Everything at once – Customize your Windows 8 Start Screen

Rebecca Nanda — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 05:30:30 +0000

When Lenka broke into a groovy number during the commercial breaks singing “Everything at Once” in the Windows 8 advertisement, it caught everybody’s eyes. Tech junkies rushed to the store to get their hands on a new system with Windows 8, while the others were satisfied to simply upgrade their...

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How to Theme your Windows 8 Desktop and 30 beautiful themes to download

David Peter — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:42:02 +0000

Windows 8 design is awesome, I agree. But are you not bored of seeing the same design every time? I’m sure at least few would have wished to beautify their desktop with different themes. Well, installing a new theme is not straightforward as you will have to modify the system...

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Retro Life: How to live again? Windows how to (Tutorial)

Shiva Subramanian — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:42:18 +0000

Have you ever wondered or wanted to play your old classics on a new PC running latest operating system? I am talking about that, all the way. Not from Windows Xp or Vista, but from 95 onwards. If yes, you can do this on Windows Vista, 7, 8 as well...

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What is Browser Hijacking and How to protect yourself from it?

Laura Jones — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 05:58:53 +0000

Are you a victim of browser hijacking? May be you are. Browser Hijacking are becoming serious threat to internet users. To name, the recent issue of popular Google Chrome extensions turning Adwares. Today, we are going to see about Browser Hijacking and how you can protect yourself from it –...

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Apps can’t stalk you anymore – Stop Location sharing in Windows 8 PC

Amirtha — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 05:42:51 +0000

Each time I use an application on my Windows 8 PC, the question that haunts me the most.. ‘How do they find me?’ Yes, how do they find me? How do they know where I live and exactly the point where my PC is? Although this is convenient in certain...

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Moving files between Windows 7 PC and Windows 8 PC

Amirtha — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 05:17:29 +0000

Have you installed Windows 8 on a PC recently? Surely, you need to get those files of yours from your Windows 7 PC. Because I recently was clueless as to how to approach this. I found a pretty straightforward procedure where you need both your machines to be connected on...

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Miss the Hibernate option in Power Menu of Windows 8/8.1? Here is how to bring it back!

Mahalakshmi Kabilan — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 07:32:18 +0000

Windows 8.1 is great by many ways! And I really like the File Explorer feature. But there is one simple feature I found to be not present as default in here. Guess what?! The Hibernate option in the power menu. Most of the time, I use this feature instead of shutting-down or locking...

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Windows 8 and 8.1 apps that flaunt Metro Design

Amirtha — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 02:05:41 +0000

If you are using Windows 8 or 8.1, it’s a sin to not know what Metro is. In any case, I will tell you that Metro is the codename of a design language by Microsoft. The key principle is that the language makes a transfer of spotlight from stuffy design to the content aspect....

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Manage Your Partitions Professionally with AOMEI Partition Assistant

Laura Jones — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 08:38:59 +0000

Partition Assistant Standard Edition is the free version of this excellent partition management utility. Although being a free tool, this partition manager can be used to create new partitions or to delete or modify existing ones. It supports all the major partition formats, including FAT, FAT32, and NTFS. It supports...

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Download Windows 8 or 8.1 and create a Bootable USB/DVD disk

Mahalakshmi Kabilan — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 06:48:54 +0000

For so many days, we have always downloaded the Windows iso and then used some software to convert it into a bootable disk. Now, Microsoft has fixed this problem and it allows you to create a bootable USB/DVD with much ease. Before proceeding to download Windows 8.x, remember to have...

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