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Change Critical & Low Level Battery Action in Windows 8 | 7

When the battery of your Windows laptop is running low, your system will emit a beep to warn you about it and also display a notification to this effect. Your battery is running low. You might want to plug in [...]

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Disable login after Sleep in Windows 7 | 8

Windows 8 is all set to the current trends and everyone here at TWC is excited about its official launch. Microsoft has already dressed up Windows.Com for the party. But getting to know about Windows 8 in-depth is our main focus. We [...]

Windows 8 Weather App – Features, Settings & Download

Recently Microsoft has started rolling out updates to the Windows 8 built-in apps. Microsoft is adding new features and improving the apps that come with Windows and rolling out updates for these apps before general availability (GA) which will be [...]

Disable System Beep in Windows 7 | 8

When computers did not come with speakers, System Beeps were a useful way to warn us when there were any system errors or hardware errors, and were rather helpful in troubleshooting issues. But today, there is no real need for [...]

Disable or Turn off Default Windows 7 Games & remove them from Start Menu

Games are part of the Windows 7 operating system and are turned on by default (except in Windows 7 Pro Edition). There is no easy and safe way to completely delete or uninstall these built-in default games completely, but what you can [...]

Disable Automatic Activation Feature in Windows 8 | 7

Windows Activation is a process that helps you to activate Windows and verify that your copy of Windows is genuine and that it has not been used on more computers than the Microsoft Software License Terms allow. The Automatic Activation [...]

Extract Specific Files from Windows 8 | 7 System Image Backup

There is a way by which one can browse the contents of a system image and extract individual files in Windows 8. You need not restore an entire system image for getting or extracting few important files. The procedure to extract [...]

How to convert a hard disk or a partition to NTFS format in Windows 7

Have you ever run into a problem while trying to select a destination to save your backup? If yes, the problem might have persisted due to one of the following reasons: The destination is the drive itself that you are [...]

Prevent websites from tracking your location, by disabling Geolocation in your browser

Geolocation is a relatively new feature in the recent versions of most browsers. It allows websites to track your physical location, ostensibly, with a view to offer you location related search results, services or options. You may have noticed that [...]

Disk Error Checking in Windows 8

Users of Windows 8 may have noticed that Disk Error Checking is a bit different from the earlier versions of Windows. Checking your hard disk, every once in a while for errors - usually caused due to improper or sudden shutdowns, [...]

Change Time to display list of operating systems & Recovery Options in Windows 8

On a multi-boot computer, during start-up, Windows will display all the operating systems which have been installed on the computer for a particular period of time, before booting into the default OS, once the default 10 second period is over. [...]

Harden Windows Login Password Policy in Windows 7 | 8

To protect your computer from unauthorized use, Windows provides a facility to protect it using a password. A strong password is thus the first line of defense as far as your computers security is concerned. If you wish to enhance [...]

How to disable or reduce Hardware Acceleration in Windows 7

In simple terms, the term Hardware Acceleration means using computer’s hardware for performing certain task and function faster than would be possible using software. This also allows for smooth rendering of graphics. In most processors instructions are executed sequentially i.e. one by [...]

How to print to the Microsoft XPS Document Writer in Windows 7

As an alternative to the PDF, Microsoft introduced an electronic paper format – XPS for creating and sharing documents. The format allows you to save and publish content in an easily viewable form. An XML Specification Paper (XPS) document can be [...]

Open .oxps files on Windows 7 with OXPS to XPS Converter Tool

XPS documents in Windows 7 have the file extension .xps. Although Windows 8 can view and create both XPS files and OXPS files, it is the .oxps format which is the default XPS document format in the new operating system. Windows 7 [...]

How to force a full shutdown to reinitialize Windows 8

Microsoft has introduced a new way in Windows 8 to start your computer, called as Fast Startup, where, the kernel session is not closed, but it is hibernated. Unlike the full hibernate data, whose file size is very large, this [...]

How to play DVD movies in Windows 8

You will not be able to watch DVD movies on the default installation of any Windows 8 edition. While Windows Media Player is present, the DVD playing feature has been removed from it. It will however be possible to play [...]

Fix: Windows 8 restarts to a blank screen with blinking cursor

Microsoft has released a hotfix to resolve an issue, where a Windows 8 computer installation that is Unified Extensible Firmware Interface or UEFI-compliant and that has a UEFI/GPT configuration, restarts to a blank screen after a standard shutdown or hibernation. If [...]

How to Setup Proxy for Metro application in Windows 8

Today, we’ll discuss how to enable or configure Proxy Server for Metro applications in Windows 8. By default we can setup Proxy for Internet Explorer, but for some reason it’s not working correctly for Metro application. When I tried it [...]

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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.