Whenever you connect a USB drive, a camera, an external SD card reader, a monitor or any other external hardware device, Windows scans the device and the information of the device is stored in the system registry. This is mainly because of two reasons. First, Windows keeps a record of earlier devices that was connected [...]
What is the first thought that comes to you when you see Windows 8 Metro Start screen? Just a cool user interface, loaded with tiles of apps and programs you use frequently? There’s a little more to it. Personally, Windows 8 metro start screen is really amazing with its graphical intelligence. Still there are some [...]
Onlive, a service to play games over the cloud, now brings the Windows platform on your Android or iOS tablets. If you are on a vacation or just out of the office and need to send your boss a quick sales report for the last quarter, what would you do? True, there are lots of Android and iOS apps you can do that. However, you are going to miss the nice multi-functional Windows desktop at your office. Well no more. Here is a quick review of what and what not you can do with the new Onlive Desktop for tablets.
Toaster Notifications in Windows 8 are cool, you get app updates live on your Metro start screen, desktop and elsewhere but at the same time, these notifications can be really distracting. Consider a scenario when you are watching a YouTube video or composing a blog post and the Windows 8 messaging app pops up an [...]
Not many users know that both Windows Vista and Windows 7 has a very useful “Previous versions” feature, which can be used to automatically backup files or folders on a scheduled interval and it is also possible to restore the backed up files to an earlier version using Windows built in backup/restore wizard. These earlier [...]
Windows 8 has no classic start menu and thus, there is no easy way to shutdown or restart your computer the classical way. Of course there is a keyboard shortcut for that but novice users often do not remember these shortcuts and want easy ways to turn off the computer or restart it, using only their [...]
It has been more than a week since Microsoft released a consumer preview of the latest version of its Windows operating system, codenamed Windows 8. As of the time of writing this article, more than 1 Million people have downloaded the public beta of Windows 8, which kinds of proves how popular Windows continues to [...]
Do you want to fix slow booting time of Windows? Check out Soluto – a free program which optimizes system performance by removing programs, processes, services and applications, responsible for slow Windows performance. You can provide remote system assistance to any computer via your online Soluto dashboard and fix application crashes.
Try this simple trick to enable built-in administrator account in Windows 8. All you need is to use your Local Users and Account Manager.
Managing large folders which contain thousands of different files in not an easy job. If you are a regular web worker and have to deal with email attachments, press reports, software downloads and other important files on a daily basis, you know how difficult it is to manage different file types kept in a single [...]
The other day I was trying to burn an Image on a USB drive and ran into a strange problem. After using a freeware image burner to burn a portable Operating system on my 4GB removable drive, I found that my USB drive has lost all it’s space. I opened Windows Explorer, right clicked the [...]
Remote Android notifier can send notifications, alerts, sms messages, email and voicemail notifications to your Windows or MAC desktop computers.
There are so many situations when your operating system can completely crash and you might lose all the files, folders, photos, videos, documents and other data stored on your computer’s hard drive. If you are using Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 as the only operating system of your computer, these tips will help [...]
If you’re interested in knowing on how much time which you wasted while in front of your PC for work purposes, Personal Activity Monitor (PAM) is the right tool for you. PAM is a desktop application which is designed to track down the amount of time you waste doing un productive tasks such as browsing [...]
Windows default notepad is great for normal use but if you write a lot of codes and need a better notepad replacement for Windows, TED notepad might be worth checking out. TED Notepad is an awesome lightweight notepad application for Windows which is surely the best friend of any programmer, coder or even a web designer.