You can be locked out of your Gmail account for some extraordinary reason. Google’s account recovery process can help you get back in. However, it’s easier if you lose only one key piece of your credentials, like either your username or password, rather than both. What Causes a Gmail Lockout? The Google Support troubleshooter lists nine unique reasons which can cause Gmail to lock you out of your account. These are the four common reasons you might come across....

Causes of Mouse Wheel Not Scrolling When the mouse won’t scroll, there are two issues that most commonly cause it. The first is dust and dirt causing mechanical issues with the mouse wheel. The second is low battery issues on wireless mice. However, these aren’t always the root cause. Other issues include incorrect mouse settings in the OS system settings, corrupt system files, or using a mouse that’s incompatible with your operating system....

The STOP 0x00000078 Error One of the errors below or a combination of both may display on the STOP message: STOP: 0x00000078PHASE0_EXCEPTION The error may also be abbreviated as STOP 0x78 but the full STOP code will always be what’s displayed on the blue screen STOP message. If Windows is able to start after the error, you may be prompted with a Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown message that shows: Problem Event Name: BlueScreenBCCode: 78...

Causes of the Missing Original File Error An exclamation point appears next to a song when iTunes doesn’t know where to find the MP3 or AAC file for that song. This situation occurs because songs aren’t stored in the iTunes app. Instead, iTunes functions like a directory for the music files stored on a computer’s hard drive. When you double-click a song, iTunes searches the place on the hard drive where it expects to find the file....

How to Restart an iPod touch To restart an iPod touch, do a hard reboot. To hard reboot the iPod, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button (the power off slider briefly appears while holding the buttons) until you see the Apple logo. This may take at least 10 seconds. How to Restart an iPod nano Forcing a hard reboot on an iPod nano differs depending on the generation of the device....

How to Sideload the Fortnite Android App On Your Chromebook While it’s possible to sideload the Epic Games installer and Fortnite on some Chromebooks, it’s a fairly complicated process, and it doesn’t work with most Chromebooks. You have to enable developer mode, enable Android apps, enable apps from unknown sources, and download the Epic Games launcher yourself using an Android phone. After all that, if your Chromebook doesn’t make the grade, you won’t be able to install or play Fortnite....

What Causes Sound to Not Get From a Projector to Speakers? Due to the massive variation in audio and video sources, projector configurations, and speaker configurations, the potential issues that could cause a problem with sound getting from a projector to speakers are nearly endless. Here are the most common problems you might be dealing with: Bad cablesBad connectionsLoose connectionsProjector sound settingsAudio input device settingsSoftware issues How to Get Sound From a Projector to Speakers To fix your problem and successfully get sound from your projector to your speakers, you’ll need to attempt several fixes until you find the one that works....

Highlighting Text on Desktop If you’re using Docs from the website, choose some text and then pick a color from the highlighter button. Here’s how: Highlighter Add-ons There are also Google Docs add-ons that provide highlighting functionality if you want extra features. Highlight Tool is one example that provides several options you can’t get with Docs’ built-in highlighter: If you don’t see one from the list that you want to use, select the plus button at the bottom; you can adjust the hue or enter the color’s hex value for an exact match....

How Installing Fonts Works in Windows 11 Font files are like regular files, where they can be downloaded from websites and shared between computers via flash drives, CDs, etc. There are lots of places to get fonts online, including free sources like Google Fonts, DaFont, and FontSpace. We’ll see below Windows 11 has its own, built-in method for getting fonts, too. If you’ve got a font file, like one in the OTF or TTF file extension, you can’t just put it anywhere on your computer and expect it to be usable....

Getting set up to stream games on YouTube is a little complicated, but you only have to go through the entire process one time. After that, you’ll be able to start streaming at any time with the push of the button. We’ll show you two methods to stream games on YouTube, including both XSplit and OBS, and also how to stream at any time without any additional software. What You Need to Get Started With YouTube Game Streaming YouTube makes it extremely easy to live stream your webcam, but streaming a game is a little more complicated....

How Do I Make a Call From the Gmail App? From the Gmail app, follow these steps to make voice or video calls: When the recipient accepts, the call will begin within the app. For voice calls, you’ll see the call duration at the top of the screen. If the person doesn’t have the Gmail app, their phone will not ring, but they might see that you tried to call. If the person doesn’t answer, they will see a notification in their Chats....

Outlook.com Inbox Rules To set up automatic mail inbox rules in Outlook.com, follow these steps. Available Conditions in Outlook.com There is a long list of conditions you can apply when you create a new rule. You can set up one or more of these rules to trigger which emails get managed automatically. From or To: The email is sent from or to specific people.You’re a Recipient: You’re on the To or Cc lines, or you’re not on the To or Cc lines....

How Do I Change My Default Map App on iPhone? Unfortunately, there’s no way to select a default map app on the iPhone. Although you can change other default apps on the iPhone, such as your preferred web browser, Apple does not currently offer this feature for any iOS map apps, including Google Maps. How Do I Make Google Maps My Default on iOS 14? Unless you’re willing to jailbreak your iPhone, which isn’t recommended and against the terms of service for the iPhone, the only way to simulate making Google Maps your default map app on iOS 14 is by using other Google apps as your default apps (if you don’t already use them)....

How to Mirror an Image on iPhone With the Photos App The quickest way to flip an image on your iPhone or iPad is to use the Photos app. How to Mirror an Image on iPhone With Photoshop Express Photoshop Express is a free iOS app that features a range of photo-editing tools. Here’s how to use the app to flip or mirror an image on your iPhone. The mirrored image is saved to the Photos app or shared at another location of your choice....

Prepare Your Source Drive Before you clone Windows 10 to SSD (or Windows 7 or 8.1) you need to make sure that both the source drive, the one you’re cloning from, and its destination SSD are ready. With the source hard drive, you want to remove any unnecessary data that you don’t want to bring with you as you clone it. That not only saves space on the new drive, but can speed up the cloning process....

How to Mute Gmail Conversations To mute a conversation, open the message you want to ignore, and then choose Mute under the More (…) menu. How to Unmute Gmail Conversations Muted messages are sent to All Mail. To unmute them, you must find them first by: Looking in All Mail.Searching for the message using criteria such as the sender’s email address, text within the message, the subject, etc.Entering is:muted in the search bar....

Ways to View PUB Files Without Microsoft Publisher When you have a Microsoft Publisher document but don’t have access to Publisher, there are tools, viewers, and shortcuts that open .pub files created by Microsoft Publisher. LibreOffice Draw, part of the open-source LibreOffice suite, is a good tool that can open Publisher files. Most of the time, it’s better to convert a Publisher file to another more universal format. There are several methods you can use to create a shareable Publisher file....

How to Open and Play ARF Files Cisco’s WebEx Player can open and play an ARF file on Windows and Mac. If you have trouble with the program opening the file, you might get an error message like “Unknown file format. You may update your Network Recording Player and try again.” Try using the version of the player that you can download with your WebEx account at Support Center > Support > Downloads > Recording and Playback, or on the Library page....

How to Pair a Bluetooth Device With an iPad The process of pairing a Bluetooth device ensures the communication between the device and the iPad is encrypted and secure. Security is essential because phone headsets are a popular Bluetooth accessory and, you don’t want someone being able to easily intercept the signal if you use them for a call. Bluetooth also lets the iPad remember the devices you pair with it, so you don’t need to repeat the setup each time you want to use the accessory again....

How to Rank YouTube Videos by Targeting a Niche This strategy is a reliable way to rank YouTube videos and requires no prior experience to be successful. Rank YouTube Videos by Targeting Trends Targeting trends are the opposite of targeting a niche. You’ll face a lot of competition and must work quickly. Rank YouTube Videos by Targeting Similar Content This strategy looks to pick up viewers who are watching other popular content....