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Applications that help you find serial keys in Windows PCs

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You may know the drill of entering the serial keys and if you have paid for a subscription or purchased an application ever. The internet has evolved a lot these days that it has become very easy to track down any keys that you have paid for or purchased earlier.

If you ever lose the keys to the paid application or program, then you have to find them by yourself. There are plenty of KeyFinder applications available on the internet that can help you in this regard. Let us have a look at a few such applications

Magical Jellybean KeyFinder

It is the standard key recovery tool. Using this application is pretty much simple, you just need to download and run it. Then it will automatically scan your Windows registry and finds product keys for various products like Microsoft Office, Windows, and 300 different programs. Whereas its paid version allows recovery of up to 8000 programs.

Its best feature I the ability to save the keys as a text file. Just select File>Save As.

 LicenseCrawler

It has more features than the earlier tool. It allows the users to save the keys in different formats.

This tool also has network support which allows the users to find serial keys from the other computers on the network.  But this tool isn’t entirely free and you have to watch a text-based ad.

 SterJo KeyFinder

This one is the last tool on our list, but definitely not the least. It scans for keys immediately after launching the tool. It offers the same kind of features as the first tool on this list. It gets regular updates which helps to have a better interface.

So I hope these applications will be helpful and useful to you in case you need to find your Windows keys.

How To Change The Command Prompt Colours And Make It Look Funky

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Command prompt may not be a very popular tool or program among the normal users like us but even we make use of it at times. Have you ever noticed how boring and dull it looks that the users lose interest in using it? When we use it we may sometimes feel like we have been thrown into the early days of the computer. When we think of it honestly, the app doesn’t look modern at all. But what can we do about it? We may not be able to change the total appearance of the command prompt window, but we can actually be able to change colours using some simple steps. So, here we present you with some of the steps using which you can change command prompt colours.

Follow the instruction below.

First, you need to open the start menu on your computer, then type cmd in the search and then type enter. Now click on the command prompt program to open the command prompt window. Now right click on the program’s title bar and then select the properties from the app’s drop-down menu. Now switch to the colors tab on the opened window.

Now you will find that you have got several options to play and have fun with. You will see four properties that you can change in the upper left-hand corner of the window. They will be screen text, screen background, popup text, and popup background.

Now for changing the command prompt colours, you can set the very high opacity and choose suitably subtle colors for your command prompt window. Change colours according to your taste and suitability. You can also explore other tabs using which you can set up other options like the cursor size, font, and text.

We hope this simple procedure helped in learning how to change colours of your command prompt.

How To Save Whatsapp Status Without Taking Screenshot

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WhatsApp status feature even though it faced a quite a lot of difficulties from the people in the beginning, it is now becoming popular among the people as they started liking it and everyone is choosing to update their status on WhatsApp over updating their FB status as it more secure and private. So if you have found something interesting and would like to have it saved on your device, you can’t do it, unfortunately, WhatsApp doesn’t have any such feature available as of now. But you can get it done with the help of a simple application available in the Google play store and the other process even allows you to do it from your file manager.

Saving WhatsApp status

Method 1

  • First, to start with the process, you must be having Status saver for WhatsApp Android application installed on your device, you can get this application for free from the Google’s Android play store
  • Then you need to open WhatsApp and load the image or video that you wish to save
  • Then open the Status saver for WhatsApp application and you will find two options on the open screen images and videos, tap according to your choice
  • And it will show you the status that you have just seen and you will get the download option on your screen, click on it to get it downloaded

Method 2

  • You must be having a file manager of your choice for saving the status using this method
  • Navigate to WhatsApp/Media, then tap on the three dot icon on the top right corner of the file manager screen and then tap on ‘folder options’ option
  • Then on the next pop-up window, just check the checkbox show hidden files
  • Then you will find a folder with the name .statuses
  • Tap on it to open it and find the status that you wish to save
  • Copy and paste the WhatsApp status that you wish to save to the some other location

Hope these simple and easy steps may help you preserve some memories.

A Simple Bookmark Trick For Instantly Composing A New Mail In Gmail

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Gmail, a popular mailing service from the search engine giant Google has a lot of amazing and interesting features in store for its users. And it is very much known as a fast service. And the users send and receive a number of emails every day. If you are also among those people who compose a lot of emails every day and send them, then you should definitely be needing this shortcut which allows you to cut short the process of opening the Gmail inbox and then clicking on the new button to start composing a new email. But there is a simple bookmark trick for you.

Bookmark Trick

This Google’s mailing service is a cloud-based service and therefore there will be an URL associated with everything. All you need to do is just bookmark that particular URL of that particular task on your toolbar and make your task simpler.

  • A special URL that will lead you to a simple email window and you should be logged into your Google account if you wish to access the clutter free email window using the above URL
  • And if you wish to open that URL with some default parameters, then you can make use of some specific strings
  • And let us now see the strings that you can make use of if you wish to open the new compose window with default parameters

&to=contacts, you can also add multiple contacts in a single string, but you have to separate

&cc=you can add cc recipients with this string if any

&bcc=add bcc recipients using this string if any exist

&su=add subject of your email using this string

&BODY=this string can be used for adding the body of your email

%20 is a special character that you can make use of if you have to leave a space

This quick URL bookmark trick can come to you as handy at times for sending quick emails without any hassles.

How To Open Files/Folders With Just With A Single Click In Windows

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We are very much used to the interface of the Windows and even it has very user-friendly options that everyone can easily get used to. Opening files/folders on our PCs and laptops has been done by us very casually and some unintentionally as well. Have you ever thought how much easier it would have been if the task of opening the files or folders happens with just a single click? Yes, it can be, and all you have to is changing a simple setting in your system. Follow the simple steps below

Steps To OPne Files/Folders In A Single Click

  • Open the File Explorer on your computer and navigate to File> Change Folder and search options
  • In the new tab, click on the General tab
  • Navigate to the Click items as follows section
  • Then just mark the checkbox with the option single click to open an item
  • And below that option make sure to mark the Underline icon titles only when I point at them a checkbox
  • When you are done, just click on save

And if you ever want to you can also revert back to the double-click option again.

If you are thinking about switching to the single click option as you are very much used to the double click thing, then you have another option using which you can speed up the response time to double click and make the files/folders a bit faster. And the process to do that is pretty easy. Just head to Settings> Devices> Mouse> Additional Mouse Options> Double Speed. Here adjust the slider accordingly and apply the changes.

Thus you can either speed up the traditional double-click option or can also replace it with the single click option in your Windows run desktop PCs and laptops. Try this simple process with a few steps and make clicking easy.