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How to Enable or Disable the Startup Sound in Windows 7 or 8
We have all been in that awkward situation where you sit down in a meeting room only to have your Windows laptop play the Startup sound.
How to Enable Click To Play Plugins in Firefox
Have you ever opened a webpage only to have all sorts of multimedia on the page just start playing? Firefox has a hidden feature that was designed to prevent situations just like that.
How to Get All the Windows 8 Editions on One Install Disk
There are a lot of different versions of Windows, but you probably didn't know that short of the Enterprise edition, the disc or image that you own contains all versions for that architecture.
How to Clear Your Browser Cache in the Metro Version of Internet Explorer
Clearing your browser cache is made easily accessible in the desktop version of Internet Explorer, however, in the Metro version it is a little bit more hidden.
How to Open an InPrivate Tab in the Metro Version of Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer has a secret mode called InPrivate which is pretty much the same as Chrome’s incognito mode.
How to Enable Firefox's Built-in PDF Reader
Firefox 15 includes an all new PDF reader built into the browser--for those of you wondering, that means you can finally disable the Adobe PDF Plugin and uninstall it once and for all.
How To Use The Search Feature in Almost any App on Windows 8
Searching in Windows 8 has changed significantly, in fact at first you might think that all most Metro apps “lack” a search function altogether.
How to Print From Metro Apps in Windows 8
Printing has become an application aware feature in Metro applications.
How to Take a Screenshot in Windows 8 with No Extra Software
Today we are going to show you a nifty new shortcut built into Windows 8 that lets you capture everything that’s on your screen--this is the first time that Windows has really included a built-in way to capture screenshots.
How To Force Windows Applications to Use a Specific CPU
Channing a process's affinity means that you limit the application to only run on certain logical processors, which can come in terribly handy if you have an application that is hogging all the CPU.
Beginner: How to Make Explorer Always Show the Full Path in Windows 8
In older versions of Windows the Title Bar used to display your current location in the file system.
Beginner: How to See Used Drive Space for Metro Apps in Windows 8
In Windows 8 there is no obvious way of checking how much space each Metro app is taking up--the option is actually hidden away in PC settings, read on to find out how to access it.
How to Enable the Delete Confirmation Dialog in Windows 8
If you have just switched to Windows 8, or are about to, and find yourself constantly sending files to the recycle bin by mistake, it’s probably because Microsoft disabled the delete confirmation dialog, here’s how to re-enable it.
How to Disable the Office 2013 Splash Screens
In previous versions of Office we had to use command line parameters that would suppress the splash screen on launch, well it looks like Microsoft heard us and finally added an option to disable them in the Office apps.
How to Stop Apps Spying On Your Location in Windows 8
Depending on the settings you chose when you originally set up Windows 8 you may have given apps access to your location.
Beginner: 5 Mouse Tricks in Windows that You Might Not Know
We have already shown you 5 Windows Command Prompt Tricks You Probably Don’t Know, and we received some great feedback in the comments, so we decided to share 5 Mouse Tricks we use fairly regularly here at How-To Geek, read on to find out what they are.
How to Re-Enable the Mouse Pointer Drop Shadow in Windows 8
Microsoft changed a lot of display elements in Windows 8, including removing drop shadows from nearly everything--including the mouse pointer.
How to Build Your Own Usenet Indexer
There are plenty of NZB Indexers out there such as NZB Matrix and NZBs(dot)ORG , but they only index SOME of Usenet.
How to Change Your Keyboard Layout in Windows 8 or 10
There is a small change to the Control Panel in Windows 8 and Windows 10 that involves splitting the Region and Language applet into two separate applets.
How to Install a Virtualized Copy of Ubuntu in Windows 8
We have previously shown you how you can easily dual-boot your Windows 8 PC with Linux, but if you don’t want to mess around with partitions and still want to try out Linux, a virtual machine is the answer.