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How to change Clock format in Windows 7 / Windows 8

by Sandeep on October 31, 2012

In Windows 7 or Windows 8 by default Time is displayed in 24 hours format. I personally don’t prefer this and I get confused sometimes. So, I just thought of sharing the info.

How to change Clock format in Windows 7 / Windows 8 to 12 hours

1. Click on Clock > Change date and time settings.
2. Click on Change Date and Time.
3. Click on Change Calendar settings and navigate to Time tab.
4. Under Time formats, Select hh:mm tt or h:mm tt. Here ‘h’ (small h) means 12 hour whereas ‘H’ (capital H) is for 24 hours and ‘tt’ stands for AM/PM.
5. Select your desired Time format and click OK.

You can also change the Clock format by using this alternative method:
1. Click Start > Control Panel > Region and Language.
2. In the Formats window, Under Date and time formats Select Your short time and long time formats same as above (hh:mm tt or h:mm tt)
3. Click OK.

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How to show Hidden Folders and Files in Windows XP & Windows 7

by Sandeep on April 4, 2012

This is a tiny tip article which explains you how to show hidden folders and files in Windows XP. Windows keeps important files and folders in hidden state to avoid them from being deleted. So if you are a newbie you might want to know about these things.

How to show Hidden Folders and Files in Windows XP and Windows 7

The process is same for Windows XP and Windows 7, but Appearance and Themes are named as Appearance and Personalization in Windows 7.

#1. Click on START > Control Panel.
#2. In Control Panel click on Appearance and Themes.
#3. In Appearance and Themes window, Click on View tab.
#4. Under View Tab scroll to Hidden Files and Folders.
#5. Click on Show hidden folders and files.
#6. You are done.

Additional Tip: You can also view Protected Operating System files by unchecking Hide protected operating system files and by clicking Yes, but it is recommended to hide those files.

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7 Best Windows Alternative Operating systems

by Siddartha on March 31, 2012

Some of the best Windows Alternative OS which are generally under-rated or over-rated. With windows 8 to roll-out in few weeks, you  must feel that I’m crazy to write about Windows Alternative OS, at this instinct. Windows is one of the well known operating system from the house of Microsoft that has been dominating the operating system market for a while now, as this operating system has features that many competing operating systems lack but still few people around the world criticize it for few aspects like security, malware attacks, and few more.

windows alternativeThe operating system was launched way back in 1985 and it has tasted success ever since with Windows 95 and after every new edition that are launched at regular intervals like Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 7, excluding few other failures like Windows Me, Windows Vista. Currently Microsoft has launched operating systems for SmartPhones and getting ready to occupy the Mobile Market as well. In this post, we are going to check out 7 best Windows Alternative OS that can satisfy your requirements to a certain extent.

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The current market share of Windows OS is expected to be holding around 86%, followed by Mac OS which holds over 7.5% market share and balance is shared between Linux, Blackberry and other Operating Systems. So, in this post we are going to focus on few of the best Operating Systems that holds the balance 14% share in the market.

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7 Best Windows Alternative Operating Systems

#1. Ubuntu operating system

ubuntuThe Ubuntu operating system is a simple, snazzy and easy to use operating system which is considered as one of the best Windows Alternative OS. It is preferred by many across the globe including businessmen and students. This software is preferred for personal computers but there is a server version that also exists. The software is available for download, free of cost. The software is similar to the UNIX and it is one of the best Linux Operating System that is based on Debian Linux Distribution and this software can be freely distributed and personalize the software for your benefit.

#2. Mac OS

mac-osx-leopardThis is one of the best operating systems that can replace the Windows OS and it is known to be one of the most advanced operating systems that are presently available. It is a graphical user interface based operating software that is known to be so slick and smooth that the operating system can be easily mastered. It is estimated that, soon the ratio between Windows and Mac OS might be leading to tough competition. Compiled with the Apple hardware components the Mac OS will provide you with the best operating system experience which makes it one of the best Windows Alternative Operating System in the market. It is a proprietary based Operating System like Windows, and it is mostly compatible with Apple’s devices only, of course there are few techniques that allows us to get Mac OS onto our normal PC.

#3. JNode

This operating system is a great freeware Windows Alternative operating systems that are available currently. This operating system code has been written in Java and the operating system is in its virgin stage as it is in the 0.2.8 version. The operating system has a simple and easy to use interface. With the time to come there will be other features that will be added in the form of video customization, lower memory consumption etc. <Try JNode>

#4. AROS

The AROS closely resembles Amiga, just that it has many more features and it does not have the memory problem that Amiga was infested with. AROS, which is the abbreviated form of the Amiga Research Operating System is extremely fast and the memory protection issues has also been resolved. It is one of the oldest OS existing since 1997 and it is slightly capable OS to be considered as best Windows Alternative OS. The user interface of the AROS is the same as Amiga and it is a great operating system for laptops and desktops. <Try AROS>

#5. KolibriOS

This operating system is known to be the fastest graphic user interface that is presently available. This user interface of the operating system is smooth and fast and you will be able to enjoy different games and other utilities with the help of this operating system. The USP of this operating system is that it is extremely compact and the entire operating system just takes 4.9 MB of the memory. <Try KolibriOS>

#6. DexOS

In case you are fed up with the way the Windows operating system looks then you need to use the DexOS. The operating system has a user interface that is closer to that of a console’s operating system. The operating system basically has two aspects, that is, one aspects is really swank and resembles the launcher of a video game and the other is the normal operating system that can be used for daily purposes. <Try DexOS>

#7. Open BSD

This operating system focuses more on the security of the system than its appearance and this is a good thing as the software cannot be easily cracked by hackers as it does not run the programs in case it detects any loopholes in them. The OpenBSD has its main feature as the space layout randomization. It is considered as underdog, but still it manages to be one of the best Windows Alternative OS. <Try OpenBSD>

These are the 5 best Windows alternative operating systems that are available in the market. The operating systems are very different from each other and even though they are relatively new, these operating systems have already created a name for themselves and they are loaded with features and they have been giving stringent competition to the Windows operating system ever since they have been launched. Hope, you’ve enjoyed our article on 7 Best Windows Alternative Operating Systems, do let us know about your favorite OS, if you think we missed it in our list.

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Download and Play Angry Birds Game on PC [Windows and Mac]

by Siddartha on January 8, 2012

In this post, we are going to deal with how to Play Angry Birds Game on PC. Angry Birds is one of the most famous SmartPhone games of all time as they initially launched this game for Android Devices and later considering the unbelievable fame for the game they launched it for iOS and other devices as well. Later, they launched it for Windows PC and also released an Online version to this game. Angry Birds game is still going crazy, as they recently released the Angry Birds game for Chrome. You can Play Angry Birds Game on PC or Laptop or Netbooks, which were loaded with Intel AppUp center.

Currently Angry Birds is available for both Windows and Mac allowing us to Play Angry Birds Game on PC with Windows XP/7 and Macintosh. If you want to Play Angry Birds Game on PC, you don’t need any kind of special requirements for your system like Graphics Card or High End processors. Minimal system requirements are more than enough to play this portable game. You’ll be having over 195 levels in this game and all these levels are filled with full of emotions and anger.

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The Premium Customers of Angry Birds Rio game can enjoy the life time updates freely and you can play angry birds game on pc pretty happily. The concept of angry birds is really filled up with emotions and sentiment as this game runs around the birds and pigs. The Angry Birds game is all about Birds fighting for their babies with wicked and cruel pigs. You will be having Red Birds, Yellow Birds, Black Birds (My fav), Blue Birds, White Birds and few more birs fighting with green pigs. You just need to break the castles in which pigs stay by throwing the birds. Its a complete strategic game with over 20,00,000 Downloads till date.

System Requirements to Play Angry Birds Game on PC

You can play Angry Birds Game on PC that is loaded with either Windows XP / Vista /7 and the Minimum of 512 MB of RAM is required. In order to install the game, we need to make sure that 45.2 MB minimum Hard Disk space is required. With other requirements like 3D GPU compatible with Direct X9.0c are the prerequisites. These are the basic PC specifications for over 99% of computers existing in the world currently, so almost all Windows and Mac users can play it and Angry Birds Addicts will definitely enjoy the revolutionary game on their bigger screens.

So, what are you waiting for? Just Download and Play Angry Birds Game on your PC

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Shortcut Key to Run as Administrator in Windows 7

by Sandeep on November 15, 2011

This is a tiny tip, which describes how to open any program in Windows 7 with Administrator Privileges. In Windows 7 you need Administrator Privileges to execute or run some programs.

For Instance, take DiskPart. You need to Run Command Prompt with Administrator Privileges in order to execute Diskpart command. So the common method to do this is to:

1. Click on Start > Type Command or CMD.
2. Right click on it and “Run as Administrator”.

You can do this with a Keyboard shortcut, That is:

1. Click on Start > Type Command or CMD.
2. Instead of right clicking with the mouse, Press the combination of Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open the Program with Administrator Privileges.
3. Alternatively by holding Ctrl + Shift you can also click on the Program to open it with Administrator Privileges.

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How to Speed up your Computer Slowing Down with Prefetch Trick

by Sandeep on August 3, 2011

In our previous post we dealt with Reasons for Computer Slowing Down Over Time and in this post we are going to check out how to speed-up our computer slowing down by using a simple Prefetch trick. Generally Computer Slowing Down is a common problem that many computer geeks face. The performance of the computer or any electronic device degrades as time passes and also accordingly their latest updates hit the market. People run around these updated elements and try to get new one of upgrade the existing piece. What might be the reason, regardless with the latest technology or other elements every one will experience the computer slowing down over time.

Is your Computer Slowing down?

There are many reasons for computer slowing down, which might be because of Malware attack or improper uninstalled files, presence of duplicate files, Heating up, and many more. Some times, the computer slowing down might occur because of presence of Temporary files which can be deleted with our simple prefetch technique.  The trick we are discussing here is very handy in Windows XP. So, What is Prefetch? When you have used a program, that program will be stored in memory, If you use that program again It will start more quickly.

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How to Speed up your Computer Slowing Down?

#1. Click on Start > Run.
#2. Type: “prefetch“. Ofcourse without the quotes.
#3. Prefetch folder will open now.
#4. Then Press CTRL + A and Delete them.
#5. You are done. Do this frequently..

If you have any queries, Please post them in the comments section below. Thus in this way we can speed up the computer slowing down by using the simple Prefetch Techniques.

Hope you enjoyed reading article on Speed up Computer Slowing Down

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How to Add a Remote Printer to your Computer

by Sandeep on July 28, 2011

Problem:If you have 2 Computers and only one Printer what will you do to Print a document from a computer to which Printer is not connected?

For Example: If you want to print an important document and you are on your Laptop which doesn’t have a printer connection, What will you do? Attach the USB Cable of the Printer to Laptop and search for the drivers CD?

Solution: If your Home is connected with a Wired or Wireless Network, You can do things more easily. Actually very easily. You can print documents from Remote computer which is in your Network.

How to Add a Remote Printer

#0. Switch on the Computer to which Printer is connected.
#1. Click on Start then on Control Panel.

#2. In Control Panel you can see, Hardware and Sound click on it then on Add a Printer.
#3. Click on Add a Network, Wireless or a Bluetooth Printer.
Add Printer
#4. If your Printer is shared then, you’ll see it immediately.

#5. Click Next, Printer will be added to your Computer. If you can’t find the Printer you are searching for, Jump to How to Add a Printer that isn’t listed.

Alternatively:
#1. Click on Start and then on Run (Windows + R).
#2. Type the IP Address of the Print Server.
Add Printer from TCP/IP
#3. If there is a password set to the Computer, the you’ll be prompted to enter the password.
#4. After entering the Password, You can see the all the Directories and Devices shared by the Computer.
#5. Double Click on the Printer icon, Then the Printer Drivers will be installed on your Computer.
Add Printer from TCP/IP

How to Add a Printer that isn’t listed

#1. Follow the same procedure upto step #3.
#2. Now click on The Printer I want isn’t listed.
Printer I want isn't listed

#3. Then choose Select a shared Printer by name and click Browse.
Add Printer by Name

#4. You’ll see the name of the Computer to which Printer is connected then select that computer name and enter Password if prompted.
Browse Printer From List
#5. You are done!

How to Share a Printer

#1. Just go to the Print Server (The Computer to which Printer is connected).
#2. Click on Start and type, Share Printer.
#3. Then you’ll be asked to what things to be shared.
#4. Then put a check to Printers.
#5. You are done.

How to Print a Document using Remote Printer

#0. Switch on the Print Server and the Printer.
#1. After editing the document, Click on Print.
#2. Select the Remote Printer from the List.
#3. Click on Print.
#4. You are done.
How to Print Document using Remote Printer

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How to install Windows Vista or Windows 7 using a USB Flash/Pen Drive

by Sandeep on July 9, 2011

Skill: Advanced
Estimated Time to Complete: 30 Minutes
System Requirements: 1GHz x86 or x64 Processor, 1GB RAM & 16GB(x86) or 20GB(x64) Free HDD Space

In this tutorial we are going to describe how to install Windows 7 on your Laptop, Desktop or a Netbook using a USB Flash Drive or a Flash Drive. Some Laptops are not equipped with CD / DVD drives. But all the Laptops are equipped with Two or more USB Ports. In case of a system crash how can you format it? The easiest way to format it is using a USB Flash Drive. Installing Operating System from a USB Flash Drive not only works with Laptops and Netbooks but you can also install OS on your Desktop. I have experienced that Windows is installed faster with a Flash Drive than a DVD.

So How to Install Windows 7 using a USB Flash Drive?

To install Windows 7 using a USB Flash Drive, the minimum space required for a Flash Drive is 4 GB. Windows 7 Installation files size is around 1.5GB to 2GB. We recommend you to have Windows 7 Original Version.

In order to install Windows 7 using a Flash Drive you first need to make it a Bootable device. Making it Bootable means loading the Boot Loader files into the Flash Drive. In order to work like a normal OS CD / DVD. You need to perform this task using Command Prompt with Administrator Privileges. Below is a step by step tutorial, follow it carefully. Make sure you don’t skip any of the step in order to perform the task perfectly.

So lets get started
#0. Plugin the USB Flash Drive.

#1. To run Command Prompt with Administrator Privileges, Click on Start, Type “cmd” and Right click on it and Click on Run as Administrator or Type cmd and then hit CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER.

#2. After opening the Command Prompt, type DISKPART.
What is DISKPART: Diskpart is a command used to manage all the partitions connected to the Computer internally and externally.

#3. After entering DISKPART, now you need to type LIST DISK.
What is LIST DISK: List disk is a command that shows all the connected internal and external Storage drives with their capacities. If you are using a USB Pendrive of 4GB capacity then it will be shown as 3800 (1024*4) MB approx.

#4. After the List of Drives are shown, you can have a better idea of which is a Flash Drive. Now you should Select the Drive using SELECT DISK command. In this tutorial our Flash Drive is allocated with the number 1, so we are typing SELECT DISK 2. We’ll be using DISK 2 in the whole tutorial.

#5. After selecting the Disk, type CLEAN.
What does CLEAN do: CLEAN command erases all the data from the Flash Drive. Its just like formatting the Flash Drive.
Formatting Flash Drive to make it Bootable

#6. After completing the CLEAN task, you should now type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY.
What is CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY: Create Partition Primary is which makes DISK 2 partition as Primary.

#7. Now type, SELECT PARTITION and then ACTIVE which marks the DISK 2 partition as active.

#8. Now you should change the Pendrive to NTFS(New Technology File System) format, using the command FORMAT FS=NTFS. That means you are formatting the File System to NTFS format. This may take more than 5 minutes to complete.

#9. After completing the Formatting process, Insert the ORIGINAL WINDOWS 7 DVD into the Disk Drive and go to My Computer to find out the Drive Letter of the Windows 7 DVD.

#10. Our DVD Drive is mapped with the letter F and USB Flash Drive is G. Now type EXIT to quit from the DISKPART Utility, don’t close the Command Prompt.

#11. We are almost done, Now in Command Prompt type the letter of the DVD drive which contains the WINDOWS 7 DVD. (Ex: F:)

#12. After Entering the F drive type CD BOOT and then after entering the BOOT folder type BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 G: .

Exit from the Command Prompt now.

#13. Now Copy all the files from Windows 7 DVD to your USB Flash Drive. You are done!

#14. Now to format your Computer, Just restart your computer and then enter the BIOS and change the BOOT order. Select USB Mass Storage as the First Booting Device.

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How to show Run in Windows 7 Start Menu

by Sandeep on July 9, 2011

Difficulty: Moderate
Estimated Time to Complete: Less than 5 Minutes

Got used to Windows XP interface? No problem Windows 7 can be customized. In Windows XP you can see Run in the Start Menu, But in Windows 7 you can’t see it. But you can display Run in Start Menu. Here is a simple tutorial on how to Show or Display Run in Windows 7 Start Menu.

How to Show/Display Run in Windows 7 Start Menu

#1. Right Click on Start Menu then click on Properties.
#2. Click on Start Menu tab.
#3. Scroll Down till you see Run Command.
#4. Just put a Check to Run Command and Click OK and apply changes.
#5. Now Click on Start Menu, you can see RUN.

See the below screenshot:
Show Run in Windows 7 Start Menu

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How to Add Secondary Hard Drive

by Sandeep on July 5, 2011

Skill: Advanced
Estimated Time to Complete: 40 – 50 Minutes

In this DIY tutorial, we are going to describe the process involved in Adding a Secondary Hard Disk and Formatting it. A secondary hard drive refers to addition of a Hard Disk to a computer. When you connect a secondary hard disk, it is detected by the computer in BIOS as well as the Operating System. But it is not listed in the My Computer. So it needs to be formatted.

Secondary Hard Disk

So, Firstly How to add a Secondary Hard Disk in your CPU:
Things you:
A Hard Disk, SATA Power Connector, SATA Data Cable and a few Star Screws. Watch the video below carefully.
Caution: Hard Disks are very Sensitive, Handle them with great care.

How do I know that the Hard Disk is Connected?
#1. Power On the Computer and when you see the startup screen, Keep on tapping the F2 key or DEL (may vary for older computers), Just tap the key which is used to Enter computer BIOS.
#2. After entering into the BIOS,
#3. Go to BOOT Tab. In the BOOT Tab you can see Hard Disk(s), Just press enter.
#4. If you see two Hard Disks listed then you have done everything correctly.
#5. If No, Watch the above video carefully and perform the task again.

How to Format and Use the Secondary Hard Disk?
#1. After you login to Windows, Click on Start.
#2. Just type, “Disk Management”. Of course without quotes.
#3. Disk Management Window will open, Then you can see Disk 0 and Disk 1.
#4. Select the newly added Drive and right click on it and Click Format [WITH EXTREME CAUTION, Select the Newly added one not the Boot Partition].
#5. Your Secondary Hard Disk is ready for use now.

If you have any doubts, Just post them in the comments section.

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