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There is no denying that a solid-state drive (SSD) can provide one of the most dramatic performance boosts to a PC. Also, moving from a hard drive (HDD) to an SSD is a straightforward procedure, however, after installing an SSD in a desktop PC you have to adjust your system to the SSD to increase its lifetime and performance.

Dell is giving away a free e-book titled “Windows 8 for Dummies” in PDF format that you can download from Dell website for free. This 138 pages eBook helps new Windows 8 users (as well as any others) to get useful information about Microsoft’s new, reimagined operating system Windows 8.

Device driver leftovers can cause instability, startup and other problems to your computer. So, all old device drivers and linked registry entries thoroughly removed from your PC, especially if you have recently upgraded your hardware and installed new drivers. Unfortunately, removing old and unnecessary device drivers from a PC isn’t an easy job.

Find out if there is malware and security flaw on your pc with 60-Second Virus Scanner from security company Bitdefender. A computer that access the internet can be infected by various types of malware, simply by visiting website using an old web browser with security flaws and poor security software or by being tricked into downloading malware or opening email attachments.

Just like Windows or Mac OS, Mobile OS like Android and iOS as well as apps running on it will create temporary files. Of course, these temporary files are useful for faster performance of your OS and apps, but over time, these files add up, occupy a significant amount of your storage space, and slows down overall performance of the device. On iPhone or iPad cleaning temporary files isn’t an easy job, but PhoneClean makes it extremely simple.

Usually it is easy to customize the Start Screen background, Lock Screen background and Account picture in Windows 8. However, for some reasons, sometimes you cannot change either the Lock Screen Background image or the account picture in Windows 8. Recently I came across such a situation and after a few research, I found it was due to a missing registry key. The registry key can be deleted by third-party apps or by yourself. Here is how to fix that issue.

Windows 8 desktop has no Start Button to access start menu, as we all know. Because Windows 8 is designed with touch in mind, Microsoft introduced a new touch-friendly Start Screen in Windows 8, from where users can quickly access the content they need the most on their computer. However, many people still longing for a classic start menu to Windows 8.

 Few days back, Google implemented a refresh layout to YouTube aiming to fine-tune the service with other Google properties. Now, YouTube’s homepage look a lot like Google+. However, one annoyance that I come across with this new layout is lot of white space on the right of my wide screen monitor. Here is how to fix this annoyance.

Locking your screen prevents other people from accessing your computer while you are away from it. In Windows, usually people use Win + L key combination to lock the PC while leaving their PC. However, in Windows 8, you don’t even need to use the Win + L key to lock the PC. After a certain period of inactivity, the PC will be locked out automatically, just like a smartphone.

Advanced Mobile Care is a new app from IObit, which is designed to enhance performance and security issues of Android devices. This free Android app features a game speeder, battery saver, app manager, task killer, privacy locker and malware removal tool. Advanced Mobile Care has a sleek and easy to use interface. You can remove malware, clean memory, cache and junk files to increase Android's processing speed with a single touch.

A most common complaint about Windows 8 is that you have to go through the new “Modern interface” or “Start Screen” to get to the desktop. If you are a power user or aren’t a fan of Windows apps and just want to boot your Windows 8 straight to the desktop, here is a simple solution. StartOnDesktop is a tiny utility that does exactly what its name suggests.

As you known by all, the Windows 8 has no traditional start menu and start button. However, users who can’t use Windows without the Start button, there are several alternatives from third parties and I had mentioned several of them in previous posts . Classic Start 8 is a new tool, which adds a traditional style start button to the Windows 8 desktop taskbar.

Windows Store made for the Windows 8’s "Modern" UI apps (Metro apps) is getting bigger and bigger each day with new apps, however, unlike other similar app stores, for example, Play Store for Android, Windows Store has no option for browsing apps with a browser; you need Windows 8 to use the Store. But, now you can browse Store apps with your browser using services like MetroStore Scanner and Great Windows Apps portal.

Toast notification (pop up notification) that appears in the upper-right corner of your Windows 8’s screen is a new Windows feature that allow Modern UI apps (Metro apps) to communicate with the user whether the user is in another app, on the Start screen, or on the desktop. By default, the time duration of a toast notification is 5 second after which it disappeared from the screen.

Microsoft has made several changes to Windows 8 to make it more user-friendly OS. A very simple example is silent deletion of files and folders. When deleting things from Windows 8, it won’t ask you any confirmation; it deletes silently and send to Recycle Bin. But the problem is, if you accidentally hit the delete key, the file might be sent to the Recycle Bin and you need to search through the Recycle Bin to restore the file.