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How To Tweak Windows 8 Start Menu with Metro UI

Many Windows 8 early testers, especially those who don’t have a touch device, are complaining the new desktop Start Menu that basically flip you over to the Metro Style every time when you click on it. While I am trying hard to adjust myself to this Metro thing, I totally understand the needs having a hack that can tweak this behavior at least to provide people a choice to stay with what they are familiar with. And here are 5 ways that can help.

How To Make Windows 8 Lock Screen on Your Windows 7 Login

Launch of new Windows version has always been an exciting and thrilling wait for its users. As we all know, sooner Microsoft is going to announce the official launch of Windows 8, but still there are lot of apps and utilities coming out in the market and over the web in order to give a better look to Windows 7 and to make it look like Windows 8. Earlier also we have discussed many utilities and apps in the same context. Along with many features and designs, the user, as well as the developer community, has been giving special attention to the lock and login screen of Windows 8 which is quite distinct and looks really good. So, in continuation of the same, today we are going to discuss a small app which allows the user to feel those effects of Windows 8 in their own Windows 7 operating system.

Win Lock is basically a small, easy to use, helpful and a newly developed open source utility which has added to the list of utilities to make Windows 7 look like Windows 8 and to give its users a look and feel in advance. The main objective and functionality of this utility lies in replacing the default Windows 7 lock screen with the one from Windows 8, and along with this it provides its users with an alternative, and beautifying your Windows’ appearance. If we look further into its functionality, then we may observe that this particular application allows you to set custom Name, Password and Background for the lock screen.

Custom Themes In Windows 7 and Vista With Windows Themes Installer

You might have download beautiful third party custom styles themes for windows 7 and vista from third party websites like Deviant Art, normally these custom themes which you download contains many files which needs to be replaced with system files in windows. Not only this, some system files needs to be patched before you can install any third party custom themes in windows.

Enable Safe Mode in Windows 8

This is the most important and common step for a troubleshooting PC to restart in a safe mode. You need to secure your personal files and documents but in case your PC doesn’t starts, you are unable to access the command prompt or your PC may be affected from some malware and adware, then in that case you should go with the following trick to access PC in safe mode and restore to a previous date or copy file and Reboot it.

Interesting Computer tricks

We can learn many tricks from our computer. Now i am going to show you some of my best computer tricks. I hope you will find them interesting and useful.

1. lets start with a funny one. just copy the below code and paste it to your web browser address bar and press enter..

javascript:function Shw(n) {if (self.moveBy) {for (i = 35; i > 0; i--) {for (j = n; j > 0; j--) {self.moveBy(1,i);self.moveBy(i,0);self.moveBy(0,-i);self.moveBy(-i,0); } } }} Shw(6)

you will see that your browser is shaking. Shake it shake it baby ;) (Note: In some browser it may not work )

Free Software mild to download with huge function to your pro or personal use

1. Office Suite - Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012

Min requirements : Windows XP / Vista / 7 | File size : 82.5MB

Why you must use it – There’s no shortage of decent free office suites available to download. If Mirosoft’s new cut-down starter edition of MS Office is too limited for your tastes, there’s always OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice. Kingsoft is probably not a name you’ll be familiar with, but its free suite is an excellent, solid alternative that does a superb job of mimicking earlier versions of Microsoft’s product. If you’re not a fan of the ribbon interface, you’ll love the familiarity of this suite, because it copies the older layout perfectly ( if you miss the ribbon yuo can get it – and other additional features – by upgrading to the Pro version for $69.95 ). The suite comprises a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation creator, and can open all the popular Microsoft formats. It can’t write to the newer DOCX or XLSX formats, although your’re unlikedly to need those. Files written in Kingsoft’s own format can be open directly in MS Office.

How to Find Out What Is on Your Computer Windows

If you want to know things such as how much RAM you have, what hardware and software are installed, and many other interesting details about your PC, you can use a built-in Windows utility called System Information. Here is how to access it.

Control Other Computers Remotely For Free Using Chrome Remote Desktop

Google has unveiled a remote desktop service allowing connections between any two systems running the Chrome browser, regardless of operating system. As usual with Google, there’s a big emphasis on the “beta” tag in the Chrome Remote Desktop BETA, which is ready for the public to use, but mostly exists to demonstrate Google Chrome Remoting technology and get feedback from users.

Learn Microsoft Technologies With Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)

Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) is a learning program from Microsoft which is especially created for learning Microsoft Clout Technologies. You can learn at your own pace by selecting the courses at your own will and then learning and collecting points. These points will ultimately promote you to Bronze, silver, gold or platinum level.

How to fix When your taskbar and desktop icons are missing

Have you ever started your computer and you see that your taskbar and desktop icons are missing? You can see the desktop color but the icons are not there. The computer seems to be running fine. Or maybe you start your computer and then get a message saying that “explorer.exe has to shutdown”.

How to create a Windows XP hidden folder share

If you have multiple computers on a network and want to share folders between them, you can add an extra bit of security by creating a hidden Windows share. This guide is fairly basic and assumes that you are in either a workgroup or domain Windows environment. Hidden shares are useful if you want to share a folder, but only want it accessed by people who you’ve given the share name to.

List Of Free Download Computer System Utilities

Anvir Task Manager - WOW. I tried this software on the suggestion of a comment in a previous newsletter. It is now my default task manager, replacing the built-in Windows task manager. AnVir gives detailed information about every running process and startup program. It also allows you to monitor system health by displaying CPU temp, memory usage, and more! (Win7/Vista/XP 32/64bit)

How to detect your computer, email spying software

COMPUTER MONITORING

if you think someone is spying on you, here’s what you can do! The good thing right now is that neither Windows XP SP2 nor Windows Vista support multiple concurrent connections while someone is logged into the console (there is a hack for this, but I would not worry about). What this means is that if you’re logged into your XP or Vista computer (like you are now if you’re reading this), and someone were to connect to it using the BUILT-IN REMOTE DESKTOP feature of Windows, your screen would become locked and it would tell tell you who is connected.

Create Portable Windows 8 With Portable Workspaces

A new feature has been discovered by the experts called the Windows Portable Workspaces. Portable Workspaces enables the users to create portable Windows 8 on their USB drives or any other external storage device.

Enable Windows 8 Hidden Features

The leaked Windows 8 Build 7850 includes a number of new features which are currently hidden because they are obviously not ready for primetime use. This includes a new Windows Explorer with Ribbon UI, a dedicated Webcam app, a built-in PDF reader, Advanced Task Manager, and more. With Windows 8 Tweaker Tool

Legitimate Windows 8 ISO Verifier

With so many Windows 8 images floating around, you may never know if what you have on your computer is the real deal. Luckily for everyone, the Windows 8 ISO Verifier has finally been released to help you determine whether your Windows 8 image file is legitimate.

Free Portable System Restore Management Tool

System Restore Manager – System Restore is a great feature in Windows which enables users to roll back the Windows configuration to a previous date. The problem with default System Restore management tool is that it is not easy to use and the options are hidden here and there.

Free E-books about Windows 7 And Windows Phone 7

Here are some of the e-books from Microsoft Press that are free to download. I’m giving direct links to the e-books. You need to right click on each link and select “Save target as” in Internet Explorer or “Save link as” if you’re using Firefox. This will download the e-book to your computer.

How to Bypass Administrator Password

It happens to the best of us – getting locked out of our computers. Sometimes, if you get your Windows pre-installed, you might really have no idea what the default administrator account is or its password. So how do you get the password or bypass it. Here are two nifty software applications that can help you.

How to delete a locked file on Microsoft Windows

Have you ever tried to delete a file in Microsoft Windows, only to discover it was "locked" by another program or process? In that case, you'll receive one of the following error messages, or something similar.

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