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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 [...]

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Configure Internet Explorer to download up to 10 files at a time

When you are downloading files from the Internet, using the Internet Explorer browser, it limits the files you can download simultaneously at the same time. By default, Internet Explorer 10 (and IE9 & IE8) will let you download only up to [...]

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 [...]

How to add Custom Text or Image Watermark to Word 2013 Documents

Most of the changes in the Microsoft’s new word processing program, Word 2013 won’t be visible to you until you test them. That’s because initial impression of Word 2013 does not appear to be all that different from Word 2010. [...]

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 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 [...]

How to remove items from Frequent Places list from Windows 8 File Explorer

Windows 8 has brought a lot of new features in File Explorer. Someone was asking me the other day, about how to remove the Frequent places list from the File explorer in Windows 8. Frequent places are listed in Windows [...]

10 Useful Mouse Tricks For Windows Users

I love my mouse! Hey, don’t get me wrong!! I don’t have a pet mouse or something. I am talking about my computer mouse. Yes, I love to use my computer mouse and truly speaking it is one of the [...]

How to change Product Key in Windows 7 | 8

You may for some reason need to change your Windows product license key – maybe you want to upgrade your copy of Windows to a higher version or maybe you want to change the default setup product key to a [...]

How to Delete Usage History of Windows 8 Apps

The Task Manager in Windows 8 is a really powerful tool that does you do a lot of things including managing your start up items. It also keeps a history of the resources being used by your Windows 8 Metro [...]

New Presentation Features in Word 2013

Microsoft Word 2013 has been specifically built keeping in mind user’s needs. As a result, 3 new presentation features have been included in the mentioned Office product. These features allow every Word user to focus on their content presented as [...]

How to present a Word 2013 Document Online

We have already seen and tested some of the best features of Word 2013 till now, be it creating and sharing an Office document via Microsoft’s integrated cloud service SkyDrive or inserting a template / video into the Word document. [...]

Guide to setting up Multiplayer Gaming on Windows Network

This post is meant for new Gamers and will talk about how to set up multiplayer gaming on a Windows Network. After reading this tutorial, you can simply go ahead and arrange a gaming party with all your gamer friends [...]

Create a shortcut to open Windows Shut Down Dialog Box in Windows 7 | 8

We have already seen 10 different ways to shut down or restart Windows 8. One of them is by pressing the Alt+F4 combination to bring up the Windows Shut down Dialog box. However this is not as convenient as it looks, as if you [...]

Where are Windows 8 Metro Apps installed & how to access the folder

Metro apps can be accessed from and started by clicking on the Tiles on the Windows 8 Start Screen. But where are they installed or located? The ‘Metro’ Applications in Windows 8 are installed in the WindowsApps folder located in [...]

How to Print an email from Mail App in Windows 8

Windows 8 has incorporated a lot of changes and has made some tasks really simple. For instance, it has introduced a simple way by which users can discover the devices that are connected to and contained in their PC. So, [...]

Create New, Resize, Extend Partition using Disk Management Tool in Windows 8

For any partition management work there are many free third-party tools available, but Windows includes a pretty good Disk Management Tool which should suffice you for most of your disk management work like partitioning, formatting, merging, etc. Similar to Windows 7, [...]

Configure & add Multiple email Accounts to Windows 8 Mail App

Microsoft researched a lot about how people use email and email apps, before building the Windows 8 Mail App. It realized, users today have multiple email accounts and receive more and more email each year. Therefore, an app that aggregates [...]

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