsoft developed its own app for Android that works as Remote Desktop Client. 

With a help of this app you can connect to Windows from Android device via the same RDP Protocol. And actually not only connect but also to fully administer the remote server or PC: install programs, fix issues, remove malware, create and restore backups, reboot, shutdown, etc.

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Stop Mozilla Firefox from Killing Your SSD

Many people notice that latest versions of Mozilla Firefox save a session backup to disk every 15 seconds. At such rates Mozilla is able to easily write up to 15 Gigabytes of data to your SSD per day. Of course such enormous amount of written data can significantly reduce the life of any SSD. Here is how to change the current session auto saving time period and stop Firefox killing your SSD. 

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