Unless you are running Windows 8 on a virtual disk, there is no way to take the screenshot of the logon screen or the new lock screen. This is because unless you unlock it, the installed apps will not be ...

Windows 8 has one major improvement in the form of apps with the metro UI (or rather Windows 8 UI). These apps are optimized such that they do not feature a close or minimize button, instead they run the background, ...

Generally when you install Windows, you either use the set up directly or use a DVD (burn the ISO) to boot and then install. But one of the simpler means of installing Windows on multiple PC is using a bootable ...

Long back, we had covered a free tool for Windows 7, called Aero Tuner which allowed users to customize the Aero settings in Windows 7. The same developer has released a new version, called AeroTuner8, will allows you to modify ...

Windows 8 has one major change in terms of the UI, with a brand new theme without the aero effects present in Windows 7. Windows 8 is slated for release in October this year and users can upgrade it. One ...

The taskbar in Windows 7 in itself has a number of features including thumbnails and jumplists. 7 Taskbar Numberer is a freeware utility which adds a number to each item in the Windows 7 taskbar and also to the items ...

Windows 7 and Windows 8 allows users to set their desktop wallpaper and also has the feature to rotate them at regular intervals. You can select images from different folders. Desktop Background Tuner is a freeware and portable tool which ...

One of the important feature which is still missing in Windows Explorer is the tabbed interface. This allows users to quickly open other Explorer windows without having to navigate from the current window. TabExplorer is a new freeware tool for ...

One of the main changes to Windows 8 is the new Start screen with Metro UI. Along with the Metro UI, Microsoft had released many metro apps for Windows 8. These apps include Email, messages, photos, videos, Windows store and ...

If you want to use custom icons for your folders in Windows, you might probably know that you need to have .ico files The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Windows and you cannot ...