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Improve your Gmail experience with these Chrome extensions

October 30, 2020 by Satyapriya

Google is very much famous for its most used search engine and Chrome browser and Gmail are also among the most popular services from the search engine giant. While chrome web store has a tonne of useful extensions, here are some handful of Chrome extensions that can help you in having a great Gmail experience.

Notifus:

This is one such free extension available in the Chrome web store where you can follow up on emails and check whether you got a reply from them or not. This extension keeps everything simple and free as well.

After you download and install the extension in your browser, you can see some additional options besides send menu which will include send and remind in 1 day or 2 days, 3 days, etc. You can simply click on send and remind in 2 days if you wish to get notified about the reply from that email id. Notifus thus makes things simple and useful.

Checker Plus for Gmail:

Many of us have a lot of work to do with our inboxes regularly. But opening and checking inbox every time whether we got any new emails isn’t that easy task, Checker Plus for Gmail is an awesome Chrome extension as it is not just a notifier, it even lets you interact with your email, mark emails as read or even delete them. The pop-down pane lets you interact with the email without opening a new window.

Mailtrack:

In this fast-paced generation, no one has got the patience to wait and everybody wishes to know instant results and instant responses. Mailtrack is a free extension available in the Chrome web store. It works just like the read receipts option in the WhatsApp application. One green tick on the sent mail means the email is sent and two green ticks indicate that the email has been read by the recipient.

How to enable Gmail preview pane using simple steps

September 21, 2020 by Satyapriya

Gmail, the mailing service from Google is the most used mailing service without any doubt. Large amounts of people use Gmail for their primary source of communication. But many people might not be aware of the various features that the Gmail offers. Don’t worry I will let you know the various useful features that the service offers its users. But as of now in this article, I am going to show you the process of enabling the Gmail preview pane feature.

This feature helps to have an email preview on the same screen that you are along with the other emails on one side. This gives the users ease of access to the various emails in the Inbox and makes easy to switch between the emails.

Steps for enabling the Gmail preview pane feature:

At first, you must be logged into your Gmail account
You will see a gear icon on the top right corner of your screen, click on it and then click on settings
Then you will be directed to another screen with various options, now choose labs tab
Now you will see search for a lab option there, type preview pane in the box and you will find the preview pane result below, just enable it and click on save changes
Google will load the page again after saving the settings
Now you can see an icon just beside the gear icon on the top-right corner of the screen where you can change the orientation of the pane, you can choose either vertical or horizontal.

That is it you are now done with setting up and can now be able to view email preview.

How to sign-in to multiple Gmail accounts at once

September 12, 2020 by Satyapriya

Many of us may have been using multiple accounts of Gmail. There may be a need to do that as well, a mail for official reasons, and another one for personal use. But with this procedure what becomes difficult is signing in with all the emails we have separately to check the accounts, what if we are able to check all the accounts at once. Sounds great right! Yes, we can actually do that.

You don’t have to log out of one Gmail account to check the inbox of the other account. And the process to sign in with multiple Gmail accounts is pretty simple and explained in this piece of article. Just go through this.

This process actually is very simple and interesting as well as you just have to sign in with anyone of your login credentials of anyone Gmail account and the other ones will automatically be logged in. If you apply Gmail delegation to all your accounts, then you can check all your emails in a single inbox.

To do that just login into any of your Gmail accounts that you wish to include the inbox in the primary mail and go to Settings>Accounts>Grant Access to your account and here you just have to add your primary Gmail Id through which you would like to view the emails regularly. And as a final step, you have to click on the confirmation link sent to your primary mail. The verification process will take up to 30 minutes. Follow the same process to include the other emails ids as well. And you will then be able to access all the emails from you multiple Gmail accounts at a single place and through a single login.

How To Get A Message Displayed During Windows Startup

August 6, 2020 by Satyapriya

Earlier we have learned about the process of setting up for getting a custom audio message on Windows startup, but today in this piece of article, let us go through the process of setting up in order to get a text message displayed on the screen during the startup of your PC.

If you use a company-owned PC, you may have seen a legal notice displayed before you sign in to Windows. Here’s how you can do the same thing on your own PC and display a message with any text you want.

How To Display A Message On Windows Startup

First, you need to open the Registry editor, you can do this by typing ‘regedit’ in the search
Open the Registry editor you find in the search results and there choose Grant permissions options
Now using the bar on the left side of the window navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
You can find two values named ‘legalnoticecaption’ and ‘legalnoticetext’ on the right side pane of the window.
Double click on the legalnoticecaption option
Now in the Value data field of the opened window, just enter the text that would like to see on the screen while your Windows startup and click on Ok.
Legalnoticetext value is the actual text field which is placed below the legalnoticecaption field which is the title. But, in this case, the title itself is a message. So you can leave it blank or you can even fill them both with the title and text if you want
Now just close everything and return to the desktop. Then restart your computer to witness the message that you have set up before displayed on the screen. You can change or remove the message from the Registry editor if you wish to.

That is it, just try these simple steps and get the message you want to be displayed on your screen.

Things To Check When System Restore Is Not Working

July 7, 2020 by Satyapriya

System restore is considered as our immediate solution when we found or caught with an issue on our computer. This thing solves our issues on many occasions. But we may be facing issues running system restore at times, then here are some things that you can consider trying these following tips and bring back the system restore to life.

Things To Check When System Restore Isn’t Working

It happens many times that we are in a deep need to restore our PC or laptop, but that doesn’t seem to work sometimes. What you do in such situations, just stand still obliged? But, you don’t have to be in such a situation anymore as here we present you to some of the things that you can check in case this restore option in your PC doesn’t work.

You can try running system restore in safe mode. You can enter safe mode by pressing F8 while your Windows PC is booting up, then open advanced recovery tools where you can find the system recovery option. This may solve your problem at times
If the above step doesn’t work, try configuring the disk space usage. It is very much required to check the disk space on your PC and do clear and make out some free space if it is 300 MB or below
And as the next step, if the above two steps don’t work for you, you should ensure whether the system restore points are being created. This step is not solving your current problem but can prevent you the next time. You can check the current points by just searching for rstrui in the search bar and then selecting the corresponding entry, pressing next will show you the list of restore points created

Thus you can check up with these simple steps and get back the system recovery options work in your Windows PC.