Top High Quality HD Wallpapers For Windows 8

After the success of Windows 7, Now its Windows 8's turn to rock the party. Not sure whether to go to windows 8 or not? Check out Windows 8 System Requirements. We have already shared number of posts for the wallpapers for windows 7 and majority of those posts are among the most popular list. In this column today we will show you the top high quality HD wallpapers for windows 8 so that you can decorate your desktop with these covers and give them extra charm and attractiveness.

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Download Windows 8 Transformation Pack for Windows Vista - Free!

All those Windows Vista users who are interested in experiencing all new Windows 8 and does not want to download and install its Consumer Preview, we have good news here, Windows X team has made a transformation pack for your current Windows Vista.

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Top 20+ Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts and Hotkeys

Its now the turn of windows 8 to rule the world. After the success of Windows 7 every one is waiting to taste Windows 8. Windows 8 preview is available for download and the official version will be released late this year. You want to use Windows 8?
Check out: Windows 8 system requirements and Top High Quality Windows 8 wallpapers
Well in this columns we will discuss the keyboard shortcuts and hot keys in windows 8 to help us do our work more easily, more efficiently and quickly. Life is impossible without shortcuts. Tell me do you always copy, past, undo and delete with old conventional method of right clicking or you just use the shortcuts? I don't know about you but Most of the people out there use shortcuts :) So lets see what are these shortcut keys and how they help us do our work more quickly.

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Here Is The Blue Screen of Death Fix For You

Have you ever got this problem? What problem? The blue screen problem. The one with the blue screen and all the hard to understand text in white. You don't know what to do? Its pretty hard to solve Microsoft is facing this problem since Windows 98 and now its Windows 8's turn, they have controlled it to a much extent but they haven't got rid of it completely. Do you want to see how it looks like?

That is how it looks like, most of Windows users have experienced it but don't know how to fix it. Well we will discuss some steps to prevent it but cant guarantee you that you will get rid of it forever.

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Microsoft Launches OutLook.com - A New Email Experience

Hotmail is one of the oldest email service provider and it was also one of the most popular email service provider before Gmail. Users are moving towards Gmail like crazy because of tons and tons of Gmail tricks we can do while using Gmail. To stay in the competition its a good move from Microsoft. After Microsoft Office 2013 its Outlook.com. For now Microsoft is running Hotmail and outlook.com together. Microsoft Outlook 2013 also came with some new exciting.

Read: The New Features In Microsoft Office 2013

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Windows 8 Gets 6 New Features - You'll Love Them A Lot!

This all new Windows 8 is packed with a bundle of exciting, attractive, and impressive new features to compete successfully in the market of OS which is not so easy. Windows 8 is coming after a huge success of Windows 7. Windows 8 is expected to be released in October this year. However, Microsoft has announced 6 New Features in Pre-Beta Version of Windows 8. Currently Microsoft has released the developer and consumer preview of Windows 8 but we still have to wait for the final release of Windows 8.

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Windows 8 vs Windows 7 - Features and Performance Evaluation!

The topic "Windows 8 vs Windows 7" is so vast and will end by the date, when Microsoft will launch the full version of Windows 8. However, we can still debate and compare the two versions and have an idea of which one is better. Windows 8 is expected to be released sometime in mid-late 2012. Yet, people who can't wait and want to taste the features of this version, can download pre-beta version of Windows 8.

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Windows 8 vs Windows 7 - System Requirements

If you have bought a PC with Windows 7 on it and you are interested to upgrade that system to Windows 8 and you are feared that you won’t be able to do this than there is good news for you. According to Microsoft, the system requirements of Windows 8 will remain same as those of Windows 7 and even can be lower. So all the systems that are capable of running Windows 7 will be able to run Windows 8 when it is released. 
However, lets take a look at Windows 7’s system requirements:
1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1GB RAM (32-bit) / 2GB RAM (64-bit)
16GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) 1.0 or higher driver


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Windows 8 vs Windows 7 - Boot Performance & Comparison

Windows 8 is featured with a new start up mechanism in which it combines cold boot with resuming from hibernate, and therefore delivers very high start up speed and extensively reduces the time to reach Metro-ready or desktop-ready. On most of the tested systems, as by Microsoft, this star-up mechanism gives 30-70% more start-up speed.

So it can easily be said that whatever the device a user is using, if its capable of running Windows 7 than its boot performance will be increased by using Windows 8.

Here is a screenshot which shows the boot performance comparison of Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Windows 8 vs Windows 7 - Overall Performance:
An overall performance comparison of Windows 7 and Windows 8 Consumer Preview shows that when both the windows are ran using a same system, Windows 8 shows faster start-up, shows a way better performance while browsing the web than Windows 7. Therefore Windows 8 is found to be a lot faster than Windows 7.

PC World Magazine has performed several performance tests for the comparison of Windows 8 consumer preview and Windows 7 in their labs. The results can be shown in following images.

This is to be kept in mind that these tests results are for Windows 8 consumer preview and Windows 8 is not been actually released yet and it is under-development. So still there is a hope of further advancements and improvements. Cheers :) 

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The New Features of "Microsoft Office 2013"

Customer preview of Microsoft office 2013 is available. The official Microsoft office 2013 will be released later in 2012. Microsoft office is the second biggest reason of microsoft's success. The first is its Operating systems. As far as Operating system is concerned Microsoft windows 8 is to be released soon. After MS office 2010 it is the turn of MS office 2013 to rule the market. Lets discuss what are the new features of MS office 2013 so that we can all decide whether to use 2013 version or stay with our old 2010 or 2007 version.

Check out: Windows 8 System requirements

Why Microsoft Office 2013 is Special?

Microsoft Office 2013 is so special because the Microsoft team is clever enough to guess the keys of success for Apple and Google and follow them, yes its true. Apple and Google provide the facility of cloud storage. Microsoft guessed it and implemented it in Microsoft office 2013.

See alse: What is Google drive? Get Free invites.

Now you can save your word documents, powerpoint presentations and excel spreadsheets online and you can easily access them from any where in the world. Isn't that awesome?

Microsoft Word 2013 New Features

Microsoft word is the most used software among other softwares in the office package. People are loving the word since it was released. Almost all documents you see are formed and edited using this word processor. The thing which makes Microsoft Word 2013 so special are as follows:

The fullscreen mode:
Are you disturbed by the task bar and notifications while reading the document? Don't worry they wont be visible now while using the new version.

Cloud Services:
Save your documents and access them from School, Office or anywhere. No need to carry an extra hardware like usb or cd to transfer your documents.

Edit Pdf Files:
You can now edit your pdf files using Office 2013. No need to buy an extra software llike pdf editors

Read Also: Save webpages as pdf files

Video Feature:
I bet you won't believe this can happen, Now you can embed videos in your word documents. Yes make your documents more informative and attractive and more presentable by embedding videos.

User interface:
The user interface of Office 2013 is almost the same as the previous version to make it easier for users to use.

Read mode:
The read mode is now available. If just want to read any document use the read mode. Its faster and it doesnot show all the features just the reading options.

Microsoft Excel 2013 New Features

The best spreadsheet software. It is use in almost all schools and industries where we need a spread sheet to process data. We can make graphs to represent our data. In excel formulas are used to make our work easier and faster. Lets see what is new in Excel 2013.

Quick Analysis Lens:
This feature enhance the look of the graphs and make it more attractive and good to read.

Auto Completion:
Like Google search bar, Excel 2013 has the feature of auto-completion. It guess the word you are typing and gives you option to auto complete it. Resulting in less typing. Indeed a time saving feature.

Online features:
Excel 2013 comes with a mail merge facility making it easier to mail the spreadsheets. You can save and present your spread sheets using Sky drive,

Enhanced Features:
Excel 2013 comes up with Graph and table's enhanced features. More advance tools and graphs for data representation.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 New Features

I have been using PowerPoint since I was a kid. Making presentations are really easy using this software. There are very little changes to PowerPoint 2013, Lets see what are these changes.

Slideshow Transitions:
More transitions are added to make the presentations more presentabel.

Read Mode:
Use read mode to present your presentations to avoid the risk of editing by mistake.

Other Features:
Save, send and retrieve your presentations with cloud services, adding images and videos is made easier and quicker. Widescreen feature is added to make the presentations more attractive and enhanced.

Microsoft Outlook 2013 New Features

Microsoft Outlook is one of the most widely used email client today. Although there are complains about the hard to understand interface of the software. Microsoft fixed that too the new features of outlook includes.

The New Interface:
The new interface of Microsoft outlook is clean and easy to understand and configure. Indeed a very user friendly interface.

Calendar:
Microsoft took the calendar serious this time and the calendar functionality is improved.

Synchronization:
The Synchroniztion is made easy. You can synchronize the client with Hotmail, Gmail, Google App account and etc.

So these were the new features offered in the new version of Microsoft office 2013. Hope you liked them.

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How to Add a Partition in Windows 7 After Installation?

When you have extra space in your default hard drive C: and want to save applications, programs, photos, movies, etc in separate hard drive, so you can definitely create and add a new hard drive partition in Windows 7 without formatting your previous data. The thing which is most important when creating a new partition is that you have enough free space to do so. There are some key benefits of creating extra partition in Windows 7, lets have a look over them first.

Benefits of Creating an Extra Partition:

There are many benefits of creating new and separate partition, some of them are as follows:

1. You have a separate volume and disk, where you can save a copy of your original data.
2. You can hide partitions in windows 7 due to security and safety issues. So, make partition and hide them as per your need.
3. If your computer might receive virus attack, usually at the beginning the attack remains restricted to one drive. So, you can safely transfer your data and important information without having harm on them.
4. Sometimes, backups of your important information and work are not available conveniently so storing and keeping a backup copy of your data in a separate partition on Windows 7 can save your time.

How to Add a Partition in Windows 7:

Windows Vista and 7, both allow you to increase number of partitions without formatting your entire data. Disk Management Tool in Windows 7 enables you to manage hard drives and volumes in computer system. There is how you can repartition after installation in Windows 7 :

STEP 1:
Click over "Start" button and type "Create and format hard disk partition" in the field. Then hit "Enter" to proceed further.

STEP 2:

As I have told you before that the most important thing when doing this action is that you have enough free space in order to create a new one.
Now, here right click over "volume C:" and select shrink volume then.
It will take few seconds as system checks the availability of lending space for new partition.

STEP 3:

After querying process it allows you to enter the amount in megabytes you want to borrow to create a new partition.

Now click over the button "Shrink" to proceed further.

Tips:
* One gigabyte is equal to 1024 megabyte.
* You should enter 1500-2000 lesser megabyte amount than the available space just to be on safe side.

STEP 4:
After the process completed a new unallocated volume can be seen there. Now, allocate the shrink space to it by turning it to simple volume.

Right click over it and then click for "New Simple Volume".

STEP 5:
Now you will receive a welcome notification by New Volume Wizard.
Click "Next" here to proceed further.

STEP 6:

In this step, you will be asked to enter the size of new volume you want to create.
After, entering the size or remaining it with the default size click over "Next" to take further step towards creating a new partition.

STEP 7:
Assign a letter for the new drive and then click over "Next".

STEP 8:
Now you will be asked whether you want to format the new volume. It is good to start your work on new partition after a format. 

Click once again "Next".

STEP 9:

You will be having a final look at your settings before your launch format for the new volume. Click "Finish" to end up with the process.

This is not actually included in steps but as we're moving step by step that is why I included here to mention this also that when you click over "Finish" you may get a warning notification about Dynamic Disk(s). If you're not using dual booting you can simply ignore this by going for "Yes". But if you have installed more than one operating system, you might loose that benefit here.

STEP 10:
Now enjoy the newly created partition in Windows 7 and store your personal data in extra partition in Windows 7.

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How to Add The Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows 7?

Microsoft Corporation released Windows 7 with tremendous features and it allows directly to put shortcut icons in place of Quick Launch Toolbar. However, Windows 7 has hidden quick launch toolbar in Windows 7 by default.

Quick Launch Toolbar Missing!!

Most of us are not fully aware with hidden features in Windows 7, for that they might think that Windows 7 has eliminated several features, but the reality differs from their opinion. Actually, Windows 7 has greatly modified features. Therefore, people who want to add the quick launch toolbar in Windows 7, can definitely do it.

Add Quick Launch in Windows 7:

Adding Quick Launch to Windows 7 is not difficult, but when you're doing this you must know the proper way to do so. Here is the way how you can add quick launch to Windows 7 over taskbar.

STEP 1:
Right Click on the Taskbar, under the menu of Toolbar, click over "New Toolbar".

STEP 2:
Now to add quick launch to Windows 7, you should paste the following link.

%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

STEP 3:
Make sure before clicking over "Select Folder", that when you're done with pasting step that your screen should look like as you can see in the next screen shot.

STEP 4:
Now click over "Select Folder"

STEP 5:
You can see that Quick Launch Toolbar on Taskbar appears.

How to Move Quick Launch Toolbar:

When you're done with this, you can see that it is all on right side. Moving Quick Launch Toolbar is some what tricky. Before this, you have to unlock the taskbar.

And then , you have to click over dotted lines and then drag it to the left side.

You can also unpin programs listed in the super bar by right clicking over the icons and then selecting "unpin this program from taskbar".

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How to Enable Windows 7 Auto Login Feature in 6 Steps?

Microsoft Corporation provides you to Enable Auto Login in Windows 7 if you own your computer and don't have any secrecy or security issue. Basically this feature allows you to save your time and enables you to enjoy quick log in to Windows 7 without entering username and password. Microsoft came up with its brilliant features in Windows 7 and help users in different aspects.

Core Reasons to Enable Windows 7 Auto Login Feature:

1. There are several reasons that might force or cause users to set automatic login in windows 7, they may be:
2. You are really fed up by entering user name and password and want quick and easy login.
3. You are the solely user and don't have any security and safety issue.
4. You are Facebook addicted and want quick login to Facebook account every time when you start your computer.
5. You really hate filling user name and password at very beginning and want to get rid of this botheration.
6. You want to set automatic login in Windows 7 because you like quick computers only and don't want to waste a single second with slow PC.

How to Enable Auto Login in Windows 7:

You can definitely stop Windows 7 to ask user name and password at the beginning and can set auto login in Windows 7 by following below steps:

STEP 1:
Click over the "Star" menu button and type "netplwiz" in the field and hit "Enter" to explore for modifying settings.

STEP 2:
Now in user tab, uncheck the option users must enter a username and password to use this computer.

STEP 3:
Now click over "Apply" to save settings.

STEP 4:
Now when the new windows of automatically log on appears enter the user name for which you want to set automatic login and type password in the next two field.

STEP 5:
Click over "OK" to save your action.

STEP 6:
Now you can have a quick access with automatic logon to Windows 7.

Tip: "Sometimes setting automatic log on in Windows 7 might cause serious loss as unauthorized person can seek your personal information and data".

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Latest Windows 7 Shortcut Keys

Shortcut Keys are always appreciated when doing a work or task on computer. Microsoft enables users to use shortcut keys in Windows 7 like in Windows XP and Vista. These keys are actually associated or assigned duty by OS to perform task with quick and speedy dial. There are hundreds of benefits of using shortcut keys. Before we move towards the topic, lets have a quick look at the key benefits of shortcuts.

Benefits of-Windows 7 Shortcuts:

• The most important and chief pros are:
• They help users to save time, when they are with hectic work.
• They enable people to launch and perform many actions without moving their hand on mouse.
• They enable user to manage lock, shutdown, restart, hibernate, sleep, log off, etc their computer in much easy way.
• With them user can save 20-30% time required to complete the task.
• Users who are learnt shortcut keys by their heart and mind are considered professional and expert & are much appreciated among friends, family, coworkers, etc.

Why Shortcuts Keys are Important in Windows 7:

The importance of shortcut keys in Windows 7 can be evaluated and best defined by telling plenty of benefits plus as Windows 7 is an advanced product by Microsoft so in order to operate well, users must need to much about it. Therefore when you're go through them, you might know some hidden quick actions you can perform in blink of an eye. So the significant of shortcut keys come along with the nature of your work, if your work is too lengthy and frantic you must need such keys in order to get free early.

List of Shortcut Keys for Windows 7:

Ctrl+Shift+N to Create a New Folder:

Creating new folder in Windows 7 is not a typical task, you can create as many folders as you want with this great shortcut key. Simply hold the buttons Ctrl + Shift + N , New Folder will appear at current open window.

Win+Right/Left/Up/Down to Move Active Window:

Now in Windows 7 you could easily move your active/current window to have space for other apps.
Hold Win+ Right/Left/Up/Down Arrow Keys on your keyboard to move active window.

Win+T to handle Taskbar Items:

Now in Windows 7, you could easily get taskbar items without moving your mouse. Press Win+ T and handle taskbar items.

Win+L to Quickly Lock Your Computer:

Locking computer system was not as easy before this shortcut key.

Ctrl+Shift+Click to access a program as an administrator:

If you really want to make changes in app or program installed on your computer system, now don't bother to use mouse and lengthy way. Press Ctrl+Shift+Click over the icon of program for which you want to make changes and have it.

Win+Space get a look at your Desktop Quickly:

You're working on your programs, etc & want to look at your desktop gadgets or background, press Win+Space, it will quickly minimize your work & active windows.

Win+B to Handle & Focus on System Tray:

Are you looking for the shortcut to handle computer system tray, here it is; now with Win+B you could easily manage your work with lesser efforts.

Win+P to Connect Laptop to Projector:

This shortcut key gives you the easiest way how to connect laptop to projector in most feasible style. Press Win+P and get your projector connected with your system.

Win+Pause Enables you to Check System Properties:

Windows 7 allows you to check system properties without using mouse & using conventional style. Press Win+Pause key and simply get access there.

Ctrl+Shift+Esc Opens Windows Task Manager:

Now in Windows 7, you could manage your Windows Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc.

Win+X to Open Windows Mobility Center:

In Windows 7, you could easily approach to Windows Mobility Center, where you can manage Brightness, Volume, Battery Timing, Network Connection, Synchronization, etc. Just Press Win+X & get access to Windows Mobility Center.

Win+R to open Run Windows:

This makes your task and search easy. Just Press Win+R and type or paste the URL.

Win+U to open Ease of Access Center:

Windows 7 allows a special feature, from where you can customize your computer. Press Win+U and modify system to make it easier to be used.

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