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How to Check if your Computer is Windows 8 Compatible

by on March 10, 2012 in How To

Months ago, Microsoft launched the Developer Preview of it upcoming new operating system, Windows 8. Again, few days back they released the first Consumer Preview (Beta) version as well. It’s not long Microsoft will launch the new OS in the market and thus if you are planning for an upgrade, you need to make sure that your computer will support it.

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How to Disable Thumbnail Preview in Windows 7

by on February 28, 2012 in How To

You must have noticed, whenever you open a folder in Windows which contains many images, videos or any of the file types, which support the thumbnail view, there is a green progress bar in the address bar that takes time to load the thumbnail cache for windows.

If the folder contains a few files, the thumbnail cache built instantly but if there are many files (say more than 100) windows take a considerable amount of time and resource to build the thumbnail preview.

If you are a kind of person who does not really require the thumbnail preview while working on Windows, here’s how you can disable the feature permanently.

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Schedule Outgoing Emails In Gmail using Right Inbox for Chrome

by on February 26, 2012 in How To

Previously, we have discussed with you how you can schedule emails on Outlook to send them at a future time. Personally, I am not a fan of Outlook and prefer the Gmail web application to monitor, send and manage my emails. Though Gmail web interface is feature packed, one cannot schedule an outgoing mail by default.

Now with Right Inbox for Chrome, a nifty extension, you can schedule your emails on Gmail to be delivered at a future time easily.

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How To Disable Visual Effects in Windows 7

by on February 22, 2012 in How To

One of the greatest disappointments in my life was an Atom that I owned. Inspiron mini, an Atom powered netbook that had an emulator as its graphics driver, and it came with Windows 7 with no DVD drive to install Windows XP. Imagine my horror.

If you own a wooden PC like I used to, I’d recommend disabling the visual effects in windows 7. It boosts your PC’s performance by disabling all the CPU hogging visual effects. You can go the extra mile like I do, and put on the windows classic theme to get a retro look.

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How to Disable the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 7

by on February 19, 2012 in How To

When you install Windows 7, by default, a service named Windows Search always runs in the background. What this service does is, it keeps track of all the files on your computer (old, modified or newly created) and store the data in your computer. This data later helps Windows to search through your files quickly whenever you do a file search.

Now the thing is, for most of us who don’t use the Windows search frequently, it’s a total waste of both resource (hard-drive space drive space used to store the indexing data) and time (indexing the files take time) and thus disabling it once and for all is the best idea.

So let’s have a look on how we can disable the search indexing feature permanently.

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How to Extract Sounds and Images from PowerPoint Presentations

by on February 17, 2012 in How To

Yesterday, we discussed how you can extract images from Office Documents in bulk. The mere downside of the application was it worked only with Word and Excel documents neglecting the PowerPoint files.

As the process of extraction of images and other media files are always much used in PowerPoint when compared to Word and Excel its important we find a solution for that as well. What I was looking for was a tool that can easily extract all the image and sound files to a folder at a single shot, and PowerPointImageExtractor is  one of the easiest tools to do the requisite.

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How To Extract Images From Office Documents (Word, Excel, PDF)

by on February 16, 2012 in How To

Whenever I had to extract images from word document (docx format) I used to use an archive extractor (Winrar, 7Zip) to extract all the media files in a folder at one go but when I tried the same with a .doc file, I failed miserably. When I looked online for the answer, I learned that the new format of word is an XML format which actually saves the entire content zipped in a word format. In the older format, the images become an integral part of the document and thus cannot be extracted as a zip file.

So if you want to extract the images from the older document versions and PDF files in the easiest possible way, RL Vision Office Image Extraction Wizard is one of the best available tools.

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Block Time Wasting Websites in Chrome with StayFocused

by on February 13, 2012 in How To

Internet is a necessary evil in offices. Though it provides a never-ending stream of knowledge that may help in your daily office work, it comes with some mind distracting web services that may waste our time if we don’t have enough self control.

I have seen people turning on their computer to work, but they often waste their time by checking their Facebook updates, reading forearmed email chains, replying Twitter mentions, etc. wasting both time and resources.

Though there are ways, you can block these websites once and for all, but I don’t feel that’s a good option. According to me, these websites are fine to browse as long as there is a time restrain.

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