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Search preferences is very handy settings page of Modern Control Panel in Windows 8.1. Using those preferences, you are able:
Here is yet another useful tip to save your time and improve the usability of Windows 8.1. We will learn how to create a shortcut to open Search preferences in Windows 8.1 directly with one click.
In this post I would like to share how to create a shortcut to open the "Choose default apps by file type" settings page directly in Windows 8.1. One the benefits of Windows 8.1 is the fact that it allows you to create such shortcuts for almost every parameter of the PC Settings application. Let's use this amazing ability to improve the usability of Windows 8.1.
In Windows 8.1, there are some changes to the Navigation pane of File Explorer. The Libraries icon has been moved below the 'This PC' icon. Many users consider this change as a useful one and have been emailing me asking how to move Libraries below the Computer icon in Windows 7.
This is extremely simple to do. In this article, you will learn all the required steps to move Computer above Libraries in the Navigation pane of Windows 7 Explorer.
There are many PDF converters that offer basic conversion options, like converting native PDFs into MS Office documents or creating PDFs from these files. Only a small number of software provide an option to convert scanned images to editable formats, such as Word and Excel, and amongst them is the PDF Converter Elite 3.
Now, optical character recognition (OCR) conversion is a very sensitive operation that usually does not result in 100% accurate converted documents. Since image documents are scanned from printed or handwritten documents and the OCR software then needs to match the font with existing ones in its database, it’s not always possible to come up with an exact match. There are other elements in a scanned file that sometimes cannot be detected by the converter, like line breaks, footnotes and bulleted lists, but PCE 3 comes the closest to performing an accurate scanned image conversion.
Choose default apps settings in Windows 8.1 is a set of special options inside the PC Settings app which allows you to specify the applications which will handle several document types. You will be able to set
Besides that, you can customize file types for every app and protocol. It is very handy to have a shortcut to open Choose default apps settings with the single click. Let's discover how it can be done.
Other Accounts in Windows 8.1 is a settings page inside the PC Settings application. It allows you to manage accounts of other users on your PC. You can use it to change the account type or delete the account.
If you want to open Other Accounts quickly, there is good news for you: Windows 8.1 allows you to create a shortcut to open Other Accounts. After that, you will be able to open the "Manage Other Accounts" page with one single click.
In Windows 8.1 there is a simplified devices manager, which is located inside the Modern Control Panel. To open the Devices page, you have to open the Charms Bar, the click Settings, then click PC Settings -> PC and Devices -> Devices. This is a quite long path, right?
Let me show you how you can save your time and open Devices directly with the special shortcut.
Windows 8/8.1 have the Ribbon UI in File Explorer, with a Quick Access Toolbar at the top. Imagine the following situation - you've customized the Quick Access Toolbar according to your personal preferences, adding your favorite commands in there and you are satisfied having only the commands you want - then wouldn't it be nice if you could easily save all those customized buttons and their order? Suppose some day, you re-install Windows or move to another PC with Windows 8.1, you wouldn't want to lose all your settings and start over again. So, today I would like to share with you a nice tip, which will help you to backup and restore the Quick Access Toolbar's settings and apply them later to your current PC or any other PC.
