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How to transfer User Profile in Windows 7 | 8

If you have created a new user account in Windows 8 Windows 7 or Windows Vista and if you’d like to transfer all your user data or user profile to this new user account, here is how you may do [...]

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System Information Tools in Windows 8 | 7

You may occasionally need to know a little more about your machine…details about your hardware, software, etc. There are four ways you can get such info in Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows Vista, natively. System Information Tools in Windows [...]

System info: Find out when your Windows was installed and other system information

SystemInfo or System Info command tool in Windows, will tell you all you need to know about your computer system. If you would like to know when your Windows was installed and plenty other information about your system, this built-in tool [...]

My Family helps manage kids’ app and game purchases in Windows Phone

Kids of the 21st century are much ahead of us. There is absolutely nothing which can stop them for using mobile phones. The genius kids want all the latest apps and games, which of course takes a toll on your [...]

How to disable Windows built-in Zip support

Windows offers the feature to compress files by supporting Zip functionality. While it is a very useful feature, if you are already using some third-party compression utility, some of may want to disable Windows built-in Zip support, and let the external [...]

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Using Metered Connections for Devices in Windows 8.1

Metered Connection is one of the many new features introduced by Windows 8. This feature is quite helpful in limiting the data usage so that you don’t get shock while billing the data consumed payments. In India, many operators have [...]

Wait Chain Traversal feature in Windows 8 | 7

Wait Chain Traversal is a feature that was introduced in Windows 7. It is a tool that lets you identify the actual process that is resulting in a hung or frozen application. Windows 8 goes a step further and lets [...]

Turn Off Data Execution Prevention (DEP) for Particular Program

Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced DEP, a security feature that can help prevent damage to your computer by monitoring programs from time to time. Monitoring ensures that running program use system memory efficiently. If there is any instance of a [...]

Enable or Disable Data Execution Prevention DEP for Internet Explorer only

If a code loading from the default heap or stack is detected by DEP or Data Execution Prevention, an exception is raised. It happens since the behavior is indicative of malicious code (legitimate code does not generally load in this [...]

Verify the Status of Data Execution Prevention (DEP) settings in Windows 8 | 7

Data Execution Prevention, written in abbreviated form as DEP is a security feature that helps you safeguard your system against viruses and other security threats by monitoring your programs to make sure they use the computer’s memory safely. Users need [...]

Disk Defragmenter in Windows 8 | 7 explained

Starting with Windows Vista, the built-in Windows Disk Defragmenter has been much improved upon, and more so in Windows 8 and Windows 7, and is considered to be much better than its predecessor Windows XP. The defrag engine and the manageability of [...]

Enable, Disable Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Windows 7| 8

We have already seen how Data Execution Prevention, a security feature can help prevent damage to your computer from viruses and other security threats. Harmful programs who try to attack Windows by attempting to execute code from system memory locations reserved for Windows [...]

How to map an FTP drive in Windows 8 | 7

I often get asked this question – is there any easy way to map an FTP drive and access files & folders on a FTP server, in Windows, natively? The ones who ask me this question normally have their own FTP server [...]

Data Execution Prevention or DEP feature in Windows 7 | 8

Data Execution Prevention or DEP is a security feature that was introduced in Windows Vista onwards, that can help prevent damage to your computer from viruses and other security threats. DEP can help protect your computer by monitoring programs to make [...]

How to take a desktop screenshot on Windows 8 | 8.1

In Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, you can press Win+PrntScr to take a snapshot of your screen and save it into the Screenshots folder of your Pictures library. In this post we will see several ways on how to take [...]

Delete or remove Windows.old folder after Windows Upgrade in Windows 8 | 7

If you install Windows Vista on a computer which has Windows XP installed or if you perform a custom installation of Windows Vista instead of an upgrade installation, you will see a Windows.old folder on your system drive. Similarly, even if [...]

Add Content to Reading List app in Windows 8.1

Reading List, one of the new apps seen on Windows 8.1 devices received a new update some days ago. Microsoft did not describe the app update in detail. It simply mentioned that the app now includes more bug fixes and performance related improvements [...]

Reading View feature in Internet Explorer Modern UI version

Most users are aware of the versions of Internet Explorer offered in Windows 8. For those, still struggling to find the difference there are two versions of Internet Explorer provided with the newest OS- Internet Explorer Desktop version Internet Explorer Modern [...]

Flip 3D in Windows 7 and Windows Vista

Windows Vista introduced a graphical feature called Flip 3D for switching between open applications. The feature was located on the Taskbar. Flip 3D displays your open windows in a stack and allows you to preview all of your open windows without having [...]

Difference in Windows 8.1 Shutdown behavior: WinX Menu vs. Charms Bar Shut down option

By now, most Windows 8 users are aware that Microsoft has introduced a new way in to start your computer, called as Fast Startup – also known as Hybrid Boot. In this mode, the kernel session is not closed, but [...]

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