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Welcome<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
Group Editor Daniel Booth<br />
Technical Editor Sherwin Coelho<br />
Production Editor Graham Brown<br />
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From the Editor<br />
I’d like to propose a new truism: Hell hath no<br />
fury like a Windows 10 user whose settings<br />
have been changed by Microsoft. Snappy, don’t<br />
you think? I speak from experience, because I<br />
was indeed furious when the fi rst big Windows<br />
10 update, which arrived in November, reverted<br />
many of my settings to Microsoft’s default.<br />
I wasn’t alone. So many of you emailed me<br />
to complain that at times it felt like I was<br />
working for Microsoft’s customer support. Not<br />
that I minded, of course. We are here to help,<br />
and if we don’t, who will (certainly not<br />
GuruAid <strong>–</strong> see page 60)?<br />
As I changed my settings back, I realised that<br />
<strong>Computeractive</strong> hadn’t explained them in as<br />
p6<br />
p50<br />
much depth as we should have. We rectify that<br />
in our Cover Feature, which recommends<br />
those you should tweak. I hope it helps to<br />
alleviate some of your fury.<br />
Daniel Booth<br />
editor@computeractive.co.uk<br />
PS: I’m happy to say that our 2015 Back Issue<br />
CD is coming soon. Please visit www.snipca.<br />
com/19124 for more details.<br />
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LIABILITY<br />
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or any consequence arising from it. All<br />
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are published in the magazine.<br />
A DENNIS PUBLICATION<br />
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Company registered in England. Material may<br />
not be reproduced in whole or part without the<br />
consent of the publishers. ISSN 1461-6211<br />
Average sales, Jan-Dec 2014, 88,274<br />
copies per issue.<br />
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THIS ISSUE IN NUMBERS<br />
22.4%<br />
The risk you ran<br />
of being hacked in<br />
2015, according to<br />
Kaspersky - p8<br />
£150<br />
Price of the five-star<br />
Nvidia Shield Tablet<br />
K1 - p22<br />
10GB<br />
Maximum size in Gmail<br />
for cloud-storage files<br />
- p58<br />
p57<br />
HOW TO USE<br />
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Google. Instead, you need to type them<br />
into your browser address bar, then<br />
press Enter. Doing this will take you to<br />
the correct website.<br />
6 <strong>–</strong> 19 <strong>January</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
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