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Learn A Few Easy Ways To Hide Folders In Windows

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It is very much important to protect your privacy and which is also a difficult task these days if you are sharing your computer or laptop whichever device you use with someone else like your colleagues or friends. There arises the need to secure your files in a safe place. So, we are here to help you know the various methods using which you can hide folders in your Windows PCs or laptops.

 Hide Folders:

  • Open File Explorer, then click on Tools>Folder Options
  • Then in the Folder options window switch to the View tab
  • Then under the option Files and Folders, select Hidden Files and Folders and then check the radio button with the option don’t show hidden files, folders or drives and click on ok
  • Then head back to the file explorer and select the particular file that you wish to hide and right-click on it and from the pop-up menu select properties
  • Then in the properties, make sure you check the hidden option in the general tab

You can access the files by temporarily making the hidden folders visible under folder options.

Make Folders Invisible:

This is yet another method which helps you in making the folder invisible rather than just hiding it.

  • As a first step you need to hide the name of the folder that you would want to make invisible, just select the folder and press F2, then while holding the ALT key type 0160 and press enter
  • In the next step, you need to make the folder invisible, right-click and select the properties of the folder and switch to the customize tab and click on change icon. Choose a blank icon and click ok

 Hide Folders With A Tool:

There are many useful tools that will allow you to hide your various folders in Windows. My Lockbox is one such a tool that you can try using to hide your folders. But unfortunately, the free version of the tool will allow you to secure only one folder at a time. You can change the folder from time to time as you wish.

How to stop Google Chrome from using too much RAM in Windows

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Google Chrome is without any doubt can be said as the most popular browser as it is the most widely used browser on the internet. It has attracted the users with its cool features and is available for almost all the platforms and operating systems.

But the one complaint that every Chrome user is tired of is the high amounts of RAM usage by the browser that results in the slow working of the device. Here is a fix for all the Chrome users that they can try by following the simple steps below.

  • Not many people know the fact that Google Chrome itself has a task manager built-in in it
  • It handles the processes that are currently running in the browser
  • You can access the Chrome’s task manager by simply Shift + Esc keys and it will show you the list of all the currently running processes and you can end the processes to limit the RAM usage

If you can’t end the processes each and every time and wish to try something else, then here is another simple process for you.

  • Open the Google Chrome browser and type chrome://flags/#enable-tab-discarding in the address bar and click on enter
  • Then navigate to the option Automatic tab discarding and enable it
  • This option disables the tabs that the users haven’t used in a while and thus limiting the RAM usage

You can thus make the most use of your RAM space either by ending the processes in your Chrome’s task manager or enabling the tab discarding option.

Learn To Capture Screenshots In Google Chrome Without Any Extensions

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There are a lot of different ways for capturing your desktop screen of the web pages on your Google Chrome browser. You can make use of the very old print screen key option, or even capture the screen using a windows snipping tool or any other third party applications of your choice. There are also different Chrome extensions for taking screenshots.

Google Chrome includes a built-in screenshot tool, but it’s a bit hidden. You’ll first enter two sets of keyboard shortcuts, then enter a command to capture a full-page screenshot of any web page.

But very few people know that Google Chrome is actually capable of taking screenshots. It has the built-in capability to screen capture your desktop without the help of any third party application or extension.

  • Open any web page using the Chrome browser
  • Then go to Settings>Developer Tools or you can just simply press the F12 key

capture the screen

  • You can see a pop window open
  • Click on the device toolbar icon and you can observe that icon turned into blue
  • Now come back to the web page without closing the pop-up window
  • Select the device from the list of devices available there
  • Set the zoom to 100%
  • You can click the rotate button if you wish to change the orientation

That is it, you are now all done with the setup and here is how you can capture the screen

  • You can see a three dot icon on the right side of the webpage, click on it
  • Click on show device frame option to enable it
  • Now finally you can just click on the capture screenshot option from, the same menu, which will save a screenshot of the device in PNG format.

Chrome will automatically download the full page. From here, crop as needed to get the image you need. Capture pictures from Chrome when you need.

Creating Custom Desktop Icons On Your Windows PC

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Many of us might have got bored of the same old regular icons on our computer screens in our Windows devices. Don’t you ever wanted to try something new? Now, in this article today we are going to learn about creating custom desktop icons in your PC.

Creating Custom Desktop Icons

Rainmeter , the best customization tool for Windows is very good at creating custom icons for your programs. The icons range from immersive to regular. The best thing about this program is that there are already some fan made icons available which you can make use of.

Rainmeter settings are text-based, since it is necessary and important for you to learn the creation process of icons before you start downloading and installing icon packs, the more you learn, the better and more customized you will become.
Now let us see the process of creating a simple icon with this wonderful program

• Head to the C:\Users\[PC Name]\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins, the PC Name should be replaced with the name of your PC
• Right click on a blank space and click on New, and then click on Folder
• Now name the folder that you have created, that it should represent the contents
• Now, after creating, just double click the folder and create another folder within it, name the folder with the name of the icon that you wish to create
• Then create another folder within it and name it @resources, this folder will hold your icon images

You have created three folders overall

• Now double click the second folder and right click on the blank space and click on New, and then on Text documents
• Now open the text document created by double-clicking on it and just copy paste the following thing

[OverwatchIcon]
Meter=Image
ImageName=#@#\[IconName].png
H=[Height]
LeftMouseUpAction=[“[Address]”]
[Rainmeter]
Update=1000

• IconName should be replaced with the name of the PNG file that you should be using for your icon
• Height for changing the size of your icon
• Address should be replaced with the address of your program, or a website address
• Now go to the @Resources folder and paste your PNG file which you would like to use as an icon
• Then replace that PNG file with the parameter you have entered for the IconName
• Now replace the Height parameter in your INI file with the size of the icon

You are now done with creating the icon, let us now learn how to place it on the desktop

• Now just right click on the welcome to Rainmeter window and then click on Rainmeter and then click on Manage
• You can see a window open, you can see your created icon under active skins option
• Select the folder that you have created earlier and double click on the INI file, that is it you will see the skin on your desktop

This process may seem a bit long and may need a bit of mind into it, but remember that this will your Windows PC a new look and you must definitely give it a try and create your custom desktop icons.

Learn How To Get Google Web Fonts On Your PC

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Google fonts is an extremely beautiful and awesome collection of web fonts that can be used in your HTML web pages without any kind of restrictions. As the fonts are specially designed for web pages, these fonts may look more attractive than the regular fonts like Arial, Times New Roman. They will also be in the comfortably readable format. All the Google Web fonts are made available under open font license since they can be used anywhere without the fear of any license issues. You can even use Google web fonts on your PC.

Not only in the web pages, you can even make use of these beautiful and easily legible fonts on your PC. You can use them on your office documents, notepad articles, or any other such programs on your computer.

The process is also pretty simple as it is a legal thing and you don’t have to use any tricks here. You simply just download and install the fonts on your computer. Here is how you can get them on your computer

Get Google Web Fonts With Google Fonts Director

  • Open the Google Fonts Director
  • Pick your favorite fonts from there and add them to your collection
  • You can see a minimized window with families selected written on it. Just click on it and you will see a download icon there and tap on it
  • You will get fonts in the .ttf format in a zipped file downloaded on your PC
  • Now finally just unzip the file and then install the fonts individually by double-clicking them. Then click on the install option

This is the simple step by step procedure that needs to be followed for getting the Google fonts on your Windows PC. We hope and wish you to follow this process and get it done easily.