Cold Turkey Writer for Windows PC Cold Turkey is a very lightweight Windows freeware that doesn’t even need to install because of its portability. This writing tool is available for free, but the free version doesn’t offer customization options. But the free version should be more than enough to get started. When you open this editor, it will ask you to set a time or word count-based goal. Based on that preference, it will block everything on your computer....

Comodo Cloud Antivirus Review This free cloud antivirus is a good security solution and comes with a lot of modern features that one should expect from an Antivirus. It is free of cost, and you do not need to create an account or sign in to the tool. It is simple to install and use the tool. As I mentioned, it includes a cloud-based scanner. What a cloud-based scanner does is that it moves most of the scanning computations to a cloud server....

Run only specified Windows Applications To open Group Policy Editor, press the Start button, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Explore down to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > System in the left pane. Now double click Run only specified Windows Applications. From the checkbox, select Enabled. To set the allowed applications, click Show from under Options. Now click right next to the star (*) under Value and enter the name of the applications which you want to run....

The articles cover several new features in Windows including the Taskbar, XP Mode, Federated Search, Extended Linguistic Services, Direct2D & DirectWrite, Sensor & Location API and Multi-touch. The following features of Windows 7 have been covered: Learn how to take advantage of these cool features on the 7 on 7 MSDN Blog.

Let us in this post, see how to create Cortana Reminders with Windows 10 Sticky Notes. Create Cortana Reminders using Windows Sticky Notes Open the Windows Ink Workspace from the taskbar. A Sticky Note tile should appear on your screen. Select it to open Sticky Notes. Press the three dots, and select ‘Settings’ option. Next, ensure ‘Enable insights’ feature is enabled. Now, enter the message as a reminder along with the appropriate time....

When you have got something to communicate visually, Lucidchart offers the tools to it both intuitively and in style. So, you can work from any device and anywhere you can log in to the web. Add a Lucidchart diagram to Microsoft Word Even though Microsoft Word functions as a word processor and not a diagramming program, it still allows users to add shapes and create flowcharts from elsewhere, If you are simply looking to add few diagrams to your document then, you can create a flowchart Lucidchart and import it in Microsoft Word....

USB Image Tool for Windows PC USB Image Tool clones or creates images of USB flash drives and MP3 players, that are mounted as USB drives. It allows you to switch between images with different music styles on your MP3 Player or to make an exact backup image of your USB Stick. Using this tool, you can backup the entire USB flash drive as an image, which you can then save to your hard drive or burn to a disc....

Create laptop battery full charge notification Open a Notepad on your Windows desktop, and copy-paste the following code in it. From the Notepad File menu, select Save as, and then from the save as dialog box which appears, under Save as type, select All files. Next give the file any name, along with the extension as .vbs. For instance, you may name the file as FullBat.vbs. Click on Save to save the VBS script to your desktop or any other location of your choice....

Create a Logon message for Users using Group Policy Editor To create and display a Logon message for users in Windows 11/10, follow these steps: If your edition has the Group Policy Editor, you can also do so by navigating to the following folder: Here you will see two entries: Interactive logon: Message title for users attempting to log on. This security setting allows the specification of a title to appear in the title bar of the window that contains the Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on....

Understanding the CreateWindowEx function Windows applications, including .NET applications that use Windows Forms or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), create their windows by calling the CreateWindowExA or CreateWindowExW functions. Both functions internally call a common USER32 function that will perform some parameter validation, such as the window styles and handles specified in the call, handle creating a MDI child window if the WS_EX_MDICHILD extended window style is specified and processes the current activation context for the calling thread....

Criptext encrypted email service Criptext encrypted email service is a free email service for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS. This service allows you to encrypt, track, and unsend emails – Totally on your terms. With Criptext, you can revoke access to a message, set a timer to revoke access after a certain amount of time, and so on. It also has some additional features, like being able to send larger attachments than Gmail’s usual limitation, or activating read receipts....

Desktop icons keep moving randomly to second monitor You extend your display to an external monitor, and then you make the external monitor your primary display. After you make these changes, your desktop icons move to random positions on the desktop. This issue occurs, because, to calculate the positions of desktop icons, Windows uses the current display resolution. Windows interprets the change in the primary display as a screen resolution change....

Ideal Data Sovereignty According to digital sovereignty activists, the personal data of users should be collected with their consent only or at least the users should be informed of what all data is being collected. They further state that the personal data of a user should be stored in a data center that is present in the country where the user is residing or using the Internet. This is not practical however as it is the age of cloud computing and almost all major websites or companies have their datacenters spread over a range of countries with varying laws about IT and cloud....

Disable Adobe Flash Cookies Then it occurred to me that I can simply restrict, turn off or disable Adobe Flash cookies – preventing sites from storing such data on my computer. Flash Cookies are a type of Internet Cookie and can be configured using online and offline options. This article explains both methods. Flash Player Settings – Local Settings The Adobe site has an online Flash cookie Manager that allows you to specify how Flash cookies should behave on your computer....

Disable End Process in Edge Task Manager These are the two ways by which you can disable “End Process” in the Microsoft Edge Task Manager. They are: Let us talk about them in detail. 1] By Group Policy Editor The first method by which you can disable “End Process” is by changing the Group Policy. To do that, you first need to download some policy files from Microsoft Website. You need to make sure that you are selecting the correct Channel/Version, Build and Platform and then click GET POLICY FILES....

Let’s assume that you are giving your computer to your child for some time, and you do not want to allow him/her to disable or uninstall any add-on. You can block your child from opening the corresponding page, and thus, he/she won’t be able to make any changes. Similarly, you can apply different policies on different computers in different places, such as school, home, office, etc. Enterprise Policy Generator for Firefox The Enterprise Policy Engine addon allows administrators to configure Firefox via a configuration file....

When one is gaming, and if presses the Windows Key, any open PC game where the taskbar is not shown, will minimize without exiting the program! This often becomes a nightmare for PC gamers, and as such, while playing PC games, most prefer to disable this key. Let us see how we can disable the Windows key on the keyboard to improve the Gaming experience. Disable Windows key or WinKey There are five ways to disable the WinKey or Windows Key:...

Disney Infinity 3.0 for PC This is the version of the game for Windows PC, which is separate from the version available on Steam. This version is free with micro-transactions everywhere and the size is over 14GB, so bear that in mind. Before we go any further, the Steam version is better than this one, and for more reasons than one. Now, there is no other company out there with a larger and more diverse toy collection than Disney....

This problem mainly appears when the Windows Credential Manager has some internal issues. However, it may also occur when Microsoft Teams doesn’t get a strong internet connection while opening the app on your computer. If your internet connection is not stable (or you have ping loss issue), you might face this problem while opening the Microsoft Teams app. Try again If that doesn’t work, try signing out and back in....

Oracle VM VirtualBox VirtualBox’s supported host operating systems list include: VirtualBox also allows limited virtualization of Mac OS X guests on Apple hardware. According to surveys conducted by LinuxJournal and LifeHacker, VirtualBox was the most popular virtualization product and received over 50% of the vote. This application is full free as it is open source. It was initially offered by Innotek under a proprietary software license but later, VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) was released as free software....