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Few months back I had published an article about Start8 , a cool application that brings missing start menu and start button to Windows 8 desktop. Its developer has updated this app by including real classic style start menu (Windows 7 style) and start button. If you still love the good old desktop feature, you might have certainly like Start8.

Microsoft’s new OS Windows 8 comes with several apps built-in and you can add many more from Windows app store. By default settings, Windows 8 allows apps to access your geographical location, which is of course helpful in the case of certain apps, for example, Maps app, but if you are one of those who concerned more about their privacy may not like this feature. Here is how to disable apps accessing your location in Windows 8.

Panda Cloud Cleaner is an advanced malware scanner and cleaning software from Panda Security that can detect any possible malware infection that traditional security solutions cannot detect. It uses Collective Intelligence (scanning in-the-cloud) technology to scan the PC. After finishing the scanning, the result will be send to the cloud server for analyzing and send back to you the analyzed report. If anything found suspicious, Panda Cloud Cleaner provides you an option to remove that from your computer.

In Windows 8, one can close a running Metro style app (aka Modern UI apps) by dragging the app from the top edge of the screen to the bottom end or by using Alt + F4 hotkeys. If you’re using mouse movement or touch "swipes" to close a running metro app, here is how to improve that with a tiny application called “Close Threshold for Metro Apps”.

Few days back, Kaspersky Labs has identified a new, highly complex malware named “Gauss”, which is a variant of recently identified Stuxnet and Flame (one of the most complex computer viruses of all time) malware that affects Windows systems. Like Flame, the attack by Gauss has also highly targeted (especially to Middle East countries); however, anyone can simply check their computer for Gauss by an online tool from Kaspersky.

Most often, we receive lot of email messages with attachments like photos, documents, PDF files and so on. In Gmail, usually a paper clip icon indicates an attachment and there is no other way to identify the attachment type without opening the mail. However, if you are a Chrome user here is a simple solution to identify attachment type without opening the mail.

Aero Glass UI that was first introduced in Windows Vista and then in Windows 7 gives a transparent window experience to users, but now Microsoft has decided to take out Aero UI from its new Os Windows 8 (you can read more about it here ). However, if you still fond of Aero Glass UI in Windows 8, there is a little trick to enable it in Windows 8.

Tiny Windows Borders is a little utility designed for Windows 8 to adjust the size (width) of the window border. Personally, I don’t have any issue with the default 3px window border in Windows 8, but if the 3px windows boarder disturbs you, you can disable it or set any border size from 1 to 10px with this utility.

Recently Microsoft has re-branded its Hotmail service as Outlook.com with an intention to provide users a more “user friendly” and “enriched” web mail experience. Microsoft encourage all Hotmail users to shift to the new outlook mail, however, most Hotmail users yet to accept this change, it is probably because many are still unaware of the change or lack of information about it.

If you are browsing a lengthy webpage with lot of content and need to find a particular word or information or reference that has buried somewhere within the page, you can use your browser’s Find bar to find it. All browsers have Find bar and can be enabled with a shortcut key Ctrl + F (Windows). In Firefox browser, you won’t even need to use the Find bar to search text in a web page.

There are several tools and methods to protect a computer from unauthorized access under a working environment. I had mentioned many of them in previous posts. Here is another simple to use, but very efficient tool called Secure My Screen that secures your computer and ensures that nobody else can use it whilst you are away. Read below to know how to set up and use Secure My Screen on your system.