Tech News/Tips/Tricks

T he biggest advantage of installing Windows using USB flash drive is speed : It installs Windows just about 15 minutes approximately. Moreover, traditional optical disks (DVDs) get damaged upon use and time, so there is no surety whether it will successfully install Windows on your PC or not. USB flash drive gives you great ease and guarantee! To install Windows 7 or 8 from USB flash drive, you will require: 1) A USB flash drive with 4 GB or more storage capacity. 2) Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation files. Follow these simple steps to install Windows from a USB drive: 1. Insert the USB flash drive to your computer. Copy any important data from flash drive to your PC. 2. Open Command Prompt with administrator rights- for which either you may type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter or Go to Start menu > All programs > Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. 3. Type ‘DISKPART ‘ and hit...

H ere is a list of most recommended and all-time essential software downloads for your Windows PC. Especially when you are having a fresh Windows computer, you will find this guide helpful and it will serve as a check-list to install programs. Be assured that all the links and download locations are of official publishers and are safe to download. Antivirus Avast Free Antivirus : The most popular antivirus for any Windows version. AVG Antivirus : A good alternative to Avast. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware : Will save you from malwares which your antivirus could not. System Tools and Utilities CCleaner : Automatically clean up all history and temporary files and get a fresh feel on your Windows PC. Advanced System-Care : Check your Windows computer for problems/errors and fix them automatically. WinRAR : Compress and decompress files, this program supports all types of formats. Orion File Recovery Software : Recover and undelete lost files from ...

M icrosoft has already optimized Windows 7 for speed and great performance. In fact, they’ve made Windows 7 for speed. Still, you can use some tricks to further speed up Windows 7 and get best out of it. 1. Turn off Unwanted Windows 7 Features Open “Programs and Features” from Control Panel. Click “Turn Windows features on or off ” from the left pane. Unselect all the Features that you don’t use in Windows 7 and restart the computer for the changes to take effect. There can be many feature in windows 7 that we often don’t use. Disabling these unused features in Windows 7 certainly helps in speeding up. 2. Disable the Unneeded Visual Effects Right click on “Computer” and select “Properties”. Click “Advanced System Settings” from the left pane to open”System Properties”. Select the “Advanced” tab. Then under “Performance”, click “Settings”. Choose “Custom” Options From it. Now unselect all the options and select only the last three or four options which seem useful...

Speak message trick This is the trick with notepad you can do. But remember you need Speaker or Headphone for this trick. Let’s start open a notepad file. And write this:- Dim message, sapi message=InputBox("What do you want me to say?","Speak to Me") Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice") sapi.Speak message Save this file with name “Speak.vbs” And now open it and write something in it and hit Enter. Shut Down your computer with Notepad Yes you can also shutdown your computer with the help of notepad just follow these steps. Step 1: Open notepad and write the following. @echo off msg * I am tired. shutdown -c “So, Bye Bye” –s Step 2: Save the file as shutdown.bat Step 3: Now open the file shutdown and your computer will shut down on its after showing the message in it.

Do you know how to create HD images in photoshop?If not,then you are on the right place.......... You just need HDR Efex pro and photoshop for this.  Let us begin..... Step 1: First of all,you need to download and Install HDR Efex Pro.HDR Efex pro is photoshop plugin.Once you installed the HDR Efex now come to photoshop. Open the image which you want to make in HD in photoshop. Step 2: This is the original pic on which I will be working on. Step 3: After loading an image, go to Filter>Nik software>HDR Efex pro. Step 4: After clicking on HDR Efex pro,you will see this...... Step 5: Now you can find Preset and Custom on left side.Select Preset>Preset categories>Landscape.In Landscape,choose 21 Gradual Contrasts..... Step 6: Now use the following global settings:- And then click on OK. This is the result which u will get to see. all the images in this post belongs to their respect...

M ost of the sites in this compiled list of useful websites are helpful at least one or more way, with simple web addresses you can easily remember and save your time searching on Google. Click Here to Download This List to Your Computer If the PDF file opens in your browser, click Control+S to save the file to your computer. 1. alertful.com – setup email reminders for important events. 2. aviary.com/myna – online audio editor to record and remix audio clips online. 3. bing.com/images – automatically find perfectly-sized wallpapers for mobiles. 4. bounceapp.com – capture full length screenshots of web pages. 5. boxoh.com – track the status of any shipment on Google Maps – alternative. 6. bubbl.us – create mind-maps, brainstorm ideas in the browser. 7. builtwith.com – find the technology stack of any website. 8. wobzip.org  – unzip your compressed files online. 9. copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard. 10...

Made For Speed Windows 8 is a major departure from Microsoft’s past interfaces. This is fact that Windows 8 is faster, more responsive and dramatically smoother. Applications snap open, and flipping between them is so fast. Those who have reviewed and used the operating system seem to enjoy the experience. Here are some Windows 8 tips & tricks I found useful to make it enjoyable. And if you are using Windows 8 on a touch screen device, it will be a fun experience! 1. Overview Your Entire Start Screen By Semantic Zoom If you’re using a touch screen, squeeze the Start screen with two fingers to receive a bird’s eye view of your entire screen contents. This is useful when you have a lots of apps/programs installed and want to see all the apps without scrolling the contents up and down. 2. Use Windows Hot Corners The corners on your screen provides you to different Windows features. Below, is a brief explanation of each of these corners. Bottom Left-hand corner ...