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Automatically Close Selected Programs before Shutdown

We happen to use many applications and programs as our daily routine but sometimes it may happen that the program is minimized and not closed. In this case the program will be running in the background.

Although shutdown causes all the programs to force exit and this may be fine for some programs but what if [...]

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Tips to Handle the Laptop

Laptops come handy at various situations and in places where the desktops cannot be used but apart from using these it becomes our responsibility to ensure that this product stays with us for a longer time.

So here are the tips that will guide you on how to use the Laptops to maximize their life in [...]

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Lock your Computer in a Safer Way

This post shares with you the safer way to lock or shut down your computer than the usual process. It provides a high level security for your computer and also no software needed for locking computer.
The process is very simple and does not require much effort. The advantage of using this method is that you [...]

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Show Hibernate Button on Shutdown Permanently

For all those users who like to Hibernate their system quite frequently but don’t like pressing the Shift key to get the Hibernate option, here is a quick article that will help you display all the four buttons of Turn off, Restart, Stand By and Hibernate together in the Shutdown menu.
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The above screen shots would [...]

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Computer Hibernation: Should we use it or not?

Lot of people have doubts in their mind about computer Hibernation and are unwilling to use this feature, lets see this in detail and come to conclusion whether we should use it or not.
What is Computer Hibernation?
The Hibernate function in Windows allows us to quickly turn off the computer thereby saving battery in case of [...]

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Super Fast Shutdown: Shut Down Windows in 5 seconds

If you have a habit of running lot of programs in system memory then your computer must be taking longer to either shutdown or restart the computer. It is because Windows terminates all the processes that are running in the background before shutdown.

You must have noticed that pressing the Power button for some time shuts [...]

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Steps to Reduce Windows Shutdown Time

This is the most common problem experienced by almost all of us that when we shutdown our computer, it takes a long time to do so while it wasn’t doing so few months back. Then what happened and why is it taking too long to shutdown? It was also the problem of one of our [...]

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Steps to avoid chkdsk disk scan during booting

This is a common problem that happens every time that when we boot our system the Windows start a chkdsk disk scan. In reality disc scan is a protective feature of Windows that run to check any cross links and to clean the bad sectors though this mostly happens due to the improper shutdown of [...]

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Abort XP from Shutdown

So by mistake you have shutdown the computer or is it that you forgot to the do the work before you shutdown the system whatever be the case worry not because with this small but handy trick you can stop XP from shutdown even after you have given this command. The only thing you need [...]

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