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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.
Here is another handy way to open one the of Modern settings in Windows 8.1 with one click. In this tutorial, we will look how we can open Date and Time options directly with a shortcut.
Date and Time options is a settings page which allows you to change date and time, set up the time zone and date formats and turn on or off the Internet time synchronization.
Read the rest, if you are interested how to create a shortcut to open the Date and Time options in Windows 8.1.
The Quick Access Toolbar is now part of the Windows File Explorer app. That toolbar is very handy because it allows you to access your frequently used commands with one mouse click! In this tutorial, we will learn how to add any Ribbon command to the Quick Access toolbar in Windows 8.1.
Power and sleep options is a setting inside the modern Control panel, there you can set up when your PC will go into sleep mode. Also you can specify, how long your screen will be active when you do not use your PC or Tablet.
It is possible to create a shortcut to open those settings in Windows 8.1. This is a really easy task.
PC Info is a special page of the PC Settings application inside the "PC and Devices" category. It allows you to view basic information about your PC like OS version and edition, CPU type and clock, the RAM size and some other details. Besides that, using the PC Info settings page you can change your PC name or Windows product key.
Did you know that Windows 8.1 allows you to create a shortcut to open PC Info directly with one click? Let's discover this ability!
If you find the default Windows 8.1 shortcut icon too large and ugly, or are bored with that blue arrow overlay, then you might want to change it or disable it completely. It's easy to do that. I have developed a tool for you to change the shortcut arrow with just one click! It's unfortunate that Windows 8.1 has no settings for this. In the past, we had TweakUI for Windows which allowed changing it. Well, let's fix it for Windows 8.1 right now!
Windows Shortcut Arrow Editor allows you to remove the shortcut arrow in Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista or set it to the nice custom icon. It works properly in both x86 and x64 editions of Windows and does not require to be installed.
I saw many users requests about shortcut arrow removing and editing in Windows 8.x, so I decide to create this tool:
Warning! The latest verion is 1.0.0.2, it contains several bugfixes, please UPGRADE NOW.
When Windows 8 was released, many users who installed it got confused: there was no Start menu, and shutdown options were buried several clicks inside the Charms (which also is hidden by default). Unfortunately, Windows 8.1 is not a significant improvement in this regard, but it has some improvements to usability. Let's discover all the possible ways to shutdown, reboot and logoff in Windows 8.1
