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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.

Html Color Codes

Move the vertical slider to chose color and then click into color square on the left to get HTML color code for desired color cast.

You can start with your own color by writing its color code in upper input field.

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.

Tips For Using Free PC Tune-up Utility

These programs no matter how good they are may sometimes cause harm to your computer. With the steps below however you can avoid most problems very easily.

How to Simply Lock and Unlock your Folder

A folder trick that will lock your Windows folder. We will create a lock program and unlocking program. This trick will be very useful if you don’t want your friends, family members or other people that are sharing your computer to access your precious files.

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.

List Of Free Product Key Finder Programs

If you're preparing to reinstall a program or an operating system , you will need to find your unique product key (CD key) or serial number.

Normally this product key is located with the original CD or DVD. If you've lost your product key

you can often find it in the Windows Registry but this can be very difficult to do. Luckily, there are many free key finder programs available to help.

Below are the list of 10 free key finder programs.

Disguise Folders Protect Your Secret Folders

If you have some data that you want to protect from others you can either encrypt it using freeware utilities like Axcrypt or you can disguise the folder.By using Disguise Folders you can make your secret folder to look and act as a system file.E.g You can convert your secret folder into Windows update. When somebody will click on that folder he will be automatically redirected to windows update.

How To Block Autorun.inf virus

all recent viruses are in some .exe or .bat file extension hidden and spread rapidly through pendrives or removable media like Dvd/HDD.It is important to block this files from being sitting on your pc,either by using best antivirus software or manual prevention method.
Usually some AV's(Antivirus softwares) do'nt track autorun.inf file hidden on pendrive.

How to block autorun.inf virus attack?

Simplest Way To Create QR Code

Most of the smartphones nowadays have to ability to scan QR codes (2D Barcode). A lot of information can be put into the barcode, such as business cards and most commonly website URL.

Download Facebook or Youtube Videos Without Any Tools

This this tutorial is not only for facebook or youtube instead it can be used for any video streaming website like metacafe, dailymotion, veoh or yahoo videos. There are websites on the internet that will convert your video link into a download link but it has the following drawback

Capture Screen With Paint

First Press “Print Screen Key”
Then go and open Paint or any image editing software
Right click and select paste on paint or press Ctrl+v

Process Plugin-Container.exe on task manager

Firefox users with eagle eyes might have spotted a new process that pops up from time to time when they are running the web browser. The process plugin-container.exe appears and disappears sporadically depending on the websites visited.

Mozilla has added so called out-of-process plugins to the Firefox web browser. This feature runs specific Firefox plugins, like Adobe’s Flash Player, Quicktime or Silverlight, in their own process whenever they are needed to run elements on a web page

Google Search code

Searching on Google can be a magical experience once you find out how to make your search queries efficient. Here some Google Search code tips

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Protect Facebook From Potentially Harmful Links

Nearly everyone is concerned about accidently clicking harmful links while surfing the Internet. Social networking sites are particularly treacherous, as most links appear friendly, since they are posted by people we know. But do we know how tech-savvy our friends are? Do they recognize potential threats?

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