Unfortunately Windows now does not include the nice collection of sound schemes featured on Windows 7. Here is what you can do to add more. First of all, you need to have available in your PC the sounds of the Windows 7 schemes, or any other sounds you may like. Then you must enter into […]
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Windows 8.1 adds an option in the context menu of files and folders to pin them to the Start screen. If you find this annoying, accidentally adding all the time several items to Start, then having to ‘unpin’ them, there is an easy way to remove from the context menu the “pin to start” option. […]
Windows won’t make it easy for you to add manually programs to a startup folder. If you have, for example, a portable utility, a program that comes without a setup engine, relying on you to make it run automatically when you logon, then you won’t get much help from the Windows system. It is easy […]
Just finished transferring Windows to a Solid State Drive (SSD) using a disk image instead of re-installing everything, I thought others might find useful some information on that, and avoid mistakes that I made. Let me just say how great this change was, programs run so much faster now on the SSD, even InDesign, that […]
Sometimes Windows Explorer won’t receive some of the most common keyboard commands — no matter if you press the TAB button to change locations or select some folder, the arrows, escape… none of these works. In such cases most probably the focus is on the Ribbon (File) menu. This means that to have your keyboard […]
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Aero Peek keyboard shortcut
Aero Peek is a convenient way to see your desktop immediately, without having to minimize anything and lose the arrangements of your workspace. Aero Peek is not disabled on Windows after 7, it has only changed shortcut. The Win+Spacebar keyboard shortcut will now change language, while Aero Peek is activated by Win+Comma Enjoy!
This is a feature common in Windows so far. If you changed language working in some application, this change was limited to that particular application. You could simultaneously write an email in English, edit a Word document in French and fill a web form in Greek. Switching between the three applications would not require manual […]
Windows 10 builds upon the quality of 8, coming from Windows 7, one of the most successful versions ever, yet not everyone will be pleased with all the changes. I don’t like the removal of sidebar gadgets. I prefer to be cautious and enjoy, rather than imprisoned to whatever Microsoft decides. Gadgetarian is a free […]