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Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. [7 Tutorials - Help and How To For Windows & Windows Phone]( This week's articles: [This week on Microsoft: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will offer ransomware protection]( Published by Ciprian Adrian Rusen on Jul 02, 2017 01:00 pm [Windows 10] This week Microsoft has launched for testing a new feature that will be included in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. It is named “controlled folder access” and it protects your important files from ransomware. The company has also released a major redesign for the Skype app on iOS. To learn more, as well as other interesting news, read this week’s recap: [7 ways in which the 2017 version of the Nokia 3310 betrays its predecessor from 2000]( Published by Codrut Neagu on Jun 30, 2017 01:03 pm [Nokia 3310] HMD Global, the new owner of the Nokia brand, released a new version of the legendary Nokia 3310 phone. The hype around this phone skyrocketed, and people were excited to hear about the resurrection of this phone. After all, it's not every day that you get to see a phone like the Nokia 3310 which has become legendary as probably the most durable mobile phone. Surely, a remastered version of it, one that’s designed and mass produced in 2017, almost twenty years after the original hit the market, would also be a hit. But, and that’s a very big but, icons are pretty hard to overthrow, and the new Nokia 3310 is definitely not the phone its forebear was. Here’s why: [HyperX Pulsefire FPS review: Aim or twitch, the end will always be a frag]( Published by Codrut Neagu on Jun 30, 2017 11:09 am [HyperX Pulsefire FPS] HyperX, the gaming division of Kingston, is well known for its high-quality RAM, flash memory sticks, and gaming headsets. We’ve also seen them design and create a mechanical keyboard recently, but we’ve never seen a gaming mouse coming out of their factories. Things have changed for the better and this spring the company did that too. The first gaming mouse bearing the HyperX logo is called HyperX Pulsefire FPS, and it is a device that is designed for players who like first person shooters. We received this mouse for testing, alongside the extra large version of the HyperX Fury S Pro gaming mousepad. If you want our opinion about these two gaming accessories, read this review: [Simple questions: What were Windows Essentials and how can you install them today?]( Published by Codrut Neagu on Jun 29, 2017 01:55 pm [Windows] Windows Essentials, also known as Windows Live Essentials, used to be a suite of useful Windows programs that were developed by Microsoft. The suite was free and included apps for e-mail management, instant messaging, photo management and sharing, blogging, and parental controls. Although Windows Essentials have evolved a lot over the years, in the end, they suffered the same unfortunate fate as dinosaurs: they’ve gone extinct. In other words, Microsoft decided that they are obsolete and that there’s no point in maintaining them. Although you can no longer download Windows Essentials from Microsoft, they can still be found in other places on the internet, and you can still use them if you want. Here’s where to find Windows Essentials, how to install them and how to start the Windows Essentials apps: [How to change what the Power or Shut Down button does when you press it]( Published by Codrut Neagu on Jun 28, 2017 12:02 pm [Shut Down] Some users do not use the Shut down button from the Start Menu to power off their Windows computers. Instead, they prefer to use the hardware power button found on their PCs and devices. If you are such a user, you might want to change the default behavior of the Shut down button from the Start Menu into something else, which you are likely to use more frequently: Log off, Lock, Restart, Sleep or Switch User. Or you might prefer to configure the hardware power button that’s found on your Windows computer or device, to put it to sleep instead of shutting it down as it happens by default. This tutorial will show you how to do these things in Windows 7, as well as in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10: [9 ways to start Internet Explorer in all Windows versions]( Published by Codrut Neagu on Jun 27, 2017 01:18 pm [Internet Explorer] Have you ever wondered in how many different ways you can open Internet Explorer? Did you find yourself in a situation where you just couldn’t find a shortcut for it and had no idea how to launch it? It’s a common problem with many solutions to it. If you are curious to find them all, read this roundup of ways to open Internet Explorer in all modern Windows versions: Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. [Reviewing the Nokia 3310 - How nostalgia sells mediocre phones at a high price]( Published by Codrut Neagu on Jun 26, 2017 12:54 pm [Nokia 3310] These days we tested one of the ghosts of the last decade: the Nokia 3310! You surely have heard of it. It is one of the most emblematic phones of the early 2000s. There are a lot of people who still remember this phone and who feel nostalgic about the times when it ruled the mobile world. If you feel like this introduction is about dinosaurs, congrats, you’re right! The Nokia 3310 was extinct until it got resurrected this year by HMD Global, the company that now owns the Nokia brand. Joking aside, we were very curious to test the new Nokia 3310. We loved the original model and we had some hopes for its modern reinterpretation. 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