Top 10 Windows 8 Tips and Tricks You Must Know.

Hello Friends,

Knowing at least some of the Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts helps make your Windows 8 experience much more enjoyable. Try to memorize these top Windows 8 shortcut keys.

Press the Windows key + C to open the Charms.

Press the Windows key + . to pin and unpin Windows apps on the side of the screen.

Press the Windows key + X to open the power user menu, which gives you access to many of the features most power users would want (e.g. Device Manager and Command Prompt).

Press the Windows key + C to open the Charms.

Press the Windows key + I to open the Settings, which is the same Settings found in Charms.

Press and hold the Windows key + Tab to show open apps.

Press the Windows key + Print screen to create a screen shot, which is automatically saved into your My Pictures folder.(One Of My faviourite)

Press the Windows key to open the Start screen or switch to the Desktop (if open).

Press the Windows key + D opens the Windows Desktop.

Zoom in tight

 

The Start Screen is full of nice, big, chunky tiles that represent all your apps. The tiles are easy to see in small groups, but what if you have hundreds of apps installed? Most will be hidden from view, unless you want to do a lot of scrolling. Enter the new semantic zoom feature. If you’re using a touch display, squeeze the Start screen with two fingers to receive a bird’s eye view of your entire screen contents. And the feature is also available to mouse and keyboard users: Simply hold down the Ctrl button, and use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

Know your hot corners

The corners on your screen are hot corners and give you access to different Windows features. Below, is a brief explanation of each of these corners.

Bottom Left-hand corner

The bottom left-hand hot corner of the screen allows you to access the Start screen, if you're in the Start screen and have the Desktop open, this corner opens the Desktop from the Start screen.

Tip: Right-clicking in the left hand corner opens the power user menu.

Top-left corner of the screen

Moving the mouse to the top-left corner and then down displays all the apps running on the computer. Clicking and dragging any of these apps to the left or right-hand side of the screen will snap that app to that side of the screen. Each of these open app icons can also be right-clicked to close or snap.

Right-hand side of the screen

On the full right-hand side of the screen will be given access to the Windows Charms.

Taking advantage of search

 

The Search in Windows 8 has been significantly improved when compared to all previous versions of Windows. To search for a file or run a program in Windows 8 from the Start screen just start typing what you're trying to find or want to run.

Bonus tip: The Search is also found through Charms and can also be opened by pressing Windows key + F. 

Taking advantage of Charms

The Windows Charms is a new feature that was introduced with Windows 8 that gives you access to Search, Share, Start, Devices, and Settings. This menu appears when you move you mouse on the right-hand side of the screen or press the Windows key + C on the keyboard. The black bar along the right-hand side of the picture below is an example of what the Windows Charms looks like when open.

 

Description of each of the Windows 8 Charms

 

Search (shortcut: Windows key + F) - Find and open any program or file.

Share (shortcut: Windows key + H) - Share and send links, photos, and more to your friends and social networks in the app currently open.

Start (shortcut: Windows key) - Open the Windows 8 Start Menu.

Devices (shortcut: Windows key + K) - List available devices, for example a second screen.

Settings (shortcut: Windows key + I) - View Start Settings, view settings such as battery monitor,
volume, brightness, notifications, and the power (to shutdown computer). In Settings you'll also find More PC Settings at the bottom of the menu, which gives you all available settings that can be adjusted.

Use a picture password to log into your computer

Windows 8 includes a new feature called Picture password, which allows you to authenticate with the computer using a series of gestures that include circles, straight lines, and taps. Enable this feature if you want a new way to access your computer or have a hard time with passwords.

Open the Windows Charms.

Click Settings and then More PC settings

In the PC settings window click Users and then select Create a picture password

Bonus tip: A four digit pin password can also be created and used to access your computer.


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Microsoft All Windows Shortcut Keys

General Windows keyboard shortcuts

Alt + Tab

Switch between open applications in all versions of Windows. Reverse the direction by pressing Alt + Shift + Tab at the same time.

Ctrl + Tab

Switches between program groups, tabs, or document windows in applications that support this feature. Reverse the direction by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Tab at the same time.

Alt + double-click

Display the properties of the object you double-click on in Windows 95 and later. For example, doing this on a file would display its properties.

Alt + Print Screen

Create a screen shot only for the active program window in all versions of Windows. For example, if you opened the calculator and did this only the calculator window would be created as a screen shot. If just the Print Screen key is pressed the whole screen will be made into a screen shot.

Ctrl + Alt + Del

Open the Windows option screen for locking computer, switching user, Task Manager, etc. in later versions of Windows. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del multiple times will reboot the computer.

Ctrl + Shift + Esc

Immediately bring up the Windows Task Manager in Windows 2000 and later.

Ctrl + Esc

Open the Windows Start menu in most versions of Windows. In Windows 8 this opens the Start screen and in Windows 3.x this would bring up the Task Manager.

Alt + Esc

Switch between open applications on Taskbar in Windows 95 and later.

Alt + Space bar

Drops down the window control menu for the currently open Windows program in Windows 95 and later.

Alt + Enter

Opens properties window of selected icon or program in Windows 95 and later.

Shift + Del

Will delete any file or other object without throwing it into the Recycle Bin in Windows 95 and later.

Hold down the Shift key

When putting in an audio CD or other CD that uses Autoplay, holding down the Shift key will prevent that CD from playing.

Windows 8 only

WINKEY + ,

Peek at the Windows Desktop.

WINKEY + .

Snap a Windows App to the sides of the screen. Pressing it multiple times will switch between the right and left-hand side of the screen or unsnap the app.

WINKEY + Enter

Open Windows Narrator

WINKEY + C

Open the Charms.

WINKEY + G

Cycle through Desktop gadgets.

WINKEY + H

Open Share in Charms.

WINKEY + I

Open the Settings in Charms.

WINKEY + J

Switch between snapped apps.

WINKEY + K

Open Devices in Charms.

WINKEY + O

Lock the screen orientation.

WINKEY + X

Open the power user menu, which gives you access to many of the features most power users would want to use such as Device Manager, Control Panel, Event Viewer, Command Prompt, and much more.  

Windows function key shortcuts

Below is a listing of keyboard shortcuts that use the keyboard function keys. See our what are F1 through F12 keys page for a full listing of what function keys do with all other programs.

F1

Activates help for current open application. If you're at the Windows Desktop, this will activate the help for Windows.

F2

Renames a highlighted icon, file, or folder in all versions of Windows.

F3

Starts find or search when at the Windows Desktop in all versions of Windows.

F4

In Windows 95 and later this opens the drive selection or address bar when browsing files in Windows Explorer.

    Pressing Alt + F4 closes the current open program window without a prompt in all versions of Windows.

    Pressing Ctrl + F4 closes the open window within the current active window in Microsoft Windows. This only works in programs that support multiple windows or tabs in the same program window.

F6

While in Windows Explorer, this will move the cursor to different Windows Explorer pane or in Windows 7 browse available drives.

F8

Pressing F8 over and over as the computer is booting will start the computer in Safe Mode.

F10

Activates the File menu bar in all versions of Windows.

    Simulates a right-click on selected item. This is useful if right-click is difficult or impossible using the mouse.

Windows keyboard key shortcuts

Below is a listing of Windows keys that can be used on computers running a Microsoft Windows 95 or later and using a keyboard with a Windows key. In the below list of shortcuts, the Windows key is represented by "WINKEY" and because not all these shortcuts will work in all versions of Windows we've mentioned what versions of Windows support each Windows key shortcut key.

All versions of Windows

WINKEY

Pressing the Windows key alone opens or hides the Windows Start menu. In Windows 8, this opens or hides the Start screen.

WINKEY + F1

Open the Microsoft Windows help and support center.

WINKEY + Pause / Break key

Open the System Properties window.

WINKEY + D

Opens the Desktop to the top of all other windows.

WINKEY + E

Open Microsoft Windows Explorer.

WINKEY + F

Display the Windows Search or Find feature.

WINKEY + Ctrl + F
Display the search for computers window.

WINKEY + L

Lock the computer and switch users if needed (Windows XP and above only).

WINKEY + M

Minimizes all windows.

WINKEY + Shift + M

Undo the minimize done by WINKEY + M and WINKEY + D.

WINKEY + R

Open the run window.

WINKEY + U

Open Utility Manager or the Ease of Access Center.

Windows XP only
Windows 7 and 8 only
Windows 8 only

Windows XP only

WINKEY + Tab

Cycle through open programs through the Taskbar.

Windows 7 and 8 only

WINKEY + 1-0

Pressing the Windows key and any of the top row number keys from 1 to 0 opens the program corresponding to the number of icon on the Taskbar. For example, if the first icon on the Taskbar was Internet Explorer pressing WINKEY + 1 would open that program or switch to it if already open.

WINKEY + (Plus (+) or Minus (-))

Open Windows Magnifier and zoom in with the plus symbol (+) and zoom out with the minus symbol (-).

    Press the WINKEY + ESC to close the Magnifier

WINKEY + Home

Minimize all windows except the active window.

WINKEY + P

Change between the monitor and projection display types or how second screen displays computer screen.

WINKEY + T

Set the focus on the Taskbar icons

WINKEY + Left arrow

Shrinks the window to 1/2 screen on the left side for side by side viewing.

WINKEY + Right arrow

Shrinks the window to 1/2 screen on the right side for side by side viewing.

WINKEY + Up arrow

When in the side by side viewing mode, this shortcut takes the screen back to full size.

WINKEY + Down arrow

Minimizes the screen.  Also, when in the side by side viewing mode, this shortcut takes the screen back to a minimized size.

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4 Windows Command Prompt Tricks You Probably Don’t Know

Hello Everyone,Today in this post I wanna give you some information that is totally based on command prompt.So Let's start,

(1)Open Command Prompt From a Folder

 

 

 

 

Have you ever opened the command prompt by endless cd commands trying to get to a folder ? If the answer is yes then I want to tell you that  you can actually save a lot of time by opening a command prompt within a folder from Explorer. For that you have to do is hold shift key while right-clicking on a folder and the option will appear like Open command window here.So simple click that option.

(2)Command History

You most likely have been pressing the up key to get to your previous commands, but it is very irritating when you are trying to find some particular command.For that  you can view your past command is to use the doskey command.

 doskey /history

 

 

 

 

 

(3)Drag and Drop Files to Change the Current Path

Another neat trick if you are not a fan of opening a command prompt from the context menu is the ability to drag and drop folders onto the prompt and have it automatically enter the path of the folder. You’ll need to type the CD command and then drag the folder over to actually change the path.

 

 

 

 

 

(4)Run Multiple Commands In One Go:

Our final trick of the day is one that many command line geeks may already know, the ability to run multiple command at once by linking them with double ampersands. You can do this with any commands and you can link up as many as you want: 

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How to convert any wikipedia Articles into PDF or E-BOOK without any software?

<sup>Hello Friends,As we all know wikipedia is the biggest online Encyclopedia.Many time we found some usefull artical on wikipedia and if we want it for future use then we use some software to save that artical into our pc or we save that page in our pc.

But friends today I am gonna tell you one amazing trick with it you can directly convert that type artical into PDF or E-BOOK.So Be ready...</sup> 

 
"SUPPOSE YOU SEARCH COMPUTER ON WIKIPEDIA AND YOU WANT THIS ARTICLE AS PDF FORM THEN FOLLOW THESE STEP."

1. Open Wikipedia article that you wanted to download as a PDF or Create Ebook.
2. Now click on Print/export option [ See above picture].
3. If you want to export single page then click on Download as PDF.
4. To export multiple number of articles or wiki web pages Click on Create a book.
5. After Clicking on Create a book option, then click on Start book creator browse wiki articles to select wiki article click on Add this page to your book , After adding wiki articles click on Show book and download it as PDF , Word processor , EPUB & OpenZim Formats.

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Pipl : A Search Engine That Find People And Their Information.

As we all know,Now a days Facebook and Google plus is one of the most popular people search engine, but they are not always perfect.Just think what happen, If some one(whom you want to find) has no account in this type of social networking site.So these type of social networking sites are limited to  social-network only.So, Today I will talk about one such search engine, which is totally dedicated for finding people.

So,What is Pipl?

Basically,Pipl is a popular  people search engine which produce data from social media networking services, search engines and other databases based on the user’s search.

It include data from every popular social networking service like Facebook ,Google plus, Instagrame, Twitter, LinkedIn or MySpace. 

Pipl search results are more better and reliable than many search engine result, in the case of people search.

It was launched in 2007 and has been very popular because of it's uniqueness for people search.  The distinct and advanced features of Pipl are the main reason for its popularity. 

How does Pipl works?

Basically, Pipl browser use your social networking site account to find your profile.So if you suppose enter "Nikhil Godhani" then it first of all find all Nikhil from different type of social network like Facebook, Google plus,LinkedIn,Twitter etc.And it gives all the result of various account.So here I give you image after finding my name on Pipl. 

So,above image gives information of my Facebook account and my Google plus account.

Hope this information will help you.
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Why every PHP developer must know about HHVM word?

An Introduction to HHVM

"The full form of HHVM is HipHop Virtual Machine. It converts PHP(Hypertext preprocessor) code into a bytecode (known as an intermediate language) and after that  bytecode is  translated into machine code dynamically at runtime by a JIT(just-in-time ) compiler."

Now you have basically two question in your mind.What is byte code and what is JIT compiler?

So let's clear your doubts,
Bytecode: Is a nothing but  non human readable code designed for efficient execution by an interpreter or compiler.

JIT (Just In Time) compiler: It is a technique used to improve performance of software, this is achieved by compiling bytecode during execution, the byte code is store in memory after this  the JIT compiler loads and compiles as many sections of the byte code as needed.

Where it is used?

I want to tell my readers that In early 2008 Facebook began working on HipHop(now HPHP).For next 2 years Facebook continued working on HipHop adding HPHPi ( it is  'developer mode' version of HPHP) and HipHop debugger known as HPHPd.

Benefit of HHVM:

According to me,

(1)Main goal of HipHop is to provide a high level of compatibility for PHP code. It was originally open-sourced in early 2010.

(2)One of the strongest  features in HHVM is its support for a wide range of databases.
there are many other benefit of HHVM but I mentioned only two of this.

(3)HHVM is tightly compatible with all types of server.So I think it is very useful for every type of designer.

(4)HHVM executes all type of PHP scripts very fast and effective manner.

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How to use keyboard as a mouse?

Hi friends...Yesterday  I got one superb trick on internet while surfing net and I want to share this trick with my readers.This is a seldom used Windows XP feature. This type of knowledge can definitely help you out if you are ever in a situation where the mouse is inoperable...

Follow this simple step....

On your Keyboard Press the following Keys at the same time:

 SHIFT+ALT+NUM LOCK




Now there is one dialog box is pop up .You have to simply  Click Ok.




To move your  cursor simply tap on the arrows in the numeric keypad (if you want to move cursor faster .then simply hold down any key).

8 is up,
2 is down,
4 is left, 
6 is right

But Now You will  notice that the cursor moves very slow, so for that I do is, when I open Mousekeys, Simply go into the Settings and adjust the speed all the way up. You can find it in the control panel.
 



Here is what you need to know to navigate with Mousekeys:

• To move up, tap or hold down the 8 key on your numeric keypad
• To move down, tap or hold down the 2 key on your numeric keypad
• To move right, tap or hold down the 6 key on your numeric keypad
• To move left, tap or hold down the 4 key on your numeric keypad
• To Click on something, Hit the 5 key on your numeric keypad
• To double-click, press the plus sign (+) on your numeric keypad
• To right-click, press the minus sign (-) on your numeric keypad
• To drag something, move the cursor to the item you want to drag then press the Insert key. Then to release the item hit the Delete key.

I think you would have found this post very useful.

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