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Steps For Enabling Dark Mode In Facebook App

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Social networking giant Facebook has recently launched a new design for its website interface. The company has even come up with a new dark mode. Earlier, Facebook used to have a dark mode interface only for its web interface, but now, it seems to be coming up with this feature for the Android Facebook app users as well.

Steps to Enable Dark Mode on Facebook Android App:

Facebook is slowly rolling out the dark mode feature for its Facebook mobile app. If you have already received the update, then you can manually enable the feature. Here are the steps that you need to follow to enable the dark mode on Facebook Android app in 2020.

  • As a first step, you need to download the latest version of the Facebook app in your android mobile from the Google Play Store. If you already the application, then you can just update it.
  • Once you have the updated version of the app, then open the Facebook app and login with your account.
  • Then, tap on the ‘Settings & Privacy’ option from the available options.
  • Now within the Settings option, you will find the Dark Mode button.
  • You can simply click on it to enable it.

If you are aware of the features of Android 10, then you must be knowing that an Android 10 run smartphone will allow the users to turn any apps interface into the dark mode, but if you are running on an older version of Android, then we cannot do anything other than waiting for the update to be rolled out by the company.

How To Share Your Location Via Text Message in Your Android

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Sharing our exact location has become very easy these days. Our smartphones have given us an easy way to share our current locations with our friends and dear ones and every one of us might be using this option very often these days, but as we all know we should be needing the internet access for this process and what if you don’t have access to the internet but still have to share your present location. Here is how you can do this sharing via text messages on your Android device.

Share Location Via A Text Message

The method is pretty simple and you don’t have to struggle a lot with this, just follow the steps below.

  • And to do this thing, you will be needing the Android messages app installed on your device and many of our devices have this application by default, so you don’t have to worry. If you don’t have just get it downloaded and installed on your device
  • And you need to set this application as your default messaging application on your device
  • Then once you are done with the basic and the beginning setup, then just tap on create new message option, and then select the contact to which you wish to send your location to
  • Then tap on the plus icon and then select the option location from the pop-up menu. It will locate your position on the map and then will show up the thumbnail inside the message. Then you can add the required message that you wish to send along with it and then finalize the text message to send it.

This simple way of sharing your presence on the map via Android messages can thus help you in sharing your presence with your friends and dear ones via text messages easily. Do try this process the next time you need and you will like it.

Instagram Rolls Out A Feature Called “Reels” That Is Similar To TikTok

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Instagram, a popular social media platform among teenage especially has now come up with a new feature that seems to be imitating the recently banned Chinese app Tiktok. This recently launched feature on Instagram allows its users to shoot short videos and add filters or music from Instagram’s catalog and share it. It is known that India is the fourth country, after Brazil, Germany, and France, where the format is being tested. So, if you don’t get this feature yet, don’t worry it will take a while, but you will get it.

The company has partnered with various music labels to provide a variety of songs and music to create content. The feature is called ‘Reels’.

Where to find Instagram reels?

  • This option is now available on Instagram camera similar to Boomerang and Instagram live.
  • Open the Instagram camera for Instagram stories.
  • You can find the ‘Reels’ option at the bottom of the screen alongside ‘story’ and ‘live’.

How to use Instagram reels?

  • Start making the video by clicking on the ‘Reels’ option as mentioned in the above steps.
  • You are given an option to switch between the front camera and rear-view camera.
  • You can observe various options on the left-hand side of the screen.
  • Options will be to add music, filters, change recording speed, etc.
  • It allows you to even record a reel with your own voice.
  • You will also be provided with a variety of AR effects to users to enable them to add a unique touch to their videos.
  • You can click on effects and then AR effects to create or add effects to your reel.
  • This feature will allow you to record multiple 15 seconds Reels. These can be recorded at once and different effects can be added to each clip. You can also review, delete, and re-record if needed.

To all those people who are now feeling satisfied with the ban of Tiktok, get ready folks !!!!!

Here Are The Steps To Activate The New Start Menu In Windows 10

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We all know that Windows 10 is the most used operating system around the world. More than three fourth of the PCs in the world are run on the Windows operating system. But however, the Mac operating system always overrules Windows with its decent and attractive appearance. To back its features with appearance Microsoft recently rolled out a feature that it has been working on for the past few years. The company rolled out the new Windows 10 start menu feature to all the Windows 10 Insiders in the Dev Channel. Many of the people are still unable to enjoy the new menu as they are still stuck with the old one. So, if you are one of them, here are the steps needed to activate the new start menu.

Steps To Follow To Activate New Start Menu In Windows 10 With ViveTool

Vive is an open-source tool created to enable hidden features in the Windows operating system.  It can actually activate a feature that exists in the OS. So, now to activate this new start menu, let us use this tool.

  • To begin with, you should have the ViveTool downloaded and installed on your PC.
  • Next, you need to extract the file into a folder.
  • Then right-click on the Start button and then choose the option ‘Command Prompt (Administrator)’ from the pop-up menu.
  • Now, in the command window, enter the patch where you have unpacked the tool.
  • Then, type the following command – ViVeTool.exe addconfig 23615618 2.
  • Finally, just restart your PC.
  • Once the restart is complete, you will find the new start menu.

Things To Check When System Restore Is Not Working

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System restore is considered as our immediate solution when we found or caught with an issue on our computer. This thing solves our issues on many occasions. But we may be facing issues running system restore at times, then here are some things that you can consider trying these following tips and bring back the system restore to life.

Things To Check When System Restore Isn’t Working

It happens many times that we are in a deep need to restore our PC or laptop, but that doesn’t seem to work sometimes. What you do in such situations, just stand still obliged? But, you don’t have to be in such a situation anymore as here we present you to some of the things that you can check in case this restore option in your PC doesn’t work.

  • You can try running system restore in safe mode. You can enter safe mode by pressing F8 while your Windows PC is booting up, then open advanced recovery tools where you can find the system recovery option. This may solve your problem at times
  • If the above step doesn’t work, try configuring the disk space usage. It is very much required to check the disk space on your PC and do clear and make out some free space if it is 300 MB or below
  • And as the next step, if the above two steps don’t work for you, you should ensure whether the system restore points are being created. This step is not solving your current problem but can prevent you the next time. You can check the current points by just searching for rstrui in the search bar and then selecting the corresponding entry, pressing next will show you the list of restore points created

Thus you can check up with these simple steps and get back the system recovery options work in your Windows PC.