Tag: Windows 8.1

How to create a shortcut to the Mouse and Touchpad settings in Windows 8.1

Mouse and Touchpad settings is an applet of Modern Control panel which allows you to change:

  • the behavior of your mouse: you can define your primary button and swap left and right buttons;
  • wheel options and scrolling settings

Actually, this applet is just a simplified version of the classic "Mouse and Pointers" applet which is still located in the Desktop Control panel. Anyway, it can be handy for Tablet users because it is very friendly for the touchscreen. In this article, we will look how we can create a shortcut to open the Mouse and Touchpad settings in Windows 8.1 directly, with one tap/click.
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How to create a shortcut to open the Narrator settings in Windows 8.1

Narrator, which is a part of Easy of Access utilites of Windows 8.1, allows you to listen to the text displayed on the screen. Once you run it, it will read everything you can see. Narrator was created to help people with limited vision. It has several settings which you might want to change. In the following article, we will learn how to create a shortcut to open those settings directly, without going through multiple steps in PC Settings.
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How to create a shortcut to open the Autoplay settings in Windows 8.1

Here is yet another handy tip to save your time and improve the usability of Windows 8.1 for you. Today we will exclusively share with you how to create a shortcut to open the Autoplay settings. This can be useful if you need to have quick access to the Autoplay settings in the modern Control Panel/PC Settings.
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How to create a shortcut to open the App sizes page in Windows 8.1

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create one extremely useful shortcut! Using that shortcut, you will be able to open the App sizes page andview how much disk space is used by every Modern app you have installed. Instead of walking through PC Settings, you will be able to directly view App sizes!
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How to create a shortcut to open Automatic Proxy Setup in Windows 8.1

Here is yet another handy tip to save your time and improve the usability of Windows 8.1 for you. Today we will exclusively share with you how to create a shortcut to open Automatic proxy setup.

This can be extremely useful if you want quickly change the automatic proxy configuration on your PC or Tablet.

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How to clean up the history of the Run command in Windows 8.1

In Windows 8/8.1 as well as in Windows 7, the user interface for Taskbar Properties changed, and with the removal of the Classic Start Menu, one useful option got removed from the settings: the ability to clean up the Run history as well as Explorer navigation history.

Let's see how we can perform the cleanup without using third party software.

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How to disable help tips for the Modern UI in Windows 8.1

When you first install Windows 8.1, it shows you help tips on how to use the corners of the screen to invoke various aspects of the Modern UI. They look like this:

While such tips are quite useful for the novice user, they can become incredibly annoying for power users or for anyone who is familiar with Windows 8/8.1's corner navigation. If they annoy you, here is how you can disable them in few simple steps:

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Resize and move Modern apps with these useful hotkeys in Windows 8.1

Windows 7 introduced a number of hotkeys to change the size and position of desktop apps. Let me remind you those keyboard shortcuts:

Win + Up Arrow - maximize the active window
Win + Down Arrow - return the maximized window to the original size. If you press Win+Down once again, the window will be minimized .
Win + Left Arrow - snap the active window to the left edge of the Desktop.
Win + Right Arrow - snap the active window to the right edge of the Desktop.
This is very handy, right?
But do you know that Microsoft has added these features in Windows 8.1 for Modern apps too? Let's see how hotkeys can be used with Modern apps.

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