You can password protect folders in Windows is easy using a bat file. Protecting your data into a locked and hidden folder in Windows for this you may using a third-party application but here you will see how password protect and hide your data without any software. There is a script for this, don’t worry [...]

Before we learn how to rename the Administrator account in Windows, let’s see what is this admin account and why we need to change the name. There is a built-in default Windows user account with the name Administrator. When we install a Windows operating system, it comes with this hidden Administrator account and due to [...]

Switching user in Windows 8.x or Windows 7 is not very big deal, we can switch users in windows by different methods but we can make it more easy by creating a shortcut. Shortcut will help us to switch users from desktop without pressing any key or going into power options. After switching to other [...]

Windows Calculator is really powerful app to calculate some useful things like dates difference, Unit conversion (angle, area, length, time, weight and more), MPG (miles per gallon), decimal / binary conversions and much more. Most of the users usually use the built-in Windows calculator for simple math calculations and don’t know that Windows calculator is [...]

In previous versions of Windows, all the version have start menu button that contains all installed and built-in programs, but in Windows 8.x when we click on Start button we can access the new Windows metro interface with big tiles interface and to view all programs then your need go one steps more. So people [...]

After upgrading to latest OS X Yosemite you many need to setup again file sharing options. We already posted file sharing guides for different version of OS X like Lion, Mavericks and now for OS X Yosmite. The process to share files from OS X Yosmite to Windows 8 is very much similar to old [...]

Windows 10 Technical Preview version is available for everyone to install and test the new exciting features. This is not a full version of Windows 10 so instead of installing clean Windows 10 you much either create Windows 10 virtual machine or dual boot it with existing Windows 8 or 7. When  you dual booth [...]

If you ever used Mac OS X then you must know about program called Time Machine that you can use to backup Mac data or schedule a Backup. In Windows 8 default backup build-in tool is File History but in previous version of Windows Vista and 7 we backup our system files using built-in tool [...]

Windows Registry is a Windows database that contains information about installed software on your computer, system hardware, every user account profile, and setting. Users can make changes by hacking the Windows registry files, but if users don’t know how Windows registry works and made any wrong changes will corrupt your software or Windows. For security [...]

An IP stands for internet protocols. IP address can be explained just like an address of a house. A house is represented by house number and its address etc. So the devices that are connected with internet are recognized by their IP (Internet Protocols) address. Assign Static IP in Windows IP address can be assigned [...]

Do you want to know how to boot into safe mode Windows 10? booting in safe mode option is a way to troubleshoot your computer and fix the problems. Using Safe Mode you put a limit on Windows applications, drivers and run it with required only settings. If your system is not booting properly and [...]

If you are using Trial version of any Microsoft Windows 8, 8.1 or 7 and Microsoft allow to use this trial version for 30-90 days depends on Windows version. If Windows trial is going to expire then you can extend or reset Windows trial period from 30 days to 360 for Windows 7 and from [...]

Do you need Windows 8, 8.1 or 7 ISO files and you don’t know where you can find and download these legitimate image files? You may download it from torrent illegally but this Windows copy may contains some harmful stuff for you computer and data, seriously. If you wanna test Windows before buying it or [...]

This quick tutorial will show how you can share files between Ubuntu and Windows 8. For the purpose of sharing different resources, Files and Printers on home or small networks, we use workgroup method. When we create network with workgroup method on Windows based PCs then its easy and we don’t need any extra thing. [...]

Do you want to run Windows 8.x on Mac? We already posted a guide how to Dual Boot Windows 8.1 and OS X Mavericks on Mac with Boot Camp and now see this guide to install and run Windows 8 on Mac using VMware Fusion. Creating Windows 8 virtual machine with VMware and then run [...]

So you love your Mac a lot but want to install Windows 8.1 on Mac along with OS X Mavericks (Macbook Pro, Air, Mac Mini or, iMac) Then you’re at the best place one could be. This guide will present to you the precise steps you need to follow to give Windows 8.1 a whirl [...]

Parents who are using Windows 8.x can easily switch towards family safety or in other words parental control, which is very much improved as compared to the controls offered previously by Windows 7. When the machine you have in your home is shared, it becomes important to impose some security controls on it and also [...]

Windows 8.1 has already become quite the favorite of many people. The large application database is making the users to install them which in turn mean that you will run of out room very quickly, right? If you’re using a Windows based tablet then too many apps will take up your space in no time. [...]

On different versions of Microsoft Windows, you can capture screenshots using print screen (prt sc) button from your computer keyboard. You can use this print screen key with the combination of another key for instance – in combination with the Alt key to capturing only the active window as a screenshot. But capturing the screenshot [...]

In previous versions of Windows, when you press print screen (prtsc) button from the keyboard, it saves the screenshot to windows clipboard, and you need to paste it in an image editing tool to save it. If you want to take multiple screenshots, then this might be the problem because you need to save the [...]

Before we go towards De-fragmentation of Hard disk on Windows 8, 7, Vista or XP, it is necessarily required to explain a little for our readers about the fragmentation concept because of what we need to defragment (defrag) hard disk on Windows computer using built-in Windows utility. See also: Reduce Windows Boot Time What is [...]

“The system administrator may need to find the startup and shutdown time for the Windows PC. If you are an administrator or just curious to see system startup and shutdown time log to troubleshoot or diagnose something on your PC, then this guide is for so continue reading. This guide is written using Windows 10 [...]

Microsoft Windows 8 boot up time is much faster then previous version of Windows. If you having problem with Windows boot duration or just curious to find the actual loading time of Windows 8.x then your can find this in Windows event viewer. To diagnose Windows performance it stores the boot up details for you, [...]

Workgroup is automatically created when you install windows 8.x and named as WORKGROUP by default. To find your workgroup name or if you want to change your workgroup name on Windows 8.x to something else then continue reading to do that. Workgroup is use to connect a group of PCs at your home or small [...]