Installing Windows To MBR or GPT Drive Style - Easy Way!

Well, lately I have been pulling out hair trying to install Windows 7 and 10 to my new Lenovo G40 laptop. The issues was... 

"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of GPT style"

I alter the 'UEFI' settings, tweaking around the 'Legacy' in BIOS settings, but, did not help.

Then, I tried the easy way - Rufus. It is a USB Bootable maker.

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

It can be especially useful for cases where:

you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)

you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed

you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS

you want to run a low-level utility

Now, creating USB Bootable for 'GPT style drives' using Rufus.

1. Download Rufus here

2. Run the tool

3. Once the tool is running, click on the 'Partition scheme and target system type' and choose 'GPT partition scheme for UEFI'

4. Choose other options

5. Click start and let it do the rest.

Let me know if it works for you.

Installing Android On Computer

If you ever thought of running android on your computer, but do not know how to get through, then this post is the exact read you need. The first thing you should get to know is what you need to get Android working on your computer, and the things are:

1. Computer, obviously which you have.

2. Virtual Machine, it could be any, VirtualBox, which is free is what we used. Download here

3. Android OS, of course the latest version available. Download Here

Now that, you have got all the required pieces, let us get them together to make DroidBook. Follow our easy step by step instructions and mess around!

1. Install the VirtualBox and run the programme after installation finishes.2. Click the NEW tab and

- Name: Give any desired name

- Type: Linux

- Version: Linux 2.6/3.x ; now click NEXT.

3. Now you need to allocate memory size to your Virtual Android Machine, do not over-allocate it otherwise your computer will work lazily.

-Memory Size: 1024 MB, check what you can allocate and set accordingly.

4. After you click NEXT again, keep going by:

- Click Create

- then, click next

- select dynamically allocated, and click next.

 5. Select a size to allocate to your virtual hard drive. We recommend using just default 8GB, but again it depends on your resources. But do not waste it.

- Select size, and click create

6.  Now you will the screen displaying similar options as in the picture above,

- Click on the Storage, and

- simply point the virtual machine to download Android OS,

- click on empty under Controller: IDE

-  then click on the disc icon on the right side and select Choose virtual cd/dvd disk file

- browse and select the downloaded Android ISO and

- click OK and START the new machine 

7. After you start the machine, chose to Install Android and press enter.

- choose: Create/modify partition

- navigate to new > primary > press enter again > bootable > write > type yes and press enter

- after it finishes, choose quit

8. Follow instructions in the images below

 

- Keep choosing YES and proceed forward, until you reach the below depicted scenario, select to run Android

9. It will take a little time, setup your Android, but before that, Disable Mouse Integration, from the Machine tab in the upper left corner, to see the mouse cursor.

And finally after you have setup your Android, like in the image below.

System Mechanic

System Mechanic Free from Iolo Systems is a stripped-down version of much more comprehensive premium tool. However, it offers good basic cleaning and optimizing for Windows systems with seven primary tools: PC Cleanup, Registry Tuner, Startup Optimizer, Memory Mechanic, Drive Accelerator, Shortcut Repair, and Internet Connection Repair. It can back up and save Registry settings and Undo changes with its SafetyNet feature.

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Best 5 Free Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite

Well, well, if you do not want to purchase or subscribe to the new Microsoft 2013 Office suite, because it is way too expensive, then you should go through this list of 5 best free office suites available to you as an alternative.

1. Apache OpenOffice

Apache OpenOffice is a powerful open source suite which includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, vector graphics editor, database manager and mathematical equation editor.

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How to Remove Album Art Images Embedded in MP3 Files?

How to Remove Album Art Images Embedded in MP3 Files?

Ever wondered how some of your mp3 files show up with the album art icon instead of the standard mp3 icon, when browsing through the mp3 collection on hard disk? Also, does the cover image appear at the background when playing an mp3 file using Windows Media Player or any other music player?

Thumbnail image of the mp3 files as seen in Windows Explorer.

The thumbnail image can come from JPG album art images (super-hidden) within that folder, or from pictures embedded into each mp3 file. If you need to remove the mp3 album art/images for some reason, first configure Windows Explorer to show hidden and protected Operating System files. 

2 Easy Ways to Make Your PC Run Like New

One of the most frustrating things in life is a slow computer.  

Every few years, we buy an expensive new PC and love how fast it starts up, runs programs, and loads websites. Inevitably though, it starts to slow down until eventually we are pulling our hair out waiting for it to do routine tasks.

Why is this?  It turns out the answer is actually quite simple and you don't even need to be "technical" to understand the causes and solutions.

The good news: It's not the computer hardware that's the problem. In most cases, the hardware you have is perfectly capable of being restored to its original glory and kept in fast running condition with minimal effort.

Rather, the problem lies with changes that occur to the PC's software. The two most common causes of slowdown (along with easy solutions) are:

Skipping / Merging Windows 8 Start Screen With Desktop

Immersive Taille is a freeware portable app to customize Windows 8 Start Screen. It provides few predefined locations to directly start with.

Once you download this software, first go to the settings tab. By default Immersive Taille is not in English language, so change it to desired language. If you want the effects to be permanent, choose Immersive Taille to start with Windows. Automatic Shutdown can be selected, if you wish. The next tab to visit is Basic, as I said earlier you can select from top, bottom, left and right positions.

You can also Customize Windows 8 Start Screen and have it with the taskbar. To do this just select the last option i.e Full Screen + Taskbar.

 

 

Customize Windows 8 Start to appear on User Defined Position

You won’t have much fun using the predefined positions. So, I will recommend you to use your custom positions to enhance the visual experience. To achieve custom positions switch to Advanced Tab.

Position X and Y are the distance of Start Screen from the right and top. Height should be selected carefully else Tile visibility on Start Screen can be a problem. So with the values on the above image, my Start Screen appears as shown below.

After making the changes, make sure that you save them. Immersive Taille has an awesome interface and works well. It was tested on Windows 8 Pro 64 bit. So now Start Screen acts as a component of the desktop.

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How to know your PC’s IP Address

Internet protocol address is an unique address of a computer.  This IP address identifies your address of the machine from other computers on the internet. Your IP address can be either “Static” or “Dynamic“. That means each time you connect to the network/Internet you are assigned a new address for that session.

1. Press the Start button.

2. Type “cmd“. But type it without the quotes.

3. This will open up with “Command Prompt“.

4.  At “Command Prompt” you will see as:

C:\users\aasim\

5. Now write “ipconfig“

C:\users\aasim\ipconfig

6. Now press Enter. Continue Reading…

Windows 7 Unlocker [Loader by Daz 1.95]

Windows 7 unlocker – Loader by Daz 1.95

This loader unlocks any version of Windows 7. Make sure your windows is not in ‘Non-Genuine’ mode when installing this loader.

Control Your Computer With Hand Gestures

Have you wondering if you can control your computer by making gestures to it? Just making a gesture for browsing through the files. Click, hold, drag and drop, all by just a hand gestures. Wow! that would be cool, like some Sci-Fi movies. Well, sorry, that is not yet possible. However, there is a way to control and operate some programmes by simply gesturing by hands.

To start gesturing to your computer all you need is to download and install Flutter application.

 

Here is an enumeration of what you can operate by gesturing to your computer, using Fultter:

Music Playback: Play/Pause and Change the song track.

Video Playback: Play/Pause and Change the video track.

Presentations: Start/stop slideshow and change the slides back and forward.

Youtube: Play/Pause.

Netflix

Pandora

Groovshark

Windows Media Player

Spootify

iTunes

Winamp

 

Make USB Bootable Mac OS X – Windows & Mac.

Let us start with making bootable Mac OS X on Windows. Follow the instructions below:

1) Download PowerISO + Crack – Torrent OR Link Buddy Download

2) Install PowerISO
3) Click on Open and select your DMG or ISO file.

4) Click on Tools --> Create a bootable USB.
5) Select your device to install it on.
6) Click on Start and wait until it finishes ( for 4.5 GB it takes about 3/5 minutes....)
7) Congratulations! Now you have a bootable USB media.

P.S: If it does not work by selecting F12 at boot prompt, modify the BIOS to boot the USB.
In case the above instructions fail you, try the following.

1) File –> Open --> Select your dmg/iso file.
2) Right Click on USB device --> Format with disk image and select your disk image.
3) Start format and wait...
4) You now should have your Mac OS X bootable USB!

Making USB Bootable On Mac OS
1) Open Disk Utility
2) Select the USB you want to make bootable
3) Click on Erase --> Format: Mac OS Journaled Name: whateveryouwant
4) Wait until it finishes erase....
5) Click (on the left) your USB media you have just formatted then click Restore
6) For Source: Click on Image and select your DMG or ISO image For Destination : drag the USB media from the left to the textbox
7) Click on Restore and wait..... it may take up to 10 minutes...
8) If you note that your file isn't bootable then download chameleon bootloader or chimera one and install it (with all customizations you need ) to your USB media....

Clear Unwanted Items From Add And Remove

Are there unwanted programmes and items in your ‘Add And Remove’ Windows section? Not a problem. Link Buddy is here to your rescue. Just follow the instructions below to clean ‘Add And Remove’ from unwanted items.

In Start Menu search field, type “regedit”.

Run Registry Editor (REGEDIT) “regedit” as adminstrator.

Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Uninstall.

Remove any unwanted sub-keys under "Uninstall."

You are done.

How To Change Windows 7 Logon Screen Easily

Windows 7 Logon Background Changer

Customize your welcome screen wallpaper

Windows 7 Logon Background Changer is a free open source software that let you change the wallpaper of the Windows 7 logon screen (also known as "welcome screen", "login screen" or LogonUI).

It works with Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise and Starter, in x86 or x64 (32 or 64 bits). It also works on Windows Server 2008 R2 (but you are not supposed to customize a server).



On a side note, this small program is WPF based, it's a nice technical demo of Windows Presentation Foundation capabilities for those interested in WPF. It requires a decent GPU for the 3D animations to run smoothly.

What does it do?

• It does NOT change any system file, and the program itself does not requires admin rights to run : it will just ask you to run as admin a very simple cmd file that creates the required folder and registry key with the appropriate rights. Any user of the computer will then be able to change the Windows 7 logon screen wallpaper. You can also prevent users from being able to change the logon screen wallpaper if you don't want them to be able to modify it without administrator rights (option available by clicking on the "Settings" button).

• It creates a few JPEG files based on the image you want to put as wallpaper for the Windows 7 login screen, applies the appropriate cropping and sizing and saves them using the best compression quality possible.

  

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Best 10 Softwares To Install On Your New Computer

A new computer is always a new curiosity factor. When a user buys a new PC, he tries to personalize it. Make it more performing and make most of the machine, paid for. Many times, have we seen users searching web for the 'best softwares to install on computer'. Even though your PC comes with many pre-installed applications, but those are not sufficient. You know, "you can always do more."

So, in this post, Link Buddy will link you to the best free softwares, you would love to install and use.

1. Recuva

Recuva is an excellent (and free) software to recover deleted files. But why do we need it now? That’s because there’s a lot of deleting and uninstalling happening with CCleaner, Revo Uninstaller, PC Decrapifier and all. If you suddenly delete something that you shouldn’t, and then want to recover it, you would have this tool to fall back on. Download Here.

2. Microsoft Security Essentials

Microsoft Security Essentials might go down in history as one of the best free software released by this tech giant. This tool has given a number of antivirus vendors, especially those who provide full-fledged free versions, a run for their money. It can protect your PC from viruses, spyware and malware. Download Here.

3. Ninite

Ninite will cover the “how to install” part when installing new stuff on your PC. This all-in-one installer lets you pick software and install them at one go. And the choices of course are very diverse. Check out our previous guide on batch installing programs with Ninite.

4. Macrium Reflect or Windows Backup and Restore

We already know the importance of creating a system image and how to create it using the built-in Windows backup and restore center (you should also create a system repair disc). Now, this might not be available in all editions of Windows so I’d suggest a worthy, and more powerful alternative called Macrium Reflect. Use it to create an initial system image, and for other such tasks as you start using the computer. Download Here.

5. PC Decrapifier

Most of the branded laptops and desktops come bloated with proprietary (and useless) software which you should get rid of if you want your computer to function properly in the long run. Hence the old and trusted PC Decrapifier becomes a must-install software for new Windows computer owners to weed out junk software and make space for better stuff. Download Here. 

6. EASEUS Partition Master

EASEUS partition manager is a nifty tool to create and manage disk partitions on Windows systems. Even if you created partitions during the setup process, and know how to use the disk management console to create partitions, I’d recommend you download and keep this tool. That’s because it offers some amazing features like resize, merge or split partitions, convert FAT to NTFS, convert primary partition to logical and vice versa, and much more.

The personal edition of the tool is free. It has professional and business editions too.

Download Here.

Also Check EaseUs CleanGenius - PC Optimizer. 

 

8. CCleaner

You didn’t think I’d give a miss to CCleaner in this list, did you? I am yet to find a better tool to perform a routine PC maintenance and get rid of temporary files and data. The tool is as amazing as it ever was. In fact, better, as it continues to be regularly updated. And as you’d have guessed, we wrote a guide on using CCleaner too. Download Here.

9. VLC and Chrome / Firefox

Lastly, but by no means the leastly (or least, whatever), we have our usual suspects – VLC media player and Chrome and / or Firefox, which I am clubbing together in the same point. Oh, and you don’t need to install these separately because Ninite will take care of that. Just make sure that you tick their names in Ninite before you start off with the installation. 

Also, Download Internet Download Manager 6.12 + Free Registration Serials. 

10. Dropbox or Syncback SE

The thing about data backup is that people tend to procrastinate on it, which ultimately ends up in a crisis situation when they have lost important data, and had no backup whatsoever. Hence an online backup tool like Dropbox, and an offline sync and backup tool like Syncback SE is included in this list of immediate installations for a new PC. Get either, or both of them. I use both – Dropbox for online backup and Syncback to keep my data synchronized with an external hard drive. 

Download and install Syncback.

Download Dropbox.

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Ninite - Automatic Multiple Application Installer And Updater

Ninite - Batch Programme Installer And Updater For Your Computers.

When you reinstall windows to your computer, the most bright part is the performance of the computer that is rejuvenated. On the other hand, worst and freaking part - to reinstall all the daily used softwares. This is the most painful part. But, not any more. With Ninite, let you take the rest and it all for you.

What Does Ninite Do? 

Ninite lists all the common programs a Windows user is likely to use and packs their latest versions in a single installer. Yes, a single installer! You can even customize the applications you would want that installer to have. It then silently installs all those applications in the background saving you tons of time. 

How To Do It With Ninite?

Link Buddy... has taken it a pledge, to link you. And, to teach you. Here, we go with doing away with Ninite.

  

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How To Add Windows Media Player To Windows 8

“Media Feature Pack for N and KN versions of Windows 8”

The Media Feature Pack for N and KN versions of Windows 8 will install Media Player and related technologies on a computer running Windows 8 N or Windows 8 KN editions.

 

Overview

Windows 8 N and Windows 8 KN editions include the same functionality as Windows 8, except that these versions of Windows do not include Windows Media Player, and related technologies. End-user customers can enable the media functionality to work properly by installing the Media Feature Pack for N and KN versions of Windows 8 (KB2703761). This feature pack can be applied to computers running either Windows 8 N or Windows 8 KN editions.

Instructions

1. Click the Download button on this page to start the download, or select a different language from the Change language drop-down list and click Go.
2. Do one of the following:
•To start the installation immediately, click Run.
•To save the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save.
•To cancel the installation, click Cancel.

.NFO Viewer Software

The BEST utility for viewing text files containing ASCII Art (NFO/DIZ/TXT)

DAMN NFO Viewer is a tiny application that can lend you a hand when trying to open documents containing ASCII art, be they NFO, DIZ or TXT files. In just a few words, DAMN NFO Viewer is a tiny utility that does exactly what its name suggests: helps you view NFO files that contain ASCII Art and other types of information. Many users rely on Notepad to address this problem, but DAMN NFO Viewer offers some extra features.

 
 Do Not Want To Donwload NFO Viewer? Click Here To Open NFO Files With Notepad in Three Steps.

Windows 8 English x86/x64 (BOOTABLE)

Windows 8 English x86/x64 (BOOTABLE) | 4.41 GB

It is not bootable so I have made it bootable and its working just fine. Installed on my VM and its all working, nothing has changed in the .iso its just bootable now!!
Enjoy !

Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade Key

Upgrade key for Windows Anytime Upgrade:

Windows 7 Home Premium
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Windows Anytime Upgrade Key Windows 7 Ultimate
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Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade Key: Windows 7 Professional
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