If performance on your Windows computer has recently begun feeling sluggish, one great place to investigate the problem is in the Startup section of your system’s Task Manager. This tab will show which applications are automatically opening in the background each time you fire up your computer, sucking RAM and precious resources without your even realizing it.Unfortunately, many Windows programs are installed with the auto-startup option enabled,...
Monday, July 28, 2014
How to Get the Real Start Menu Back in Windows 8 or 8.1
Continued support for Windows XP was discontinued by Microsoft recently, so many PC people may now be migrating over to Windows 8. One thing newcomers will notice missing in the latest version of Windows: the Start menu!If you’re feeling instantly lost without the old Start menu, don’t worry; you’re not alone. Thousands of PC fans would argue that the Start menu offers a more compact, concise, customizable listing of programs...
How to View Side-by-Side Apps in Windows 8
On Windows 8, there are no overlapping windows in TileWorld, the newly-designed, “Metro” side of Windows. So, the headache of trying to find one window in a haystack is over.You can, however, display apps side by side—up to four, if you have a high-resolution screen. You can display a TileWorld app and a desktop program side by side, too.That’s handy when you want to keep playing some video in one window while you’re crunching numbers...
You Can Control Windows 8 with Your Voice. Here's How.
The beauty of controlling Windows by voice is that you don’t have to remember what to say; you just say whatever you would click with the mouse.Getting startedFirst, to make this all work, you need a PC with a microphone. The Windows Speech Recognition program can handle just about any kind of mike, even the one built into your laptop’s case. But a regular old headset mike—“anything that costs over $20 or so,” says Microsoft—will...
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