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How to change the “Shutting Down” background color in Windows 8

2014-04-11T02:01:00.002-07:00

In Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, you can customize the color of the Start screen using the personalization options from the Settings charm. The color you choose for the Start screen will be applied to your sign-in screen, e.g. the screen you see right after you enter your credentials but before the Start screen appears. However, the screen which lists the user accounts before you sign in and after you sign out has a different color. That color comes from the registry value for the default sign-in screen, which cannot be changed by the user because no option exists inside PC Settings to change it. Let's see how we can change that color.

Download Winaero's freeware Lock Screen Customizer.
Run the appropriate version of the app. It has the separate versions for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 and 32-bit/64-bit.
If you are using Windows 8, use the Color Set dropdown to set the preferred color and then check the "Apply customizations to the default Lock Screen" option.
If you are using Windows 8.1, click the "Change login screen color" link. The color you choose there will be used as the "Shutting Down" screen background color.

That's it. Now you can customize these colors any time you want.

How to Download Google Play Store Apps on PC [Ultimate Guide]

2014-04-10T02:22:00.001-07:00

There is no need to give introduction about android operating system, which is widely used by most of the mobile users and it had huge global share on mobile market. The reason behind the popularity of android operating system is its large number of apps, games and it is a free operating system. Google own this android operating system and it provide updates to android operating system with latest patches and improvements. Coming to the point, if you want to download and install android apps on your mobile then you must download from play store. In case if you want to download and install play store apps on pc there is no direct method.

Of Course some websites provide .apk files but we can’t trust those apps because they bind with virus and malware. So if you want to download and install play store apps on pc follow the below steps.

How to Download Play Store Apps on PC?

There are so many websites which provides android apps for pc but most of the people trust on Google play store only. That’s why we provide one useful website to download android apps from Google play store.

1. First of all open website http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ which downloads apk files directly from Google play store without modifying file.

2. Website has simple interface without any unnecessary options. You need to enter package name or Google play URL in the box.

3. To find package name of any android application just open Google play store in your web browser and search for application which one you want to download. For example here I want to download whatsapp messaging application. So search for whatsapp in Google play store and it shows some results related to whatsapp.

4. Click on the correct application and you’ll get package name from the address bar. Every package starts with com. It will be shown in the URL like the below one.

Id=com.whatsapp

5. Here you need to copy com.whatsapp, alternatively you can copy whole URL of the application and paste it into apk downloader website.

6. Once you paste the URL of application then click on Generate Download Link button to download application into your pc.

7. Before downloading the application once check all details of the application and proceed to download.

8. Once you confirm all details are ok then click download button to download any android application into pc.

If you have Google chrome browser then you can download any android application from your account also. For this you need to install latest Google chrome browser and after that install APK Downloaded chrome extension.

After installing chrome extension you need to give some details like device id, your Google play store details like username and password.

How to Get Device ID of Any Android Mobile?

1. To get device id of any android mobile you can try this code from dialer. *#*#8255#*#*

2. If you use tablet then this code doesn’t work for you. To know the device id of your tablet you need to install one android application that is Device ID.

Download Device ID

Before downloading android applications using chrome extension, make sure to read this guide.

How to Download Play Store Apps on pc Using Chrome Extension

If you face any problem while using this trick please leave a comment below. If possible provide a screenshot of your problem then it will be easy to solve.

How to Increase File Copy Speed in Windows 7/8 and XP

2014-04-10T02:13:00.000-07:00

In Our daily Computer Usage we need to copy and paste files from one computer to another computer using Local area network and using flash drives. The main problem with file transferring process is it takes a lot of time in sometimes even if you have high-end computer and perfect operating system in it.

Transferring small amount of files is easy and there is no problem with those files but if you are ready to copy some large amount of files like games, movies, songs then you definitely face this problem. Here we need to consider so many problems while transferring files because presently most of the people use USB 2.0 devices which have very less transfer rate, sending data from hard disk to flash drive is always slow because those two are not belongs to same category.

How to Increase File Copy/Paste Speed in Windows 7/8/Windows XP

First I will discuss about tools which are used to increase the transferring speed in windows operating systems.

Teracopy

Teracopy is the best and lightweight tool to perform file transferring operations like copy and paste with an ease. Once you install this application on windows it acts like a default file copying software and transfer files very quickly. It reduces the seek time operation of hard disk by adjusting available buffers. It won’t stuck even if you try to copy two or more files at a time and if the limit exceeds it keeps the files in queue state. Another interesting thing is you can pause and resume file copying process which is not available in windows operating systems except windows 8.

Features of Teracopy:

It provides much faster speed than windows default copy handler with 2X speed.
You can copy more files and folders at a time without any burden on computer. That means you can perform other tasks as well as.
While file transferring process it checks for errors and try to copy those files by checking the problem. It also calculate its CRC checksum values before skipping error files.
You can also perform file copy/paste from the right-click menu, because it have full file explorer shell extension and also supports Unicode.

Talent Copy V

This is another powerful file copying tool which is available for free to use. This application is easily attracted by newbies because it have simple and clean interface without having any unnecessary options. It shows each and every information about files, folders which are being copied like folder objects loaded, folders created, how many files and folders are overwritten etc. It uses a small amount of system resources but works effectively while performing file copy/paste operations.

How to Use Talent Copy V?

This application doesn’t change the default file copy handler that’s why we need to do these manually. First copy all files and folders which you want to paste in another device.

Now Right click on the mouse and select “Paste with Talent Copy” option, then it automatically starts the file transferring process.

Features of Talent Copy:

You can get maximum file copy/paste speed up to 3x times more than normal windows file copying speed.
It also works with Hard disk drive in RAID configuration without creating any problems.
It also have pause and resume functions to stop file transfer process which was mainly missed on windows operating system.
Windows beginners also use this tool because it have simple interface.

How to Change WordPress Admin URL to Protect Blog From Hackers?

2014-04-10T02:02:00.000-07:00

Every day on Internet thousands of websites hacked by hackers because of less security. Especially WordPress websites getting hacked every day because it has huge popularity throughout the world. So automatically hackers try to hack WordPress blogs and websites. Here problem comes from with WordPress default admin URL because most of the bloggers and website owners use the default URL which comes after installation of WordPress on database. WordPress already said about this and they recommended changing the default username “admin” to other username. But these precautions don’t stop your website getting hacked from hackers.

So what to do? Here we come up with another approach which increases your WordPress blog/website security 10 times better than before.

How to Install and Configure Lockdown WP Admin Plug-in?

Here is the basic information about how to install and setup Lockdown WP Admin plug-in on WordPress blogs/websites.

First Login to your WordPress admin dashboard by entering username and password.
To get perfect results with this plug-in your site must have permalinks.
Now just navigate to plugins from the sidebar menu and click on Add new option to install new plug-in.
Type Lockdown WP Admin in the search box and click on Search button to get search results. Click on Install Now Button to install it on your WordPress blog.
Once the installation process complete, click on Activate Plug-in to activate Lockdown WP Admin plug-in.
Now Launch Lockdown WP Admin from the sidebar by clicking on Lockdown WP and select Lockdown WP.
First of all you need to select the box “Yes, please hide WP Admin from the user” and change the admin URL from WordPress login URL section with any name which is not easy to guess by any one.

In HTTP Authentication leave the field same that means keep “Disable HTTP Auth” as the default option and click on “save options” to save all these settings.
If you use HTTP Authentication then you need to create secondary WordPress Admin .htaccess password. This secondary password will be useful even if someone guess your secret admin URL too. If you use WordPress Login Credentials then you need to enter primary username and password to gain access secondary username and password.
Alternatively you can also use “Private Usernames/Passwords “to set secondary username and passwords from Lockdown WP>Private Users Section.
To check whether it’s working or not, just logout from the WordPress dashboard. Now enter old WordPress admin URL and you’ll see 404 not found error page. Now on wards you need to use WordPress secret admin URL to login into WordPress dashboard.

Remove WordPress Meta Widget to Stop Exposing Secret Login Url:

Actually professional bloggers doesn’t keep this Meta widget on their blogs but if any case you forgot to remove this widget then follow the below steps and remove Meta Widget.

1. Click on Appearance and select Widgets from the menu. Now you will see all activated and deactivated widgets at one place.

2. In Primary Sidebar you’ll have all active widgets,click on Meta widget and delete from the list.

You can check the below screenshot which exposes the secret admin url before removing meta widget.

There is another method to remove meta widget from wp files but all files are restored again if you update your WordPress dashboard.

Now no one can hack your website by accessing WordPress default admin URL.If you have any doubts while installing this process please leave a comment below.

How to Transfer Data to Any Android Mobile Without Using Data Cable?

2014-04-10T01:51:00.000-07:00

There is no doubt about that, now a days more people use smartphones and 80% people use android mobiles. Because those phones which have android operating system are available for less price when compared with other mobiles which have windows mobile operating system and ios. The bitter truth is most of the people having android mobiles but very few of them having USB data cables which are helpful to transfer data from pc to mobile. Some mobile vendors doesn’t provide cables and some other people lost their data cables. Of Course every mobile have Bluetooth connection but the transfer rate from Bluetooth to Bluetooth is very slow.

How to Transfer Data to Any Android Mobile without Data Cable?

To overcome this problem there is one excellent application which allows you to send and receive files from pc to android mobile. That is Software Data Cable (Pro), by using this application not only transfer from pc to android mobile but also transfer from other devices.

1. To work with this application first you need to download Software Data Cable (Pro) application from Google play Store and install it on your android mobile.

Download Software Data Cable (Pro)

2. After installing this application just connect to same Wi-Fi network which is already connected to your pc or mac.

3. Now open application and click on “start service” button and it will display an ip address. Note that ip address and paste it on windows explorer.

4. Once you enter this ip address then press enter to see all your mobile folders in your pc.

5. Now just copy the folder or file which one you want to transfer from pc to mobile and paste it on your mobile explorer.(Here mobile explorer means 10.0.2.15, by using this address we connect our mobile to pc).

6. That’s it, in this way we can transfer any file/folder from pc to android mobile but make sure you have Wi-Fi connection.

7. You can also change settings of this application as per your requirements.

How to SIM Unlock the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for Free

2013-10-17T06:36:00.000-07:00

This guide will teach you how to SIM unlock your carrier specific Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for free so you can use your device on other networks or with local SIM cards.

If you have purchased a Galaxy Note 3 from a mobile carrier, chances are that your device is locked and will only work on that particular network. Even though you may own your handset, if you ever decide you want to use that same device under a new carrier, or purchase local SIM cards to avoid roaming fees, you will first have to unlock your Galaxy Note 3 SIM.

While there are many cell phone unlocking services available, this guide will teach you how to successfully unlock your Samsung Galaxy Note 3 SIM for Free. Users should also note that the SIM unlock method may not work for all networks as they could be using a different GSM band that may not be compatible with your model. You should make sure to verify which bands your phone supports (i.e. 2G, 3G or 4G) before proceeding.

How to SIM Unlock the Samsung Galaxy Note 3:

Launch your smartphone’s dialer.
Enter the following code : *#197328640#
Press the Menu softkey.
Press Back.
Press Menu and then open the Key input.
Enter 1, press OK.
Press Menu and press Back again.
Tap [1]UMTS
Tap [1]Debug Screen
Tap [8]Phone Control
Tap [6]Network Lock
Tap Options and then tap [3]Perso SHA256 OFF
Press Menu and Back.
Press [6]COMMON
Tap [4] NW Lock NV Data INITIALLIZ.

If the process was successful, you should see the following text: “Asterisk Pound One Nine Seven Three Two Eight Six Four Zero Pound." The Galaxy Note 3 will restart and boot in normal mode.

In case the Free SIM unlock method does not work, then you can choose to buy an unlock code. Find your Galaxy Note 3 IMEI Code by navigating to Settings>> About device>> Status or, you can choose to open the Dial Pad and type *#06#.