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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Set up Speech Recognition in Windows

Windows 7  & Windows Vista
 

Windows 7 oice to control your computer. You can say commands that the computer will respond to, and you can dictate text to the computer. For more information about what you can do with Windows Speech Recognition, see What can I do with Speech Recognition?
Before you get started using Speech Recognition, you'll need to set up your computer for Windows Speech Recognition. There are three steps to setting up Speech Recognition: set up your microphone, learn how to talk to your computer, and train your computer to understand your speech. Before you get started, make sure that your microphone is connected to your computer.Hide allSet up your microphone
1.       Open Speech Recognition by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Ease of Access, and then clicking Speech Recognition.
2.       Click Set up microphone.
3.       Follow the instructions on the screen.
 
Note
·         The success of speech recognition is directly related to the quality of the microphone you use. The two most common types of microphones for Speech Recognition are headset microphones and desktop microphones. Headset microphones are better suited for working with Speech Recognition because they are less prone to picking up extraneous sounds.

Teach yourself how to talk to your computer
Windows comes with a speech training tutorial to help teach you the commands used with Speech Recognition. The tutorial takes about 30 minutes to complete. Follow the steps below to run the speech training tutorial:
1.       Open Speech Recognition by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Ease of Access, and then clicking Speech Recognition.
2.       Click Take Speech Tutorial.
3.       Follow the instructions in the Speech Recognition tutorial.

Train your computer to recognize your speech
Speech Recognition uses a unique voice profile to recognize your voice and spoken commands. As you use Speech Recognition, your voice profile gets more detailed, which should improve your computer's ability to understand you.
1.       Open Speech Recognition by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Ease of Access, and then clicking Speech Recognition.
2.       Click Train your computer to better understand you.
3.       Follow the instructions on the screen.
 
Note
·      Speech Recognition is available only in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
 

Friday, December 13, 2013

ABOUT : Win XP & Win 7


 
Windows 7
Windows XP
LicenseProprietary commercial softwareProprietary commercial software
Worldwide releaseOctober 22, 2009October 25, 2001
Stable releaseFebruary 22, 2011April 21, 2008
Kernel typeHybridHybrid
Platform supportIA-32 and x86-64IA-32, x86-64 and Itanium
Preceded by
Windows Vista
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Succeeded by
Windows 8
Windows Vista
Physical Memory Limits
2 – 192 GB depending on the version and architecture.
4 GB-128 GB depending on the version and the architecture.
Processors
32 for 32-bit, 256 for 64-bit
32 for 32-bit, 64 for 64-bit
New Features
  • Touch and handwriting recognition
  • Support for virtual hard disks
  • Improved performance on multi-core processors
  • Improved boot performance
  • DirectAccess
  • Kernel improvements
  • Taskbar
  • New version of Windows Media Center
  • XPS Essential Pack
  • New calculator
  • Jump Lists
  • Show desktop button shifted to right-hand size
  • 13 Additional Sound Schemes
  • Window borders and the taskbar do not turn opaque when a window is maximized
  • Allows more customization
  • A new version of Microsoft Virtual PC, newly renamed as Windows Virtual PC
  • Supports the mounting of a virtual hard disk (VHD) as normal data storage.
  • The Remote Desktop Protocol supports real-time multimedia application.
  • Shadow Copy
  • Improved backup and restore
  • New Extended Linguistic Services API
  • Better support for solid-state drives, including the new TRIM command
  • New networking API with support for building SOAP-based web services in native code.
  • GDI+ graphics subsystem
  • DirectX 8.1 upgradeable to DirectX 9.0c
  • Improved Taskbar
  • New features (task panes, tiles, improved sorting and grouping, built-in CD player, Autoplay, Simple File Sharing, etc.)
  • Kernel enhancements
  • Faster start-up
  • Ability to discard a newer device driver in favor of previous one.
  • More user-friendly interface
  • Fast user switching
  • ClearType Font rendering mechanism.
  • New networking features (Windows Firewall, Internet Connection Sharing integration with UPnP, NAT traversal APIs, Quality of Service features, IPv6 and Teredo tunneling, etc.)
  • Remote Assistance and Remote Desktop features.
  • New security features
  • Side-by-side assemblies
  • Improved media features
  • Handwriting recognition, speech recognition and digital ink support.
  • Improved application compatibility and shims compared to Windows 2000
  • Updated accessories and games
Removed Features
  • Classic Start Menu user interface
  • Few Taskbar features
  • Windows Explorer features
  • Windows Media Player features
  • InkBall
  • Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, Windows Calendar and Windows Mail.
  • CD Player, DVD Player and Imaging for Windows
  • NetBEUI and NetDDE are deprecated.
  • DLC and AppleTalk network protocols are removed.
  • Plug-and-play–incompatible communication devices are not supported.
  • Service Pack 2 and Service Pack 3 also remove features from Windows XP.
 

Saturday, November 30, 2013

5 Top Windows 8 Features




Following the release of Windows 8 Developer Preview, many sites have done reviews on what the next Windows system will be like. The reviews are mostly positive, with some hailing Windows 8 as the next revolution in the technology of computer operating systems (OS). Such may well be the ambition of Microsoft, and it shouldn’t surprise time it comes at a time when Apple’s share of the OS market is rising and pitting fiercely against them.
windows 8 features
If there’s one thing great about competition, it is that it brings out the best product between companies. I’ve read up some of the features that Microsoft’s Windows 8 will be offering, and am now both intrigued and excited for what’s to come in the full version. It will even come with a new and unique kind of user interface (UI) known as the Metro.
Here are brief descriptions to some top features you would be keen to know about:

1. Speedy Boot Time

The load and boot up speed has improved significantly over Windows’ predecessors. This is partly due to the better resource allocations to applications and the system. When compared to Windows 7 desktop CPU, Windows 8 has an even speedier boot time.
speedy boot time
How did they improve so much over Windows 7? Well, Windows 8 employs a technique of hibernating the system kernel (think of it as your OS’s resource manager) when you shut down, such that it becomes almost like a partial hibernation each time. When you reboot the system, the ‘memory’ of your previous session gets reinitialized quicker.

2. Innovative & Dynamic Desktop

The tiles-based interface, or the Metro UI, will be the first thing you see upon logging in to Windows 8. At first glance, the UI seems to go intuitively with touchscreen devices like tablets and smartphones. Indeed, in such devices, you tap on those apps to open them. The grid layout seems to facilitate such interactions. Needless to say, you can customize your grid by adding and arranging applications.
innovative dynamic desktop
The coolest thing, however, is that not only does Windows 8 allows you to personalize your desktop with the organization of the apps, it is also able display real-time information through them. Microsoft had demonstrated how the tile for a weather app could reveal the current temperature in a city without having to activate the app. The same goes for emails and such. In one glance over your tiles, you can have access to all that you need to be notified and take action on those which are urgent.

3. Improved Search Function

8 has no search box at the bottom of the Start menu. Heck, it doesn’t even have the trademark Start menu! That doesn’t mean that there’s no convenient search function available. All you need to do is to type anything, and a search box will appear from the right and give you the results. The search capability is even stronger this time, displaying all the matching apps and files instantaneously.
improved search functionm
Unlike Windows 7, Windows
You can also search within apps that utilize Windows 8′s search function. The search pane that pops out on the right of your desktop will contain the list of apps which you can conduct the search in. For instance, if you’re looking for the emails sent by a particular contact, typing that name and clicking on the email app would allow you to search from within.

4. Windows To Go

Of the entire list here, this is one feature that offers the most convenience to users. Windows To Go allows users to make a copy of their OS complete with their settings, wallpapers, files and even apps, into a USB thumb drive. Plugged it into another computer with Windows 8 already installed, and you can boot up the PC and make it look exactly alike the OS you normally use, with all settings intact.
windows to go
It sounds rather amazing, doesn’t it? The potential for such a feature is high and possibilities, many. For one, a virus-infected and crashed system could be revived by simply plugging in the USB thumbdrive with your last saved settings, inclusive of all your files, apps, etc. Users don’t have to worry about losing the ability to work on their projects just because their PC is down; they can always rely on plugging in that thumbdrive into another Windows 8-installed PC. Another is that users may simply bring back work from the office with that thumbdrive rather than a much bulkier laptop.

5. Windows Live Syncing

Similar to Windows To Go, the new Windows 8 will provide Windows Live syncing, such that users can login on any Windows 8 PC with ‘Live ID’ and get back their own personalized settings on it. The desktop will look the same every time the user login on a PC with their Windows Live account. Migrating to a new PC is probably made easier when the user has all the essential settings synced.
windows live syncing
How different will this be from Windows To Go? Well, Windows To Go seem to serve more as a controlled device for IT administrators to distribute to employees (with exact duplicates of Windows 8 with the same settings, wallpapers, apps, etc on thumbdrives), while Windows Live Syncing is more to allowing users to keep the basic settings and data available even if they’re away from their primary PC. We can only anticipate how the former and latter will be truly be like until they are unveiled by Microsoft in due course.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Windows - How to format a USB flash drive from command prompt?

 




To format a USB flash drive from command prompt, follow the below procedure:
  • Connect the USB flash drive to your PC.
  • Click on Start > Run > Type cmd and click on OK.
  • Assuming the letter of the USB flash drive is G.
  • Now enter this command.
  • format /q /x G: and press Enter.
  • Note: Don't forget to replace the letter "G" with your drive letter.