Hi! Friends, In windows XP, Vista and 7 we have changed default windows alert sounds from the Control Panel, but in Windows 8 Microsoft no more allowed to to customize different alert sounds from the Control Panel. They remove your ability to customize a few of them in Windows 8, but if you want to change the sounds for logon, logoff, and shutdown.…
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The Start screen of Windows 8 is better than what it is reputed to be—only when it is somewhat customized. To improve the Start screen, ensure that all of your frequently used apps are accessible without having to scroll horizontally on the Start screen. Remove any unused tiles from the screen by right-clicking on them and selecting ‘Remove from the…
Six tips for protecting your email privacy Sending an email message is certainly more private than posting on a social networking site, but email has its own dangers. Here are six tips to help you communicate without risking your privacy. Use a strong password you give out your email address all the time, it’s not really private information. That being…
How do you access all Yahoo! services, Directly? Well, you can access most of these services from links located somewhere on Yahoo!’s homepage—if you can find the right link. If you can’t find a link to a particular service on the home page, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Even More Yahoo! link. This takes you to a page that lists every…
Although Windows 8 doesn’t allow you to boot straight to the classic desktop, this can be done with a trick. You have to go through the new tiled interface and automate the change to the desktop using a script. Open any folder in Windows Explorer for this purpose, right click with the mouse button on a free space to the right and select the context command “New | Text document”. Then…
You tend to leave your computer alone during tasks that take a lot of time, and often the system continues to run even after completing the tasks. However, you can shutdown your PC after a specified time using the command “shutdown.exe”. Click on “Start | All programs | Accessories | Command Prompt” with the right button of the mouse and start the command line with “Run as administrator”. Then select an account with administrator rights…
Would you like to display a message before the desktop appears every time you boot? Set a greeting message on windows 7 that appears before the desktop, You can do this in almost no time with a small change in the registry. Click on “Start” and enter the term “regedit” under “Search programs/files”. Windows presents the search result directly in the Start menu. Under “Programs”, click on “regedit.exe”…