At Last the day has come, After 12 years, Microsoft is finally ending all support and updates for Windows XP. “ Microsoft has provided support for Windows XP for the past 12 years. But now the time has come for us, along with our hardware and software partners, to invest our resources toward supporting more recent technologies so that we can continue to deliver great new experiences. ”...
By default, windows does not provide any option to turn off your computer’s monitor from the desktop. Well of course its a easy task to turn off any monitor, but what about those who have a multi monitor setup? Although turning off multi monitors isn’t a time consuming task, but who doesn’t want to perform simple tasks quickly and the easy way? For those who want to turn off their...
Want to type messages using your voice on windows? yes you can do that easily and without the need of any third party tool. Starting with windows vista, all later windows operating systems come with a built in speech recognition tool. The tool can be usually accessed under programs > accessories > Ease of access folder in the start menu.Primarily, the voice recognition tool on windows is...
Want to password protect your files and folders on windows? Here’s how you can do this. We all have private and confidential files on our computers that we want to keep safe from others. In today’s age, when our computer and cell phones are all connected to the internet, there’s no guarantee that cyber criminals can’t access your computer. Even if they do compromise your computer or...
For those who have a slow internet connection, downloading files from the internet can take upto hours of time. Not everyone of us has the time and patience to stand by our PC and wait for the downloads to finish and then shut down our PC. So if you need to get those downloads finished as soon as possible, you will have to keep your PC turned on and leave for work. While you are at work, even if...
With the arrival of fast internet connections, CD’s and DVD’s have become a thing of the past and today when it comes to storing backups, we not mostly depend upon cloud storage and portable storage media such as pen drives and portable hard disks. Honestly, I don’t even remember the last time when I used the DVD drive on my computer. Since I have a High speed internet connection at my...
When it comes to copying files, Windows is not as efficient as any of the other third party file copying tools available on the internet for free. Most windows users will definitely agree with me and if you want to speed up the file copying process you need to make use of third party files copying / transferring tools. Continue reading to know more about one of the best files copying tools...
Admit it, if you have been a longtime windows users, you would have definitely developed a dislike for the default startup sound on windows. Unlike all other system sounds that can be changed from the windows sound theme settings, the startup sound is the only exception which cannot be changed on windows with the default settings provided. So how would you change the windows startup sound? Well...
At the beginning of this year, Google finally added the long awaited data compression feature to Chrome for iOS and Android. This has been a standard feature in Opera mini for years and with the feature now built into Chrome for mobile, definitely I expect Chrome to be zippier than Opera mini. For those who are not aware of what this feature is meant for, The Google data compression feature will...
Whenever you browse a website or watch a video on a web browser, The browser always downloads the data to its Cache memory first and then it displays it on the browser. So basically if you are watching a youtube video and then you decide to download it to your computer, you don’t have to download it over again. What you can do is, you can open your browsers cache location and copy the video...
