Much to the disappointment of many Windows casual gamers, Windows 8 entirely removed all classic games from the OS and expected everyone to migrate to the Store versions. The Store versions lack many features and customizations of the classic Windows versions but are still playable, especially with the upcoming Windows 8.1 Update 1 which will show these on the Taskbar so they are not full screen. Here are 40 free games in the Windows Store, some of them classics.
Valentine’s Day 2014 theme for Windows 8
How to use wake on LAN on Windows 8.1 and Windows 8
Wake-on-LAN (WOL) is a great feature of PCs which allows you to wake them up from sleep or shutdown over your local area network or over the Internet. It is like a remote power on button. If your hardware has WOL support, you can power on the computer remotely using any of the dozens of freeware tools available on the web to initiate the wake up event. In this article, I will cover the basic steps which are required to configure WOL under Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
Minimize apps to system tray (notification area) with TrayIt!
Do you know that you can minimize desktop apps in Windows to the notification area (system tray) since Windows 95? Even if the feature isn't exposed in the Windows user interface, it's been possible and there have been dozens of tools written to minimize programs to the notification area. One of the best ones is TrayIt! Let's see what makes TrayIt! so cool.
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TrayIt!
Note: The official website of the app is not online any longer. There is no way to download the app from the official website or find the author's contact information. You can download TrayIt! from Winaero. We are using it ourselves and store it here for our personal needs. The app is distributed 'as-is', all rights belong to its author, Igor Nys.
TrayIt! is a small free utility that allows you to minimize any program to the Windows tray rather than the Windows taskbar. TrayIt can send any window or application to the notification area, even when the app doesn't support such a feature.
[Fix] Desktop Tile is missing on the Start screen in Windows 8.1
By default, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 come with a special tile on the Start screen called 'Desktop'. It shows your current wallpaper and allows you to switch to the classic Desktop mode to work with desktop apps. But sometimes something goes wrong and Desktop tile disappears from the Start screen. Here's how you can restore it.
Download Desktop Tile for Windows 8.1
Desktop Tile for Windows 8.1.
Desktop Tile for Windows 8.1
Allows you to restore the missing Desktop tile on the Start screen.
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Get a customizable brightness control for your Android home screen
Like many people, I have several Android devices for daily use, including a smartphone and two tablets. All of them have Android's auto-brightness feature, which allows changing the display brightness automatically when the light around you changes its intensity. However, I am not a big fan of this feature. Instead, I prefer setting the brightness level manually. For that purpose, I use a free open source widget for the home screen.
Nature HD#37 theme for Windows 8
Queue copy and move operations in Windows with PerigeeCopy
The copy function in Windows has evolved over time to add useful features but one feature it still doesn't have is the ability to automatically queue multiple copy jobs so they don't run simultaneously, that is, when one copy operation is running, another shouldn't start before the first one finishes to avoid slowing down both and the overall speed of copying too. A third party freeware called PerigeeCopy offers this feature along with a host of other cool features. Let's see what it's got to offer.
