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How to activate Windows 10 using a Batch File CMD Method

Microsoft doesn't allow changing wallpapers, or modifying other personalized data settings on a non-activated Windows 10 PC. Since you are here, you must be looking for a working way to activate your copy of Windows operating system. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to activate Windows 10 or for that matter any version of Windows using a batch file CMD method.  Activating Windows 10 using a Batch File To activate Windows 10 using a batch file, use these steps - Turn Off Windows Defender Before creating a batch file, you need to stop the Windows Defender. If not, the same will detect this file and delete it automatically. Here's how to disable Windows Defender - Click over the up arrow on the taskbar and select the Shield icon. When Windows Defender opens up, go to the Virus and Threat Protection tab. Jump to the right pane, and click Manage Settings under Virus & Threat Protection Settings. Disable the first three toggle switches on the next screen i.e. Real-time Prote...

How To Speed Up Any PC By disabling Animations

Often, we add animations on a desktop PC to make our PC look nice. It is quite adorable for some time but as time passes, we become quite satisfied and don't want them to run on our PC as they used to waste out time. If you are using Windows, some of the features are On by default. Disabling these features not only fasten up your interface but also saves your time.  These settings work across every version of Windows, from Windows XP to Windows 7 all the way up to Windows 8 and the Windows 10 Technical Preview . Here, in this tutorial we will explain you on how to disable these animations easily on your Windows.  How To Disable Animations on Windows At first, go to system by following Control Panel --> All Control Panel Items --> System. You could also choose the alternate form as shown in the screenshot below.

How To Install and Use Third Party Themes In Windows

Here in this tutorial we will tell you on how to install and Use Third party themes in windows. Third Party themes add charm to our Desktop Screen. However, before doing that you must need to patch system files on your windows. Patching Files is not that tough, however for newbie it might seem to be a little difficult.  To make the task simpler here, we will tell you about certain applications which could help you in patching system files easily that will help in the installation of custom third party themes.  Download Software to Patch System Files Here, we will tell you about 5 different Software which you can use to patch your system files on windows. 1) UxStyles This is a small bit of software which relaxes windows theme signature requirements to enable third party customization. This is considered as the most famous patching system files software and is available for all version of Windows. It is first introduced in March 2009. Click here  to...

How To Add Apps On Lock Screen In Windows 10

Here in this tutorial, we will tell you on how to add apps to your Lock screen in windows 10. In the previous tutorial we had told you about  adding slide show to your Lock screen . Adding Apps to the Lock Screen not only changes its look but also enhances its proper use. Generally we lock our screen only in case of reading or going away from our system so that no one could get access to our PC.  By doing this, we deprive ourselves from certain things which we can get even our screen is locked like message regarding unread mails, calender, time and date, Skype messages. You could also make use of Lock Screen for Camera Purposes too. Let's see on how to do all this.

How To Make Slide Show On Lock Screen In Windows 10

Today, we will tell you on how to select a folder of pictures and make them run as slide show on your Lock screen.  We  all know about Lock Screen which appears when we try to login into the system. If not done anything, it looks completely blank with a login block. You can add many useful things hereon the lock screen like Temperature, Date, Day, Time, Unread mails etc.  Normally you have noticed the screen color changing by itself in windows 10. You can either fixed it to a single wallpaper or a bunch of pictures which rolls over once the screen is locked. Let's see on how to make certain changes to lock screen.

How To Take and Save Screenshot Instantly On Windows

Here, we will tell you on how to take a screenshot of your screen.  While working on windows, it occurs so many times that we want to have a screenshot of our screen. Using PrtSc is no doubt the best known method. However, using this method we have to open the Paint and then paste our taken screenshot there using Ctrl+V  and then we could be able to save the screenshot on our system.  People download outside software just to take a screenshot of their screen because they are unaware of the fact the Windows itself provides a way which could easily save the screenshot. Things could be much more easier if you know certain keywords of windows. Let's see these keywords. 

Use This Trick To Close and Restart Explorer In Windows 10

Here, in this tutorial I will tell you on how to close and restore Explorer.exe in windows 10.  The first thing which came into your mind after reading its heading must be Why should one close his explorer if he needs to restore it ? Well, the answer is to save your PC from rebooting. Most of the time when you install a new software, it demands for a reboot otherwise it just starts to act buggy. However it is not always possible to restart our system everytime we install a new software.  There is a solution to this problem which I will discuss below. Using this method, you won't need to reboot your system. Let's look at "how to close and restore explorer.exe ".  How To Close and Restart Explorer in Windows 10 Follow the below written steps with screenshots to know this little trick. Read this Tutorial carefully before actually applying this method onto your system. First read on how to bring back explorer.exe and then read on closing of explorer.  ...

How To Create a 4 Digit Login Pin for Windows 8 or 10

Here in this tutorial, I will tell you on how to create a 4 digit login pin for windows 8 or Windows 10. Log in to windows 10 or 8 with your Microsoft Account password is really time taking as we all keep long password for our Hotmail or Outlook account.  Making long and complicated password is good for security reasons however, typing long password each and every time you login or unlock your system is a complicated thing and it irritates too. Here, I will tell you the solution for  windows 8  step by step. For  windows 10 , you have to follow the same steps without any change.  You must not be knowing it but Windows 8 and 10 both provide two solutions to get rid of this long password thing.   The First Solution is to disconnect yourself from Microsoft Account . You can visit here to   open your Windows 10 without signing into Microsoft account . The Second solution is to create 4 digit Pin about which I will tell you here.  ...

5 Changes in Windows 10 Which Every User Should Know

Here in this tutorial, I will tell you about six interesting changes which you should know about in Windows 10. You can install Windows 10 Technical Preview if you wish to.  1. Start Menu

Solve Windows Explorer Crashing Problem in Windows 10

Here in this article I will tell you on how to solve the crashing problem of windows explorer in Windows 10 . It is quite often to see our Windows explorer crash. Many a times our windows become un-responsive  just because we have large number of windows opened. and this is why they often crash. It really irritates one while working, reading or doing anything. It occurs generally when multiple folders are opened at the same time under the same parent windows explorer process i.e. under " explorer.exe" . This is completely a good thing however, having opened more number of folders make it crash. You can solve this problem of crashing windows explorer frequently. You can get rid of this problem easily if you open each folder window in a separate process .  Click Here to Install Windows 10 Apps without Windows Store How To Open Folders in a Separate Process If you feel the same way about windows explorer crashing too,  Follow the below written steps  to...

How To Know WiFi Password Stored In Windows

Recovering WiFi Password from your smartphone or operating system is a tedious task once you have forgotten them. You need to use third party to get back WiFi password  stored into your system. However, In all windows there is an easy way by which you can recover WiFi Password without any need of third party. If you had forgotten your WiFi password in windows old, 7, 8 or 10 and want to recover it back, follow the following steps: Click Here to Create multiple desktop in windows 10 Step 1 : Press, Win +R , it will open run command. Type here ncpa.cpl and then press OK. Step 2 : A new window will pop up like the below shown screenshot. Right Click on it and when context menu appears,select Status . Step 3 : In the WiFi Status  window, you can see the speed as well the duration for which you are using that WiFi. Select Wireless properties. It will open a new window which is shown in the right panel of below shown screenshot. Step 4 : Here, yo...

Extract Texts From Any Image In Windows, Android

Here in this tutorial we will tell you about a free app Ground Truth Text which could be used to extract texts from any image in Windows, MAC, Android or iOS. Ground Truth Text is a free app which comes for windows, Android, iOS and Mac as well. This App saves enormous time and gives accuracy . For this the gttext project helps to create fast and quality Ground Truthed data-sets from color text images. It performs fast OCR text recognition and copies image text to clipboard. Loads from screen snapshots, image files and scans documents. It basically works by detecting pixel, and trying to make best possible group regions to form the glyph and even use a direct editing to get a choice. It extracts text from complex color image immediately just by selecting the region of the open, scanned or pasted image document. How To Extract Texts From Any Image 1. Download this app from the link provided at the last of this article. Once you installed this app onto your syste...

How To Browse Multiple Folders On Windows At Same Time

Here, in this tutorial we will tell you on how to browse multiple drives or folders simultaneously in windows. In general when we need to copy or move files or sub-folders from one drive to another or within 2 Folders, what we do is to copy/cut at one place and paste at the other. This is pretty simple. However it might also occur to you when you need to drag and drop some selected files/audio or video songs/ movies, you need to open both folders. Opening multiple drives or folders also become necessity when you are preparing for exam or working on some project. What if we need to switch between multiple folders frequently. It really frustrates one. It won't when you know about an important feature of windows. How To Browse Multiple Folders on Windows  Simultaneously Go to the link provided at the last of this tutorial and download Q-Dir_Installer for your PC. Choose according to the bit system of yours i.e. 32 bit or 64 bit. This app is compatible with Windows Vista, XP,...

How To Enable Copy and Paste Feature in Command Prompt

Command Feature is considered as the fastest way to access anything on windows operating system. Those users who know how to use command prompt always rely on this to fix any problem if came into their system. The main problem which they too face is the problem of copying something on command prompt or pasting some command out there. While in all other previous version of windows copy and paste is not allowed, windows 10 has come up with solution to this problem. Windows 10 allows this copy i.e. ctrl+c and paste  i.e. ctrl+v feature inside the Command Prompt. Let's see how to do this. How To Enable Copy and Paste Feature in Command Prompt Follow the below written steps to activate copy and paste feature of yours command prompt in windows 10. Step 1 : At first, open the command prompt on your system. Step 2 : Right click anywhere in the command prompt. Step 3 : It will open the context menu of command prompt. Step 4:  Select properties here. Step 5 ...

Search and Apps: Interesting Feature of Windows 10

Windows 10 has come with lots of surprises and interesting features. Well some of the interesting features are Search and Apps, Search, Share, App Sizes, Defaults and Notifications.   Well, we have discussed about Notifications earlier. You can look about it by clicking here . Let's see what Search and Apps consists of other than Notifications option. Follow the below written to steps to reach to Search and apps option. Step 1 : Press  Win+I  keyboard shortcut. It will open the right sidebar. Look at the down right corner. You will see  change PC settings . Click on this. Step 2 : It will open a new window with name " PC settings ". Select  Search and apps  here. Step 3 : It will open a new window of  Search and Apps.  Here, you can see different options like: Search, Share, Notifications, App sizes and Default. Let's us see a brief about each of them. 1. Search : Whenever you search for something and suppose it is not in...

How To Use Different Features of App Notifications in Windows 10

Windows 10 has come with lots of surprises and interesting features. Well some of the interesting features are  Quiet Hours , Disabling App Notifications Completely and Select apps whose Notification will appear. Here, in this tutorial we will tell you all about these features of Windows 10. All of them are located at same place. Let's know how to access that place. Well, for that follow the steps written below: Step 1 : Press Win+I keyboard shortcut. It will open the right sidebar. Look at the down right corner. You will see change PC settings . Click on this. Step 2 : It will open a new window with name " PC settings ". Select Search and apps here. Step 3 : It will open a new window of Search and Apps. Here, you can see a Notifications option at the third position. Click on this.  Click here to know more about Search and Apps of Windows 10 Step 4 : It will open up the different options available under Notifications. This consists of t...

How to Install Windows 10 Apps without Windows Store

There is no doubt that windows 10 is the most famous and interesting OS of windows uptill now. It has combined the features of windows 7 and windows 8 to make it a worth having operating system. There is one thing still out there which we want to get onto and that is "Could we install apps on windows 10 without using windows store". The reason is obvious that we need to have an Microsoft Account for that. The Answer is Yes. We can install windows 10 apps without using windows store . If you had   accidentally opened or made a new Microsoft account while installing any app from windows store and now you don't know how to bring back your older user and password interface visit here:   Open your Windows 10 without signing into Microsoft account Follow the below written steps to install windows 10 apps without using windows store: Step 1 : At first, press Win+R keyword to open Run Command. Step 2 : Now, type gpedit.msc and press OK. Step 3 : It will...

How To Create A Folder Without Any Name On It

Today, I will tell you on how to create a Folder in Windows 7, 8 or 10 without having a name of it. It might surprise you as whenever you would have tried, it takes New Folder as its name by default. However, there is a way of not having any name of any particular Folder. Follow the Below written steps to learn on how to create a Folder with having no any name of it. Step 1 : Right Click on the mouse any where on the desktop. Now press on New and then Select Folder. This will create a folder on the desktop with name  New Folder. Step 2 : Again, right click on the New Folder. In the Context Menu, select Rename. Now, just press alt and type 0160 . The moment you press 0160 while pressing alt button, it will remove any name on it like the above shown screenshot. Note : You can create folders with strange letters too by following the same method. Just keep pressing alt button and then press some numbers. I have tried it and generate some random files with rando...

Add Files or Folders To My Computer

My Computer is the first thing which anyone opens for most of the time when one opens his PC or laptop. Why do we open this more frequently? It is all because we know every files is located here. Isn't it would be great if we could add important files or folders right here at My Computer. Well, Today I will tell you on how to add files or folders directly to your My Computer. Follow the below steps on how to do it. Note : My Computer and Computer are the same. Depending upon the version of your windows, you can see any of them. How To Add Files or Folders to My Computer Step 1: At first, search for Run in start Menu for Old windows or Start Screen for windows 8 or 10 . Alternatively you could also press Win+R . This is a keyboard shortcut for Run. Step 2 : Here, press appdata in between the "%" as shown in the above screenshot. Now, press OK. You will see a new window will open with name Roaming . Step 3 : Now, follow the exact sequence mentione...