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How To Remove Bloatware From Your Android Devices

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Smartphones these days come up with so many pre-installed applications from the device manufacturer. Such applications are most commonly known as bloatware. So, here we go, we are presenting you the process of removing bloatware from your non-rooted Android devices. It is a must know procedure as it lets you and helps you in making your device capable of sufficient storage.

Steps To Remove Bloatware

  • As a first thing, you need to enable developer options in your device. This can be done by heading to Settings -> About Phone -> Build Number (Tap on build number 7-10 times and your developer options will get activated).
  • Now you will see developer option in your settings and tap on it. Then scroll down and enable the USB Debugging option.
  • Now you need to download and install Debloater tool in your Windows PC. It will allow you to remove system apps from your device that you don’t wish to have.
  • After installing the above-mentioned software, just connect your Android device with USB cable to your PC. Now you need to wait for the tool to detect your device.
  • After the device is detected, you will need to scan the apps that are being currently installed on your device, and that includes your system apps. Simply mark the apps that you want to remove.
  • Then, you just need to click on the apply button, and this action will block all those apps from your device. They will no longer be there on your device to consume your memory.

IF you want, you can also undo this process by un-ticking them to access them again. That’s it! You are done, now all those apps will be removed from your device. Your device storage will be free from them.

Go ahead and remove all the unnecessary applications from your Android device.

How To Download YouTube Videos Without Any Extensions Or Tools

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YouTube needs no introduction among the internet users. It is the most popular website for video content. Downloading the audio and video files from the website is the most common chore for the netizens these days. But what many people usually do is they use various other extensions and tools for downloading content from the internet, but here in this article today I am going to show you the simple process of downloading audio and video files, YouTube videos from the internet without the use of any other third party extensions, tools or any other software. So here we go….

Requirements:

  • You should be having a web browser with the network developer tool like Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox
  • Internet connection

Downloading audio from YouTube videos:

http://www.theyoump3.com/

The above is the link to the website that can be used to download the MP3 of the video file that you want.

All you have to do is pretty simple, just go to the video page in the YouTube that you would like to download.

Copy the URL of the web page and then just paste it in the box that will available in the website link above.

It will then convert the video instantly showing you the download link. Click on the download link to save it on your PC.

Downloading video from YouTube:

http://en.savefrom.net/

This is the link for downloading videos from YouTube.

All you have to do is just copy the URL link of the webpage of the YouTube video and then paste it into the search box in the above link.

Then you can select the format of the video in which you would like to download it.

Click on the download button to finally download it to your PC.

Using these simple websites, you can download YouTube videos without the hassles of any softwares or any other tools.

How To Hide Files, Photos And Apps On Your Android Device

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Our smartphones contain so much of our personal information which we don’t want to publicize. Anyone who has control over their phone obviously controls all their data and if you are among the ones who don’t wish it to be like that then don’t worry, here I am to explain to you how to hide your various files and stay tension free even if you give your smartphone to someone. There are a variety of options to hide files on your device and let us go through a few of them.

Apps To Hide Files On Android

File Hide Expert:

Most of the android devices don’t have the ability to hide files by default, but thanks to these wonderful applications and there are a number of such applications available in the Google Play store. You just need to download the File Hide Expert application from the Play store and open the application, this app works like a basic file management application and you can just add files here by clicking on the folder icon on the top right corner of the app startup screen. Then add as many files as you like and also add files of any type and after you are done with adding files and folders, then head to the previous screen and click on Hide All option which will make them invisible in any other file managers and galleries. You can make them visible again by just clicking the restore all button or you can even bring a particular file or folder visible by just clicking the x icon parallel to the particular file or folder.

KeepSafe:

And the most important thing that you shouldn’t forget to do is enabling password for this app. Just open the app and click on the menu, then click on settings, now check the enable password option and then enter the password.

If you are searching for the most efficient photo hiding app, then this is the right one you are searching for. Along with hiding your photos, it can also help you in saving your sensitive data like passwords and id cards. You can simply download the app from the Playstore and set up is pretty easy.

Just open the application and it will take you through the PIN setup process, set up the PIN, after that you can just click on the add picture option on the bottom right corner of the app screen. You can also add pictures to this by just sharing the pictures you would like to hide and then selecting the KeepSafe option from the share menu.

Hide files without any third party apps:

There is actually a simple trick using which you can easily hide any type of files that you wish to without having to download any third party applications. All you need to do is just add a “.” At the beginning of the file name that you wish to hide, you can edit the file name in your file manager. This simple trick will prevent the files, pictures and audios, videos from showing up in their respective players.

How To Add A Brightness Slider To Your Status Bar On Your Android Device

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Android is one such a unique operating system that enhances the ability of the device and gives the users a wonderful experience. It always welcomes the developers to showcase their creative and innovative ideas. Android is even the most customizable operating system. Adjusting brightness is one such a feature that many of us use very often. Let us now learn a simple process using which we can adjust the brightness levels in our devices with the help of a slider. So, follow these simple steps if you also would like to get a brightness slider on your status bar.

Steps To Add Brightness Slider On Your Android Device

  • Then you need to download the APK file of the Amazon Underground App
  • First of all, you need to turn on the unknown sources option in the settings of your Android device by going to your device Settings>Security. Then make sure the Unknown Sources option is checked
  • Now install the downloaded APK of the Amazon Underground app and sign in using your Amazon account
  • Then search for the Display brightness app with a bulb icon developed by RubberSoft, download and install it
  • Now open the application and you can see that you can actually make a lot of customizations to the brightness slider
  • You can select the size, adjust the transparency, alter the slider’s length, relocate the screen position of the slider
  • That is it, you are done with the setup and you can just drag the slider to adjust the brightness level. The percentage will be displayed in the center of the screen

These simple and easy steps can thus help you in relocation the brightness slider to the status bar. Make your life simple by relocating the status bar in your device. Have a stress less viewing by adjusting the brightness as you like.

Unknown Features Of Windows File Explorer That You Must Know

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Windows File Explorer is capable of many other actions that you just don’t know. There are quite a few hidden settings in the File Explorer that you haven’t discovered yet. But this article is here for you to help discover those hidden things.

But first get to know these shortcuts for Windows File explorer that will fasten your work flow.

  • Open the windows Explorer Window using the short cut keys – Windows key + E
  • For switching to the parent folder in that hierarchy the keyboard shortcut is – Alt + Up arrow key
  • For toggling the preview pane – Alt + P
  • For opening the properties of the selected subject – Alt + Enter
  • For renaming the selected file – F2
  • For deleting the selection completely and directly without moving it to the Recycle Bin – Shift + Delete key

Open an ISO file:

In the previous versions of Windows, one needs to use third party applications for accessing the ISO formatted files, but with Windows 8 and the higher versions of Windows, the Windows explorer itself has got the ability to open the ISO files. All you have to do is when you have an ISO file in your PC, just right click it in the Windows Explorer and then click on Mount.

Moving Files:

Unlike just moving files from location to location that you know, this is something new, that you can actually move files via the address bar. That is you can move files from the child folder to the parent folder just by dragging the selected files to the parent folder name in the address bar. That’s it just try this next time instead of the regular cut, copy and paste.

Send files to secret locations:

While pressing on the Shift key select the file or folder that you wish to send and on its context menu, navigate to the send to option where it will show the extra options to send the file or the folder where you don’t find them while you press send without selecting the file using Shift button.

These are a few unknown features of the Windows File Explorer that will help you to become a Windows Explorer power user.