You will get a lot of browser toolbars while trying to install some crappy(may be useful sometimes ! rarely) softwares. You will try to uninstall the toolbar but somehow it doesn't work. In my case I have come across AVG secure searchbar which I dont like to call it as a secure search tool at all. It looks terrible and every search result opens in a new tab (its not my choice at all !). So I have tried uninstalling it through control panel which has given the following error.
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Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts
Music is really good for health. While working on my Laptop I always prefer to run a play-list. I have used these media players and I want to share them with you.
Clementine Music Player : Simply superb ! Nice interface. You can easily add media libraries. It is very easy to create playlists here. I love the "fading duration" feature in this music player.
VLC : All of my friends use this as it is very simple. In fact they learned all keyboard shortcuts for VLC and even tried them on other players and failed.
My favorite features of VLC include subtitle integration, 'always on top' and 'effects & filters'. With Always on top feature you can watch a video while working with other windows.Nice feature for multi-tasking.
Do you know that you can watch YouTube videos in VLC media player without any advertisements ?
VLC works fine on Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android .VLC plays most of the file types which makes it number one media player.Even if you already have VLC in your Computer, try to get a latest VLC download.
Banshee Media Player : Banshee is my best companion.It plays all of my favorite songs for me while i blog.It perfectly fits on my Mint tray making the menu panel beautiful.
Banshee comes for Linux, Mac and Windows.
XBMC Media Center : Don't miss this ! XBMC is a good alternative for Windows media center. Read about XBMC media center features here
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| best media players for free |
Clementine Music Player : Simply superb ! Nice interface. You can easily add media libraries. It is very easy to create playlists here. I love the "fading duration" feature in this music player.
VLC : All of my friends use this as it is very simple. In fact they learned all keyboard shortcuts for VLC and even tried them on other players and failed.
My favorite features of VLC include subtitle integration, 'always on top' and 'effects & filters'. With Always on top feature you can watch a video while working with other windows.Nice feature for multi-tasking.
Do you know that you can watch YouTube videos in VLC media player without any advertisements ?
VLC works fine on Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android .VLC plays most of the file types which makes it number one media player.Even if you already have VLC in your Computer, try to get a latest VLC download.
Banshee Media Player : Banshee is my best companion.It plays all of my favorite songs for me while i blog.It perfectly fits on my Mint tray making the menu panel beautiful.
Banshee comes for Linux, Mac and Windows.
XBMC Media Center : Don't miss this ! XBMC is a good alternative for Windows media center. Read about XBMC media center features here
I don't know how I have missed this software till last month..(some times we will stick to old softwares as we used to them.....!!)
XBMC will turn your computer into a stunning media center. It is free and open source software available on Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS, android (....almost on every platform)
turn on XMBC and it will go full screen mode to show weather,music,videos,TV shows, RSS feeds from your favorite website.With some plug-ins you can browse the web also.You can see the details of your computer like hardware details,network details etc.
See this video to get an idea about XBMC
I am using this on my Linux Mint OS. I feel that this is a best answer to Windows Media Center available on Windows OS. As an open source project XBMC is getting a lot of support from volunteers who always try to make this more beautiful.
There are beautiful skins(themes!!) available to download for different look.
Try this awesome Open source software for free here
Actually this works as a Desktop Environment for Linux systems. That means you can directly run this media center software without logging into your OS too. Try this If you want to turn your Laptop into a Party music device :)
XBMC will turn your computer into a stunning media center. It is free and open source software available on Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS, android (....almost on every platform)
turn on XMBC and it will go full screen mode to show weather,music,videos,TV shows, RSS feeds from your favorite website.With some plug-ins you can browse the web also.You can see the details of your computer like hardware details,network details etc.
See this video to get an idea about XBMC
I am using this on my Linux Mint OS. I feel that this is a best answer to Windows Media Center available on Windows OS. As an open source project XBMC is getting a lot of support from volunteers who always try to make this more beautiful.
There are beautiful skins(themes!!) available to download for different look.
Try this awesome Open source software for free here
Actually this works as a Desktop Environment for Linux systems. That means you can directly run this media center software without logging into your OS too. Try this If you want to turn your Laptop into a Party music device :)
I love Ubuntu font developed by Ubuntu and Google team.So I decided to use it in my Windows PC (dual booted with Linux Mint and Windows 7).
After installing a font you can use it in Applications like paint,MS office etc.
Although this is a very simple task many people never used this previously.So today I will explain how to add your favorite font to Windows PC.
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| add your favorite font to windows PC |
First of all download the font from Internet. Just Google for it, you will find a lot of websites.
Download the fonts as per your wish. You will get a zipped file. Unzip it so that you will get a TrueType font file. Now copy this file and paste it in Font setting panel. To open the font settings follow the path as given below.
Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Fonts
This will look similar to the below picture
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| adding a font to Windows PC |
Thats all ! Now you can use your font in your Windows PC applications.
If you want to use the change the default Windows font (in File Explorer and other app.s)
Go to the path shown below
Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization\Window Color and Appearance
Now click on Advanced appearance settings. Select item for which you want to change the font.Now choose the font from the drop down list and apply the changes.
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| change your default font style in Windows 7 |
Now you can enjoy your favorite font in your Windows PC :)
If you have any doubt please drop a comment.
PS : This will also work for Linux distributions. You can double click the truetype font file to install it. It doesn't even take 1 second to finish the installation on my Linux Mint 13.
Some times it is required keep the PC running even after we go to sleep particularly while downloading some files through torrentz.If you forget to shutdown the PC for long time it will effect the PC and battery(for laptop users) performance.
So Today we will learn a simple task scheduler trick.
Task scheduler is basically used to run both periodical and non periodical tasks by operating system or by the user.We can create any task so that a particular program starts at a particular point of time.
I have created a video on Youtube for Geeky Brains blog Followers.Please watch it in good quality(480p or above)
For your reference I am giving the instructions below
1.Open task scheduler from control panel (control panel-->system and security-->administrative tools-->task scheduler)
2.Click on "Action" button on top left corner.
3.Click on "create basic task"
4. Give some name and description.Give the trigger as "one time"
5.Give date and time (when you want to shutdown your PC)
6.Choose start program.
7.Now click on browse for "shutdown.exe"(Local disc(c:)--->Windows--->system32). Choose it and open.Click next
8.Add the argument "/s /f" (without any quotes)
9.Click next and finish creating the auto shutdown task.
Now you can see your task in "Task scheduler library" by clicking on it.
Note : in the above mentioned instructions at 8th step we are adding the argument /f for force shutdown. It may not be required every time.If some program is continuously running until the time you have mentioned in the task then it will be forcefully closed to proceed the shutdown operation .If you are using windows 7 you can skip it by choice.
The same task can also be done by a simple command in command prompt also. But I have explained this lengthy procedure to introduce the concept of task scheduling to you.With this tutorial you can easily create another task also.
We have created a simple task to shutdown the PC automatically :)
Next time don't leave your PC turned on for a download. Create your own task to do the automatic stuff :)
So Today we will learn a simple task scheduler trick.
Task scheduler is basically used to run both periodical and non periodical tasks by operating system or by the user.We can create any task so that a particular program starts at a particular point of time.
I have created a video on Youtube for Geeky Brains blog Followers.Please watch it in good quality(480p or above)
For your reference I am giving the instructions below
1.Open task scheduler from control panel (control panel-->system and security-->administrative tools-->task scheduler)
2.Click on "Action" button on top left corner.
3.Click on "create basic task"
4. Give some name and description.Give the trigger as "one time"
5.Give date and time (when you want to shutdown your PC)
6.Choose start program.
7.Now click on browse for "shutdown.exe"(Local disc(c:)--->Windows--->system32). Choose it and open.Click next
8.Add the argument "/s /f" (without any quotes)
9.Click next and finish creating the auto shutdown task.
Now you can see your task in "Task scheduler library" by clicking on it.
Note : in the above mentioned instructions at 8th step we are adding the argument /f for force shutdown. It may not be required every time.If some program is continuously running until the time you have mentioned in the task then it will be forcefully closed to proceed the shutdown operation .If you are using windows 7 you can skip it by choice.
The same task can also be done by a simple command in command prompt also. But I have explained this lengthy procedure to introduce the concept of task scheduling to you.With this tutorial you can easily create another task also.
We have created a simple task to shutdown the PC automatically :)
Next time don't leave your PC turned on for a download. Create your own task to do the automatic stuff :)
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