Adobe Reader Modern UI App Comes To Windows 8 Store

Apart from its visually stunning looks, Windows 8 boasts many excellent features that make it one of the best versions of Windows ever to come out of Redmond’s door, in our opinion. One of the new features of Windows 8 is its native ability to handle PDF documents via the integrated Reader app. However, if you tend to use Adobe Reader for all your PDF needs, you’ll be delighted to learn that its Modern UI app has just been released in Windows Store that does a great job in letting you view

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Disable Windows 8 Start Screen Launch Animation To Make It Feel Faster

As many of you already know, Windows 8 follows Microsoft’s “Modern UI” design language, which emphasizes “content” over “chrome”, with heavy use of typography and empty space. Now, the use of elaborate animations throughout the user interface are one of its biggest, most distinctive features, and these are most prevalent in Windows 8’s Start screen, logon screen and “Modern” apps that can be downloaded from the Windows Store.Animations can really liven up the user interface,

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How to get back old youtube layout/look

Recently Youtube rolled out new look for all users.The new look was intended to increase number of views for a particular channel but it got strong disapproval from most of the users.This is quite common,whenever a popular website rolls out new design most of the users start hating it.Same was the case with Facebook,as soon as facebook rolled out timeline most of them looked for ways toremove facebook timeline but now they got habituated to it.It will take some time to get adapted to new

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How To Clear Cache In Windows 8

One of the things that help in speeding up your computer is clearing the cache. Although it isn’t everything it takes to get some speed, it still does wonders in some cases. Especially in Windows 8, where you have two different environments: the desktop and the Modern UI. You have to know how to clear the cache for both of them, and in what follows, we’re going to show you various tips for doing just that.



Desktop Apps Cache
Type “cleanmgr” on the Start screen, press Enter and

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How To Clear Cache In Windows 8

One of the things that help in speeding up your computer is clearing the cache. Although it isn’t everything it takes to get some speed, it still does wonders in some cases. Especially in Windows 8, where you have two different environments: the desktop and the Modern UI. You have to know how to clear the cache for both of them, and in what follows, we’re going to show you various tips for doing just that.



Desktop Apps Cache

Type “cleanmgr” on the Start screen, press Enter and select cleanmgr.exe from the search results. Disk Cleanup will open and scan for files.


Once it’s done scanning, check ‘Thumbnails’ and click OK.


Sometimes, when you’re having browsing problems (even though your internet connection is working), you probably need to flush your DNS cache.
To do so, open command prompt, and type the following command: (don’t forget the space after ipconfig)
ipconfig /flushdns


Modern UI Apps Cache

There are several things you can do here. Let’s begin with Internet Explorer, the Modern UI version of the browser, that is.

Internet Explorer Cache

Yes, the desktop version of IE has its own browsing history, and so does the Modern version. For the latter, you need to open Internet Explorer from the Start screen.

Bring up the Charms bar (one of the several ways to do that is to move your mouse into the bottom-right corner of the screen) and click Settings and select ‘Internet Options’ from the menu that follows.


Click the Delete button under ‘Delete Browsing History’ to do just that.




Windows Store Cache

Let’s move on to another Modern UI app. How about resetting the Store cache? To do so, press Win key + R to bring up the Run Window. Type “WSReset.exe” and press Enter.

The Store app will open, and you’ll see the following message.


Search History

If you use the Search function of the Charms bar quite often, you might consider deleting the search history. To do so, launch the Charms bar, and select Settings > PC Settings.

Select Search from the left pane, and click the ‘Delete history’ button below ‘Search history’.



Live Tile Cache

One last thing that you might consider doing is clearing up the live tile cache. You can do this whenever you notice the live tiles failing to be ‘live’.
On the Start screen, hit Win key + C or scroll to the bottom-right corner to open the Charms Bar and select Settings > Tiles.
Under ‘Clear personal info from my tiles’, click the ‘Clear’ button.

You’ll notice that all your live tiles will be reset to default.


So these were some of the ways you can reset the cache in Windows 8. Know any other methods? Tell us in the comments!















How to get back old youtube layout/look




Recently Youtube rolled out new look for all users.The new look was intended to increase number of views for a particular channel but it got strong disapproval from most of the users.This is quite common,whenever a popular website rolls out new design most of the users start hating it.Same was the case with Facebook,as soon as facebook rolled out timeline most of them looked for ways toremove facebook timeline but now they got habituated to it.It will take some time to get adapted to new changes.If you want to revert back to old youtube interface here is a simple and 100% working trick.

Here we explained a simple trick to get old youtube interface for two primary browsers Google Chrome and Firefox.

Here is the new look of youtube.



Get Old Youtube Layout on Google Chrome:

  • Open Youtube.com.
  • Press  Ctrl + Shift + J
  • Now a windows will popup ,choose Console option.

  • Then copy and paste the following piece of code and hit Enter .
document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=qDpUsBNO0FY; expires=Thu, 2 Aug 2020 20:47:11 UTC"
  • After you are done with that close and restart the browser.
  • Now you should get the old youtube layout back.

Get Old Youtube Look On Mozilla Firefox:

  • Go to Youtube.com.
  • Press  Ctrl + Shift + K
  • Now a window will popup ,choose Console option.

document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=qDpUsBNO0FY; expires=Thu, 2 Aug 2020 20:47:11 UTC"
  • After you are done with that close and restart the browser.
  • Now you should get the old youtube layout back.


How to Revert Back to New Look Again?

Well its quite simple to revert back to the present look.All you have to do is to clear cookies in your respective browser.It will bring back the new look back.



Disable Windows 8 Start Screen Launch Animation To Make It Feel Faster


As many of you already know, Windows 8 follows Microsoft’s “Modern UI” design language, which emphasizes “content” over “chrome”, with heavy use of typography and empty space. Now, the use of elaborate animations throughout the user interface are one of its biggest, most distinctive features, and these are most prevalent in Windows 8’s Start screen, logon screen and “Modern” apps that can be downloaded from the Windows Store.
Animations can really liven up the user interface, but some people are of the opinion that they waste system resources and precious milliseconds of the user’s time. If you happen to be amongst these people and are using Windows 8, then you should know there is a very simple way of turning almost all of fluffy animations completely off. This even works for some animations in Windows 7 and Vista.


The general procedure for this guide is simple: you access “Performance Options” and disable multiple animations. Now, let’s get started!
Press the Windows + R button to launch the Windows Run dialog. Type “sysdm.cpl” into the textbox as shown below and click OK.
Alternatively, you may launch File Explorer, right-click on Computer, Properties and then the ‘Change Settings’ option beside ‘Computer name’.

The system will present you with a window titled ‘System Properties’. Click the Advanced tab on the top and then, under Performance, click on  ’Settings…’.


You will now see a ‘Performance Options’ window. From here, you can adjust visual effects, resource distribution for running programs vs. background services and even change the size of the virtual memory (which is used in case you run out of RAM).
In the ‘Performance Options’ window, click the ‘Custom’ radio button, and remove the checkmark to the left of ‘Animate controls and elements inside windows’. This will eliminate the Start screen launch animation. Additionally, you can disable ‘Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing’ and ‘Animations in the taskbar’. Of course, you can remove the rest of them, but in my opinion that would be a bit of an overkill.

After you’ve disabled the options of your choice, simply click on ‘Apply’, and then OK. Animations will now be disabled, making your user interface just a wee bit faster. I only disabled animations for controls and elements inside windows, so the difference was quite minimal. You may have a different experience




How To Change Forgotten Windows 8 Password


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Windows 8 has been around for quite a while now and ever since its release, there’s been a lot of discussion regarding its new features, UI overhaul and what not. As with any modern multi-user operating system, Windows 8 lets you create user profiles and specify passwords to protect user accounts. This feature let multiple users share the same PC while keeping each user’s settings intact. If you are the only user with full administrator access on your computer and forget your password, you would be locked out of your computer. If that happens, your usual bet is starting over with a fresh Windows partition, or using some complex third-party tools to reset your password. In what follows, we will guide you through the process of resetting your forgotten Windows password without using any third-party tools.
Before you proceed, do note one important thing. If you have any encrypted files in your user account, using this or any other method to reset the account’s password will mean losing those files permanently, unless you saved a copy of your encryption certificates when encrypting your files.
Now the process isn’t as simple as a few mouse clicks but as long as you can follow the instructions carefully, you should have no trouble resetting your Windows password. First, you will need to create a System Repair Disk from a Windows 8 PC that you can access. This can be your work PC, or a friend or family member’s PC; it just has to be running Windows 8. The repair disk can be created on the a blank CD or DVD, though you can even use a USB flash drive for the purpose as almost all modern PCs are capable of booting via USB drives. So let’s get started with it.
Insert the blank disc or USB into the Windows 8 machine, go to Control Panel and click ‘Create a system repair disc’ in the top-left region. Follow the simple on-screen instructions, and your repair disk will be ready in no time.


Next, inset the repair disk or USB drive into your own machine and boot from the computer from it, and select Troubleshoot.



On the next screen, click Advanced options.



Now click the Command Prompt option.



This will open up a Command Prompt window. In this window, enter these command one by one:
diskpart
exit


You will see a list of your disk partitions, from which you can easily find your Windows installation partition. Usually it is the C drive but if it is a different one, make sure to use that throughout the rest of the tutorial. Enter this command to exit the DiskPart tool:
Next enter these command one by one (make sure to replace C in the first command to the appropriate drive letter for your Windows partition, if it’s different in your case):
C:
cd windows
cd system32
copy cmd.exe cmd.exe.original
copy Utilman.exe Utilman.exe.original
del Utilman.exe
ren cmd.exe Utilman.exe
shutdown –r –t 00

These commands will prepare the tools necessary for resetting your password, and restart your computer. Once booted to the login screen, click the Ease of Access button at the bottom left corner. Based on the commands that we used in the previous step, this will open a Command Prompt window instead of the Ease of Access menu.


Enter this command to list the exact names of all the user accounts:
net user
The name of your account will be different from what’s shown below. It will generally be any account other than Administrator and Guest. We will be using the exact name of your user account in the next commands, so note it carefully.

Enter this command, replacing WAQAx with the name of your user account, as shown above:
net user WAQAx *
You will now be asked to enter your new password. When you type the password, the curser will not move and no characters will appear, which means you won’t see the password being typed. Rest assured though that it is there, so make sure you enter the letters carefully. After you enter it, you will be asked to confirm it again; simply type the same password again.

Enter this command to exit the Command Prompt window:
exit
You should now be able to login to your PC with the new password.

Don’t go away yet – you still need to revert the changes you made to cmd.exe and Utilman.exe files. Boot into the Repair disk again using the same process and bring up the Command Prompt window as before. Then enter the following commands one by one, replacing ‘C’ with the drive letter of your Windows partition:
C:
cd windows
cd system32
del Utilman.exe
ren Utilman.exe.original Utilman.exe
ren cmd.exe.original cmd.exe
shutdown -r -t 00

These commands will restore the files to the way they initially were, and restart your computer normally. After the computer reboots, you will notice that you can now open the original Ease of Access menu on the login screen.


That’s it – you have successfully reset your Windows 8 password

Adobe Reader Modern UI App Comes To Windows 8 Store




Apart from its visually stunning looks, Windows 8 boasts many excellent features that make it one of the best versions of Windows ever to come out of Redmond’s door, in our opinion. One of the new features of Windows 8 is its native ability to handle PDF documents via the integrated Reader app. However, if you tend to use Adobe Reader for all your PDF needs, you’ll be delighted to learn that its Modern UI app has just been released in Windows Store that does a great job in letting you view all your PDF documents. The app is well-optimized for both Windows 8 and RT, and the experience is stunningly snappy in the latter. The app also supports touch gestures, making navigation a breeze on tablets.
You can download the app from the Productivity category in Windows Store, or manually search for it manually by hitting Win+Q on your keyboard to open Search Charm and entering ‘Adobe’.
Adobe has done a great job in designing the interface, keeping it minimalistic yet intuitive. The main screen comprises of Getting Started and Recently Viewed sections. Recently Viewed keeps a history of your previously accessed files, so you may instantly open a particular document without having to browse for it all over again. Similarly, to open a new PDF document, click Open File tile under Getting Started, and the integrated file explorer will let you select the target file.

The strongest point of Adobe’s PDF Reader products has been flawless rendering, and the new Windows 8 app doesn’t disappoint in that regard even one bit. You can choose to switch between viewing modes from the App Bar at the bottom by right-clicking with mouse or swiping up from bottom on touch screens. The app features two View Modes: Continuous and Single Page – the former provides a seamless experience through vertical scrolling while the latter shows one document page at a time and the pages can be flipped via horizontal scrolling. You can simply hold Ctrl key and use the mouse scroller to zoom in and out of the currently focused page.


Likewise, zooming out past the full page length presents you with the handy thumbnails interface, providing you with a bird’s eye view of all the pages of the document. Clicking any thumbnail lets you jump over to that page. Windows RT users can rely on pinch-to-zoom gestures to enter the thumbnails view mode.


As expected, you can use the search function to quickly find a keyword or phrase in the document. Clicking or tapping Find in the App bar displays the search field; simply type in what you’re looking for, and hit enter to see the results.



Once again, Adobe has done a great job in creating a polished PDF viewer app that is also easy to navigate. Unlike the previous desktop versions that were notorious for being heavy, slow and filled with bloatware that most users don’t require, this one seems to be fast, fluid and lightweight, making it a breeze for anyone to use as their primary PDF viewer.






How To Disable Windows 8 Automatic Maintenance Or Change Its Time




Microsoft reiterated that Windows 8 has been built upon the solid foundations of its predecessor. Well, there is no denying this fact, because apart from looking stunning, Windows 8 includes several robust features under the hood that make it fast, stable and snappy, just like the previous version. One of the refreshing additions to this feature-set is automatic system maintenance (also called Regular Maintenance), which checks for software updates, system diagnostics and security scanning tasks, on regular basis. This option ensures that maintenance tasks are performed at a specified time, provided you’re not around and the system is idle. In what follows, we will guide you through the process of changing time settings to run the daily maintenance task, whether to allow the schedule maintenance to wake your machine, as well as disable this feature if you don’t need it.

Change Scheduled Maintenance Time

To change time settings for automatic system maintenance, click the Action Center icon in the System Tray followed by ‘Open Action Center’. Alternatively, you can access the Action Center from the Control Panel.

In the Action Center window, click the arrow beside Maintenance to expand its settings, and then click ‘Change maintenance settings’ under the Automatic Maintenance section, as demonstrated in the screenshot below.


Here, you can choose the maintenance time according to your liking. Windows 8 sets this time to 3:00 AM by default, but you can change it to any other time. Furthermore, you can enable/disable the optional ‘Allow scheduled maintenance to wake up my computer at the scheduled time’. When done, click OK to apply the changes. If prompted by the UAC, simply click the Yes button.


Disable Automatic Maintenance

Apart from changing time parameters, you can also disable the Automatic Maintenance option altogether. This can done from within the Windows Task Scheduler utility. To do so, press Win+W to call the Search Charm and type “task scheduler” or “schedule tasks”. Selecting Schedule tasks from the left will launch the Task Scheduler window.

Task Scheduler is Window’s native utility that allows various system or user applications to be launched or triggered automatically at a user defined time. It houses three navigation panes. The left pane lets you select the task, the center pane contains information regarding the selected task, while the right pane contains further pertaining actions.


From  the left pane, navigate to:
Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > TaskScheduler
Right click ‘Regular Maintenance’ from the center pane and select Disable from its context menu.

That’s it! You have successfully disabled Regular Maintenance.