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The new cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1607 (Anniversary Update) KB4015438 patches two issues introduced by last week's Patch Day.

This raises the version of the Anniversary Update version of Windows 10 to 14393.969.

The KB4015438 update seems to fix two issues introduced last week that affected some users of the operating system after devices were updated with last week's security updates.

Google plans to remove the tab context menu items Close other tabs, and Close tabs to the right, from the company's Chrome web browser.

IFTTT, which stands for If This Then That, is a service that may automate a lot of things related to PCs, online and your mobile devices for you.

Basically, what it allows you to do, is create so called recipes that run automated actions when an event occurs. Events can be nearly anything, from you arriving at work over new email messages, or a new post on your favorite tech blog.

The following guide provides you with instructions on lowering the data usage of the popular messaging application WhatsApp.

Created for Android devices, you can use the guide if you run WhatsApp on another mobile operating system as well.

Applications that you run regularly on your mobile devices can use a considerable amount of data when they are running.

If you are a Firefox user and pay attention to user reviews and ratings on the Firefox add-ons website, you may have noticed an increase in anonymous ratings.

The ratings are left by anonymous user "random six character string", and only have a rating but no review itself.

This in itself is strange for veteran Firefox users, considering that one of the requirements for leaving reviews was leaving a comment up until now.

It is sometimes difficult to find the right time to make a purchase. If you have a budget for instance, you may want to make sure that the purchase is within its limits.

You may also set upper limits for certain items even if your budget would allow you to pay a higher price for it but you don't need the item right away, or if you don't need it at all but would like to have it anyway if the price is right.

This is where price tracking and notification services come into play. The following guide looks at services that enable you to track item prices on Amazon.

Riot Isolator is a free multi-purpose security and privacy tool for devices running Microsoft's Windows operating system.

You may install the program on a Windows machine, or run it without installation. Please note that Riot Isolator requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.x or higher.

The program interface itself lists the four main options Eraser, Toolbox, Unlocker and Network. Three of those, Eraser, Unlocker and Network, are single purpose tools.

Toolbox on the other hand lists ten additional tools that you may make use of.

Firewalls, commonly underused by home users yet probably one of the most important aspects of securing your machine; ever.

Windows users have a HUGE array of options in front of them, but GNU/Linux isn’t quite as flexible in terms of giving you a thousand and one options.

Thankfully, there is the powerful IPTables firewall built into most systems. However, IPTables can be a daunting task for people to configure and learn how to use, thankfully there are front ends and other tools that can make setting up a very powerful firewall MUCH easier for the end-user.

A fresh installed Windows 10 operating system, regardless of whether it is store-bought, an upgrade from an earlier version of Windows, or a reset of Window 10 machine, is a good opportunity to apply some useful tweaks and fixes to the operating system.

While deep customization of Windows 10 depends largely on what you use the device for, there are certain tweaks and changes that are beneficial to the vast majority of users.

Here are our recommendations when it comes to that.

ShellNewSettings is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices that allows you to remove items from the new menu of Explorer.

The new menu of Windows Explorer may grow considerably over time. Microsoft ships the menu with a couple of entries already, for instance to create a new folder or plain text file. Third-party programs may add their own new handlers to the menu.

While you may find some of those useful, others may sit idly in the menu for years without being used once in that time.

Popular  game streaming service Twitch revealed its new beta desktop client on March 16 for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

First thing you will notice is that the client is quite large. The download has a size of about 80 Megabytes thanks to -- you guessed that one right -- Electron.

The tenth anniversary of the Pwn2Own gathering of hackers, Pwn2Own 2017, saw eleven teams attempt to exploit products across four categories.

The products that teams were allowed to target this year included operating systems and web browsers, but also the new product categories Enterprise applications and server-side.

Programs like Adobe Reader, and Apache Web Server, were added as targets by the Pwn2Own committee.

The first two days of the conference have passed already, and they saw successful, unsuccessful, and withdrawn exploit attempts.

Microsoft announced some time ago that new silicon as the company called it back then would not be officially supported on Windows 7 or 8.1.

This meant basically that only Windows 10 would support Intel's, AMD's and Qualcomm's new processors, while Windows 7 or 8.1 would not.

PC Building Simulator is a game for Windows and Linux devices in which you simulate the building of desktop computer systems.

Building PCs, as opposed to buying them out of the box, can be a very rewarding experience. Apart from gaining knowledge on how the PC works, it allows you to pick the components and layout that you want.

The process can also be intimidating, especially if you have never built a PC before. Things can, and probably will, go wrong, and the worst that can happen is that components get damaged.

MoveQueue is a free, handy program for Windows that helps you move files more efficiently, especially if you run move operations regularly.

You can copy, move or cut files on Windows by default if you use Windows Explorer. If you happen to move files regularly to new destinations, you may have noticed that the operation can become quite time consuming.