How to know original specification of your computer and installation date of windows

Many a times we want to know more and more about our System, What if a Friend of yours asks you some Questions about your PC and you fail to answer it, You may be Curious to Know the Original Installation Date of Windows. We all want to know when our windows was First Installed, How many months or Years have passed since you are chugging without Refreshing your System.
The Process to know the Original Installation Date of your Windows is Very Quick and Simple, Stay with me, read on and i will tell you how to do it Step by Step.

Steps to Check Original Installation Date of Windows

Step 1:  Hold Windows key and Press R key to open Run, Type CMD and hit Enter to Open up Command Prompt.

Step 2: Type  systeminfo.exe  in Command Prompt and Hit Enter.

Step 3: Just wait a Few Seconds to Gather all the Data , Boom- You will Get all the info of your System in just a few seconds including the Original Installation Date which we are looking for.

Thats it guys, in this tutorial we saw how to check our system info including the Windows Installation Date.
If you have any trouble related to this article, have a go and Speak your mind in Comment box. I will be more than happy to hear from You.

How you can find your lost smartphone

Google’s Android Device Manager

If you are unable to Find lost Smartphone and you haven’t loaded any app into your smartphone then you need not to worry as there is one method using which we can find your lost Android smartphone and that is by using Google’s Android Device Manager. If your phone is stolen or you have misplaced it anywhere in your home you can use Google’s Android Device Manger to find it.

All the Android smartphones come with Google Play installed in it. When you use Google Play for the first time on your Android smartphone or even on your tablet, Google installs Android device manager in your smartphone or tablet without your knowledge.

How to Activate Android Device Manager

Follow the steps below to activate Android device manager on your smartphone or tablet.

•  Go to Settings
•  Then move to Security
•  Then move to Device Administrators
• You will see some apps there and the first one would be Android Device Manager
•  Tap on it and Activate it

Once you have activated Android device manager on your smartphone, you need to go to your web browser and follow the steps to find your lost Android device.

• Visit the Google Play home by clicking on this link.
• You will see a Gear icon on the top right corner
• Click on it and you will see Android device manager
•  Click on Android device manager
•  Once Android device manager is opened in your web browser it will automatically contact your device. The map of your country will be displayed on your web browser.
•  Once Android Device Manager has located your smartphone you will see its location on Google Maps and the distance it is away from you right now.

Now you will have  three options there.

1.Ring the Device:

This feature will ring your smartphone at fill volume for 5 minutes even if it is silent. Unfortunately the device won’t ring if it is switched off.

2.Lock the Device:

This feature will lock your Android smartphone and will be provided a new password to access it. You can set your desired password on your lost smartphone.

3.Erase all Data :

Using this feature all the data which is present in your Android smartphone will be deleted which will include images, music or other files. However it won’t delete the contents of your SD card and Android device manager won’t work once you have erased all the data. It will Factory reset your smartphone.

Apps to Find lost Smartphone

If you are looking for an app which can find lost Smartphone then we suggest you to check Android Lost, a great app which will remotely control your lost Android smartphone.

Alternatively to Find lost Smartphone you can always have Find my Phone as a Secondary Option.

Tricks to Speedup Your USB drive.

Pen drives or USB are quite popular in the digital world for instant transfer of data. Using USB flash drives, one can easily transfer large files from one PC to another, from PC to laptop, from laptop to TV, and vice versa. This latest technology has made our work easier than before. In current times, you can move Gigabytes of information into just a tiny pen drive within few seconds.

In recent years, a lot of changes has been made in storage devices. When you compare new pen drives with the older ones, you will notice a considerable high transfer rate in the latest ones. However, there are times when you can get irritated with slow transfer speed of pen drives while copying data in pen drives. Well, this article shall provide you with some tricks using which you can speed up transfer rate of your pen drive.

Before knowing the tricks, we shall have a look at some factors responsible for data transfer rate , and they are as follows.

1.Pen drive ageing: Well, this is common for any device that when it becomes old, the rates gets slower.

2.Type of files: The transfer rate of data also depends on the file type; you might have noticed that songs, videos and documents take very less time in transfer while application files need more time.

3.USB port version: The most popular version of USB is 2.0, and it will give you 35mbps speed. So, if you want fast speed then buy 2.0 version pen drives

Few tricks to Speedup your pendrive Data Transfer Rate:

1.File system should be NTFS: If you want to Speedup Your Pendrive, then make sure you have NTFS as file system. You can do so by Right clicking on your pendrive and selecting Format,Select NTFS File system, Uncheck Quick Format And Click On Start.

2.Disk errors: To check disk errors go to the properties tab of your pen drive, then select ‘tools’ tab. You will find a ‘check now’ button, click it and then hit ‘start’ to fix the errors. The time taken for scan depends on the size of the pen drive.

3.Device policy: Under properties of your pen drive, select ‘hardware’ tab.

Then select USB device from there that will lead you to a pop up window where you need to change settings.

You can even have better performance of pen drive by clicking the option ‘Optmize for performance’under ‘hardware’ tab.

Important Note. 

This setting enables you in windows to improve disk performance. to disconnect from the computer,click the safely remove hardware icon in the task bar notification area.

how to change folders colors in windows

There are many softwares available today over the internet which can Customize your Computer in an efficient manner that it looks so attractive as well as it becomes very easy to use. We always want our computer to be clean and well organized so that whenever we need to access something or need to search a particular file/folder in our computer we could find it easily.

Step-1:

First of all Download and install the software FolderColorizer. It is tested and 100% virus free. You can download it from here.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Step-2:

Now after installing the software, simply right click on any folder which you wish to customize. Here when you right click on folder, you will see a new option in the context menu i.e. Colorize !. Now simply go to that option and one submenu will appear. Now choose any color you want to assign to this folder.

Although it is a free software for everyone to use it but while you will use this software for the very first time , it will just ask your email id for activation of this software. But no need to worry because you wont need to confirm the activation by logging in to your e mail account. Even if you don’t wish to share your e mail id with developers of this software you can do it because product will be activated automatically once you enter any email id. So you can also enter any fake id if you want.


For your convenience I am providing you a screenshot of above mentioned procedure for changing folder color :

in this way you will be able to easily organize folders in any of your drive weather C: , D: or any other drive. You can also assign different colors to several folders in the same drive to give it more attractive and cool looks.