Beginning PetaPoco – Chapter:01 – Introduction to PetaPoco

Hacking Windows 8 - How To Change Windows 8 Lock Screen Image

Want to play around with the Windows 8 Lock Screen? Then follow this How-To article to customize Windows 8 Lock Screen Image as per your needs.
The Lock Screen is what you first see when the you start (boot) your PC / Laptop / Tablet.
As soon as you turn on your PC, Windows 8 jumps boots up, but stops you before you can start to work with it. It displays you a Lock screen.
There’s a lot more to the Lock Screen than it used to be with the earlier versions of Windows. Its not just a background Image. It tells you the date & time and a variety of other information like event updates from your calendar, Mail Notifications, and Windows 8 app notifications & updates.
In this How-To, you will learn a variety of options to customize the Lock Screen.

Hacking Windows 8 – How To Customize apps on Windows 8 Lock Screen

Windows 8 displays notifications regarding new email, messages, calendar events, status updates, Tweets and even from other apps on the Lock screen. If you want a quick glance of the information, it’s right there for you and you don’t even have
to log into Windows 8.

Apps added to the lock screen are allowed to run in the background when your PC is locked so they can fetch new, updated information and display it on the lock screen.

If all your apps start to display notification on the lock screen, it may become difficult for to get what is important. You may just want to see notifications regarding email, messages and social networking sites, but do want to see the current weather, or information from an app.

Customizing the Lock Screen as per your preference is what I will be showing you in this article.

Hacking Windows 8 – How To Disable Lock Screen in Windows 8

The Lock Screen is what you first see when the you start (boot) your PC / Laptop / Tablet.

As soon as you turn on your PC, Windows 8 boots up, but stops you before you can start to work with it. It displays you a Lock screen.

There’s a lot more to the Lock Screen than it meets the eye. It tells you the date & time and a variety of other information like event updates from your calendar, Mail Notifications, and Windows 8 app notifications & updates.

If you are using a Windows 8 tablet, you might find the Lock Screen useful for all its notifications. But if you are using a PC or a laptop, then you would like to get into action without the lock screen. Though you can disable the lock screen, Microsoft has buried the option and has not made it easy for users to find it, though the steps to disable are pretty easy.

In this How-To, I will show you how you can Disable the Lock Screen in few simple steps.

Hacking BIOS - How to Speed Up Boot Time

This particular article is not just limited to Windows 8 or any particular operating system. These optimizations will speed up the boot time irrespective of the OS that is installed. 

For most users, those initial seconds that their computer take to display the start screen seem to forever. No matter how fast your PC boots, its still not enough and we want it even faster.

In this How-To article, I will show you how a few hacks to increase the boot time that your computer takes without any hardware changes.

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Hacking Windows 8 – How To Speedup Windows 8 Startup time : Part 1

As your Windows OS gets older, due to various factors we find our PC taking a long time to load or startup and the questions everyone asks is why does the PC becomes slow over time and how to speedup the startup time.

While there are various factors that can slow down the PC over a period of time, but for speeding up windows 8 startup time there are two options. You can either upgrade the hardware or follow the tweaks that I will explain in this article.

In our previous article, Hacking BIOS - How to Speed Up Boot Time I showed how we can tweak the BIOS settings to improve the boot time. While boot time is one of the tweaks that we can make in speeding up any operating systems startup time, based on the operating system that is installed we can try a few more tricks which greatly enhances the Startup time as well as performance
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Hacking Windows 8 – How to SpeedUp Windows 8 StartUp Time : Part 2

Before starting with this article, just want to give a small background. We all know or have faced the situation where our Windows OS has gone slow both in terms of Startup and Performance over a period of time. There are a lot of tweaks that you can do in Windows 8 to improve its Startup & over all performance.

I have already covered, Hacking BIOS - How to Speed Up Boot Time (which covers some BIOS setting to improve startup time) & Hacking Windows 8 - How to Speedup Windows 8 Startup time : Part 1 (which covers disabling Startup Programs which improves both Startup time and overall performance). I suggest you go

How to Improve Windows 8 Performance without adding memory

One of the questions that I have been asked again & again is “How to Improve Windows 8 Performance without adding memory or upgrading resources”. We all know or have faced the situation where our Windows OS has gone slow both in terms of Startup and Performance over a period of time. There are a lot of tweaks that you can do in Windows 8 to improve its Startup & over all performance.

I have already covered, Hacking BIOS - How to Speed Up Boot Time (which covers some BIOS setting to improve startup time) & Hacking Windows 8 - How to Speedup Windows 8 Startup time : Part 1 &

C Programming – Ch:002 – Getting Started

To communicate with a computer, you need to know the language it speaks and that rules out the languages that we humans use. There are various languages that are there today, with which we can communicate with a computer and C is one of them.

As we do with any human language, its better to start with learning alphabets instead of directly jumping with a sentence. First, let us learn the alphabets, then we can form words, which can then be grouped to form sentences.

In this chapter, I will introduce you to the Characters that are accepted in C. I will show you the different types of words, referred to as Variables, Constants and Keywords.

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