Let us see how you can remove Properties, Personal information and metadata from files, documents, pictures, photos, images and PDF in Windows 11/10/8/7. Remove Properties & Personal information from files in Windows Right-click on the file whose Properties and Information you want to remove and select Properties. Click on the Details tab and then on the Remove Properties and Personal Information link. The following Remove Properties box will open....

Repairing disk errors, This might take an hour to complete What is Repairing disk errors this might take an hour? Disk errors are a common experience on your hard drive. They’re usually not critical, and they can be fixed in just a few minutes. But sometimes you might need to fix disk errors that take a long time. This is because there’s another problem with your hard drive or the computer’s configuration....

The location of the legit file is: Rstrui.exe not working or recognized When you try to run System Restore, you may see the following error message: Or If you face this issue, these are the things you can do to fix the issue: Let us talk about them in detail. 1] Run System File Checker The most common reason for this problem is corrupt system files. Lucky for you, there is the System File Checker that can replace potentially corrupt system files with good ones....

Wallpaper clocks for Windows PC Dexclock is a simple piece of software that lands and gets installed in your system in no time and creates an icon in your system tray. The tool provides four clock wallpapers by default namely – A Cheshire Kitten, Kiwi Kiwi, Letter Eater and Squares1. You can select any one of them just by double-clicking on the Dexclock icon in the system tray. Like most of the clock applications, Dexclock also offers settings options like time format of 12/24 hr and the position of the clock on your screen....

The Safe Mode uses the minimum required set of device drivers and services to start the Windows operating system. To boot into Safe Mode, one normally press F8 at boot-time. The procedure to boot Windows in Safe Mode is a bit different. Cannot boot in Safe Mode in Windows 11/10 But you may at times that you are even unable to boot into Safe Mode. Here are some troubleshooting steps you may want to try to fix your safe mode....

Save screenshot as PDF using Windows Photos App As mentioned, we would be using the native Windows 11/10 Photos app to carry out the following steps: Let’s cover the steps in detail now. 1] Open the screenshot with Photos App Go to the location where the screenshot or the image you would like to convert into a PDF is saved. Once there, right-click the image and choose ‘Open with > Photos’ option....

Earlier on Firefox users could search across Multiple Tabs by using extensions like Findbar Tweak and Tabby2. However, the support for these extensions was dropped starting from Firefox 57. In this post, we will see how you can search across all your open tabs in Firefox and Chrome browsers. Search across multiple tabs in Firefox Search Multi Tabs is one of the first web-extensions that lets users search across all Firefox tabs at once....

Microsoft Word Tips And Tricks 1. Vertical Selection Of Text Normally, we select a character, a word, a sentence or a paragraph. All these selections are horizontal selections. Sometimes you may need to select vertically. For example, if your text has numbers in the beginning, you may want to select only the numbers to delete them at one go (see figure). To select text horizontally, press ALT and click to drag and make a selection....

Best Opera extensions Opera offers many extensions to make your browsing easy and fast. I have handpicked some of the best Opera extensions. Below is a rundown of the 10 useful Opera extensions. 1] Turn Off Lights If you watch online videos frequently, this add-on is just for you. Just a click on the lamp button with bring an automatic focus on the video you are watching and the rest of the page will fade dark....

Comprehensive Guide to Online Privacy Online privacy goes deeper than companies like Facebook selling demographic information about its users, though. There are many other ways in which your privacy can be violated, online and off. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to help keep your information secure. Use Antivirus Software Most people are aware that a virus can cause computer problems like redirecting a browser to specific sites, slowing it down, or locking it up completely....

Add or remove ReadyBoost tab in Drive Properties Since this is a registry operation, it is recommended that you back up the registry or create a system restore point as necessary precautionary measures. To add the ReadyBoost tab in Drive Properties in Windows 10, do the following: Press Windows key + R to invoke the Run dialog.In the Run dialog box, type notepad and hit Enter to open Notepad.Copy and paste the syntax below into the text editor....

At times, while working on an Excel sheet, we run into a situation where we require the use of Windows Calculator to perform quick calculations. The calculations do not necessarily require a special formula but a simple arithmetic operation. The need for a shortcut to the utility (Calculator) for quick access is often felt at such times. The Quick Access Toolbar in Excel is one place where all your shortcuts can be placed comfortably....

Allow Updates to be downloaded automatically over Metered Connections 1] Via Windows Settings Windows 11 With Windows 11, the Windows Updates totally changed the position. It was excluded from the Update and Security menu and given a separate menu. The procedure to allow Windows Updates to be downloaded automatically over Metered Connections in Windows 11 is as follows: Windows 10 Open WinX Menu and select Settings. In Settings, you need to navigate to Update & Security and then go to Windows Update, and under that menu, click Advanced options....

The Drive letter will be mentioned in the error message, which could be H, E, D, etc. Before troubleshooting, you should install the latest version of your CD/DVD driver. An error occurred while ejecting DVD RW Drive. To fix this DVD writer ejecting problem, you can follow these steps- To know the details, read on. 1] Close the running task from Task Manager If the DVD writer is not ejecting your CD or DVD, it can mean that some other program is using it currently....

Now, we’ve come to understand that some users are facing a particular problem whenever they attempt to install or update their games via the Steam client. You see, they come across an error that reads, “An error occurred while installing/updating…” This is a major problem because you won’t have access to any of your favorite games. An error occurred while installing or updating Steam game We would want to recommend users restart their computer before attempting to troubleshoot Steam in a bid to fix the issue....

api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-1.dll is missing The error message in the dialog box reads the following : Well, as we see this prompt, the information provided is not enough. This is so because we only know that a particular file is missing, but the original location and other attributes are missing. Hence, now we will see how to permanently fix it in Windows 7. The api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-1.dll file is not a file that comes with Windows 7 or is not meant for Windows 7....

Archive & monitor Windows Clipboard ArchiveClipboard notifies the user of any change that is made to the Clipboard’s content. If you is working with standard text phrases, this utility can archive them & have them grouped in one place without needing to locate the exact file over and over again. ArchiveClipboard can archive the files passing through the Windows Clipboard. It basically gives you the path to the documents that have been used with the copy/paste functions the most....

Well, with a tool known as ArtMoney, players may never have to dig deep to get this cheat to work. The tool gives the user the ability to add more lives, better weapons, extra money, and more. ArtMoney makes a troublesome game easier to win by helping you find the memory address where a desired quantity is located. ArtMoney Game Cheater for PC First up, you should know that the tool tinkers with the settings file of your favorite games, or at least, the supported ones....

aTunes Audio Player, Music Manager and Radio for PC In this post, I will discuss all the features aTunes offers, and here they are: This software offers a bunch of features up-front. All you have to do is select the repository on your PC which has all your music. The repository is the folder that has all your music files. That’s it. aTunes then lists all these music files on its panel on every start-up....

No sound on Teams calls and meetings Why can’t I hear audio in Teams meeting? There can be multiple reasons why you are unable to hear the audio in your Teams calls and meetings. Here are some of the potential scenarios of the issue at hand: It could be caused if your PC is on mute. Hence, make sure your computer is not on mute or the volume is not set low....