Tag: Fast user switching

Should You Use Fast User Switching on Your Computer?

Discover the pros and cons of fast user switching on your computer and when you should use it to shift between different accounts.

By Danny Maiorca – Mar 17, 2025

How to Disable Fast User Switching in Windows 10

If you are not using the Fast User Switching feature or if you think it is not for you, here’s how to disable the fast user switching feature in Windows 10.

By Vamsi Krishna – Jun 9, 2017

When Grace Hopper wanted to explain a nanosecond to admirals who kept asking why satellites were slow, she handed each of them a piece of wire 11.8 inches long, the exact distance light travels in a billionth of a second, and told them to keep it in their pocket as a reminder that physics, not laziness, sets the limit.

Jun 8, 2026

From below of blue starry sky over radio telescope and trees with leaves

The Big Ear telescope was scanning at 1420.4056 megahertz on the night of 15 August 1977, the exact frequency at which hydrogen atoms vibrate across the universe, because Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison had argued years earlier that any species trying to be found would broadcast on that channel — and then, for 72 seconds, something did.

Jun 8, 2026

An astronaut in a spacesuit ventures across a barren, Mars-like desert landscape.

When Doug Wheelock came home after 163 days in space, he said he had craved the aroma of leaves, grass, flowers, and trees, the rush of Earthiness that reaches astronauts only when the hatch opens back onto the living planet

Jun 8, 2026

Scenic view of snow-covered mountains with ancient petroglyphs on rocks under a clear blue sky.

When Frank Maixner’s team reconstructed Ötzi the Iceman’s 5,300-year-old stomach bacterium in 2016, the Helicobacter pylori strain looked less like modern Europe’s hybrid form than Asian lineages common today in South and Central Asia, leaving a migration signal no pot or stone tool could have shown

Jun 8, 2026

When Cingular chief Stan Sigman backed the original iPhone before its 2007 unveiling, he accepted terms American carriers usually refused: no logo on the device, no control over its software, no preloaded apps, and a share of monthly subscriber revenue flowing back to Apple, after signing on without seeing a prototype

Jun 8, 2026

Black and white close-up of classic typewriter keys, emphasizing vintage design.

Every year, roughly two billion new smartphones, laptops, and tablets ship with a key arrangement designed in the 1870s to prevent slender metal arms from colliding inside a machine that has been obsolete for decades, a piece of 19th-century mechanical engineering quietly embedded in the muscle memory of about five billion people.

Jun 8, 2026

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