Microsoft 'Project Siena' points to DIY Windows 8 apps

<div class="cnet-image-div image-LARGE2 float-none" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; float: none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 610px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="Microsoft Project Siena app" class="cnet-image" height="381" src="http://asset3.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/12/19/Microsoft_Project_Siena_01_610x381.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="610" /></span><div class="image-caption" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.133em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now in beta, the Project Siena technology from Microsoft lets users create their own Windows 8 apps such as product catalogs.</span></div> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Microsoft made available on December 19 yet another tool to help non-professional progammers to build Windows apps.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Codenamed "Project Siena,' the "Metro app that creates apps" (as the folks at Surfacegeeks.net dubbed it) is <a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/5ae47651-e8f3-4e41-aab7-e19ab1b80180" style="border: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">available in the Windows Store as a free download</a>.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to the description, Siena's main target audience is "business experts, business analysts, consultants and other app imagineers."</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57616092-75/microsoft-project-siena-points-to-diy-windows-8-apps/">Cnet</a></span></i></div>

Microsoft 'Project Siena' points to DIY Windows 8 apps

Now in beta, the Project Siena technology from Microsoft lets users create their own Windows 8 apps such as product catalogs. Microsoft...

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Microsoft stopped support Windows XP

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUn5SJnAI0lzlptUmVtIXcqk9y6BlR6nxkdBiLQGP9H56dvPISD5opOnhs3Pt80gLVuMXlFI0bf9ovOvcmg6LTTA9vDZDAewWPa8m7aoINZQOKe1pNbIle3xL6ps6jxEgqbT_Clcph8s8V/s1600/stopped-Windows-XP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Microsoft stopped support Windows XP</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUn5SJnAI0lzlptUmVtIXcqk9y6BlR6nxkdBiLQGP9H56dvPISD5opOnhs3Pt80gLVuMXlFI0bf9ovOvcmg6LTTA9vDZDAewWPa8m7aoINZQOKe1pNbIle3xL6ps6jxEgqbT_Clcph8s8V/s1600/stopped-Windows-XP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Most are aware that Microsoft is soon going to end supports for </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Windows XP</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Office 2003</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">. There won’t be any support options, bug fixes or security updates for these Microsoft products after April 8, 2014. If you have not yet started the migration to a modern operating system, you might want to take a call on it. ‘The end of life’ is the phrase used by mark the end of automatic fixes, updates, or online technical assistance for the Windows XP System.</span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To help users migrate from Windows XP to a modern operating system like Windows 8 or Windows 7, Microsoft has launched a new portal that will help users take the required steps and offer information about Windows XP End of Support.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to Microsoft, there won’t be any free or paid assistance for these products after End-of-support and running Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 may expose your company to potential risks. The company suggests it’s time to take action, as an unsupported and unpatched environment, is vulnerable to various security risks & the chances of malware entering their systems could increase by two-thirds putting corporate networks in a great danger.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If the support ends, you won’t be receiving any security updates as well as definition updates for Microsoft Security Essentials running on Windows XP.</span></div>

Microsoft stopped support Windows XP

Microsoft stopped support Windows XP Most are aware that Microsoft is soon going to end supports for  Windows XP  and  Office 2003 . There w...

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Defrag option to Windows 7 , 8 right click context menu

<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Press "windows" + r to open Run and type regedit to open Registry.</span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5SuDumMrcUOvEa3aTD8D8Oef5hqhJ0O0YqZ1job6N_buOlvnhgPiNQdxGq_fsyFitMq024pnsmklHL7oY5n1KbKrvxyd4fMoniHWANc3hCq5Q22hYzOr0j1227zuVFozGZh3GcvoG-Jde/s1600/regedit.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5SuDumMrcUOvEa3aTD8D8Oef5hqhJ0O0YqZ1job6N_buOlvnhgPiNQdxGq_fsyFitMq024pnsmklHL7oY5n1KbKrvxyd4fMoniHWANc3hCq5Q22hYzOr0j1227zuVFozGZh3GcvoG-Jde/s1600/regedit.JPG" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>regedit</i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Naviagate to :</span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSuKnED3mHD_xnmKnD4lyIj1_e7bkcZr3PPoJ6k2TXxCiaqAV7RibSeM4GsJAW-dE6Qvmzmwe3BoCXnGQlI7487xUGrrhX-mTRLsvj4yaOPK8X5Uk6o2zFNzUXOnC-3l0X5xrAjKh3P2RL/s1600/regedit-ope.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSuKnED3mHD_xnmKnD4lyIj1_e7bkcZr3PPoJ6k2TXxCiaqAV7RibSeM4GsJAW-dE6Qvmzmwe3BoCXnGQlI7487xUGrrhX-mTRLsvj4yaOPK8X5Uk6o2zFNzUXOnC-3l0X5xrAjKh3P2RL/s640/regedit-ope.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Drive \ Shell</b></i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Drive \ Shell</b></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /> Right click on the Shell key and create a newkey and name it <b>runas</b></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Right-click the default key and select Edit Value, type in the Data section <b>Defrag</b> and confirm with OK.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Right on key runas, created in the first step, and create a new / given key name <b>command</b></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Right on the default key Information section and select Edit Value, type <b>defrag% 1-v </b>Confirm with OK.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Exit Registry and restart.</span></span>

Defrag option to Windows 7 , 8 right click context menu

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[How to] Update Hardware Drivers in Windows 7 and Windows 8

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3wUbR09Qzu05vuP6fRGG9hN8oSlc83mVNzzbobTSAFl2UhqttLQ4qqWCNdVybi97yEK1yURYO-rpApf9ZrgLu428BsTW6lo2BZS89JiYdQhemmay9L5CAukVxnASXbfSyxDPRW-dLxSTd/s1600/slim+driver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3wUbR09Qzu05vuP6fRGG9hN8oSlc83mVNzzbobTSAFl2UhqttLQ4qqWCNdVybi97yEK1yURYO-rpApf9ZrgLu428BsTW6lo2BZS89JiYdQhemmay9L5CAukVxnASXbfSyxDPRW-dLxSTd/s400/slim+driver.jpg" width="294" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://download.cnet.com/SlimDrivers-Free/3000-18513_4-75279940.html?part=dl-0">SLIMDRIVER</a> </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://download.cnet.com/SlimDrivers-Free/3000-18513_4-75279940.html?part=dl-0">SLIMDRIVER</a> </i>, apart from windows OS updates ,hardware driver updates are also important for the smooth functioning of PC,we often think that our hardware drivers such as display,Audio&sound,Network,Motherboard,Usb are up to date but it is not the case for most of the windows users. </span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><b><span style="list-style: none; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Step by Step process:</span></span></b></div><h3 style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Step: 1</span></h3><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Software from cnet.com here is the download link </span><center></center><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="" name="more" style="list-style: none; outline: none; text-decoration: underline;"></a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://download.cnet.com/SlimDrivers-Free/3000-18513_4-75279940.html?part=dl-0" style="list-style: none; outline: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://download.cnet.com/SlimDrivers-Free/3000-18513_4-75279940.html?part=dl-0</span></a></blockquote></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><h3 style="list-style: none; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Step: 2</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now open the Slimdriver from windows start button and click on START SCAN the software will check the hardware components and it will search for the latest hardware drivers from the manufactures website </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHb2Zrfifc49zqpAbCAZCCwM1dZM4avwMxi313-dOMlhKDsrXc0yeFPWFqYAIWkE5CJgRC2pQqdrJJhkM2dsACEWeHtVT4FR86iOdeV-Dmg0DhAW7-NPzFomp4uDkXgE4FegpFGWdrHcQ/s1600/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="list-style: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="1" border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHb2Zrfifc49zqpAbCAZCCwM1dZM4avwMxi313-dOMlhKDsrXc0yeFPWFqYAIWkE5CJgRC2pQqdrJJhkM2dsACEWeHtVT4FR86iOdeV-Dmg0DhAW7-NPzFomp4uDkXgE4FegpFGWdrHcQ/s1600/1.png" style="border-width: 0px; list-style: none; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="1" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">step 2</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="list-style: none; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Step: 3</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now the SlimDriver will list the all available hardware updates according to the hardware category now click on  download update corresponding to each driver update the Slimdriver will automatically download the update from the official site </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is preferred to create a restore point( a dialogue box will appear) and then reboot your system after installing hardware update.<br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik2Btv9VibAeWKxE4kgagxkCzx_0vqADKaEZABFPZvtJ7-5koqsD3Z5nPtWl9Y7aXpuwhnUA-2MPWYoZVQNNl2tGDh0mCQDsjdL7cVzJa8wtFzbUVWKz1pO0CBic1dpu7ighQhaceba9K2/s1600/2.png" imageanchor="1" style="list-style: none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="2" border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik2Btv9VibAeWKxE4kgagxkCzx_0vqADKaEZABFPZvtJ7-5koqsD3Z5nPtWl9Y7aXpuwhnUA-2MPWYoZVQNNl2tGDh0mCQDsjdL7cVzJa8wtFzbUVWKz1pO0CBic1dpu7ighQhaceba9K2/s1600/2.png" style="border-width: 0px; list-style: none; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="2" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="3" border="0" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhThHAAslNrZCTgEHPA_h-F7Y1Z-74Ni94c2lcPQCiAUJFvqtnj0erY7G4xPSzC9nJZTcVyC0FgZKqG-kwhVuEqI7M8dGWeSHMvlt2mWJHYYFCEzMgtuN19yUW5c0nlWgC8ss5oFJhp9_lL/s1600/3.png" style="list-style: none; outline: none;" title="3" width="400" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SlimDriver will be a very hand tool for those who use <b><span style="list-style: none; outline: none;"><span style="list-style: none; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">laptops</span> </span></b>,where  there is  need to update WiFi,Bluetooth , <span style="list-style: none; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><b>Graphic</b></span> , <span style="list-style: none; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><b>USB</b></span> , webcams  drivers it is the leading software tool under update category in CNET , Brothersoft , <a href="http://en.softonic.com/" style="list-style: none; outline: none;" target="_blank">Softonic</a> and many other sites .It is a free tool so our recommendation is to give it a try and see the result.</span></div></div><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- See more at: http://www.alltechtricks.com/2013/05/update-hardware-drivers-in-windows-7-and-windows-8.html#sthash.EyTeajdO.dpuf</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span>

[How to] Update Hardware Drivers in Windows 7 and Windows 8

SLIMDRIVER   SLIMDRIVER   , apart from windows OS updates ,hardware driver updates are also important for the smooth functioning of PC,we of...

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[How to] Create Windows 8 USB Recovery Drive

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyqsgAQQwwDsS6hLBo6s6MOt3nhOyo04RDSfZ9VWEV8Zfns8TsaofsHq2rm0Qna3-cwttZn5XgfrKm04IrIw52xlypae9bzyIG0m5vszS10BWIYVIrpdQa5ATRt6iz5ZzpDCIsrrg9ooWN/s1600/windows+8+recover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyqsgAQQwwDsS6hLBo6s6MOt3nhOyo04RDSfZ9VWEV8Zfns8TsaofsHq2rm0Qna3-cwttZn5XgfrKm04IrIw52xlypae9bzyIG0m5vszS10BWIYVIrpdQa5ATRt6iz5ZzpDCIsrrg9ooWN/s1600/windows+8+recover.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Windows 8 USB Recovery Drive</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Here are few things that you should check before creating the USB recovery drive for your windows 8 computer.</span><br /><center style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"></center><ul style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 5px; outline: none;"><li>You should check if there is already Recovery partition present on your computer, Because to create a USB recovery drive there should be a recovery image present on your computer.So to check for the recovery image on your computer.</li><li>Open Command Prompt with Administrator rights.(Search for Command in start menu, Right click on command prompt and hit on "Run as Administrator")</li></ul><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" trbidi="on"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Now enter this command on your command prompt <b>recimg /showcurrent and hit enter.</b>As shown in below screen shot.</blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><img alt="comand+3" border="0" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNxfe5FKqzSPcHsRwHF3bpOPuFGdj9SEuLxAQ-pVqP2K0vPI3yN37pa8E0a13GjbZ3Gj5mfbckqbfa5GHGBQdJvhURKfgcLOS8plLQ8CP8BPkLBW2uRXPMCAIVNy3sH1_bswYP_lXtPpx3/s640/comand+3.jpg" style="list-style: none; outline: none;" title="comand+3" width="640" /></div><a href="" name="more" style="background-color: white; color: #0084ce; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; outline: none; text-decoration: underline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">If you got the error the messaging saying that "There is no active custom recovery image" as shown in below screenshot then you must create a recovery image on your computer. If there is already a recovery partition then you  can directly head to create to usb recovery drive.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><img alt="command4" border="0" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-qtSMI3hQ4zWg62YXVLZD36eedIZNJUXCIcYaroaw3KC3-2fvAzkjO4rCoblQAlvQag7K2UnxA843r2D0FQHBZ4eNBY4OxGh4VKu2C2EhODxn8Lmy_c_ZbM4r1wKZqXJRoExI9VsAzCXR/s640/command4.jpg" style="list-style: none; outline: none;" title="command4" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">As there is no recovery image on your computer present, we should create one. We can create new recovery image by entering these two commands one by one</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><ul style="margin: 5px; outline: none;"><li><b>mkdir C:\RefreshImage</b>  and hit enter</li><li><b><span class="userInput" style="list-style: none; outline: none;">recimg -CreateImage C:\RefreshImage</span>  </b>and hit enter</li></ul></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">After entering these two commends you will be able to see the process of creating recovery image on your computer as shown in screenshot below.You can delete the recovery image from your computer to save the memory after completing of creating the USB Recovery drive.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><img alt="command5" border="0" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_lpgpJL-I1N3-JABUJin2jFd79Ma-jGFu1jr-G8xi6igq0CVoSXKM7zj-llUp5EhoFA2fGJb8hBTBug_N4Vg2hx6oGyWmzDE_hcNbnk9ZJaPRBZTgyyBBfDEukdCXGAAM7xsobjlLQ7k/s640/command5.jpg" style="list-style: none; outline: none;" title="command5" width="640" /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">After completion of creating the recovery image we can now jump to create the USB recovery drive!</span><br /><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; outline: none;">Creating Windows 8 USB Recovery Drive</h3><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">To create a recovery drive search for the "recovery drive' in windows search. and click on Create a recovery Drive. (Note you must have administrator rights, it might ask you password.)</span><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><img alt="recovery+drive" border="0" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4YjHlxd2MI1-ct1Ll_8RlxFsBJ938hjfG8Dv1GUsKYen8WQDOmWgNZwB7H0FEwhvjkNTIeuN7_Zy0lyJYU9gqhYys7istUkbblViShwiZYJc2-agQOpXNQqKpr8uHnWMywn79W6386Fnj/s640/recovery+drive.jpg" style="list-style: none; outline: none;" title="recovery+drive" width="640" /></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 5px; outline: none;"><li>When the tool is opened check the box to <span class="ui" style="list-style: none; outline: none;">Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive. And hit Next</span></li><li><span class="ui" style="list-style: none; outline: none;">Now Insert the USB drive into USB port, make sure that there is no information stored on your USB, as the recovery tool will completely wipe out the data stored on USB. </span></li><li><span class="ui" style="list-style: none; outline: none;">And then select the usb from the list of available USB drives for storing the recovery image.And Hit next.And then Hit on Create.</span></li><li><span class="ui" style="list-style: none; outline: none;">That's it! You have created Windows 8 Recovery image.You can now use that to refresh and reset your windows 8 computer.</span></li><li><span class="ui" style="list-style: none; outline: none;">If you want to store the recovery image on your computer then you can hit on "Finish" or if you want to save the space you can delete the recovery image by hitting on "Delete".</span></li><li><span class="ui" style="list-style: none; outline: none;">After everything is done you can remove the USB from your computer.</span></li></ul><div><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Source & Image : <a href="http://www.alltechtricks.com/2013/11/how-to-create-windows-8-usb-recovery.html">alltechtricks.com</a></span></span></div>

[How to] Create Windows 8 USB Recovery Drive

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[ How to ] Speed Up a PC-Tips to Increase Windows Performance

<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">PC’s performance will slow down at 3 Instances:</h3><ol style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"><li>At the time of BOOTING</li><li>During normally usage.</li><li>While Shutting Down.</li></ol><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19.1875px;"><h3 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Tips to Speed Up Windows Performance:</h3><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Use a Good Antivirus:</h4><div style="font-size: 12px;">If you are not using a Good antivirus then the chances for your PC getting infected are pretty high.In this present world of Internet nothing is safe online.As windows is the most widely used operating system,many new viruses/trojans are created daily to exploit windows os.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Removing unwanted Startup Applications:</span></h4><div style="font-size: 12px;">Sometimes even after the pc starts, few programs keeps on loading thereby stopping you from performing your operations.In some cases, you might come across a strange WINDOWS error known as “<a href="http://www.alltechbuzz.net/2012/07/blue-screen-death-error-windows-how-to-fix-it.html" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Blue Screen Of death</a>”.To avoid this you have to limit the number of startup programs.Lesser the number of startup programs greater will be the pc startup speed.</div><div><ul style="font-size: 12px;"><li><i><b> Press” Windows key + R”(shortcut key for RUN)</b></i></li><li><i><b>A RUN box will open .Type “Msconfig” (without quotes) in the RUN box and hit ENTER. It will take you to the “system configuration”.</b></i></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFyfhS60-ZE_c4K3Vq1-_sYIFsRi2Sqf4ZdM0ekVfm-HDjnufRwKZer3Jqd2Bxpls9-IUT9QcXhcBwIb4Es64RjB5gdU9AyXfKzFc86SaSAbuyZr2B_wPpIIhqo4l4zyKR0xpMPCsj0g5/s1600/msconfig.png" style="color: #999999; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="msconfig" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFyfhS60-ZE_c4K3Vq1-_sYIFsRi2Sqf4ZdM0ekVfm-HDjnufRwKZer3Jqd2Bxpls9-IUT9QcXhcBwIb4Es64RjB5gdU9AyXfKzFc86SaSAbuyZr2B_wPpIIhqo4l4zyKR0xpMPCsj0g5/s1600/msconfig.png" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.7s ease; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 228, 228); height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 3px; transition: all 0.7s ease;" title="msconfig" /></a></div><ul style="font-size: 12px;"><li>Select “START UP” from the Tab’s at the top and <b>uncheck</b> all the unwanted programs that you don’t want to get started along with startup. Now click “OK” and then “APPLY”.Restart the pc you will definiately notice an improvement in startup and booting speed.</li></ul><div><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Delete all the Temporary files and folders:</h4><div style="font-size: 12px;">Windows stores some temporary files which are created while you are running any sort or applications. Deleting those Temporary files will helps you to increase your PC Performance during normal usage. Follow the steps below to delete the temporary files</div><div><ul style="font-size: 12px;"><li>Press” Windows key + R”. </li><li>In the RUN box type “%temp%” (without quotes) and hit enter.</li></ul><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUnxOP_z0_v2n7nHp0_4SOIZh7NPwqnSRN8Mp8zIT_yTaw2RkLFCfDjPec5nPV-8hShNjKTjZdc6X5w74UbOiO3XA7luQ6g_YTQockmaB8BJjebP7zHiGnHILqyT7jhnmsf3Lh4tCa1rgc/s1600/Temporary+files+windows.png" style="color: #999999; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Temporary+files+windows" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUnxOP_z0_v2n7nHp0_4SOIZh7NPwqnSRN8Mp8zIT_yTaw2RkLFCfDjPec5nPV-8hShNjKTjZdc6X5w74UbOiO3XA7luQ6g_YTQockmaB8BJjebP7zHiGnHILqyT7jhnmsf3Lh4tCa1rgc/s1600/Temporary+files+windows.png" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.7s ease; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 228, 228); height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 3px; transition: all 0.7s ease;" title="Temporary+files+windows" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px;">Temporary Files and Folders</td></tr></tbody></table><ul style="font-size: 12px;"><li>It will take you to a Folder where all the Temporary files are stored. Select and delete all the files. You may not delete all the files there, just skip those files which are undeletable.</li></ul><div><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Disk Clean Up:</span></h4><div style="font-size: 12px;"><img alt="Disk+cleanup+windows" border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNC6j2qDiTThZUlqesBxRZdMmpO0moJwgpS6be25VnJRdgI5PHYUOE7y9De-c5FcrwobTd6Dgm0gG0G4woJdGNu9OqktG9g0E7B9R5GH_j37PSrrkz4ALiFtcjMYUBPLrsNAAlGhbUoMk6/s400/Disk+cleanup+windows.png" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.7s ease; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 228, 228); height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 3px; transition: all 0.7s ease;" title="Disk+cleanup+windows" width="400" /></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Disk cleaning will delete all your temporary files from any drive of your Disk. Here is the Procedure</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Press” Windows key + R”. </div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Type “cleanmgr” (without Quotes) and hit enter.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Select the particular Disk that you want to Clean and click on “OK” and now you can delete all the temporary files. Repeat the same procedure for all the drives and it will really free some amount of memory in every drive.</div><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Defragment Disk:</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"></div><h5 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">For Defragmenting the Disk follow the steps below:</h5><div style="font-size: 12px;">1. Right click on any drive and select PROPERTIES</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">2. Click on TOOLS and select DEFRAGMENT NOW</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">3. ANALYSE the dick first and then DEFRAGMENT it.</div><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Delete ”Old Windows” Files:</h4><div style="font-size: 12px;">Normally your files of OLD version of windows can be removed easily using DISK CLEAN UP. So you can follow the same procedure to delete the files of OLD WINDOWS</div><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><i>Reduce Files on Desktop</i></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"></div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Move all the files on your Desktop to any other separate drive.Every shorcut on desktop consumes 20kb of your RAM.If there are too many shortcuts then it is definitely going to effect the performance speed of your computer.You can use shortcuts on the desktop for easy navigation (Shortcuts are less in memory). </div><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Using Proper Cooling System:</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGb7eE-iW6mU3b6GO42gjS7FWTxoYc_tsHtwxvsPwQkmcZyX9vQpx_FSq6EbdKp4l9OG3LkkLJ6sm8bc5dkdiGCiu6ApPrF7h5ml-CZYxGRNxY8lmPsvYHKDUOms73zmuBieRMn1idzw1k/s1600/Cooling+system+CPU.png" style="color: #999999; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Cooling+system+CPU" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGb7eE-iW6mU3b6GO42gjS7FWTxoYc_tsHtwxvsPwQkmcZyX9vQpx_FSq6EbdKp4l9OG3LkkLJ6sm8bc5dkdiGCiu6ApPrF7h5ml-CZYxGRNxY8lmPsvYHKDUOms73zmuBieRMn1idzw1k/s1600/Cooling+system+CPU.png" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.7s ease; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 228, 228); height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 3px; transition: all 0.7s ease;" title="Cooling+system+CPU" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"></div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Make sure that your Cooling fans are working fine. Try to clean the Dust from the surface of the fans to make it work properly. Provide good ventilation for PC’s and try to maintain the room cool so that Pc can perform better.</div><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Removing Visual Effects:</h4><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Follow the steps below to disable unwanted Visual effects</b></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq">1. Go to CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM AND SECURITY > SYSTEM >ADVANCED SYSTEM SETTINGS ( A box will pop up)<br />2.  Click on SETTINGS of PERFORMANCE section.<br />3. There check all the visual effects and remove those which are not need for your and save those settings</blockquote><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Deleting Internet Cache</span></h4><div style="font-size: 12px;">There are many software’s available on internet to Delete internet cache but, CC Cleaner is the free software and its very effect in deleting the file temporary files.<br /><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Use Revo Uninstaller to uninstall programs:</h4></div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Completely uninstall programs and applications using a program like <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/79926/completely-uninstall-programs-and-more-with-revo-uninstaller/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Revo Uninstaller</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"></div><div style="font-size: 12px;">There are many Good software’s available on internet to fix all your registry errors. You can pick anyone of them. </div><div style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12px;">I will suggest you to use <b>TUNE UP UTILITIES</b> as it perform better than much other software.</div><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Using Ready Boost:</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><img alt="ready+boost" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6XPuYTc3Cu16InlvvbsLpJ3U8jTe22vSLcPMXeiNYXw2mm_zV_5beVYUyAONXId8cyGLhvLxdW9hjvxqKHJU_8r0ijyEMaQBPBTkx_yyq9Zdlw_nDj22M3QGzoe9jj_E_yHhk71fzQCo-/s1600/ready+boost.png" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.7s ease; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 228, 228); height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 3px; transition: all 0.7s ease;" title="ready+boost" /></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"></div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Connect a USB stick to a Windows computer – even on Windows 8 – and it will ask if you want to speed up your system using ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost was introduced in Windows Vista, where it was a heavily promoted feature.<br /><h4 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Upgrade your Hardware:</h4></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Last but very important thing is to upgrade your hardwares.If you are still using old hardwares then its time for you to replace then to boost pc speed.</span>

[ How to ] Speed Up a PC-Tips to Increase Windows Performance

PC’s performance will slow down at 3 Instances: At the time of BOOTING During normally usage. While Shutting Down. Tips to Speed Up Windows ...

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How to find everything in Windows 8.1

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ6cuvteohAJUfCsxgnHK_tkJPLMfRfRlNki6aloPLEiLiSQHevdNnxGn3nY5ote_ciJesHi4WAg6OS48YfXR1_zKOE8_t6DagjBT0I8rpEfY44j5_jZRPj_61pUOI6ASkTfITkxpwgK4/s1600/windows8.1newbackground_primary-100043944-gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ6cuvteohAJUfCsxgnHK_tkJPLMfRfRlNki6aloPLEiLiSQHevdNnxGn3nY5ote_ciJesHi4WAg6OS48YfXR1_zKOE8_t6DagjBT0I8rpEfY44j5_jZRPj_61pUOI6ASkTfITkxpwgK4/s640/windows8.1newbackground_primary-100043944-gallery.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s inevitable that upgrading to a new version of an operating system or application comes with a bit of a learning curve. With Windows 8.1, though—and its predecessor Windows 8—the curve is steep, and just finding simple tools and features can be a challenge.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Windows 8 isn’t just a new version of Windows, it’s a completely different OS in many ways, with its own unique features and conventions that may confound even the most ardent Windows users. Under the hood, most of the familiar Windows tools are still there, but they’re buried in strange places where they can’t be easily located, especially not when Microsoft took away the coveted Start button.</span></div><figure class=" large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When Microsoft launched Windows 8.1, it solved much of the dilemma by bringing back the concept of the Start button. It is not identical in either form or function its predecessor, but it does provide simple access to a wide variety of common tools and functions.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I suggest you forget about the Start button, though. The simplest way to find anything in Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 is <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043268/the-top-5-reasons-to-upgrade-to-windows-8-1.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #25a7d7; text-decoration: none;">the Search charm</a>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let’s say you want to find an app that you don’t have pinned as a tile on the Windows 8 Start screen. You can tap the arrow at the bottom left of the display to pull up the complete list of Apps. They’re sorted alphabetically by name by default, but you can also tap the arrow next to the word Apps at the upper left to reveal a dropdown list with options to sort the apps by category, most used, or date installed.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who has that kind of time? Just open the Charms bar, tap the Search icon at the top of the charms, and start typing the name of whatever it is you’re looking for. As you type, Windows 8.1 refines and presents the results. In my experience, most apps or tools can be found within the first three or four letters.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you’ve used Windows long enough, you’re probably familiar with the Control Panel and the tools available there. You can right-click the Start button in Windows 8.1, select the Control Panel, and then navigate through the options to find the one you’re looking for. Or, you can open the Search charm and just type “user” or “mou” to quickly jump straight to the User Accounts or Mouse settings.</span></div><figure class=" large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With Windows 8.1, Microsoft evolved Search into Smart Search. When you type a query in the Search charm and hit Enter, Windows 8.1 delivers comprehensive search results that include apps, files, information from SkyDrive, Bing Web search results, and even photos, music, and video related to the search term.</span></span></figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Regardless of how you choose to sort the apps, you still have to sift through them to find the one you’re looking for. Depending on how many apps you have installed on your Windows 8.1 PC, that may be simple, or it could be a daunting and tedious task.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This concept isn’t unique to Windows 8.1. The Spotlight search function in Mac OS X and the search function in iOS provide a similar universal search function. There are also third-party <a href="http://www.x1.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #25a7d7; text-decoration: none;">tools like X1 Search</a>, which can almost instantly search all of your files and content no matter where you have it stored.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Embrace the Search charm in Windows 8.1. It is your best friend, and the most convenient and efficient way to find anything you need.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via: <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2066020/how-to-find-everything-in-windows-8-1.html">PCWorld</a></span></i></div>

How to find everything in Windows 8.1

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[how to ] Safely Remove Hardware not working in Windows

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmC-iaSGDz6HXuz_MIwtuvMyKQsLSE1i63T7jqeP_HEughHAlYcUcaTUJCDzIzoEfikFZuHpgLMR3CrR_kafuIKbX1XECJBJRhIaCy8WyzkkNTXdPYZRJ-gxPi_fwDlCx4VTfrynAciIeL/s1600/device-manager-cache-400x276.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmC-iaSGDz6HXuz_MIwtuvMyKQsLSE1i63T7jqeP_HEughHAlYcUcaTUJCDzIzoEfikFZuHpgLMR3CrR_kafuIKbX1XECJBJRhIaCy8WyzkkNTXdPYZRJ-gxPi_fwDlCx4VTfrynAciIeL/s1600/device-manager-cache-400x276.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You must have noticed, while disconnecting a device from your Windows computer a <strong>Safely Remove Hardware</strong></span><span class="gmw_"><span style="font-size: large;"> <strong>and Eject Media</strong> icon appears in the system tray or the notification area. You are supposed click the icon to remove or eject the device you would want to</span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is because, before disconnecting a device from your computer, it is essential to first prepare Windows for the change using the feature. Doing so ensures, Windows has stored any data back on the device and released the device from its hold. If you remove the device without using the Safely Remove Hardware feature, you run the risk of damaging your files and corrupting your data.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">However, at times you may notice that the Eject window does not appear even after you click on the icon of the device to be removed or ejected. If you try and open “Devices and Printers” in the Control Panel, that will fail to open as well. What do you do in such situations, where the Safely Remove Hardware is not working, or the icon is missing? Try this solution, it might just work in your case, as it did in mine.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Step 1</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now right-click on the USB Dive (in my case hp USB device) and from the same location in the Properties, change the default setting and select instead Better Performance. See if this helps. Now go back to the default Quick Removal setting again. If it does, great! </span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8bZRlOBwqLciLOMipiuvlgA7e3PIYtuon8UzTod8obacwcRzG3mNUXmmGwXmnNxAGLdll2-8yngMk5quNxP5TpkKqPPhJRI-ztgTZStg7rDfIGixHGC6dIoKZImu74-IIS1zfrPryYlnZ/s1600/usb-cache-400x290.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8bZRlOBwqLciLOMipiuvlgA7e3PIYtuon8UzTod8obacwcRzG3mNUXmmGwXmnNxAGLdll2-8yngMk5quNxP5TpkKqPPhJRI-ztgTZStg7rDfIGixHGC6dIoKZImu74-IIS1zfrPryYlnZ/s1600/usb-cache-400x290.jpg" /> </a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But if the <strong>Safely Remove Hardware</strong> dialog box is still not appearing, <strong><em>when it should</em></strong>, in Windows, rather then just removing the hardware and risking possible data corruption or loss, just bring up the Command Prompt window and type the following:</span></span><br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><pre style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll</span></i></pre></blockquote><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Then, just hit ‘Enter’.</span></b></i><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="command prompt Fix: Safely Remove Hardware not working in Windows 7 | 8" class="aligncenter wp-image-4599" src="http://www.winvistaclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/command-prompt.png" title="Fix: Safely Remove Hardware not working in Windows 7 | 8" /></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Safely Remove Hardware dialog box will now appear !</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Safely Remove Hardware not working Fix: Safely Remove Hardware not working in Windows 7 | 8" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-77604" src="http://thewindowsclub.thewindowsclubco.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Safely-Remove-Hardware-not-working.jpg" title="Fix: Safely Remove Hardware not working in Windows 7 | 8" /></div><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You may also create a desktop shortcut for this command if you need to use it frequently. Alternatively, opening the This PC or Computer folder, right-clicking on the USB device and selecting Eject, is also an option you can consider.</span></span></i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>

[how to ] Safely Remove Hardware not working in Windows

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Twitter: Shortcoming of Windows 8

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhahJGyTMmjwAAotrAWI-zyjID40jhyCeaRh7eqEzHVRbhIamgQX6vcl3zNwJEbKN6ejTSXOCyzuLAEbfiZtokuo2yPQSvaX4j4yQncgU8MQDNTOIf59tASrn7wP1m5uQx9F32E9kAT17I/s1600/win-8-dead-twitter-600x311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhahJGyTMmjwAAotrAWI-zyjID40jhyCeaRh7eqEzHVRbhIamgQX6vcl3zNwJEbKN6ejTSXOCyzuLAEbfiZtokuo2yPQSvaX4j4yQncgU8MQDNTOIf59tASrn7wP1m5uQx9F32E9kAT17I/s1600/win-8-dead-twitter-600x311.jpg" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter has evolved from its early days of tweets about what folks ate for breakfast, and for many of us it is now a valuable source of information. From breaking news to tweetversations about tech, Twitter plays an important role for some. Sadly, the limited choice of apps to work with Twitter on Windows 8 are not very good.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am a heavy Twitter user, as the fact I am closing in on 50,000 tweets demonstrates. I am on the network all day so I have heavily tested many apps on all mobile platforms. I have favorite apps, sometimes more than one, on all platforms save Windows 8.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See also: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/windows-8-1-makes-the-thinkpad-tablet-2-even-better-7000022103/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows 8.1: Makes the ThinkPad Tablet 2 even better</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />I don't want to pick on the Windows 8 Twitter app developers so I'm not going to point fingers at them one by one. It's sufficient to say that for me, none of them are very good. Some of them are buggy on top of that, rendering them almost unusable.There aren't a lot of Twitter apps on Windows 8 and I'm sure I've tried all of them. I find glaring problems with each of them, severe enough to make working with Twitter unpleasant on my Windows 8 tablet. Even Twitter's own app on Windows 8 is annoying, with slow operation and less than optimal design choices that make it so.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Either they don't stream updates consistently, don't handle lists well, or have direct message access poorly implemented. Some apps don't handle several of these functions well. On top of these issues, often the user interface on most of them is not simple and clean, with some odd designs that don't display lots of information at once.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I will point the finger at Twitter and its Tweetdeck web site on Windows 8. It's not the smoothest interface but it's decent, until you hold the tablet in portrait. Tweetdeck is almost unusable in portrait, making it no good on a tablet. It also doesn't handle snap view in Windows 8 very well either, another deal-breaker.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />I love using my Windows tablet but this lack of good Twitter operation is making it hard to head out each day with this tablet. Both the iPad and my Android tablet serve me well on daily work outings, including Twitter use, so the Windows tablet will sit at home more often until this glaring Twitter deficiency on Windows 8 is addressed by just one good app. It's a shame as I'm finding Windows 8 to work well for me in every other way.You can access Twitter using the browser but it's not as good as using apps on the iPad and Android. Tweetbot on the iPad and Plume on Android epitomize what defines good apps that makes working with Twitter a joy. And these aren't the only ones on those platforms, there are plenty others. There is a desperate need, at least for me, for an equivalent app on Windows 8.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Via: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/twitter-shortcoming-of-windows-8-7000022544/">ZDNet</a></i></div>

Twitter: Shortcoming of Windows 8

Twitter has evolved from its early days of tweets about what folks ate for breakfast, and for many of us it is now a valuable source of info...

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