Use Classic Shell To Give Your Windows 8 PC a Windows 7 Feel If you are finding the Windows 8 User Interface a bit difficult to navigate and long for that Window 7 Feel, Classic Shell is just the ticket. Classic Shell has been around for a while, but has been recently updated to version 4.1. This version now fully supports Windows 8.1 and provides several enhancements including the ability to pin
Adjust ClearType for your Graphics Card & Monitor for Optimal Display If you have an LCD monitor, and who doesn’t these days, you need to go through the ClearType display tuning for your desktop or laptop Personal Computer. ClearType is Microsoft’s implementation of sub-pixel rendering technology in rendering text in a font system. This technique of tuning the display of text was s first announced in 1998. The techniques were
Display Up to Three Windows Clocks Automatically! Windows has a nice feature to be able to quickly display the time and date in three locations. This is really easy to set up. Simply click on the date and time display in the task bar: ,then click on “Change date and time”. If the time zone is not correct, click on “Change time zone”, and make the appropriate change. You may also
All the tricks to using Sticky Notes for Everyday Reminders Windows Sticky Notes have been around since the early versions of Windows, so you may think this is nothing new. In Windows 7 & 8, the Sticky Notes application has been enhanced with lots of extra features, such as colors, sizes, formatting and more. In Windows 7 and later, and if you have a Tablet PC or touchscreen, Sticky Notes now support pen
Create Your Own Desktop Wallpaper Slide Show – It’s easy! Windows has some great wallpaper collections available for you to use all neatly packaged in Themes. You can download these at no cost compliments of Microsoft: . If you would like to create your own collection of images for your wallpaper collection, in Windows 7 or 8, just follow these 6 easy steps: 1: Pull together a folder with all the images