Windows 8 Tricks You Don’t Know About

When Microsoft released Windows 8 last year, a lot of PC users went “Meh!” It was the most radical change to the Windows interface we all came to love. With many of the controls for launching programs and accessing settings tucked away, many deemed it as a flop especially in the ‘ease of use’ department.

Today i am going to show you 4 awesome Windows 8 Tricks, That you might not have heard of.

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4 Awesome Windows 8 Tricks

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However, with a few tricks, Windows 8 can be just as awesome as XP and Windows 7 – two of the easiest and most stable versions of the operating system. Here are a few:

1.Enable Metro-Style Internet Explorer To Play Flash Content:

Windows 8 comes with two versions of IE – one is on the Classic desktop and the other one is on the Metro interface. The problem with the latter is that it won’t play flash content if the website it’s on is not listed on Microsoft’s list of trusted websites.

You can wait for Microsoft to update their compatibility list and add your site (don’t hold your breath though). Or you can follow these instructions:

First, go to C:\Users\(Your User Folder)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IECompatData. Next, find the XML file named “iecompdata”, and open it with a text editor. Find the line of code which starts with the entry “Flash”, enter the URL of the website, save the changes to the XML file, and delete Metro IE’s browser history.

Once the site is added, you can now play or use its flash content with Metro IE.

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2.Simultaneously Use Windows 8 Apps And The Classic Desktop:

Let’s say you’re using dual monitors. The operating system automatically uses the main screen while the secondary screen hosts the desktop. This setup makes full-screen multitasking on both interfaces a lot easier – Windows 8 apps for the main screen and desktop for the secondary screen, perfect?

In paper, it’s all good. However, as soon as you start using the desktop, the main screen’s Windows 8 apps disappear and switches to desktop!

However, there’s a workaround. On your main monitor, use Windows 8’s split-screen ‘snapping’ feature to run the desktop and a Windows 8 Store app together. It looks silly at first since the desktop takes up a very small slice of the screen’s left side while the app takes up the rest.

However, after you set and use your secondary monitor for a full desktop view, viola! You now have an arrangement where a Windows 8 app and the desktop can peacefully coexist. Not to mention both windows are spacious enough to use.

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3.How To Create A Picture Password

Want to keep your PC secure without setting up a complex password that you can vaguely remember? No problem! In Windows 8, you can create a picture password to keep your system secure minus the hassle of trying to remember which special characters you used.

Here’s how: First, press the Windows Key + I combination. This will take you to the settings charm. Next, proceed to “Change PC Settings” located at the bottom right of the window and go to the Users Tab.

Under “Sign-In Options”, click the “Create A Picture Password Button”. You will now be asked to choose any picture and define three gestures anywhere on it. It can be any combination of circles, swipes, or clicks. After confirming it, the picture password will be set.

Take note, the gestures do matter so remember them well. So maybe you can’t really get away from remembering stuff when accessing your PC? But hey, that’s a lot easier than trying to recall a 12-character password!

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4.Give Your Windows 8 A “Hot & Fresh From The Factory” Feeling :

If Windows feels a little too slow for convenience, you can perform a Refresh. In the previous versions of Windows, you have to backup all of your files, device drivers, etc. before you can perform a fresh install.

It’s time-consuming and it’s tedious!

Not with Windows 8. You can perform a refresh without the need for backing up your data. First, go to Settings and click the tab “Change PC Settings”. Go to the “General” tab in the next window, and you should find the “RefreshYour PC Without Affecting Your Files” section.

Select “Get Started” and hit “Refresh”. Sit back, grab a cup of coffee, and relax. After a few minutes, your PC will restart and you now have a refresh and reinvigorated Windows 8!

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Boost Your PC performance-How to Guide

It is frustrating, when you sit down to work, doing something important, and your computer takes long processing time for every possible instruction you give. A great amount of dissatisfaction is felt when these electronic devices work slow. The mobile phones and the computers are the two devices where the user wants results with the click of a button and in a fraction of a second.

Over a period of time the speed of these devices specially computers go very slow. A variety of reasons that can be traced for Poor performance are:

• Hard drive space not enough
• Too many unused programs on the disk
• Outdated versions of the operating system
• Outdated version of the drivers installed

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Tips To Boost Your PC performance

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There are lots of ways to Boost Your PC performance and improve the performance even without changing the hardware. One of the biggest and the common reason for a slow PC is the presence of virus, a malicious programthat affects your PC speed. The virus eats your PC speed by using the computer resources and it also corrupts the system hardware and its software. Installing a good antivirus or even installing some basic antivirus would surely improve the speed and would accelerate the speed.

Having lots of load on your hard disk drive also slows the speed of your PC. The PC needs 5GB of free space to work and if you do not have then the speed is affected. The solution in such scenario is simple which is either to remove the unwanted files or transfer them to any other external hard disk especially the audio, video and the image files that occupy a lot of space.

Having too many shortcuts or having too many unused icons on the desktop or unused files all are substantial reasons for a slow PC. It is essential to reduce this clutter by deleting it. There is always a set of junk files created when you work on the internet especially when you download files, install programs or even when you uninstallprograms. It is extremely essential to remove these junk files once the task is done to ensure better performance.

Disk defragmentation utility in the windows operating system is one of the best ways to improve your system performance. It is seen that over a period of time you perform certain activities like creating a file, modifying a file or deleting a file due to which your files get scattered on the disk. It becomes time consuming for the system to retrieve such files so the disk defragmentation utility enables to fragment the scattered file. It can be used once in a week for better performance

The disk cleanup utility can also be used to clean all the unused and unwanted temporary files created at the time of using the internet. Also it cleans all the files in the trash that are no longer required. So implementing some of the few tips mentioned above can surely give you a better PC performance.

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Customize folders with different colors in Windows

There are many softwares available today over the internet which can Customize your Computer in an efficient manner that it looks so attractive as well as it becomes very easy to use. We always want our computer to be clean and well organized so that whenever we need to access something or need to search a particular file/folder in our computer we could find it easily.

As similar to that, here I am going to share a software through which you can easily assign your favorite colors to your desired folders in order to differentiate them easily and to ease of access.

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How do i Customize folders with different colors ?

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Just follow the two simple steps given below to customize your folder :

Step 1 :

First of all Download and install the software FolderColorizer. It is tested and 100% virus free. You can download it from here : DOWNLOAD FOLDERCOLORIZER

Step 2 :

Now after installing the software, simply right click on any folder which you wish to customize. Here when you right click on folder, you will see a new option in the context menu i.e. Colorize !. Now simply go to that option and one submenu will appear. Now choose any color you want to assign to this folder.

Although it is a free software for everyone to use it but while you will use this software for the very first time , it will just ask your email id for activation of this software. But no need to worry because you wont need to confirm the activation by logging in to your e mail account. Even if you don’t wish to share your e mail id with developers of this software you can do it because product will be activated automatically once you enter any email id. So you can also enter any fake id if you want.

For your convenience I am providing you a screenshot of above mentioned procedure for changing folder color :

In this way you will be able to easily organize folders in any of your drive weather C: , D: or any other drive. You can also assign different colors to several folders in the same drive to give it more attractive and cool looks.

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Android 4.4 KITKAT – Features, Technical Specifications, Whats New

Finally the master in mobile operating system Google has launched the latest Android version – 4.4. This new version has given a short name ” KitKat“, the same nestle chocolate you’d eating from your childhood. The reason behind this chocolate name Kitkat is not yet clearly stated by Google. A common could think it as a brand promotion, rest Google knows.
Without wasting any time, lets see what we got in Android 4.4 KitKit and why there’s so much excitement about it.

Android 4.4 KitKit Features :

• Adjustable orientation : It means that you easily navigate through different orientation. The switching between the horizontal and vertical orientation is more smoother than ever. It switches with some smooth animations.
• Cloud based : The cloud computing has made more better than ever. Now, most of your keeps getting stored in the cloud unlike in your phone which may have problems like data-loss. This cloud based architecture will save all your personal and professional data in the cloud.
• Mobile : The new Android 4.4 Kitkat is easy to use, flexible and mobile. You can be easily connected with anyone you want throughout the globe. The connectivity and network coverage is spread more than you can think of.
• More user-friendly : Kitkat contains the best ever user-interface any OS, any device has got. Whichever setting you want to change, any pic you want to see, reminders, notes all are just seconds away from your screen. Very delightful immersive and multi-sensory experience on the touch of your fingers.

Android 4.4 KITKAT – Features and Specifications :

• Dimension and Weight : As per written specs on the Kitkit site, though not so clear in meaning it can be clearly extract out that the coming Android 4.4 version is smaller in size than any of the previous version so that it runs faster by consuming less space and battery.
• Edge to Edge display : The user screen is going to be in rectangular shape with no curves in the corners. It will use full display screen.
• Universal : With high speed Wi-fi, Hotspot, 3G, 4G connectivity you can access possibly anything from anywhere no matter you are sitting in an office, home or you’re at playground.
• Unlimited Standby Time : Well, practically its not possible to provide unlimited stand-by but what they are assuring here is a standby time more than your expectation. It clearly means that, if you don’t use your phone much the battery is never gonna disappoint you. Internal running process must have been very properly managed.

We just tried to simplify the exact specs, features as revealed by Google on the Kitkat website.

What is new ?

No one is very satisfied by the Android 4.4 kitkat specs given by Google. The first device to came up withkitkat is Google Nexus 5 which is going to be launched soon. Without its launch we can only predict about the changes in the current operating system or the new ones that are coming but one thing is sure that Google is going to divert all attentions towards its new products.

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How to Change default virtual memory location in windows 8?? - Windows 8 Performance

By moving the virtual memory/page file to a different drive other than system boot location you can speed up the pc and make it somewhat reliable in performance wise..
This process is Microsoft recommended one in the event of the pc is running slow...

Just go to this path... 

Control Panel\System and Security\System

Select Advanced system settings



Once again go to advanced---->select performance settings



Then in performance options click on advanced----->change



Next untick automatically manage paging file option..



Then select c: drive and set no paging file and click set.. Here do not forget to click on set option.. (If you just hit ok without clicking set it wont change anything)



Then select the drive you want to set/move the paging file and click on system managed size and hit set and ok.. 



Then you will be prompted to restart.. that's it....
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Ghost keyboard Typing-Make Notepad type Automatically

Hey guys , Today I am going to share with you a Short but Cool notepad trick. You can show it to your friends and surprise them. Basically it is a prank that you can do with anyone just for fun.

This Process is Also known as “ Ghost Keyboard Typing ”

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Just follow the simple steps to Learn the Prank

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Step 1: Right click on your desktop and select create new text document or simply Open Notepad.

Step 2: Exactly Copy the code given below and Paste it in notepad document that you have just created.

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set wshshell = wscript.CreateObject(“wScript.Shell”)
wshshell.run “Notepad”
wscript.sleep 400
wshshell.sendkeys “S”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “M”
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys “A”
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys “R”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “T”
wscript.sleep 140
wshshell.sendkeys “T”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “R”
wscript.sleep 50
wshshell.sendkeys “I”
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys “C”
wscript.sleep 170
wshshell.sendkeys “K”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “S”
wscript.sleep 50
wshshell.sendkeys “.”
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys “N”
wscript.sleep 160
wshshell.sendkeys “E”
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys “T”
wscript.sleep 100

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Step 3: Save the above code in Notepad file As ” smarttricks.vbs ” (Without Quotes ) but make sure  While saving this file select Save as type  ”All files” and extension must be .vbs

Step 4: Now double click on The saved File, You will see “SMARTTRICKS.NET ” will be typed  Automatically. Moreover  you can edit the Words In the above given Code with any desired words you want Notepad to type for you. e.g. : MY FRIEND READING THIS IS FOOL.

IMPORTANT !!! 

While Double Clicking on the saved file if you see an error box like ” line 1 ” and “Char 37” Then dont worry, Right click on smarttricks.vbs and click on edit,

Now delete all Double quotations ie : ”  and Type them all manually from your keyboard, save it and now you will have no errors.

Ghost keyboard Typing-Make Notepad type AutomaticallyEnjoy the prank !!

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Recover Deleted Files From External Hard Drive – How to

With the ease of, use of technology today, everything seems to be super fast with availability of anything and almost everything on finger tips. The improvement in technology has definitely changed the way we thought about computers, and the enhanced user friendly interface which provides a much faster as well as easier control of man over his machine.

The advantages linked with this improvement are innumerable, but every fort when looked closely would show some bits of cracks in one to two bricks. You may have occurred to a thought once in your life that how much the digital data is important in your life and what if you lose it accidentally. Well, then surely you might find yourself engaged into trouble.

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How to Recover Deleted Files From External Hard Drive

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Below are a few simple steps to help you Recover Deleted Files from some external hard drive.

Prevent any further modifications in the drive you need to recover your data from : If you have clicked on the delete button accidentally, and you need to get your data back, then the most important thing you must keep in mind is that you should not try to make any amendments in the files on the drive. This means do not delete any other data, or add any data to the file. Just stop using it, and follow the proceeding steps.

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Download a file Recovery Software from Internet (Recuva) : Simply browse to Google, and search for some filerecovery software online. You will get a good list of results, and you can choose to select any one of them after reviewing their features and other details.

Recuva is one of the most popular applications with some good reviews, and you may try it.

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Install the Software and Follow the Instructions : Once you find the appropriate software, you may proceed to install it on your system, and then run it. It would then provide you a list of drives connected to your computer. Simplyselect the drive you need to recover drives from, and start the scan. It would then provide you a list of files which existed on the drive in the past. Depending on the size of the drive, it may take time accordingly.

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Choose the files : After the list has been generated, all you need to do is tic mark the files you want to recover, or select all if you need them all, and simply click on “Recover” button.

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Some other Recovery Softwares:

Apart from Recuva, there are several other free tools available in the market online which may help you with theRecover Deleted Files The names include Puran FileRecovery, Glary Undelete, SoftPerfect File Recovery, Pandora Recovery, Restoration, Avira UnErase Personal, Free Undelete, ADRC Data Recovery Tools and CD Recover Toolbox.

All these applications are completely free of cost and has a user friendly interface. You may simple type “file recovery software” in Google to catch the best results, or query “download recuva” to directly take you to the download pages.

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Free Apps To Lock Whatsapp and other Android Apps

Smartphones are almost like a people magnet, everybody who sees one tries to use it no matter if the device belongs to them or not. This kind of situation can arise in office or at Home as well where saying no to the person taking a peek in to your smartphone is not an option. Thankfully, there are applications in the Google Play store that can make sure that your device stays secure and as private as you would like it to be.

We keep important apps in our device like Watsapp, Facebook and many more chatting options, and frequently they are checked up by many peoples, so let’s see some Privacy apps that can protect our important app. And as always, we have selected only the best Free Apps To Lock Whatsapp and other Apps for which you don’t need to spend a Penny.

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Free Apps to Lock Whatsapp and other Apps 

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1.Privacy Manager : It is designed in such a way that it becomes your basic privacy manager. It has the ability to keep your pictures, apps and contacts private, as well as some extra things included. It also includes a password manager so you won’t be left with an unsecure application storing a list of your passwords to your important accounts.

The free version only lets you lock up to 10 images at once, and only one contact for disguising texts/calls. The limitations are minimal, so you can probably get by with just the free version instead of paying $4.99 for the full version.

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2.App Lock : This app is sure to secure your phone from guests as it is also said that it is “guest-proof” That means your kids, friends, parents, etc cannot view photos, messages and even your apps. You can also give especial ability to shut down all specific functionalities of your device whenever you want, including a basic pattern/PIN lock, a quick-lock widget, ability to lock on incoming/outgoing calls, lock system settings, lock the Google Play Store, a quick lock switcher on the status bar, a re-lock policy (allow short exit, no need to unlock again), and prevent apps from being uninstalled.

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Hide It Pro :As it is commonly used app, more than 320,599 users’ use it worldwide. It has special feature that makes it unique from other apps, as it makes one to hide anything on their device, and does not let anyone know that anything is being hidden. The app is cleverly designed as a fully-functional audio manager, and lets you categorize your media into folders of your choosing.

Hide It Pro offers a “media suite” with all of your hidden content, so you won’t have to keep “un-hiding” it when you want to view it

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