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Learn How To Mirror Windows Screen To Your Android Device

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Mirroring your PC’s screen to any other device can be very much helpful. It can be used in case of troubleshooting someone’s PC when they are in need. You can also use this screen mirroring for accessing the data from anywhere and use your PC remotely. There are quite a lot of uses of this screen sharing and you can do this very simply. Don’t worry, here I am going to show you the process to mirror Windows screen to an Android device.

Screen mirroring is such a task that is considered tough but is, in fact, a very pretty basic thing that you can do using some really simple steps

Mirror Windows Screen With Screen Sharing Using VNC Connect:

  • First, you have to download the VNC Connect application on your Windows PC. Click here to Download
  • In the next step, you need to sign in with a VNC account for which you need to sign up Here
  • And in the same way, you should also download the VNC viewer app on the android device that you wish to screen your PC. Click Here to download
  • Then launch the VNC viewer app and sign in with your VNC account that used on your PC. Then you will be able to find the name of your PC.
  • Just double click on it and it will show you a pop-up screen saying that VNC server has identified the device and just click on continue.
  • Now your PC’s screen will show up on your device.

Thus, using a very simple and easy process you can mirror Windows screen on your Android device. Using these VNC Connect and VNC viewer applications makes the screen mirroring of your PC to Android, iOS, and Mac devices pretty easily.

Have a happy screen sharing  without any hassles.

How To Hide The Navigation Bar In Your Android Device

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The on-screen navigation bar can be seen very commonly in most of the smartphones these days. The manufacturing companies have chosen this option as it saves them a lot of costs. But for the mobile users, those icons on the screen can be annoying as the screen appears to be shrunk with them occupying some space at the bottom of the screen. If you are among the many people who think like that, then, don’t worry. Here is a way where you can actually remove or make the icons disappear from your smart phone’s screen.

While manufacturers like Xiaomi, Samsung allow you to hide the navigation bar, most stock Android phones don’t have this functionality. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered, as we’ll be sharing with you how you can hide navigation bar on Android

Hiding The Navigation Bar

There is an application called power toggles available for the Android users for free which can help you in enabling the immersive mode in your Android device.

•Download and install the power toggles Android application, this app doesn’t require your device to be rooted
•Now go to the widgets section on your device by simply long pressing on the empty space in your device’s home screen. Just drag and drop the 4*1 widget to your home screen and place it wherever you want it to be
•Now tap the add toggle button. Select immersive mode option under the display section to add it to the widget and finally tap on done
•You can simply tap on the immersive mode toggle icon on/off to make the navigation bar appear and disappear on the screen

You may want to hide the navigation bar temporarily to make use of the extra screen space. Or maybe just because you are annoyed with how the navigation bar looks, and would much prefer an alternative method. Then this thing will definitely help you.

How To Turn Off Laptop Screen With Power Button

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The power button in Windows 10 is pretty powerful. Many of us might be using it just for powering on and off as we are not aware of the other things that the physical power button has to offer us. There is a little handy feature available in Windows 10 that allows the users to turn off laptop screen by just clicking on the physical power button that you have. Check it out here

You need to define the power button in the power options for this.

Just head to the power options, you can go to the power options by simply right-clicking the battery icon on your system tray or you can also go there by going to the control panel.

Then inside the power options, just choose what the power buttons do.

Then under the defined power buttons and turn on password protection, you will see some options for power and sleep buttons and lid settings.

Then here you need to set the first option which says when I press the power button, choose to turn off display from the drop-down menu.

That is it, it is that simple to use the regular power button for yourself and to make it useful for you. You can thus turn off laptop screen using your laptop power button.

Other Ways

ScreenOff is a first-of-its-kind 13KB freeware that lets you turn off your Windows laptop monitor screen in a click, without putting it to Sleep. This tool does not use a batch command. It uses a SendMessage Visual Basic command to send the system, the command to turn off the display. Moreover, it is a portable tool that does not require to be installed. Nor does it ask you to download and install any specific .NET Framework version.

Simply download the zip file, extract its contents, move the folder to your Program Folder, and pin the shortcut of ScreenOff.exe to your Start Screen or Taskbar.

How To Send Any Link From Your PC To Mobile Phone Using Chrome

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Browsing the internet will be a regular task for many of us, we can say. But this task is mostly done in computers rather than on mobile phones. What if we found an interesting piece of an article or something interesting while we browsing in our PC? We will find ways to share it on our mobile phone. Right!! How do you send any link from your PC to your mobile phone?

What I personally do is sometimes I share it using FB messenger. I share to myself. Sometimes I share in Telegram. Sometimes I save the link in Google Keep notes and then open the link on a mobile phone.

Don’t you think it is something that takes and needs some effort? Yes. Right! There is actually a better and simple way to make the process easier. Do check it out.

Steps To Send Any Link From PC To Mobile

  • To begin with the process, you need to open the Google Chrome browser and type in chrome://flags in the address bar and then press enter.
  • Type “Send tab to self” in the search bar of Chrome flags and select Enabled from the drop-down menu or paste the following in the address bar of Chrome. Or just click on this link chrome://flags/#enable-send-tab-to-self
  • Now you are done with the setup, just simply relaunch the browser and you will find a “Send to *device name*” option whenever you right-click a tab or link. If you have logged in your Google Account on multiple devices, choose the device you like to send the link.

So, these are the simple steps that are involved in the process of sharing a link in your PC directly to your mobile phone. We hope you find this process helpful and try to make use of it every day.

Learn How To Recover An Unsaved MS Word Document

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We all might be very much familiar with MS Word, the most popular word processing software. It has almost replaced the need for doing paperwork as everyone is finding it as a better solution and also as an affordable solution as well. But saving the file is the most important thing that needs to be remembered while working on the word document. Forgetting to save a file will result in the loss of the whole data in the file in case of any sudden shutdown of the PC due to power failure or any other damage. But there is actually a way for recovering an unsaved file that many people might not be aware of. Here are the steps that need to be followed.

Steps To Recover An Unsaved Word Document

Note: These steps work for MS Word 2007 and below versions

  • If you happen to close the application manually by yourself accidentally, then don’t worry, Word will get back it to you as it saves the document every 10 minutes
  • All you have to do is just relaunch the application, it will search for any such unsaved files and will present you on the left side pane of the window
  • Just click on the document listed there to recover it

Remember, once the pane is gone, you can’t get the document again

If it is not the case of manual closing and the computer shut down issue, then this is the way to get it back

  • MS Word saves the file in the temporary storage of the computer memory
  • So, navigate to C:\Documents\Users\[Username]\Application Data\Local\Temp
  • You can find so many temporary files there, but you can trace the word files as they will be like wrdxxxx.tmp
  • Just open them using Notepad and search your lost ones
  • Copy and paste the text only as there will also be so many codings in between

Recovering a word document is thus an easy process, just give it a try.