How to hide desktop icon

Right-click on the desktop >  view > show desktop icon

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How to change the windows 8 lock screen and start menu

You can change your lock screen or even put your own custom picture.
open the Lock screen settings by going to the start menu and searching for lock screen.

Open lock screen

Click on any of the pictures to change the lock screen or click on browse to get a picture from your computer.

Lock screen apps
From the lock screen apps, you select the apps that should run in the background and show on the lock screen when the computer screen.

Click on + to add more apps on the list

Changing the start menu
Click on start menu to change the design and color of the start menu

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How to disable startup programs

Are you tired of startup programs that start or pop-up whenever you start your computer. Well you can stop them by following these few steps.

Press CTRL+ALT+DEL and open the Task manager.

Navigate to startup

Choose the program you want to stop and click disable in the status column.

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How to shutdown windows using the settings charm

Windows can be shutdown by the use of the windows charm.
Move the cursor to the right top corner of the screen, the windows charm bar will appear.

Move the cursor down to the settings icon which looks like a gear

Click on the settings icon and move to the power icon

Click on the power icon

Click Shut down
Note: You can view the windows charm by pressing the winlogo + I

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Shutting down windows 8 using VBS script shortcut

Using VBS script seems to be complicated but the essence is to create a shortcut on the desktop so that you shut down your computer by clicking an icon on the desktop.

Create a new text document by right-clicking on the desktop.

Add the following code in the document

Save the with a vbs extension

Check on the desktop the icon will be available

Double click this icon to shut down

 You are now done. Whenever you want to shut down click on that icon.

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How to open up command prompt in any folder

In windows 8 and 8.1 you can open the command prompt from any folder.  All you have to do is to hold the Shift key and right click on the file or folder you want to open in cmd.

The cmd window will open up

The cmd prompt will open up in the correct directory

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Create a shortcut to easily access the host files

If your tired of going through the lengthy proceed of modifying the host files, create a shortcut where you change the files with one click.
Follow the following steps.
Right-click on the desktop and Create a shortcut

Browse to the location of the host file

Location of the host file

Click Next to gibe the shortcut a meaningful name suchas "EditHosts"

Finish
 Your now go to go.....you can now open the shortcut and modify the host files

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