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Use Windows 8 Reliability Monitor to fix PC problems

Rather than downloading third-party tools for diagnosing and fixing your Windows PC problems, it’s best to use built-in programs, when available. Windows 8 Reliability Monitor is one such built-in tool that can be used for checking system errors, warnings, informational [...]

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Fix Component Store Corruption or Repair Windows Image in Windows 8

The System Update and Readiness Tool or CheckSUR tool will scan your Windows computer for inconsistencies, which may be caused by various hardware failures or by software issues and potentially fix that corruption. In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, [...]

Is the new Windows 8.1 Start Button really useful, or is it just a ‘Placebo’?

Among the many new features will be added in Windows 8.1 will be the appearance of a Start Button. This single news has bought smiles to many a Windows 8 users, who were missing the Window Start Button and Menu. [...]

Windows 8.1 Enterprise edition: New features

As mentioned earlier, Microsoft will roll out the Windows 8.1 update codenamed –Blue on June 26. We have already seen the new features that will be included in Windows 8.1. Microsoft has gone ahead and revealed some of the features to be [...]

Windows 8.1 Release Date, Features Announced

Microsoft has officially announced the features and release date for Windows 8.1, commonly referred to as Windows Blue. Microsoft decided to put to use what it learned from customer feedback how they were using Windows 8. Based on this feedback [...]

Firefox 21 Features: New Security & Privacy settings

Firefox 21 has been recently released. The new version comes with improved security and privacy features and settings. In addition to it, there are some more amazing features available in the new improved version. In this post we may discus [...]

Enable F8 key & Safe Mode in Windows 8

Windows 8 boots real fast, as a result, you may have found that the F8 key does not work. There is a reason for this. Microsoft has reduced the time-periods for F2 and F8 keys to almost near-nil intervals – less than [...]

What are Thumbs.db files in Windows? Download Thumbs.db Viewer freeware

Windows Thumbnail cache or Thumbs.db files are hidden data-files in the Windows operating system, which contain small images, displayed when you view a folder in “thumbnail” view, as opposed to tile, icon, list, or detail view. Windows keeps a copy [...]

How to create a Network Bridge in Windows 8 | 7

A Network Bridge is a hardware or a software, that connects two or more networks – maybe one a wired one and the other a wireless one – so that they can communicate with each other. If you have two [...]

New feature in Office Web Apps allows real-time co-authoring & editing from Android tabs

Microsoft Web Apps are often life-savers especially when users have to run their work on the Office software but don’t have the time or resources to download the desktop client. More than 1 billion users around the world chose to [...]

Make Windows 8 better understand your voice using Speech Recognition Voice Training

Speech Recognition is a technology which is used for controlling computers using voice commands. With Speech Recognition you can say commands that the computer will respond to, and you can also dictate text to the computer, which eliminates the requirement [...]

Make Windows 8 speak out the time every hour

We have already seen how we can make Windows welcome us with an audio voice message during logon. Using the same commands, we will see how we can make Windows 8 tell us the time every hour. This can be especially [...]

Meet Microsoft David, Hazel and Zira – Windows 8 default voices

In Windows XP and Windows 2000 you had the TTS voice known as Microsoft SAM. In these earlier versions, Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary were the optional male and female voices respectively, which were available for download from the Microsoft [...]

How to use Narrator in Windows 8 | 7

The Windows operating system includes several accessibility features that makes using Windows easier, for people with age-related or other disabilities. By the time folks cross fifties, most will have vision, hearing, or dexterity impairments. Have dexterity and mobility impairments? Activate [...]

Microsoft Silverlight Application Storage & Configuration Options

Many of us have Microsoft Silverlight installed on our system, but we rarely make use of its configuration options. In this post we will see its configuration options, specially its ‘Application Storage’ option. To configure, we have to open the [...]

Windows 8 now lets you force automatic restart after Windows Updates

Microsoft has recently released an update KB2822241 that now allows you to force automatic restart after Windows Updates, in systems running Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. If you have already installed the latest batch of April 2013 Windows Updates, [...]

View & Manage Clipboard In Windows 7 | 8

When you copy or cut or move data, it is held temporarily in an invisible portion of memory. This is called as the ClipBoard. The clipboard enables applications to transfer data or between applications or within an application. Windows XP [...]

What is Index.dat file in Windows 7? Where did it go in Windows 8?

Index.dat files are files hidden on your Windows computer, that contain details all of the web sites that you have ever visited. In Windows 7 and earlier, Internet Explorer 9 and earlier, used the index.dat file to index all this information, [...]

Customize, Change Theme color, Default font in Office 2013

I have been using latest version of the Office for a few months now. It makes me share some tips, every time I discover something new with the productivity suite that I am not aware of. In this topic we [...]

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