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10 MOUSE TRICK YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED

The Mouse as an input device was one of the coolest inventions in the history of computers. It makes GUI so easy to handle that most of us prefer to use it over keyboard. But then, how many of us really use the mouse to its fullest extent? Whenever we feel that we need to click, we press the mouse button (a true replacement of the Enter key). Actually, we use the mouse to perform very little and I say so because we do not know the inner potential and are unaware of many tricks associated with it. However, there are few on top of my head right now that I would like share with our readers. 1. Holding Shift key to Select Text Most of know that we can select contiguous files and folders by holding the Shift key and clicking on the first and then the last file/folder. This also applies to selecting text on documents like MS Word, Notepad or any other text editor. All you need to do is click on the first character, then press the shift, point to the last character, click there and re...

REASONS WHY PC AND LAPTOPS CRASH

10 reasons why PC and Laptops crash you must Know Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy," it says. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications." You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening? 1 Hardware conflict The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device. For example, a printer usually connects internally on IRQ 7. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 6. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself.

HOW TO FACTORY RESET A LAPTOP WITH A RECOVERY PARTITION

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Restore your laptop back to its original settings​ Restore your laptop to factory settings, If you need to give your laptop fresh start, we’ll tell you how to factory reset a laptop. Restoring your laptop to the state it came out of the factory can be handy for a number of different reasons. Perhaps you’re having problems with your laptop’s performance, a virus or you simply want to sell it on and remove all your programs, files, passwords and other sensitive information. In these situations, a recovery partition is your friend. It’s a little more difficult than a smartphone or a tablet but we’ll show you how to do it step by step. Most laptops don’t come with recovery discs any more but if yours does then this is still a fairly easy way of performing a factory reset. If you didn’t get any discs in the box, then there’s a good chance your laptop has a recovery partition.

How to Recover Hidden Files from Flash Drives or External Hard Disks Due to Virus Infection

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If the files and folders in your external hard disk or flash drive have turned into shortcuts or are hidden, here is one solution to recover your data. Operating system used – Windows 7. Install good antivirus and scan entire computer including the flash drive/external hard disk. Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, select VIEW tab, select ”Show hidden files, folders and drives” and uncheck ”Hide protected operating system files (recommended)” now click APPLY Folder Options

COMPRESS LARGE FILES INTO SMALLEST FILE SIZE USING WINRAR

How to compress large files into smallest file size using winrar WinRar have a special function where you can compress any files into a really small size file. For example a 3.4GB file can be compress into 10mb or less.  Cool isn't it? To do it, just follow my simple steps below : 1. Right Click or highlight any file that you want to compress.

COMPRESS 100MB VIDEO TO 20MB USING HANDBRAKE

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HandBrake The open source video transcoder Features Built-in Device Presets Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimised for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes. Supported Input Sources: Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection. Outputs: File Containers: .mρ4(.M4V) and .MKV Video Encoders: H.264(x264), MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), and Theora(libtheora) Audio Encoders: AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), mρ3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and mρ3 tracks Even more features Title/Chapter selection, Queue up multiple encodes, Chapter Markers, Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT), Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding, Support for VF...