Author: EXE Files Team

Change the Color of Command Prompt

Changing Text and Background Color of Command Prompt Windows may have a great, user-friendly Graphical User Interface, but some people just like to do things the old school way – using the old command-line interface. Windows also has two different command-line utilities now, the Windows PowerShell and the Windows Command Prompt. Microsoft even introduced a… Read more »

Get a Power Efficiency Report

Here is how you can get a complete Power Efficiency Report in Windows Over the past few years, computing has made enormous strides. What was only possible for supercomputers only a few decades ago, can now be done with a smartphone. However, one caveat to this has been that battery technology hasn’t grown at the… Read more »

Use Tab Search in Chrome on Windows

Here is how you can Supercharge your Tab Switching Using Tab Search in Chrome One of the things that make a PC a better work machine than other smart devices like tablets and phones is their ability to multitask, seamlessly switching between different apps, tabs, etc. Google and Apple have tried to make their smartphone… Read more »

How-To Password Protect Files in Windows

How-To Password Protect Files in Windows Using Encryption In the age of the internet, the notion of privacy is getting harder and harder to achieve. While ever-present networking may be good for an automated, shared world, it also opens up opportunities for malice. Cyber attacks are on the rise and hackers can try to access… Read more »

How-To Use Microsoft Remote Desktop

The pandemic has pushed us into a new era, making us rethink our workflows and forcing us to do things in a new way. Mandatory physical meetings have now become zoom calls while social interactions have taken the form of slack conversations. Similarly, we also have had to change how we use our machines. Being… Read more »

Disable Windows Diagnostic Data Collection

Here is how you can Disable Diagnostic Data Collection in Windows Linux may be best for developers and high-processing servers, Mac may be the king of premium laptops, but Windows is easily the most popular PC operating system around. It strikes the best balance, both price and feature-wise. Unlike Linux where is complete freedom and… Read more »

Enable Brightness Slider in Quick Actions

Among the many changes Microsoft introduced in the Metro UI-inspired Windows 8, only a few managed to be carried over to Windows 10. The much-hated Start screen was axed, thankfully, but the Quick Access Notification Center remained and is still present in Windows 10. Much like a smartphone notification center, it provides the user with… Read more »