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How Can You Turn Off Live Tiles In Windows 8

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Windows 8 has come up with a whole lot of innovations. The very Startup screen of this Windows version has several new features one of which is the live tiles. Once you start your PC installed with Windows 8, you will get to see the live tiles on the screen.
The live tiles collect updates from the web and showcase them on your screen. For instance, the email live tile enables you to get preview of your E-mails and the social networking tile enables you to check the latest updates from your friends. Hence, Windows 8 you get a dynamic startup screen. No need of opening up the apps. You can receive the updates like that. Furthermore, since the update is received from the internet, a little amount of data is being used.



Are you irritated with the live tiles? Don’t you want them to be on your screen? You are free to disable them. Yes, you can disable them yourself and stop receiving the up-to-date information from the web. In other words, from a dynamic desktop you can have a static Windows 8 desktop.

Disabling Windows 8 live tiles is pretty easy! Want to try them? Here are the instructions of doing so.

Instructions to Turn Off Windows 8 Live Tiles :

  • Start up Windows 8 and as soon as the screen displays, visit the application for which you don’t want to receive any updates.
  • Right click that app and a menu will be displayed with multiple options.
  • Choose “turn live tiles off” from the above menu. Thus, you disable the update of that app. You can also disable numerous live tiles of multitude of apps in the like way.
You have to repeat these three steps in case you desire to turn the live tiles on once again. Change the settings and limit live tiles data usage. Stay tuned for an extraordinary Windows 8 experience!

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Windows 8 All Shortcut Keys

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Windows 8 All Shortcut Keys

Dear Friends,
MyTricksTime Team Again Come with all Shortcut Keys of Windows 8 for over readers whom are using now windows 8, windows 8 look is to good we love it, so here you’ll get latest tricks and tips for windows 8
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Windows 8 is different than earlier versions. It will take some time before you get used to this new version. We list a few keyboard shortcuts that can help. You will see that some shortcuts however remain unchanged.

Windows Key + M minimizes everything that’s showing on the desktop.
Windows Key + D: gets you to the desktop
Windows Key + E: opens Explorer for quick access to folders
Windows Key + L: Locks your PC
Windows Key + R: R prompts the Run command useful for quickly launching apps
Windows Key + Q opens a global search menu.
Windows Key + X opens the Quick Access Menu
Windows Key + I opens the settings menu, giving you short access to the Control Panel
Windows Key + O locks orientation on devices
Windows Key + +: Launches zoom in
Windows Key + -: Launches zoom out
Windows Key + K: opens a list of currently running programs.
Windows Key + F opens a file and folder search.
Windows Key + Tab: Helps switch between running apps
Windows Key + Pause opens the system properties page
Windows Key + Print Screen takes a screenshot and saves it in a Screenshots folder
Windows Key + PgUp: Helps move the current Windows Screen to the Left
Windows Key + PgDn: Helps move the current Windows Screen to the Right

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Get Windows 8 Metro Start Menu On Windows 7 Using Newgen

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As our readers will know, Windows 8 Developer Preview was released yesterday. This version of Windows 8, as suggested by the name, is meant for developers who wish to develop Windows 8 apps in the future. It is not the complete version of the OS that will be released sometime in 2012.

While we’ve already written an easy to follow guide on how to install Windows 8 in VirtualBox, but there are plenty of people who want to, but would rather not try out an incomplete OS. Such people can get a slice of the Windows 8 action with Newgen: a Metro style launcher for
Windows Vista and Windows 7. Previously however, you could simply use Mosaic or Eight, which were great alternative for Newgen but they weren’t that good in terms of looks back then.
Developed by speaker60 and 1000MrCasper and released on the open source project community CodePlex, Newgen aims to bring the ultra-Metrofied Start menu to current desktop PCs running Windows Vista or 7.
From CodePlex:

Newgen is an application that brings the new Metro UI to your desktop. It is a set of live widgets that shows some content from the web and some from your PC.
Newgen supports WPF, HTML5, and HTML widgets. 

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Features :

  • Support for HTML widgets
  • Launch your favourite apps and webs in one click
  • Customize as you want
  • Switch to your opened apps, in just few clicks
  • Get Windows 8 Metro UI to your desk
  • Play your videos and music, view your pictures without opening them
  • Get your tweets, mails and weather reports in front of your eye, just sitting
  • Provides easy-to-use API for Widget developers
  • Get updates from us without navigating our site

  

We’ve personally tested the application and can confirm that it mostly works as claimed. It takes some tedious work setting up exactly as you want, but since it is a new app, it is to be expected.
After you’ve got the app installed, you launch it from the Start menu on your PC. On launching, you are treated to a very good-looking Metro style Start menu where you can add tiles, widgets and direct links to websites of your choice. They can be added by calling up the Start Menu (left-click on the right edge of the screen) and then right-clicking, which will show up options for you to add said items.
The transitions and overall UX is similar to what Microsoft offers with Windows 8’s launcher though, obviously, Newgen isn’t as full-featured as the real thing. However, there are plenty of settings you can tinker around with in order to customize your experience.

If you’re interested, you can give Newgen a try by downloading it from the link embedded below.
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Microsoft Sold 40 Million Windows 8 In A Month

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It’s been a month since the launch of Windows 8 on October 26. The reaction has been mixed, some users praising the new UI, while others think it’s the worst thing to ever happen to personal computing. Despite all of that, Windows 8 seems to be doing pretty well for itself.

Tami Reller, CFO for MIcrosoft’s Windows division, announced today at the Credit Suisse 2012 Annual Technology Conference that the company has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses in just a month. Reller also said that Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in regards to upgrades.

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Beyond that, the company said that the Windows Store has seen some success thus far. Without citing specific numbers, the company reported that a number of apps have earned more than $25,000 in revenue since launching on the Windows Store. In a bid to get more developers on board, Microsoft also reminded everybody that developers get to keep 80 percent of all app revenue over its lifetime.

Windows 8 is doing pretty well, but Microsoft is remaining mum on other Windows 8 devices like the Surface and Windows Phone 8. A recent report says that the Nokia Lumia 920 is doing well, but there’s been no word on how well HTC or Samsung’s Windows Phone 8 devices are performing. The Surface, however, is where the worry starts to seep in. Despite selling out of pre-orders for the base model, Microsoft has remained silent on just how well it’s doing beyond Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying sales were “modest.”

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Microsoft’s newest OS may be off to a decent start, but it’s the future that most are worried about. The recent departure of Windows boss Steven Sinofsky did not look good despite MIcrosoft’s attempts at making it seem like an amicable split.

It’s looking pretty good for now, but Microsoft shouldn’t slow down. It needs to continue building out the Windows Store and attracting developers to the platform. The shared kernel between Windows 8 devices, including PCs, phones and tablets, is the best thing Microsoft has going for it at the moment.

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Kill a Process in Command Prompt in Windows 7/XP

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Q. How to kill/stop a Process a process in windows using Command Prompt ?


Killing or terminating a process without a task manager is possible using “taskkill” commands in Windows operating systems like Windows 7, 8, XP, 2003, 2008 servers. Taskkill is a powerful  command to kill or terminating (forcefully) any running process.

Windows Kill a Process by Process Name


Windows Kill a process by pid (Process ID)
Click Here to learn How to find Process ID in Windows
C:>taskkill /PID 1372
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