Syncing files and folders between multiple desktops, mobile and tablet devices is an absolute pain. Thanks to file sync services such as Dropbox, Microsoft Live Skydrive and Google Drive, I can automatically backup and sync files, music, documents and folders between two computers. I use a laptop that runs on Windows 8 while lately I

Some good news for Windows users who use Google Chrome as their default browser and always wondered whether there is a way to save Windows battery life by tweaking the Google Chrome settings to consume less power. The answer is a clear yes and the best part is that you don’t have to be a

I have been using Windows 8 since Microsoft released their Consumer Preview and lately, switched to Release Preview of this new operating system with its signature and the most debatable Metro Start Screen. Common concept is that Windows 8 Metro Start Screen is ideally suited for touch screen devices and not so enjoyable with keyboard and

Unlike Windows 7, Windows 8 takes more time to log you in and if your Windows 8 user account is protected by a local password or through your Windows live password, the procedure is 3 step. First, you are shown the Windows 8 lock screen, then the Windows 8 login screen and after you have keyed in

Hit the Shutdown button couple of minutes back and still waiting for your laptop to go dead completely? Nagged watching a rotating cursor? This is more acute when you are about to close a hectic business day to your bed and Windows shutdown is taking extra bit of space of your life, every single day. Thankfully, there are ways

There are different ways to find large files and folders on your system . The easiest way to do is install a file scanning application on your system and scan all the hard drives for large files and folders. Once you have scanned the entire hard drive and system partitions for unnecessary files or duplicate

Whenever you connect a USB drive, a camera, an external SD card reader, a monitor or any other external hardware device, Windows scans the device and the information of the device is stored in the system registry. This is mainly because of two reasons. First, Windows keeps a record of earlier devices that was connected

What is the first thought that comes to you when you see Windows 8 Metro Start screen? Just a cool user interface, loaded with tiles of apps and programs you use frequently? There’s a little more to it. Personally, Windows 8 metro start screen is really amazing with its graphical intelligence. Still there are some

Onlive, a service to play games over the cloud, now brings the Windows platform on your Android or iOS tablets. If you are on a vacation or just out of the office and need to send your boss a quick sales report for the last quarter, what would you do? True, there are lots of Android and iOS apps you can do that. However, you are going to miss the nice multi-functional Windows desktop at your office. Well no more. Here is a quick review of what and what not you can do with the new Onlive Desktop for tablets.

Toaster Notifications in Windows 8 are cool, you get app updates live on your Metro start screen, desktop and elsewhere but at the same time, these notifications can be really distracting. Consider a scenario when you are watching a YouTube video or composing a blog post and the Windows 8 messaging app pops up an

Not many users know that both Windows Vista and Windows 7 has a very useful “Previous versions” feature, which can be used to automatically backup files or folders on a scheduled interval and it is also possible to restore the backed up files to an earlier version using Windows built in backup/restore wizard. These earlier

Windows 8 has no classic start menu and thus, there is no easy way to shutdown or restart your computer the classical way. Of course there is a keyboard shortcut for that but novice users often do not remember these shortcuts and want easy ways to turn off the computer or restart it, using only their

It has been more than a week since Microsoft released a consumer preview of the latest version of its Windows operating system, codenamed Windows 8. As of the time of writing this article, more than 1 Million people have downloaded the public beta of Windows 8, which kinds of proves how popular Windows continues to

Do you want to fix slow booting time of Windows? Check out Soluto – a free program which optimizes system performance by removing programs, processes, services and applications, responsible for slow Windows performance. You can provide remote system assistance to any computer via your online Soluto dashboard and fix application crashes.

Managing large folders which contain thousands of different files in not an easy job. If you are a regular web worker and have to deal with email attachments, press reports, software downloads and other important files on a daily basis, you know how difficult it is to manage different file types kept in a single