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A most notable feature of Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 8 is its Start Screen with live widgets and app shortcuts in it. This user friendly, vibrant and beautiful start screen has also offers some customization options like pin tiles and then group, arrange, and name them, change tattoos and colors. Though, Windows 8 automatically adjust the number rows in the Start Menu depending on the screen resolution (up to six rows), it has no direct option to change the number of tiles in a raw.

For some reasons, sometimes, the built-in Windows Add /Remove Programs fails to uninstall installed software from a PC and left with partially uninstalled software, which may affect system performance. In such situation, you may have to depend on third-party tools like Wise Program Uninstaller. This free program lets you safely uninstall unwanted programs from your Windows PC, without affecting the system functionality.

Inspired by the Windows 8’s Modern interface and its new Start Screen, iObit has released a tool called WinMetro to bring the same feature on older versions of Windows such as Windows 7, Vista, and Windows XP. Windows 8’s new Modern UI and Start menu is more attractive, customizable and better looking than the old one.

One of the new features of Windows 8 is its Metro Boot Menu , which is completely different from the previous ones. However, if yours is a multi-boot system, say Windows 7 and Windows 8, there is an annoyance with this new Metro boot. If you select an OS other than Windows 8, it will boot only after a restart. Here is how to solve this dual reboot with a simple tool NanWick Windows 8 Switch Boot.

When you are browsing multiple videos on YouTube or opening one by one under several tabs, these videos starts playing automatically as soon as you open the video page. Unfortunately, the sound coming from each video mixed with each other and become an audio mess. YouTube and browsers have built-in options for controlling auto-play of YouTube video, but it’ll also stop video buffering, which is an annoyance especially on a slow Internet connection. Here is how to solve this issue.

The black bar that is displayed on the top of Google pages gives you easy access to the company’s most popular tools like Maps, YouTube, Gmail, etc. but there may be some tools and services that you use more than others. By rearranging them, you can quickly access your favorite tools.

As you known by all, it isn’t possible to log on to desktop straightly in Windows 8, instead it’s always log on to the Modern UI. However, if you’re a power-user, or just want to boot your system straight to the desktop, there are few third party tools like Classic Shell, Start Menu8 , etc. to skip the Start Screen, but before going to the desktop, these tools will display the Start Screen for a few seconds, which is annoying.

If hackers gain access a website, they can force it to distribute malware to visitors. Visitors’ computers could get infected with viruses, spyware, adware, keyloggers or other malware. If you’re a website owner, you might want to know whether your site compromised by malware or not. Visitors can also test a suspected site to avoid any possible infection.

Context menu that appears when you right click a file or folder in Windows is a timesaving feature. When installing some software, it’ll also add one or more items on to the right-click context menu, which results in a long list context menu with lot of stuff that you even don’t need. Unfortunately, the long list context menu may take longer time to load when right clicking on a file. The situation become even verse if it includes lot of faulty entries.

Norton Satellite is a free Windows 8 application from the security expert Symantec that lets you scan files as well as folders stored on your PC, external storage devices and Dropbox folders and Identifies virus infected files. It also scans your Facebook feeds for malicious links and ensures safer social networking.

Sending free SMS messages from Gmail chat to a contact’s mobile phone isn’t a new feature. This service is already available in many countries . Now Indian users can also send free SMS right from their Gmail chat and this service works on all Indian Mobile operators. Replies to the messages you send will appear as regular chat replies and conversations will be stored in your Chat history.

With no Start button or start menu in Windows 8, shutting down the PC involves a rather complex process. You have to launch the Charms bar on the right-hand side of the screen, choose Settings, Power and then select ‘Shut down’ or Restart option. However, there are several apps and tricks available for Windows 8 to bring shutdown or restart option at your fingertip. I have mentioned many of them in the previous posts .

Private browsing mode is an innovative feature of all modern web browsers. In Chrome, it is called Incognito mode and lets you browse privately. You can enter into Incognito mode on Chrome by just pressing CTRL + SHIFT + N keys on your keyboard or by selecting New Incognito Window from the settings menu. If you don’t know how to go Incognito mode on Chrome for Android, iOS and Chrome OS devices, read below.

As you known by all, in Windows 8 the Start Screen replaces the start button in earlier versions of Windows and is the starting point for everything you do in Windows 8. However, users who aren’t comfortable with the new start screen, there are many thirty party software tools like Classic Shell to bring the Windows 7 like start menu back to Windows 8. The latest example is StartMenu8 from iObit.