Simplex RC theme for Windows 8
Author: Sergey Tkachenko
Droplets theme for Windows 8
Internet Explorer 11 will be shipped with Windows 8.1 (aka ‘Blue’)
According to Win8China, Internet Explorer 11 is currently in development and will be included in the next major update to Windows named "Windows 8.1" (aka 'Blue') that is expected to be released this summer.
How to properly restart the Explorer shell in Windows
Windows provides several secret ways to exit the Explorer shell. They can be useful when you make registry changes that affect Explorer or for shell developers when testing shell extensions. In case you didn't know them, today I am going to share them with you.
Why you may want to restart Explorer
There are several reasons when you may want to exit the Explorer shell and start it again, such as:
- You are trying to uninstall some software with shell extensions, e.g. WinRAR. If you leave Explorer, all shell extensions will be unloaded from the shell and will be cleanly deleted by the uninstaller. All files that are locked for use by the Explorer.exe process will be released.
- If you applied some tweak which requires you to log off and log in back, in most cases, it is enough to only restart the shell.
Let's see how this can be done.
Twilight Scenery theme for Windows 8
Green Bliss theme for Windows 8
Attractions theme for Windows 8
How to disable the built-in PDF viewer in Firefox
Firefox 19 comes with a built-in PDF viewer. It looks like this:
Although I like this new feature, because it works fast and looks smooth, you might want to disable it for whatever reason (for example, if the full PDF is not rendered perfectly) . Read below to see how.
Rumor: Microsoft has switched to NT 6.3 kernel in Windows 8.1
According to fresh rumors, Microsoft has switched to kernel version 6.3 in the upcoming update to Windows. Windows 8's successor's screenshot has been leaked to the public by the famous underground WZor team:
Blossom theme for Windows 8
