Win + X menu can give you quick access to important tools and functions of the Operating System. This functionality was introduced in Windows 8. Snap Plus brings this menu to Windows 7. We have already wrote about the Quick Admin menu introduced in Windows 8. The Quick Admin menu or Win + X menu […]
Windows 8 is quite innovative in the sense that it integrates touch based gestures systems inside the same Operating System which was more popularly known for Desktop computing. With the new integration, Microsoft also introduces a new Metro styled interface. When the new interface, Microsoft has introduced a lot of new keyboard shortcuts and touch […]
Windows 8 is different from Windows 7 in many aspects. The Graphical User Interface of Windows 8 is optimized for tablets and smartphone devices. If you are used to using keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 or earlier Operating Systems, you will need to learn some new keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8. These shortcuts make it […]
The Windows 7 and earlier versions of Windows had the same hirarchy of power options. All the power buttons were located in the same menu. But this is not the case with Windows 8. Windows 8 makes it harder to shutdown and restart although it will seem easy when we are running Windows 8 on […]
Windows 8 Consumer Preview features the new Metro interface which has been designed to work with tablets and smartphones as well as desktops and laptops. The problem with the Metro interface is that the users who are used to the old Windows interface will have to learn about the Metro interface before starting using it […]
Windows Hosts file is a simple text file (without any file extension) which contains mappings of IP addresses and their respective host names. This is the basic task of a DNS server which is served by Windows Hosts file in Windows. Windows Hosts file can be edited manually to add any custom tweaks to any […]