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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 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.

Steps To Disable Location Tracking In Windows 10

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Windows 10 operating system was launched with a lot of features and security included in it. It has a lot of improvements when compared to that of its predecessors. Location based tracking is something that annoys the users as it is a security nightmare as it feels for many. But not many know that it doesn’t actually have to be that way, you can actually change the location settings and disable location access in Windows 10 using a few simple steps.

Disabling Location Tracking in Windows 10 Using Settings

  • Firstly, open Settings (Windows + I) and select Privacy
  • Here on the left-hand side panel, you will find App Permissions, below that you can see Location, just tap on the toggle button to turn it off

That’s it, this will disable the location access for Microsoft, built-in Windows 10 apps and even Microsoft Store apps on your device.

Disabling Location Tracking By Microsoft Store Apps

If you wish to track all apps from tracking you but have got no issues in letting Windows accessing your location, you can keep the earlier settings ‘On’

  • As you open the Settings page on your computer by clicking (Windows + I)
  • Scroll down on the same page and you will find Privacy option on the left side panel on your Windows screen
  • There under the option app permissions, you can find the option Location, turn off the toggle to disable location access for all the apps listed there

Disabling Location Access On Per App Basis

If you wish some of the apps on your computer like Weather, Clock, News access your location but don’t wished to be tracked on a wholesale by each and every app, then you need to keep both the earlier settings turned on. Then scroll down further to grant permissions for certain apps.

  • Under the Settings menu in your computer, head to the option Privacy
  • There, you will find App permissions option, below that you can see Location option, tap on it
  • Now, on the right-side panel you will see the list of apps. To grant or disable permission on per app basis, you just need to turn on or off each of the toggles individually

Disabling Location Tracking By Windows Apps

Desktop applications usually don’t ask for permissions to access data like the Microsoft apps does. To disable them from accessing your location, scroll down further and turn off the toggle for ‘Allow desktop apps to access your location’

Clear Location History In Windows 10

It can be noted that the location information saved on your device will automatically be deleted after a limited time, you can even delete it manually.

  • To clear location history, head to Settings>Privacy>Location then on the right hand side pane, find Location History and then tap on Clear

This is how you can pretty easily prevent Microsoft and its app from accessing/ collecting your geographical location information.

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.

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 that 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 the 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 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.