Today we are going to discuss about a completely new software that is User friendly, Time saving, effort free and has wide range of features and compatibility. It is the “Fast File Search” utility for Windows 8. Yes, as the name suggests, now you can find files on your system within no time irrespective of  your Hard disk Storage Size. This software is designed in such a way that it will not only save your time but also will surprise you with its amazing search results. This is designed keeping all the aspects of a User who wish to find his/her files on the system. The “Fast File Search” utility has a wide range of customizable options. The Screenshot below gives you the picture of  how the software looks like when you launch it.

Fast File Search utility in Windows 8

1) This post will help you to understand all the different features of “Fast File Search” and How to use it as per your convenience. To begin with the file search, you need to click on the Start button of the Fast File Search Utility as shown in the screenshot below. When you click on the Start Button, a search window pop-up appears on your screen displaying search parameters like “Search Word” and “Search Path”. Type in the partial or full file name and click on OK. The “Search Path” by default will display on which drive or folder your are currently on. To change it, you need to select the drive or folder from the “Folders” List marked in Blue on the left hand side of the Fast File Search utility in the Screenshot Above.

Start button and its search window of Fast File Search in Windows 8

2) Once you click on “OK” button after typing in the file name, the “Fast File Search” utility searches the file within no time with all the search details such as Start time, Stop time, No. of parsed folders, No. of Ignored folders, etc in the Status Bar. When you Right Click on the searched file, a drop down menu appears where you will see different options such as “View Selected File”, “Open File’s Folder”, “Locate file in Explorer”, “Send File to Recycle Bin”, “File properties” and “Folder properties”. The screen shot below displays how it looks when you right click on the searched file in “Fast File Search”.

Search result and file right click of Fast file search in Windows 8

3) Now let us discuss about the customization that you need to do while searching a file using “Fast File Search” utility in Windows 8. The screenshot given below will help you to understand different customization options. One of the option is been marked in Red color which comes in the category of “Folders to Ignore”. This category in “Fast File Search”  is only applicable to the Drive where the Microsoft Windows Operating System is Installed i.e its only applicable when you are searching for a file in the drive (example C: or D:) wherever OS is installed. This “Folders to Ignore” category helps you to check or uncheck the folders that you need to ignore while searching a particular file. Next to “Folders to Ignore” is the category named “Files to Ignore”, which helps to ignore the files that you don’t want this utility to search for. Others Categories are “File Search”, “Launchers”, “Exporters” and “View”. If you move your mouse cursor over the options displayed in categories of this “fast File Search” utility, then you see a pop-up message giving you a brief idea about the function of that particular button or option. In the Screenshot below it is giving a pop-up of the Start Menu.

Customizable Options of Fast File Search in Windows 8

4)When you click on the file, its details are displayed in the “Status Bar” and “Caption Bar” and their displaying areas are  marked by Red and Blue respectively in the screenshot given below. To know about this software, you need to click on the Question Mark sign just above the status bar.

File details of Fast File Search in Windows 8

5) Other interesting option in this “Fast File Search” utility is the Theme changing Option. You will find this “Style” Key in the Top Right Corner of “Fast File Search” window and also a Circular Button in the Top Left Corner just above the Home key that has the same functionality. Click on any of them to switch between the different Default themes. This “Fast File Search” utility is compatible with other versions of Windows such as Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 8, etc.

This post will guide you how to make your Title Bar bigger or smaller in Windows 8 system as per your interest of vision. The procedure is very simple and easy. The steps that needs to be followed are given below which will allow you to change size of the Title Bar.

1) First of all you need to do is switch to your desktop screen by either selecting the Desktop option from the Start Screen Menu or by simply holding the Windows key down and press “D” or “L” key on your keyboard i.e “Windows+D” or “Windows+L”. this will get you to the desktop screen. Now Right Click on the empty space or area on your Desktop Screen and you will see a right click pop-up and now select the “Personalize” option from it.

Right click Menu on Desktop Screen in Windows 8

2) After you click on the Personalize option, a “Personalization” Window opens on your screen. On the lower left of the Window you will be able to see an Option as “Display” as shown in the Screenshot below. Click on the “Display” Option.

Personalization Window in Windows 8

3) After you click on the “Display”, a screen opens giving you various options to change the size of the Title Bar. Choose the size you would like to apply for the Title Bar from the Size Drop Down Menu and you can also check or uncheck the Bold option next to it. The Screenshot below displays the screen after clicking on the “Display” button.

Display in Personalization Window in Windows 8

4) Once you have selected the options you wish to apply on to your Task Bar, Click on Apply. The Screen Refreshes by itself to update and save the  new changes that you have made to the Title Bar. This is all about it and you can make changes to it whenever you wish to.

This post will guide you to take a screen-shot and access the captured files on your Windows 8 system. Windows 8 allows you to capture everything that is on your screen and this is the first time that windows has really included a built-in way to capture screenshots.It is really simple and easy. Below are the steps that need to be followed to go about it.

1)  Switch to the start screen and launch the application of your choice or be on the screen of which you would like to take a screenshot of. To switch to windows 8 start screen either press the windows key on your keyboard or just move your cursor to the bottom left on your screen and click on the start menu pop-up that appears on your desktop screen.

Start menu of Windows 8

2) Now to take a screenshot of the screen you wish to, you need be on that particular screen and then hold down the windows key and press “Prt Scr”(print screen) key on your keyboard i.e Windows+Prt Scr. The screenshot will be generated and will be saved in the Screenshot folder of your PC automatically. All you need to do is to open the screenshot folder and you will find the screenshot file in there. To access the folder you need to hold on the windows key and letter “E” on your keyboard i.e “Windows+E”. This particular combination opens the windows explorer on your screen as shown in screenshot below.

Windows Explorer in Windows 8

3) Now to open the Screenshot folder, click on “Pictures” under the Libraries category in the Windows Explorer as shown in the screenshot below. Now you will be able to see the folders associated with the picture library and one of the folders will be “Screenshot Folder” that you are searching for.

Picture libraries in Windows 8

4) Double click on the “Screenshot Folder” to open it and then you will find the screenshot file that you had taken which gets saved in this particular folder automatically. This is how to take a screenshot in Windows 8 system and all the files that you have done the screenshot for, gets saved in this particular folder by default.

In Windows 8 there is no easy way to see the used space by the Windows 8 Applications. The option is actually hidden away in the PC settings of the Windows 8 system. This post will guide you to view the space that is been used by different Windows 8 Applications in your system. Follow the procedure given below to view the space used by the applications in Windows 8.

1) Press the Windows+I combination keys on your keyboard. A pop-up menu (Settings Menu) displays. Select “Change PC Settings” which will be at the bottom of the menu as shown in the screen-shot given below.

Settings Menu Of Windows 8

After selecting the “Change PC Settings”, a new control panel menu opens with different options that will be displayed on the left hand side of the screen. Select the option displaying “General” in that category. After selecting General option you will be able to see other options such as Time, App Switching, Spelling, Language and Available Storage as shown in the screen-shot given below. Under “Available Storage” click on “view app sizes”.

General Option in the Change PC Settings Of Windows 8

After clicking on View App Sizes, you will be able to see the sizes used by the applications of  Windows 8 in your PC. There will be a list of applications and their sizes that will be displayed after clicking on view app sizes button. You can view them by just scrolling up/down the mouse scroll wheel or by dragging the scroll bar of the View app sizes list menu. The screen-shot given below shows how the dialogue of View App Sizes looks like.

Dialogue of View App sizes in Windows 8

This is how to go about viewing the sizes of the different applications installed in your Windows 8 system. There are other posts related to application settings which you can easily do by accessing the control panel on you Windows 8 system.

There are Different Methods to Access the Control Panel in Windows 8 are given below, especially for those users who are not familiar using Windows 8 Operation System. Microsoft Windows 8 has removed the most Common user friendly button i.e Start Button, which most of the users of the previous versions found easier to access different application in the system. Some of the ways to go about to open control panel are mentioned below which are short and easy to understand.

1) Move the cursor to the bottom or Top right of the Windows screen. A pop-up Menu appears (called as “Charm Menu”) as shown in the Screen shot below. Click on the Setting button as it appears.

Charm Menu of Windows 8

2) After clicking on the Settings Button, Settings menu Opens displaying different options in the menu. Select “Control Panel” button and the Control Panel opens on your screen.

Settings Menu Of Windows 8

3) That’s all about it.

Next way to open the control panel is by  moving the cursor to the bottom left of the Windows screen and Right-clicking or you can achieve the same result by holding the Windows Key + X. Once you do this step, a pop-up menu opens displaying  various options related to the Windows 8 system as shown in the Screen shot below.

Right click Menu at bottom left corner of Windows 8

Select the Control Panel option and now you have got the Control Panel Opened on your Windows 8 System.

Another Method to Open Control Panel is to move the cursor to the bottom or Top right of the Windows screen. A pop-up Menu appears (called as “Charm Menu”) . Click on the Search Button. After this a search menu opens on the same right side of your screen Displaying lot of applications installed in your Windows 8 System. Type Control panel in the search bar as shown in the Screen shot below.

Search menu of Windows 8

Simultaneously an option appears on the left hand side of the screen as you type Control panel in the search bar as shown below.

Option that appears after typing control panel in the search menu

Click on the control panel button that appears and you are done. This method can also be used to open other applications on the Windows 8 system of your PC.