How to use PIN instead of passwords for Login in Windows 8

How to use PIN instead of passwords for Login in Windows 8 Entering your full password on a touch screen device can really become a pain in the *** , luckily for us we can link a short 4 digit PIN to our user account and log in with that instead.Note: PIN codes are nowhere near as safe as using an alphanumeric password, however, they do still have a purpose when you don’t want to enter your 15 character password on a touch screen device. Creating a PIN Press the Win + I keyboard combination to bring up the Settings Charm, then click on the...

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Use KeyRocket to become a master of keyboard shortcuts

Use KeyRocket to become a master of keyboard shortcuts Use of keyboard shortcuts can incredibly improve your productivity but it’s difficult to find all the keyboard shortcuts at one place and remember all of them at once. KeyRocket helps you to learn new shortcuts as you do your work. For example if you are working in Word and using your mouse every time when you need to make some text bold. It will notice and suggest you the keyboard shortcut for this.  It also allows you to search shortcuts. Suppose you remember a shortcut combination...

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How to Change Logon and Logoff Music in Windows 8

How to Change Logon and Logoff Music in Windows 8 Logon and Logoff music was possible to be changed  from control panel in Windows 7. However this functionality is hidden in Windows 8, but we can definitely help you to get it back in Windows 8. Follow the steps given below. Our favorite shortcut – Win + R. Type regedit and press enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/AppEvents/EventLables. Look for WindowsLogon in the left pane. Select it. Change ...

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How To Create Your Own Custom Google Search Engine

How To Create Your Own Custom Google Search Engine Creating a Custom Search Engine  To get started, head over to the Google Custom Search Engine page and click the Create a custom search engine button. You’ll need a Google account for this – the search engine will be saved with your Google account.       Enter...

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How to Enable Firefox’s Built-in PDF Reader

How to Enable Firefox’s Built-in PDF Reader Firefox 15 or higher include an all new PDF reader built into the browser–for those of you wondering, that means you can finally disable the Adobe PDF Plugin and uninstall it once and for all. Note: obviously if you need to access more advanced PDF features, you’ll still need the Adobe plugin. Here is how to go about...

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HTTP Error Codes and Their Meaning

HTTP Error Codes and Their Meaning         While surfing the net we always get some HTTP Errors. These Error codes are crucial for troubleshooting various issues. You can see these error codes in various logs. If you can interpret the correct meaning of the http error code, you can decide the places to look at for resolving this issue.       So here are they. All the error codes with their meaning. Hope this will help a lot many of you.       ...

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Installing Android SDK

Installing Android SDK In most cases, when you connect an Android device to your computer for the first time, the drivers will automatically be installed. However, the phone will most likely be detected as a mass storage device, not as an Android device. This gives it similar properties as an external hard drive, and should be fine for most users, since you will still be...

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How to Hide Partitions Without Any Software

How to Hide Partitions Without Any Software  Re-post We all use Computer and have some important data also in the form of some pictures, Videos, Audios, documents etc. We want to hide and protect our personal data. There are several freeware software which provide us facility to hide folders and drive as well. We save the data into some folders and hide them...

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Hide a file behind Image without Any Software

Hide a file behind Image without Any Software This was posted by me on 26 Feb 2010. Re-posting it as requested by readers of this blog: To hide data in an image you need winRAR. First you add file into a rar archive as Secret.rar. Now copy secret.rar file to a new folder.  Now copy any image u want and paste it in folder of rar file as anyname.jpg.  (You can use any other picture file type like .gif, .png etc) Now open MS-DOS, go to the folder that contains secret.rar file and the image file and type  "copy/b anyname.jpg...

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Password Protection for Google Chrome

Password Protect Google Chrome   Simple Startup Password is an addon for Google Chrome browser that blocks unauthorized people from using your browser. Just go to the extensions gallery of Google Chrome and install the Simple Startup Password add-on for your browser. After installing the add-on go to Settings -> Tools ->Extensions. There look for Simple Startup...

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Pin A Drive in Win 7 Taskbar

Pin A Drive in Win 7 Taskbar This is a really very useful but simple trick. Many of you might already be knowing this. Those who don’t know can read on. Follow the steps given below to pin any of your drives to taskbar.    Right click on your desktop and create a new folder. Name it as anyname.exe. Now drag and drop this folder to Taskbar. Right click on the new Taskbar icon. Right Click on the name of the folder. Select Properties. In the properties window, under the shortcut tab, change the target value with any drive you want....

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Windows Media Player 11 Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows Media Player 11 Keyboard Shortcuts Hey all you Windows Media Player users out there – looking for some keyboard shortcuts? Well, load up WMP 11, open a video and follow along, because here’s a bevvy of them to try out! Switch to full mode – CTRL+1 Switch to skin mode – CTRL+2 Switch to the first view in a media category – CTRL+7 Switch to the second view in a media category – CTRL+8 Switch to the third view in a media category – CTRL+9 Play the previous item – CTRL+B Move the focus to the search box in the library – CTRL+E ...

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Command prompt to reveal Hidden Files

Command prompt to reveal Hidden Files Some viruses leave behind nasty side effects, even when your antivirus program has cleaned the actual virus from your computer. If your desktop icons are missing and your C: drive appears blank, don’t panic — your files haven’t gone permanently AWOL. Common viruses, such as the Windows 7 Recovery virus, will hide your files in an...

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How to Zip

How to Zip Say you have many files that all need to be e-mailed, but you don’t want to add them one by one and you don’t think all of them will be within the recipient’s e-mail size limits. What do you do then ? Why zip ‘em up, of course! So....here is how to do it in a flick of a second ......... Browse to the folder where the files you want to zip are at. Now...

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Start Internet Explorer 9 in Private Mode

Start Internet Explorer 9 in Private ModeFor all you Internet Explorer 9 users out there, how would you like to learn a quick trick so that every time you start IE, it runs in Private mode right from the start ? What we’re going to do is create a desktop shortcut for IE and set a switch to make it start in InPrivate mode. So, right-click on your desktop, select New and choose...

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