OK; stupid question #647:<BR><BR>A bud of mine at the office bought himself a brand new Powerbook G4 1.25Ghz. He didn't have a lock for it, so I dug thru my stash of misc stuff and found a lock and ...

Imagine you’re typing away on your laptop inside of a busy café. You hear your coffee order being yelled out and now you’ve got to make your way up front and leave your laptop behind. What if an ...

In the first quarter of 2023, global cyber-attacks surged by 7%, marking a significant uptick compared to the previous year’s figures. In this age of interconnected devices and data highways, the ...

If you carry your laptop with you, then chances are you might leave it unwatched for a few moments when you’re in the library, classroom, in a park or just in any other public place. And during those ...

The number lock function on your laptop can help you quickly enter a series of numbers including those related to the bookkeeping of your business. The function turns your laptop's keypad into a ...

Marc Tobias played laptop thief one recent evening, showing how easily several leading anti-theft devices can be defeated using such simple materials as a ballpoint-pen barrel, a thin piece of plastic ...

Restart your computer, and as soon as you see the initial POST boot screen, press the designated key for entering the system BIOS. The key for this varies depending on the manufacturer of your system ...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you should lock your laptop screen every time you step away. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for ...

This is the first thing that you should do. Perform a power reset and see if it works for you. Some laptops have a power reset button. If your laptop has such a button, use it to perform a power reset ...

Now, right-click on the right-side panel and click on New > Binary Value. Set the name of this newly created Binary Value as Scancode Map. Double click on the newly created Binary Value and set its ...

If you take a look at your laptop's keyboard, you'll notice that the top row keys have icons printed above, with "F" and a number, like F1, F2, and so on, below each one. These are known as function ...

I have a user that has a strange problem, when she presses the delete key on her keyboard it brings up the lock computer screen of the terminal server she is connected to. She is the only user that ...