Neowin News Feed for: Profile

How to fix a corrupt Windows Profile

Adam Bottjen — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:16:01 +0000

Have you ever logged into your computer only to be greeted by a blank profile? Your profile is most likely still there. Join us today in this week's Tech Tip Tuesday to find out how fix it. Read more...

Facebook no longer wants people to put their political and religious views on the platform

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 11:50:01 +0000

Facebook is removing the political and religious views fields among others from the "About me" page. The change is being done to make the social media platform easier to use and more streamlined. Read more...

You can now pin up to three posts to the top of your Instagram profile grid

Usama Jawad — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 15:16:01 +0000

Instagram now allows you to pin up to three pieces of content, including posts and Reels, to the top of your profile grid. The idea behind the feature is to improve content visibility. Read more...

How to create multiple profiles in independent Chrome instances

Usama Jawad — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:46:01 +0000

This brief guide shows you how to set up multiple profiles in independent Chrome instances. This nifty capability allows for more flexibility and separation depending upon your use-case. Read more...

Twitter finally rolls out profile redesign and a new "highlighted tweet" feature

Jett Goldsmith — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 05:00:00 +0000

Twitter has finally rolled out its flashy new profile redesign, which was first spotted in February, to all users who opt to choose it. Read more...

Twitter testing Facebook-like profile redesign

Jett Goldsmith — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 02:03:36 +0000

A major Twitter profile redesign which breaks away from the previous 'vertical timeline' flow has been spotted today, and it looks very similar to Facebook. Read more...

Apple's "Spaceship" Campus 2 is $2 billion over budget, behind schedule

Max Slater-Robins — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:01:20 +0000

Apple's new "Spaceship" Campus 2 is reportedly $2 billion over budget and will be a year late. According to BusinessWeek, the project is not going according to plan, with some angry investors. Read more...

Facebook Timeline to be enforced by Autumn for everyone

Steven Parker — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:03:22 +0000

If you've been holding out implementing the Timeline view on your Facebook profile, enjoy it while you can because according to Facebook, Timeline will be enforced for everyone by the Autumn. Read more...

Facebook to launch Timeline for all users in next few weeks

John Callaham — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:25:28 +0000

Facebook has announced that Timeline, its new version of the user profile feature, will go live for all users of Facebook in the next few weeks as the old profile page will disappear. Read more...

Moo partners with Facebook to create business cards

Paul Ferson — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:54:22 +0000

Printing company Moo has joined a venture with Facebook in order to bring the Timeline profile design to the world of business cards, after the newer profile design went public. Read more...

Facebook finally launches Timeline worldwide

John Callaham — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:15:03 +0000

Facebook has finally turned on its long awaited Timeline feature for its web site worldwide, letting users organize their Facebook achievements via a chronology. Read more...

Facebook moving all users to the ''new'' profile layout

Matthew Jones — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:01:07 +0000

Those of you hanging on to the pre-December 2010 Facebook profile - it's time to say your final goodbyes. Little over a month after the Palo Alto-based company first announced an overhaul of profile pages, Facebook... Read more...

Facebook overhauls profile pages

Owen Williams — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:54:53 +0000

Just now, Facebook made available it's latest overhaul of profile pages on the site. The update is an overhaul of the entire Facebook experience, and brings alot of changes to the site. By visiting the Facebook... Read more...

Facebook integration coming to Windows Live next week

Andrew Fairbairn — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:02:54 +0000

Microsoft plans to offer 20 new web activities to add to your Windows Live profile within the next week. Currently only 12 of the "activities", which integrate your activity on other websites into the What's... Read more...

Facebook plans 'User Profile Clean-up' Tool

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:30:12 +0000

Don’t you just love how Facebook has an application for everything possible? Don’t you just love wading through your friends’ Facebook profiles with the simple goal of finding their Wall? Don’t you just love how... Read more...

Microsoft schedules Connect Profile changes on June 2

Mon, 14 May 2007 22:18:27 +0000

Microsoft has sent an e-mail to registered users on the Microsoft Connect Web site informing them of an update on Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 regarding their profile and personal information. All current and future profile... Read more...

User Profile Hive Cleanup Service (Update)

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:56:30 +0000

On Windows 2000 the service deals with application event log event 1000 from source Userenv where the message indicates that the profile is not unloading and the error is "Access is denied". On Windows XP... Read more...

User Profile Hive Cleanup Service

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:52:30 +0000

Overview On Windows 2000 the service deals with userenv/1000 where the message indicates that the profile is not unloading and the error is "Access is denied". On Windows XP and Windows 2003 the equivalent... Read more...

MS02-033: Unchecked Buffer in Profile Service Issue

Thu, 27 Jun 2002 06:49:00 +0000

Title: Unchecked Buffer in Profile Service Could Allow Code Execution in Commerce Server (Q322273) Date: June 26, 2002 Software: Microsoft Commerce Server 2000, Commerce Server 2002 Impact: Four vulnerabilities, each of which could run... Read more...