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Check up Hard Disk Health natively in Windows 7 | 8

While it is always a good idea to regularly check your Hard Disk Health for Errors & Bad Sectors, it is equally important to monitor the Hard Disk regularly, if you don’t want to be caught unawares by a hard disk failure for [...]

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Set or Change File Associations & Extensions in Windows 7 | 8

Each file in your Windows operating system has an extension in its filename eg. .txt, .doc, etc. These extensions are used to identify the program, with which, windows can open this file. You can set or change these file associations in [...]

Belarc Advisor – A Complete System Manager & PC Auditor for Windows

Getting a well-trained computer security consultant to find problems with your system may cost you a lot. As a work around you can do the task yourself or use an application that quickly and accurately produces detailed information about your [...]

What we know about Windows Blue

Last year, Microsoft launched some incredible devices and services for its business and consumer customers. It then, immediately started working on plans to advance those devices and services, a project it referred internally as Windows Blue. Most tech and Windows [...]

F.B. Purity: Customize & Clean up Facebook experience

I am a regular Facebook user but am not quite happy with the way the popular social networking service handles or manage the notifications and news feeds. All the updates, wall postings and extras, that I don’t have anything to do with [...]

Consequences & Risks of using Pirated & Counterfeit Software

The market for pirated software is huge, and consumers easily fall for the trap to get ‘real’ software products at dirt cheap price which helps them do the job. But in the process of adopting pirated software, consumers are at [...]

Fix: Unable to log in to Windows 8 when Webroot SecureAnywhere is installed

One of my client ran into an issue where he was unable to log in to his Windows 8 using Microsoft account. He received a message that the password he used was incorrect, when in fact he was using the correct password. [...]

Is Google shifting its focus from Innovation to Advertising?

I always wondered, why Google came up with Google+ and why it shut down Google Labs (I loved its products, esp. Google Gravity et al). But after going through James Whittaker’s post about the reasons for him leaving the company, maybe I [...]

Force Windows to empty Recycle Bins of all Users at the same time

If you are an administrator of a Windows computer, at times you may want to empty the Recycle Bin of all the Users at the same time, without having to log in to the other user accounts. To do so, [...]

Stratiform : Ultimate Customization Add-On For Firefox

Firefox users may want to check out Stratiform, a customization add-on for the web browser that lets you modify your favorite browser settings with a few clicks. Stratiform, puts the power in the average user’s hands and lets him customize [...]

Google Reader Alternatives & Replacement – Desktop & Online RSS Readers

Computing environment is ever subjected to change but some of its service and products are not. I am referring to Google Reader – A service that started in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for readers to discover [...]

Acer Iconia W7 : Crisp display and instant productivity with comfortable usage

Acer Iconia W7 is from the Iconia series designed with style and faster performance. This Iconia W7 is a tablet designed beautifully that caters to the needs of users smoothly and makes the usage an enjoyable experience. It is amazingly fast [...]

Microsoft Support : Phone Number, Live Chat, Email ID, Useful Links

Where do you contact Microsoft Support, if you face problems relating to Windows, Office or any other Microsoft software or service? This post will list down some useful resource links, phone numbers and email ID. Microsoft Support Microsoft offers support to [...]

ModernMix: Add features & run Windows 8 apps on desktop

You can now run multiple Windows 8 apps on the desktop of your Windows 8 Computer simultaneously. Veteran software developer Stardock has come up with new Windows 8 software “ModernMix” allowing users to run the Modern apps (Metro apps) on [...]

How to disable built-in PDF Viewer in Chrome & choose a different Reader

If you are a regular Chrome user, you must have noticed the built-in PDF viewer in Chrome, which is enabled by default. Whenever you click a PDF link on the web, the file opens directly in your browser window. However, there appears [...]

Comics & Video: What do you think having Google Glass will be like?

Most may be aware of the Google Glass project to develop an augmented reality head-mounted glasses. It will display information like any smartphone, would be hands-free and interact with the user via voice commands. These comics from Joy of Tech and a [...]

Samsung Series 7 Chronos 15.6 Notebook: Elegant & powerful performer

The Samsung Series 7 Chronos first revealed at CES 2013 is a sleek and clean designed laptop with full aluminum chassis and looks better than its predecessor. The laptop weighs 2.3kg which is almost similar to the previous model. Samsung today [...]

Disable or Change the built-in PDF Reader in Firefox 19

Mozilla’s latest version of Firefox – Firefox 19 is out with modest set of features. The major change it sees is the incorporation of the most anticipated feature – built-in PDF viewer, PDF.js – which eliminates the need for third-party plugins [...]

Toshiba Satellite P845T Notebook: A perfect blend of Premium features with budget price

Arrival of Windows 8 has put the laptop manufacturers in a quandary – since the operating system offers great Touch features. Most of the leading laptop manufacturers are now therefore making the touchscreen laptops to best suit Windows 8. Toshiba [...]

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The Windows Club covers Windows 8, Windows 7, tips, tutorials, how-to's, features, freeware and more. It is created by Anand Khanse, a Microsoft MVP.