How to uninstall individual Office apps from Windows computer

 You can uninstall or remove certain Office programs or applications individually that you do not use quite often. If you have an Office 365 subscription plan, you get access to some of the best premium versions of the Office applications across all your devices like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Other apps like Access rarely serve any purpose for an individual user since it manages the database management system, more suited for Business users.

You can completely uninstall Microsoft Office or you can uninstall individual Office apps, If you do mind removing such unwanted apps, here’s a procedure to get rid of them.

Read: How or Reset or Repair Individual Office apps in Windows 11/10.

The Office Home and Office Personal plan include applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, and Access apps. To remove individual Office apps, you’ll need to follow these steps.

Check if you have installed Office from the Microsoft Store

Remove unwanted Apps

The most recent versions of Microsoft Office do not allow its users to uninstall individual apps – but Office installed from the Microsoft Store allow you to do so.

1] Check if you have installed Office from Windows Store

If you have downloaded and installed Office apps or components from the Windows Store then, it is possible to uninstall individual Office apps. A plus point here is, the uninstallation process in no way affects other installed apps.

For instance, you can uninstall Office Publisher without affecting other Office apps.

2] Remove unwanted Apps

To begin, open the ‘Settings’ app. Navigate to Apps section and select ‘Apps & features’.

Next, locate for ‘Microsoft Office Desktop Apps’ entry and then click on the same to make ‘Advanced options’ link visible.

On the next page which opens, you will see all the Office apps listed. If the entry is visible, scroll down the page to see all Office apps. Choose any app. Instantly, the action should bring up an Uninstall button. Go ahead and click the Uninstall button if you no more need the selected app.

If you do not find ‘Microsoft Office Desktop Apps’ entry visible under ‘Apps & Features’, it’s likely that you have installed Office from outside the Store. As such, you will not be able to uninstall apps.

That’s it!

TIP: You can remove or Uninstall Microsoft Office or Office 365 using this tool from Microsoft.

How to fully uninstall games from Steam

 Steam has a massive library of games, with many great ones and some not-so-great ones. If you’re a serious gamer, your Steam library can quickly fill up and start to become cluttered. You also give up on precious storage space if you keep a game on your PC that you don’t play anymore. If you want to remove a game from Steam, here’s how to fully uninstall it.

Read more: The best games on Steam

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To uninstall a game from Steam, open your Steam library and click the game. Click the gear icon on the game listing in the right pane, click Manage, and click Uninstall. To permanently remove a game from your Steam library, you can use Steam Support, found in the Help menu on the top menu bar.

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How to uninstall Steam games

The best way to uninstall Steam games is through Steam itself. You can go through the Apps and Features menu in Windows settings to uninstall a Steam game, but it opens up Steam anyway.

Open Steam and click Library in the upper navigation bar. Your games will be listed in the left pane. Click the game you want to uninstall. In the right pane, click the Manage button, which looks like a gear icon located at the right end of the Play button and game stats, right below the game banner. Click Manage in the drop-down menu, and click Uninstall.

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 Throughout my career, I’ve rarely fallen for the hype around emerging technologies. Historically, I’ve learned that it pays to take a skeptical approach and make sure the technology can prove its worth on its own. I pay attention, but I don’t give out “hype” points to what the tech press currently covers.

This gets me into trouble from time to time. When I first started writing this blog almost 12 years ago, I was frequently asked, “Do you even like cloud computing?” It’s my nature to question things that everyone assumes to be true. In many instances, it turned out that I was right to be a bit skeptical. I still believe that good technology should prove itself worthy for each business problem each time we want to leverage that technology—cloud included. 

Here’s a core question that seems to have faded away: Is it more cost-effective to leverage traditional IT resources (such as storage and compute) on premises rather than as a service from a public cloud provider? 

We all know about the momentum behind the cloud. Spending on cloud infrastructure was up 13.5% in the fourth quarter of 2021, year on year, to $21.1 billion, according to IDC. Within the previous quarter, we saw spending on cloud infrastructure reach $18.6 billion after a year-on-year decline of 1.9% in the second quarter of 2021. It blipped down, and now it’s blipping up. 

With the growth and innovation clearly behind public clouds, should you even consider more traditional solutions?

Take storage for instance. If you don’t buy traditional storage for a data center, you may not have noticed the price drop of HDD (hard disk drives) during the past 10 years. This is the raw commodity storage that most enterprises install in their data center. At the same time, public cloud storage costs have remained relatively the same.

Of course, these are apples and oranges. When you pay for public cloud storage, you also get maintenance, power, administration, usage tracking, and other services built into the price you pay per month. However, considering the fall in traditional on-premises storage pricing, there might be business problems that can be solved more cost-effectively by buying traditional HDD storage versus storage in the cloud. As HDD prices continue to drop, this may become even more obvious. 

Those who purchase storage and compute services should compare the loaded costs of traditional on-premises technologies (meaning the cost with all maintenance and administrative costs added in), with cloud services that provide the same technologies.

Which is better? Like many questions connected to cloud versus on-premises computing, the answer is “it depends.” It depends on how much you value agility and the ability to scale up. Public cloud providers do a much better job at providing agility. If that is a huge value driver for your business, cloud computing will likely be the winner. Other things in cloud’s favor include the ability to leverage other native services along with storage and compute, such as artificial intelligence, databases, serverless, and containers as a service that can spin up with just a mouse click. 

Other businesses don’t prioritize agility so highly. For companies with rudimentary uses for storage and compute, cloud may be overkill. Lower prices for traditional on-premises IT resources will be too compelling to ignore—even though it’s not what the cool kids are doing.

When your business has a technology problem to solve, all solution types should be on the table: cloud and non-cloud. As costs and capabilities change over time, the “obvious” solution with the most hype and momentum may not be the optimal one for your specific business problems. Consider the value drivers that will offer the best ROI in the big picture. An open mind is the sign of a good enterprise solutions architect. 

How to Remove the Ads.Clicksor.Com Virus

 Clicksor is an online contextual advertising network that allows publisher-partners to reap financial rewards for hosting advertisements on their websites. Clicksor is also decidedly notorious for its advertisements containing harmful viruses, spyware and other malicious software that can harm your business computer. The most commonly seen virus, known primarily as "Clicksor.com," redirects searches to Clicksor advertisers and logs personal information from the infected computer. Generally, the best solution for removing this virus is to use a broad spectrum of anti-virus and anti-malware software, as well as some reputable online and offline scanning solutions.

Update and run your preferred anti-virus software. Some software is more effective than others, so ideally, use highly-rated and well-researched software such as Avast, AVG, McAfee or Norton Internet Security (links in Resources).

Download and install all three of the following anti-malware programs: Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware and Lavasoft's AdAware (links in Resources).

Update Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware and Adware, then run full system scans with each program, and follow the onscreen instructions to isolate or remove any detected threats.

Launch a Web browser and navigate to ESET to run a full online scan (link in Resources).

Download, update and run Microsoft Safety Scanner, TDSSKiller and Hitman Pro Trial if the virus is still present (links in Resources).

How to remove shortcut virus: usb, pendrive

 A virus has infected your flash drive and changed the names of your files to shortcuts. It becomes difficult to view files even after the virus is eradicated in this condition. Luckily, we will explain step-by-step how to address this issue in a few simple steps.

To fix files on flash drive changed to shortcuts:

Now we can start the repairing process:

Click on the Windows icon on your desktop and type "cmd" in the search bar, and press enter

Once the command prompt is opened, enter the command (if your drive is named G:, adapt otherwise): 

attrib G:\*.* /d /s -h -r -s

Now check for your files on the USB stick, pendrive, or memory card

Download the Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, update it, perform a "Full Scan", and select the drive you want to scan

How to delete virus in the computer

 PHILIPPINES : The hassle of virus attack on a personal computer is not unknown to anybody who has ever used a device. They are also aware of the fact that anti-virus for the system is equally expensive and the need to constantly upgrade them for a price does not help the situation either. 

However, there is a way to remove virus from your device without an anti-virus software. 

While your personal computer- a laptop or desktop, is vulnerable to the virus attack without an anti-virus software installed, now you can be a step ahead, you can remove them virus without spending a buck.

Read below to find out how

To detect if your device has been attacked by viruses

Viruses can be hard to detect when they sneak into your device. However, when they reach the target they feast on it rendering the computer virtually useless. 

Some common signs of a virus attack on your device include

-Unrecognized programs launching on their own

-Computer slowing down 

-Random pop-up messages

If you have experienced these symptoms on your device, it might be a victim of virus infestation. 

Stop the virus on your device without Antivirus

The first step towards removing a virus is identifying and stopping it from further infecting your device. 

To do that, press Ctrl + Alt + Delete and open the task manager. Then, go to 'Processes' and check for any unfamiliar programs running. To confirm if it is a virus, search online. If confirmed, highlight it and press 'End Process' to stop it. Then follow the steps mentioned below to remove it entirely.

These are the steps to remove the virus from laptop without antivirus

Step 1: Boost your protection by turning on Windows Defender Firewall. It will prevent the virus from spreading further. Open Control Panel > click Windows Defender Firewall > Turn Windows Defender Firewall on.

Step 2: Use the 'Virus & Threat Protection' feature to remove the virus. It is an in-built Windows feature that will easily enable you to remove viruses. To do this, first go to settings and click on Update and Security.

Step 3: On the Windows Security section; click 'Open Windows Defender Security Center'. From there, go to Virus & threat protection settings. There, you need to turn on these three options — Real-time protection, Cloud-delivered protection, and Automatic sample submission.

Step 4: Now go to the 'Threat history' in the 'Virus and Threat protection' menu. Click on 'Scan now' to scan your laptop or PC.

Step 5: Once Windows Defender has cleaned up all the viruses, restart your device and use it without any worries.