Make your Windows 8 Computer a Trusted PC

A Trusted PC is a Microsoft account security feature. You can use a Trusted PC to verify your identity automatically and perform sensitive actions like resetting your password or managing your billing info without having to enter a security code [...]

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SnapPea – Manage Android phone from Windows PC

Today I came across this excellent software called SnapPea. This application helps you manage your Android phone from your Windows desktop. SnapPea is packed with lot of nice little features. Though this article I’ll walk you through some of its features. [...]

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 [...]

Subsonic: Build your own Media Server

Subsonic is a free and an open source web-based media streamer. With Subsonic you can share all your favorite music and videos on your own media server that is your own PC. Subsonic is cross-platform and allows great customization. Setting up [...]

Fix: ABBYY FineReader Add-in causing Office Programs to crash

Recently I installed Office 2013 on one of the machines running Windows 7. After the installation, during the first run itself, it started to crash and was not able to even start. All the Office Programs seemed to be affected [...]

Block or Open a port in Windows 8 Firewall

According to your needs, you can configure Windows 8 Firewall settings (block or open port in Windows 7 or Windows 8 firewall) and restore defaults if you are unsatisfied with the default Windows Firewall settings. However for this, you need [...]

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 [...]

Fix: Size of registry key exported using Reg.exe is very large

We have already seen how we can use the built-in Reg.exe command-line utility to perform almost all the task which you otherwise can with regedit.exe. You can also use Reg.exe to save a registry key to a hive file. But if [...]

AMP WinOFF – Windows Utility With Various Shutdown Options

Do you leave your Windows PC ON unnecessarily? If yes, let me tell you that it is not a good idea; not just because you are wasting your money, but it is also not good for environmental reasons. You should [...]

ShadowExplorer: Shadow Copies made accessible

Shadow Copy or Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is a pre-included service in Microsoft Windows that allows manual or automatic snapshots of a volume. The service creates shadow copies of the entire NTFS volume and stores it in the same [...]

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 [...]

Enable, Disable checkbox to select items in Windows 7 | 8 explorer

You may have noticed that in Windows Explorer, there are small check-boxes to the left of the file or folder names, that help you select items for carrying out file operations. If you need to select non-consecutive items to carry [...]

Karen’s WhoIs for Windows – An Easy to Use Whois Client

The process of searching for a website’s owner is referred to as a “WhoIs search”, as in who is the owner of a particular site or domain. The search operation is often carried out if there is any instance of identity [...]

Download XLaunchPad for Windows 7 | 8 – Add Shortcuts & Organize Folders

If you are a Windows user but would want to try out certain Mac OS X features, here’s a tip for you. Download XLaunchPad. The program launcher is free for use and like Mac OS X Launchpad, displays program files and [...]

How to Link & Unlink Contacts in Windows 8 People App

We do not have an easy single source via which we can get complete access to all the stored contacts. The People app in Windows 8 has changed this to a large extent. The app brings together email contacts and contacts from [...]

Reset Reliability Monitor In Windows 7 | 8

Reliability Monitor is an advanced tool that measures hardware and software problems and other changes to your computer. It collects 24 hours of data before it displays any results and calculates the Stability Index that ranges from 1 (the least [...]

SafeIP: Hide, Change IP address, Surf Anonymously

There may be times when you may want to hide your IP address or change your IP address. In such cases, using a freeware makes things easier. SafeIP is one such free software for Windows 7 | 8, that will let [...]

IGNITE Office 2013, Office 365, Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 Guides from Microsoft

Microsoft has made numerous training resources, related to its products available online and some of them are totally free for use. Now available for you are new online Guides from IGNITE. These new Ignite guides provide technical training for IT [...]

The Windows Club

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.