Showing posts with label troubleshoot Windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label troubleshoot Windows. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

sticky notes are recover them




Where sticky notes are stored and how you can recover them

Windows’s built-in sticky notes provide virtual Post-Its on your screen. To create your first note, click Start in Windows 7 or go to the Windows 8 Search charm. Type sticky and select Sticky Notes.

A yellow square will pop up on your desktop. You can type text into this square, drag it around, and resize it. To create another sticky note, click the + in the upper-left corner of an existing note.

But be warned: If you click the x in the upper-right corner, you’ll do more than close the window. You’ll delete that particular note. Luckily, Windows is polite enough to ask for a confirmation first.

Windows stores your sticky notes in a special appdata folder, which is probably C:\Users\logon\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes--with logon being the name with which you log onto your PC. You’ll find only one file in that folder, StickyNotes.snt, which contains all your notes. If you keep important information in these notes, I suggest you make this folder part of your regular backup routine.

There’s an easy way to get to this folder. In Windows 7, click Start, or in Windows 8’s Search charm, type %appdata%\microsoft\sticky notes. Select the Sticky Notes folder.

Of course, if your computer died, and you’ve removed the hard drive and connected it to another PC, that trick won’t do any good. You’ll have to navigate Windows Explorer to the newly-attached drive’s Users\logon\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes folder.

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Create-hotkeys-for-windows-sleep-and-shutdown

Your Desktop has one, and perhaps 2, special buttons that you simply configure for just these functions.additionally, you'll be able to produce shortcuts for these tasks, and assign hotkeys to the shortcuts

In Windows 7, click Start, or in Windows 8, go to the Search charm. Once there, type power, and select Power Options. In the resulting Control Panel window’s left pane, select Choose what the power buttons do.

How many choices you’ll notice can rely upon your pc. If you've got a desktop, you'll be able to assign actions tothe facility button and also the Sleep button.

0210 desktop power options


If you've got a portable computer, you’ll even have a “When I shut the lid” choice, and you’ll have all 3 choicestwice—for On battery and obstructed in.

0210 laptop power options

The Power button, of course, is that the one you press once you activate your computer. you'll or might not have a sleep button on your keyboard. to search out out, seek for a key with a crescent-moon icon. With a portable computer, Sleep most likely involves holding down the Fn key whereas you press another key. If you can’t notice a Sleep key on your keyboard, check the keyboard documentation to envision if there’s how to designate another key for that purpose. 

If you need more power hotkeys (likely if you don’t have a Sleep key), you can create your own.

First, create a shortcut: Right-click an empty space on the desktop and select New>Shortcut. On the only field available on the resulting wizard, enter the appropriate command:

Shut down: Shutdown.exe -s -t 00

Reboot: Shutdown.exe -r -t 00

Lock: Rundll32.exe User32.dll,LockWorkStation (and yes, that one works on 64-bit systems)

Hibernate or Sleep: rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0

If the Hibernate option is turned on, that last command will hibernate the PC. Otherwise, it will put it to sleep.

To control that setting in Windows 7, click Start, type cmd, right-click cmd.exe, and select Run as administrator. In Windows 8, go to the Search charm, type cmd, right-click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.

At the resulting command prompt, type powercfg -hibernate off or powercfg -hibernate on, then press ENTER.

0210 hotkey

Now that you’ve created a shortcut, let’s turn it into a hotkey: Right-click the shortcut and select Properties. On the Shortcut tab, click the Shortcut key field. Press a key. Windows will automatically prefix it with Ctrl-Alt, lessening the likelihood of accidentally turning off your computer.


And believe me, if there's on thing you don't want to do, it's accidentally turning off your computer.

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Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Maximize your screen space- windows 8 / windows 8.1

Let’s begin with the most recent thanks to share desktop area in Windows 8: Snap. to not be confused with Windows 7's desktop snap, Windows 8's Snap enables you to show 2 fashionable apps, or a contemporary app and therefore the desktop, on the screen at the same time.

This feature originally showed up in Windows eight, however has immensely improved in Windows 8.1 because of new size choices.

 


Directions:- 

  • open multiple fullscreen modern apps
  • point mouse cursor at the lower-right corner of the screen towards Start button (Please do not click!)
  • Now slide your cursor upward 
  • A sidebar will  opens with your currently open apps.

on-screen real estate dedicated to each app by clicking on the black bar two Snapped apps, then dragging it left or right to resize the apps. On a large enough monitor, you can even view three apps at once using Snap. Talk about maximizing modern life.


Windows 7


  

  • Open Word and then tap the Windows key + the left arrow on your keyboard to resize the program to take up the left half of your right. 
  • Now open Chrome and Windows key + right arrow to snap the browser to the right side of the screen.
  • Now Each program now takes up half the screen
  • you can also manually drag an open window to the left or right edge of the screen to snap it

Tasking the taskbar
There also are some old window management options designed into the taskbar that may are available handy once you ought to see over 2 windows promptly. These options don’t very assist you maximize your table area the maximum amount as they create it easier to search out a selected window once you’ve got plenty of desktop apps open promptly.

 

Move your mouse down to the taskbar and right-click to show the context menu. 

You will see three different options


  • Cascade windows, 
  • show windows stacked, 
  • show windows side-by-side. 


Be warned: Using these features will display all your open windows at once, but they'll also mess up the default sizes of your windows.


Once you’ve mastered these various methods you can even try combining them—Snapping a modern app to one-third of your display


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Thursday, 2 January 2014

Install any version of Windows using any Windows disc you can find

Description


Want to reinstall Windows 7? But, have you lost your recovery disc?? Then here is the solution.




Solution:

For this, you need Windows ISO file as well as the free Ei.cfg Removal Utility. Basically, the latter one deletes a key present inside the former so that you can install any version of Windows. Both Windows 7 and Windows 8 installation discs are designed to match up with their product key as they are version-specified. Thus, here comes the role of Ei.cfg Removal Utility that can create a “universal” Windows ISO for installing matching version of your product key.
To keep it simple, take your friend’s install DVD, copy the ISO file from it to your hard drive and then run Ei.cfg. After that, put that tweaked ISO on a flash drive using Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. Now, just start from the flash drive and select the version of Windows you want to install. Enter your license key and you are ready to go.
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Thursday, 21 November 2013

When Windows breaks: How to fix it, piece by piece

Description

You must like the customizability of Windows. But, with all that freedom you can mess up things. Read this tutorial before burning your installation.

Solution:

Reigniting IE

Internet Explorer can suffer with excessive interfering. In case, you have junk the desktop version of your browser then click gear icon on the right side of the IE toolbar. After this select “Internet Options.” Open the “Advanced” tab from the new window and click “Reset” button available at the bottom of the screen. You need to decide that whether you want to clear personal settings. If yes, click “Reset” again.

File History

Enable the File History feature of Windows 8 or 8.1. File History is the tool to back up your Windows Libraries, desktop, contacts, and some of your favorite folders to external drive, network drive, or some other storage location. It saves everything as a different version and thus, you need to take several steps back to restore an older state. For enabling it, connect another drive to your system and then go to “Control Panel” > “System and Security” > “File History” to set it up. You can find the advanced options in the left-side menu. By default, Windows 8.1 hides the Libraries. Enable them. For saving a folder that is not a part of one of the default Windows Libraries, add it.




Reset your Libraries

Right-click the “Libraries” listed in the Windows File Explorer and choose “Restore default libraries” to make it uncluttered and clean. Also, you can restore individual libraries. Windows will not confirm that whether you want to reboot Libraries or not. So, click when you are sure about doing it.



Reset the Ribbon UI 

Talking about the Ribbon UI in Windows 8, it is very much customizable. Just open “Windows File Explorer” in the desktop and browse the “View” tab to click “Options” button on the right side of the Ribbon menu. Three tabs hidden in the Folder options window contain its own “Restore defaults” button. After clicking that button, there is no turning back.

Reset the taskbar and Start menu

For resetting Windows taskbar, right-click an empty section of the taskbar and select “Properties.” After this, open the “Taskbar” tab and click “Customize” button. Below the scrolling list of options, you can find the blue link for Restore default icon behaviors. Also, you can restore the Start Menu’s defaults. Open the “Start Menu” tab, click “Customize” button and then press “use default settings” button available at the bottom of the “Customize Start Menu” pop-up that appears.



Mr. Microsoft, tear that firewall down!

Moreover, you can reset Firewall. Go to “Control Panel” > “System and Security” > “Windows Firewall” and click “Restore defaults” in the left-hand pane.


System Restore



It acts like File History. If you are finding things insecure then it can return your PC to a previous, workable state. These system restore points are created once per week or while installing a new app or update. To create a snapshot of your system, you can go to “Control Panel” > “System and Security” > “System” and then select “System Protection” from the left-hand pane. Click “Create” button. If you want to use this feature then go to the same place and click “System restore” button. 



Refresh and reset

Windows 8 also include new "refresh and reset" options that can restore main aspects of Windows to their native state. Refresh is the option which will not touch your personal files. Apart from personal files, everything else will be replaced.

Reset is the nuclear option. With this, you can remove everything you have installed, created or changed on your computer. Before using reset option, take back up of all your important stuff.


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