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Telegram is a multi-platform messaging service founded by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov. Telegram’s headline feature is privacy, and to ensure this it employs end-to-end encryption.  It doesn’t allow advertising or data collection and sharing.

The pros of Telegram: Speed, security, large file size and simplicity.

The cons of Telegram: Can’t make video calls; Offline status functionality problem; lacks the Stories feature.

Features of Telegram

1. The most important and the best feature of the Telegram app is its security.
2. Chat Folders allows you to categorize your chats into different labels and Telegram sort things out for you. Telegram gets super clean and much easier to manage.
3. Edit Sent Messages
4. Copy a Part of Text from a Message
5. Delete Sender’s Message
6. Turn Off Notifications for Individual Contacts
7. Stop Being Added to Random Groups
8. Send Silent Messages
9. Schedule Messages
10. Set Reminders
11. Self-destruct Medias and messages in Secret Chats
12. Add Nearby People and Group. This comes really handy when you want to add someone to your Telegram without sharing your mobile number.  For example, if you are going to conferences, campuses or festivals, you can find several groups related to the place and event just like that.
13. Edit Photos/Videos
14. Quick GIF and YouTube Search
15. Add Animated Stickers to Images/Videos
16. Slow Mode
17. Polls and Quiz Mode
18. Create Timestamp for Videos
19. Send Uncompressed Media without Changing the File Extension
20. View Search Results in List View
21. Change Phone Numbers
22. Use Multiple Telegram Accounts
23. Custom Theme and Folders
24. Terminate Active Sessions
25. Clear Telegram Cache and Local Database
26. Share Live Locations.
27. Free Unlimited Online Storage
28. Lock Your Conversations.
29. Slow Mode

With Barracuda Backup, you have two options to restore data: Restore and Download. Instead of restoring data to a restore target, download provides the ability to save backup files directly to your workstation. Here is how.

1. Login Barracuda Backup Cloud Control. You can login from https://login.barracudanetworks.com/ . However, we recommend to login local device which restore will be faster.
2. Navigate to Backup>Main>your company name.
3. Click on Restore and then Restore Browser.
4. Navigate to company name>Server name>Backup Agent.
5. If you would like to restore the server, click Restore.
6. If you want to restore a file or folder, click on the File Systems.
7. If you have different drives, click on the one you would like to restore until you see the file or folder.
8. You have two options: Restore or Download.
9. If you click on Restore, you have an option to restore them to original location or different location. You also have an option to restore them to original path or different path.
10. You also have an option to Download them to your local computer. With download, you can browse to the location you want to download. By default, it will be download to the Download folder.

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With Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS ), you can backup and restore copies or snapshots of files or volumes or application data whether in use or not in windows. Shadow copy offers Windows users a chance to restore deleted files or folders using Restore previous versions. Here is how.

There are many ways to enable VSS depends on your OS version.

Option 1: Run System Restore.

1. Type system restore in search bar, and run Create a restore point.
2. Under System Protection, highlight the volume you want to enable VSS and turn it on.
3. You can click Configure to setup Restore Settings and Disk Space Usage.

Option 2: Control Panel>File History

With the File History open, you have these options: Restore person files, Select drive, Exclude folders, Advanced settings.

Option 3: Run Backup

Type Backup in the search brad, and click on Backup Settings.

You can go to the file history.

You have an option to Add a drive.

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To simple login Windows 10, you may want to enable Picture Password for login Windows 10. Here is how.

1. Open Settings from Start>Setting.
2. In the Settings page, click Accounts.
3. In the left, click on Sign-in options.
4. To create a PIN, click on Picture Password.
5. Click on the Add button.
6. The System will ask you to enter your user account password and confirm it.
7. In Welcome to picture password, click on Choose picture.
8. After choosing a picture, you have two options: Use this picture or Choose new picture.
9. In Set up your gesture, draw 3 points which you will click them to login. 
10. Confirm your gestures.
11. Congratulation! Popup, click on Finish to save the settings.
12. Picture Password is enabled. You have options to make Change and Remove.
13. When you login next time, you will see this picture, Click on 3 points you selected before to login. Or click on Sign-in options to try different the login mothed.

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To simple login Windows 10, you may want to enable Login PIN for Windows 10. Here is how.

1. Open Settings from Start>Setting.
2. In the Settings page, click Accounts.
3. In the left, click on Sign-in options.
4. To create a PIN, click on Windows Hello PIN.
5. Click on the Add button.
6. The System will ask you to enter your user account password and confirm it.
7. The System will popup for entering the PIN. You also have an option to Include letters and symbols.
8. Click OK to save the settings. Now, you have PIN enabled.
9. When you login next time, you will see this screen, enter the code you created before to login. Or click on I forgot my PIN to try different the login mothed.

There are many ways to install and manage Fonts in Windows 10

Option 1: Settings

• To access Fonts page, click Start>Setting>Fonts
• Or type fonts I the Search bar., and then click on font settings.

• With the Fonts page open, you can drag and drop a downloaded font into “Add fonts”
• To add more fonts, click on “Get more fonts in Microsoft Store”.
• To Manage fonts, click on available fonts.
• You will have options to change font size, Uninstall.

Option 2: Manage fonts in Control Panel

• Type control in search bar and click on Control Pane to open it.

In Control Panel, go to All Control Panel>Fonts.

• You have options to Preview, delete, or show and hide the fonts installed on your computer.
• If you click on Font settings, you can  Hide fonts, Restore default font settings, and Installation settings.
• You can Get more font information online.
• You can Adjust ClearType text
• You can Find a character.
• You can download fonts for all languages.

Option 3: Download and install fonts.

• Search the font online you want to use and save is in download folder. Right click to install. If you don’t see the install option, you can open it.
• Click Install to add the font into the Windows.

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Lightroom loads fonts from the computer it is running. To add a font for the Lightroom, you just need to install the font on the computer OS. The following is the example of installing and managing fonts on Windows 10. Here are how.

There are many ways to install and manage Fonts in Windows 10

Option 1: Settings

• To access Fonts page, click Start>Setting>Fonts

• Or type fonts I the Search bar., and then click on font settings.

• With the Fonts page open, you can drag and drop a downloaded font into “Add fonts”

• To add more fonts, click on “Get more fonts in Microsoft Store”.

• To Manage fonts, click on available fonts.

• You will have options to change font size, Uninstall.

Option 2: Manage fonts in Control Panel

• Type control in search bar and click on Control Pane to open it.

In Control Panel, go to All Control Panel>Fonts.

• You have options to Preview, delete, or show and hide the fonts installed on your computer.

• If you click on Font settings, you can  Hide fonts, Restore default font settings, and Installation settings.

• You can Get more font information online.

• You can Adjust ClearType text

• You can Find a character.

• You can download fonts for all languages.

Option 3: Download and install fonts.

• Search the font online you want to use and save is in download folder. Right click to install. If you don’t see the install option, you can open it.

• Click Install to add the font into the Windows.

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Add a font into Microsoft Office is as easy as one click. Here is how.

1. With a Microsoft app open, for example word. Click on Narrow down key.
2. Right click on the font you want to add and select download.
3. The font is ready to use.

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Also, Microsoft Office loads fonts from the computer it is running. To add a font for the Office, you just need to install the font on the computer OS. The following is the example of installing and managing fonts on Windows 10. Please view this step by step video:

If you setup multiple email accounts in Outlook and wonder how to setup different signature for each email account, here is how.

1. In Outlook, click file>Option.

2. In Outlook Options, click Mail, and then Signature.

3. In Choose default signature, select the email address you want to assign the signature. In New message, select the signature you want to use. In Edit signature, you can edit the signature. To create a new signature, click on New in Select signature.

4. To add another signature for a different email account, repeat above procedure.

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1. Access QNAP by type its’ IP address in an Internet Browser, for example https://10.0.0178.
2. After login QNAP, click on Control Panel.
3. In Control Panel, click Notification Center under on System.
4. In Notification Center, click on Service Account and Device pairing.
5. Click on Add SMTP Service to add a new SMTP service or click Edit icon to modify the current settings.
6. If you use Office 365, you may have 3 options.

Option 1: Authenticate your device or application directly with a Microsoft 365 and send mail using SMTP AUTH client submission

Device or Application setting	Value
Server/smart host	smtp.office365.com
Port	Port 587 (recommended) or port 25
TLS/StartTLS	Enabled
Username/email address and password	Enter the sign in credentials of the hosted mailbox being used

Note 1: This option is not compatible with Microsoft Security Defaults or multi-factor authentication (MFA)

Note 2: If your device recommends or defaults to port 465, it does not support SMTP AUTH client submission.

Option 2: Direct send. Quoted from Microsoft

Settings for direct send

Enter the following settings on the device or in the application directly.

Device or application setting	Value
Server/smart host	Your MX endpoint, for example, contoso-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
Port	Port 25
TLS/StartTLS	Enabled
Email address	Any email address for one of your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 accepted domains. This email address does not need to have a mailbox.

We recommend adding an SPF record to avoid having messages flagged as spam. If you are sending from a static IP address, add it to your SPF record in your domain registrar’s DNS settings as follows:

DNS entry	Value
SPF	v=spf1 ip4:<Static IP Address> include:spf.protection.outlook.com ~all

Option 3: Configure a connector to send mail using Microsoft 365 or Office 365 SMTP relay. Quoted from Microsoft:

Settings for Microsoft 365 or Office 365 SMTP relay

Device or application setting	Value
Server/smart host	Your MX endpoint, e.g. yourdomain-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
Port	Port 25
TLS/StartTLS	Enabled
Email address	Any email address in one of your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 verified domains. This email address does not need a mailbox.

Please refer to Microsoft “How to set up a multifunction device or application to send email using Microsoft 365 or Office 365”

7. To setup Recipient account, click System Notification Rules on the left.

8. In the Edit Rule for Event Notifications, enter Recipient info.

9. You can test it by click on the envelop.

10. Click on Confirm to save the settings .

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