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November 2015

Make sure to check default apps and settings after the recent Windows 10 update

If you have updated Windows 10 on one of your devices to build 1511, the first big feature update of Microsoft's newest operating system, then you may want to check default apps and settings on the system as these appear to have been reset for some users of the system.

Users of the operating system complain about three main changes on sites like Reddit after they have updated Windows 10 to the latest build:

Cross-Device Tracking: a privacy invasive tracking method

Marketing companies are always on the lookout for new methods to track user activity on the Internet. These information are used to display targeted advertisement to users which have a better return than less-targeted ads.

The more a company knows about a user, the higher the return and that is the main reason why companies step up the tracking game despite public outcry about it and the rise of ad-blockers.

In fact, tracking is one of the core reasons -- the other is invasive ads -- that users install ad-blockers on their devices.

How to start and stop receiving Windows 10 Insider Preview builds

The following guide walks you through the steps of joining or leaving the Windows 10 Insider Preview program.

Microsoft launched the Insider Preview program for Windows 10 as a way to test changes made to the operating system before they are deployed to regular versions of the operating system.

This is a fundamental change to the update cycle in previous versions where updates were only tested internally before they were deployed.

Millions of Insider Preview systems provide Microsoft with a large sample size of hardware and software configurations.

Catalog Drives or optical media with DiskCat for Windows

DiskCat is a free program for the Windows operating system that enables you to create catalogs of drives connected to the computer system.

The program catalogs all files on the selected drive and lets you search across the data from within its interface.

First thing you do after starting it up is to create a catalog. This is done with a click on the selected drive button at the top and the selection of a drive letter.

Fix New Windows 10 update 1511 not showing up

Microsoft released the first major update to its Windows 10 operating system yesterday. It offers new features and improvements across the board, and while it is not enough to convince users who dislike Windows 10 to give it a shot, it should be beneficial to most users who run the operating system already.

The update is deployed via Windows Update and all it should take is to go into PC Settings to check for the update and install it.

Football fans? OnPoint Sports for Android has you covered

OnPoint Sports - Live Football is a brand new application for Android that provides you with all there is to know -- and some that you may not need to know -- about football.

The app covers American Football and not the world's most popular sport. Once you have installed the app on your Android device -- it requires only two extra permissions -- you are ready to dive in to the data right away.

The start screen displays pairings of the current match week, and an option to go back to previous weeks to check out results and stats.

Fox Web Security add-on for Firefox

Fox Web Security is a neglected add-on for the Firefox web browser that blocks or allows connections to websites based on blocklist information of the three DNS providers Yandex, OpenDNS and Norton ConnectSafe.

There are plenty of security solutions out there for the Firefox web browser to improve the default state of the browser in this regard.

Fox Web Security takes a different approach than most as it uses the DNS system to allow or block connections.

List of Pale Moon specific about:config preferences

The following article lists known preferences of the Pale Moon web browser that are unique to it which means that they are not found in Firefox.

This article is designed to list these Pale Moon specific preferences, and also to get input from Pale Moon users who may know of other preferences that we are not aware of. These can be preferences unique to Pale Moon, or preferences that Mozilla deprecated in Firefox but are still available in Pale Moon.

How to use these preferences