How to disable Windows 10's Wi-Fi Sense password sharing

Windows 10’s new Wi-Fi Sense feature is a powerful tool that takes the headache out of managing Wi-Fi connections on the run. With Wi-Fi Sense enabled, Windows 10 will automatically sign you into open Wi-Fi networks, as well as private networks that your Outlook.com, Skype, and Facebook contacts have logged into—so you won’t have to manually sign into the network when you visit your buddy’s house.



As convenient as Wi-Fi Sense is, however, not everyone’s thrilled with it. Windows 10 enables Wi-Fi Sense by default, but you can disable it. Here’s how.

How to disable Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10

First, open the Start menu and head to Settings > Network & Internet > Wi-Fi > Manage Wi-Fi settings. In here, you basically want to disable every option you see, as well as tell Windows 10 to forget any Wi-Fi networks you’ve signed into in the past.

The Wi-Fi Sense settings screen in Windows 10

That’s easy, and all well and good. But what if you don’t want your friends sharing the information about your network’s password with their friends? That takes some additional tinkering, and it’s not obvious. There isn’t a mere option toggle in Windows 10 itself.

Instead, you need to dive into your actual router’s settings and give your network a new name with “_optout” at the end. For example, a network called “WiFiSenseUgh_optout” wouldn’t be stored by Wi-Fi Sense, while one that’s just called “WiFiSenseUgh” would be usable with Microsoft’s sharing feature.

Yeah, it’s a pain, but if you don’t add “_optout” to your network and want to stay out of Microsoft’s Wi-Fi Sense database, you’ll need to manually enter your password on your friends’ devices when they pop by your house and make sure to uncheck Windows 10’s “Share network with my contacts” box when you do so.

Learn How to Clear Cache in Chrome

Every browser does the same thing; that is connecting to a website’s server and downloading those files to display them to the end users. For that functioning, any browser will maintain a folder where all the cache will be saved, its also known as the temporary Internet files.

That folder named cache will store images, audio, video, CSS, web pages and other locally saved content that helps in displaying web pages more quickly and swiftly.

Now, before moving ahead and learning about the clearing cache in Google Chrome, you need to understand the basics, pros and cons of clearing that cache.

Advantages and disadvantages of Removing files from Cache folder:

• Cache folder over the time will collect an enormous amount of files, and it may eat a lot of you disk space which in turn can slow down your PC or Laptop.
• It may happen that while browsing websites you may be displayed with older content, and fresh content is getting ignored completely, all this because of cache.
• You may be storing files that are incomplete and corrupt, it means website displayed on your browser are not up to the mark.
• Now if you clear all the cache than all the browser memory will be cleared and if you removed everything from your system, you may lose some of your username/passwords for your frequently visited sites.
• After clearing the cache, any website will be loading at a slower rate due to no cache files and they have to be downloaded again, which is done automatically.

Here are simple and quick steps for clearing cache in Chrome

All the steps are specifically for the latest version of Google Chrome, but they may be similar to another version as well.

1. Click on Chrome menu icon, located the extreme top right corner of your browser, after the address bar.







2. Next you will see options and many menu items, one of them is More Tools > Clear browsing data. These two steps can be shorted out by using Ctrl+Shift+Delete on your keyboard.





3. Another screen will appear as a popup, shown below. It will give you options to select other browsing data and cache files that can be deleted.

4. To clear only the browser cache, tick mark option that reads “Empty the cache” and leave all other unchecked. From the drop down menu, we would suggest using ‘beginning of time.’ Then, click on clear browsing data once you have done everything else.



Shortest way: In your browser URL bar cop-paste (without quotes):
“chrome://chrome/settings/clearBrowserData”
OR
“chrome://chrome/history/”
plus click on Clear all browsing data key.

Conclusion:
With all the pros and cons of clearing cache, it will all depend on how your computer is behaving. If it is fast enough, then you will never want to remove that cache, and for any reason it goes slow then always make sure you clear the cache before trying any more tricks for computer speed.

In the end, if you face an issue regarding browser cache, you can open a private/incognito mode. If your concern is not resolved, then you have to look forward to something other than clearing the cache.

Apple App store, iTunes back up after outage

Apple's App store, iTunes, Apple Music and Apple TV suffered a four-hour long outage Tuesday morning.

The problems began shortly before 10:00 a.m. ET, and the issues appeared to have been resolved by 1:30 p.m.

Although not all users were impacted, a system status report showed that all of Apple's store services were affected. There were no issues with programs that rely on iCloud solely.

The downtime coincided with the announcement of MTV's Video Music Award nominees, which were set to be broadcast exclusively on Apple's Beats 1 radio station.

Apple (AAPL, Tech30) will also release its quarterly results in the afternoon.
The company did not respond to request for comment.

In March, several Apple services, including iCloud backup, the App Store, and iTunes and iBooks, went down for a day without explanation.