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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 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.

Try These Speech To Text Softwares For Free On Windows

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Speech to text is such an interesting feature that is very much helpful to those people who write novels, write academic transcriptions, office documents as they have to type a lot and that may sometimes take a lot of their time if they were not so proficient in typing, so, the speech to text softwares help them a lot by allowing them to just speak whatever they to wish to type and the softwares convert the speech into a text.

There are a lot many options for speech to text applications available for the Windows users, but putting aside the paid options, we will tell you about the best free speech to text softwares.

Free Speech To Text Softwares:

Google Docs Voice Typing:

To use this tool from Google, you will need a Chrome browser, a microphone and also an internet connection as it will only work with the internet. This tool offers the users the easiest way to use the speech to text feature. This tool works only in the Chrome browser and the users can use this feature in Google Docs, Google Slides. To use this you can simply connect the microphone to the computer and then open the document in Google docs or slides and then click on the tools and then select voice typing, then you will be able to see the microphone box which you can click when you are ready to speak. When done click on the microphone again.

Windows Speech Recognition:

This is another software recommendation from us if you are in search of a great speech to text tool. You need to head to Start>Control Panel> Speech Recognition and then click on setup microphone and then select the type of the microphone that you are using. Then it will ask you read a sentence to set up, just do it and click on next. Then before actually beginning your work, you can train your Pc to understand your voice by heading to Start>Control Panel>Speech Recognition and there click on Train Your Computer To Understand You Better. It will then present you some sentences to read one after the other and do them. Then you can simply turn the speech recognition feature by going to Start>Control Panel>Speech Recognition>Start Speech Recognition. It will then ask you to set up the method you would like to use to launch the app, set it up and you are done.

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

  • 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 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.

Creating custom desktop icons in 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.

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
• Now 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.

How to change the mouse cursor icon appearance in Windows

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The main important thing on the screen of your PC while you work, surf the web or do something is the cursor which represents your mouse movements on the screen. Have you ever felt bored of seeing the same routine cursor all the time? Don’t worry, there is actually a very simple process using which you can change your cursor icon, now come lets go through that

• Just type Change how the mouse pointer looks in the Search bar of the Windows and press enter
• You will see the search results with two options select the Change how the mouse pointer looks option and press enter to open it
• Now you will see the window open, click on the properties window
• Under the tab you will see customize section, where you need to select the mouse pointer that you wish to change, and then click on browse
• Then you can see a window with all the various cursor icons available on your PC
• Select one icon that wish to use as a replacement for the one you select earlier, and click on open
• Now, finally click on apply and then on Ok to save the changes
You can thus change the appearance of the various cursor icons you wish on your Windows PC with these simple steps.