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Tips to Increase your Laptop Battery Life: Reduce Screen Brightness: From a purely physical point of view the biggest power draw on a laptop is the screen display. Reduce the brightness of the screen to the lowest level that you can comfortably work at. Do not sacrifice your eyes for the sake of an extra half-an-hour of battery life, but do reduce the screen brightness as much as you feel able to. Reduce Sound and use Headphones: When watching videos or listening to music on your laptop reduce the sound as much as possible, even if you are using headphones. Not only does this conserve your battery, it can protect your hearing too! Turn Off Wifi and Bluetooth: Software can play a part in draining battery levels, and the worst offender is Wi-Fi. Modern laptops are designed to hunt around for  Wi-Fi signals  and can use an inordinate amount of battery power to do so. If you are travelling from home to work or vice versa and do not need to be connected to the...

Websites are getting blocked everywhere by ISP (Internet Service Provider). Many do face these problems in schools and colleges.They block for several reasons like saving bandwidth or stopping you from accessing illegal sites. Sometimes they also block sites like facebook and youtube. So what they actually are doing is that they block your IP(Internet Protocol) address from accessing those websites. IP addresses are  unique  string of numbers separated by full stops. Basically, it’s like your computer contact address. Different computers have different IP addresses, These IP addresses are used by the ISP for identifying the computers.Without IP address sender will not be able to send the packets or information to your computer.So when they block certain websites, the obvious possible solution would be either to unblock your IP address or to change your IP address, Yes you heard it right we can change our IP address. Here I will tell you how to change your IP address ...

By using this trick we can see clocks for different cities. To make this work on Windows 7, click the clock icon in your system tray. Choose Additional Clocks in the windows that pops up and add the additional cities you want. Unfortunately, the additional times don’t exactly get displayed in your tray — you need to hover over the clock. Steps : Click on the clock icon present in the system tray.  Click on Change date and time Settings. . . option.  Click on Additional Clocks Tab.  The clocks for different cities will appear. 

Click Start type CMD in the search box. Right click and click open to run Command line. Type shutdown /s /t 3600 and Enter. Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down.  So , 60secs*60mins=3600secs Means 1 Hour. Windows will display message about shutting down in 60 minutes  TO ABORT: type shutdown /a To make an abort and stop the shutdown timer. A message will be prompted to you that the scheduled shutdown has been cancelled. Enjoy. 

Did your PC got stuck with a blue screen and didn’t leave any info how to resolve it?Then your computer is prone to  Blue Screen of Death (also known as  BSoD  or  Blue Scree n).Which is also known as  Stop Error  or  Bug Check . Blue Screen of Death  is nothing but a Blue error screen which is shown in the  Microsoft windows  Operating systems normally which stops the further operations. This happens normally when a fatal error occurs. This may take place due to different reasons and even the actions of BSOD will be different,like sometimes it may ask us “ continue by pressing any key ” or asks to restart or sometimes system may just hang with blue screen. This the most irritating problem that is seen in all version of windows. Even Owner of Microsoft Billgates can’t escape from Blue screen of death (BOSD): On 1998 when Bill Gates with his assistant was demonstrating Windows 1998 through a presentation and in sudden Blue e...

How to delete photos in Google Photos: If you are an Android user, you might know Google Photos application. Open that application, Its logo looks as shown in below image. Click on the image you want to delete. After clicking that the image enters into fullscreen mode as below. Then click on the delete icon present on the bottom right corner of the image (or) Click on more option which is  present on the top right corner of the image. Then select Delete device copy. Then that image will be moved to trash. You can do this for many images at a time also by following below procedure Open the Google photos application Long press on the image you want to delete. That image is marked now. You can select as many images as you want to delete  by simply tapping on them. Which shows the selected images with the blue ticks top left of those images as shown in below image. Then click on the delete icon present on the top right corner of the display (or) Click on more opt...

Windows 7 ships with a utility named PSR (Problem Steps Recorder) that records the steps you’ve taken on the computer automatically including mouse clicks. You can use these recordings to speed up issues when you’re dealing with tech support.  Problem Steps Recorder can be used to automatically capture the steps performed by a user on a computer, including a text description of where they clicked and a picture of the screen during each click. This capture is then automatically saved to a file that can be used by a support professional to help the user troubleshoot the issue or understand what steps were taken by the user.  Steps : Click Start => Click Run or (Win + R) to open Run Command. Type PSR and Press Enter. Problem Steps Recorder toolbar will appear. To Start the capture simply press on the “Start Record” button: Now whatever you do on your computer it will be recorded in snaps as well as text.  To Stop recording simply press “Stop Record” ...