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Help & support 100% jargon freeBuying advice Windows tutorials New things to do Downloa d FREE GUIDES Learn the basics of Windows PREPARE YOUR PC FOR AN APOCALYPSE! How to prevent problems from having an effect on your Windows machine EASY MONEY MASTER VIDEO FASTER SEARCH THE ART OF RECORDING AND EDITING YOUR VIDS FIND ANYTHING ON YOUR PC IN SECONDS PROTECT YOUR ONLINE CASH FROM THIEVES 100 SPEED-UP SECRETS 7+(&ƵǔǙ/(7(ƬƾǏ'( « Knock seconds off your startup « Launch apps faster than ever « Rejuvenate an old PC easily Plus essential tips for Windows 8, Vista & XP 24 PAGES OF EXPERT TUITION ii Stream entertainment at home ii Get Android apps on your desktop ii PLUS! Handy guides for beginners Give Windows an instant speed boost – for free! Nicholas Odantzis acting editor www.facebook.com/windowsmag Welcome Every month I strive to give you the best selection of Windows-related help and advice, and in this issue I think we really have nailed it. There’s a new ‘Essentials’ section on page 42, dedicated to guiding you through the basics of Windows, so if you’re new to your machine or you just want to brush up on old skills, this is a great place to get started. You’ll find all of these hand-picked tutorials in PDF format on the disc that comes attached to the cover, so you can simply open them on your PC when you want to. We’ve also started highlighting what’s coming up in the next issue in select parts of the magazine, so if you like the current mag, you might be tempted to get the next one. Of course, as usual we’ve crammed the magazine full of amazing content, including 100 new ways to speed up your PC and the ultimate disaster recovery guide – reading it might just save your bacon one day. THE ONLY COMPUTER MAG TO HELP YOU GET MORE FROM WINDOWS We pride ourselves in being the only magazine on the shelves to show you exactly how to get the best from the Windows operating system, whether it’s 7, 8, Vista or even XP. Windows 7 Help & Advice also comes with a disc, on which you can find some of the great apps covered in the magazine. If you get a chance, take a look at how you can even read the magazine on your laptop, phone or tablet. May 2014 | Help & Advice | 5 8 Discover Become a wolf of the virtual Wall Street 23 Next month Gaze into the future… What’s happening in June? 34 Subscriptions Save up to 35 per cent when you subscribe today 44 Reader offers We’ve a selection of money-saving deals just for you 55 Overseas reader? Get your mag for less with a subscription 76 Four pages of essential expert help for all your tricky technical queries REGULARS FEATURES SUPPORT EXPLORE The best PC tutorials Want more? Visit our website at www.facebook.com/windowsmag 14 The ultimate disaster recovery guide Be prepared for Windows failures 62 100 Windows speed-up tips Get a sluggish Windows PC sprinting along with our helpful ideas and hints 72 10 ways to find new music Bored of the same songs? Jump online to seek new music – your ears will thank you! 28 Be secure and flexible online with VPN software 32 Fine-tune your videos with VirtualDub 36 Make your Facebook account super secure 40 Stream media to other devices in Windows 7 46 Use Autocorrect in any program on your PC 50 Back up your files in case the worst happens 52 Find all your files quickly in Windows 7 56 Get mobile apps and games in Windows 58 Make online banking safer <ʝʦ ɠʔʦLȫ ɏ1LɭKɼODɡ2GʋQɢʫLɡVʋ\ɡ “Each month we include as wide a range of tutorials as possible, to help you use your computer more HIÀFLHQWO\DQGLQVSLUH\RXWRWU\QHZWKLQJVµ 6 | Help & Advice | May 2014 Follow us on… www.twitter.com/windowsmag www.facebook.com/windowsmag 80 Our expert reviews and recommendations 82 Musical Fidelity MF-100 82 Sennheiser HD335s 83 Monster Inspiration 83 Denon AH-D340 83 Urbanears Humlan 84 Dell XPS 13 86 Toshiba Qosmio X70 88 Lenovo Thinkpad 2440s 90 The Banner Saga 92 Broken Age (Act 1) 94 The Walking Dead Season 2 – Episode 1 96 Metal Gear Rising UPGRADE CUT-PRICE SUBS OFFER )ʖQɍʝXɢPʝȾɏʝɚSDȰɏ Save up to 35% – pay just £23.49 every six months 10 ways to find new music 72 Revamp your music tastes with these easy ideas ON THE COVER 62 Get your PC running faster and better today 14 Prepare your PC for a total Windows meltdown 100 WINDOWS SPEED-UP TIPS May 2014 | Help & Advice | 7 ON THE COVER ON THE COVER DISASTER RECOVERY GUIDE NEW THINGS TO DO AMAZING WEBSITES FASCINATING FACTS HIGH LIFE Online stock markets could help you make – or lose – your fortune 8 | Help & Advice | May 2014 The Knowledge… ©ISTOCK As well as investing in stocks and shares, you can also use fluctuations in currency exchange to make money – so when you hear that the pound is up against the dollar, you can cash in. Web trading platform eToro allows you to do just that, and includes a practice mode. It offers almost instant results on investments, which makes it a furious game of opening and closing trades. Visit www.etoro.com/ webtrader and hit ‘Practice’ to get started. Become a wolf of the virtual Wall Street : : : : L L ȿ ȿ ȿ ɏ ɏ ʖ ʖ ʜ ʜ Ƀ Ƀ Ƀ H H V V ʤ ʤ ʤ ȷ ȷ ʑ ʑ ʑ Q Q W W ɡ ɡ The phrase ‘trading stocks’ generally conjures images of sweaty men loosening their ties as they clinch deals on Wall Street or the London Stock Exchange. However, what was once the occupation of a fortunate few has become accessible to just about everyone via the internet. Before we get into the nitty-gritty of finances, we need a disclaimer. Stocks can go up as well as down, so while you could make a small fortune, you could also lose it in an instant. If you have debts, then you must pay these off before you invest. Only spend what you can afford, and make sure you’ve got enough money to cover your living expenses if everything goes disastrously wrong. Fortunately, you can launch your investments career without spending a penny. A good place to start is Halifax’s Fantasy Trader Account (www.halifax. co.uk/sharedealing/our-accounts/ fantasy-trader). Sign up and Halifax will give you £10,000 – of virtual money. You can invest this by searching for real companies and specifying the amount of money you wish to put into them, or the number of shares you want to buy. You can build an entire portfolio of pretend investments and see how they do over time. Wall Street Survivor (www.wallstreetsurvivor.com) is another good way of learning the ups and downs of the stock market, albeit from a more American perspective. The focus here is on familiarising you with how everything works via a simulation. It’s free to get started, and there are even real cash prizes up for grabs. Once you’ve mastered virtual investments, you can move onto the real thing. Halifax’s share dealing service charges £11.95 commission for trades, and you’ll already be familiar with it thanks to the Fantasy Trader. Other brokers include Hargreaves Lansdown (www.hl.co.uk), AJ Bell (www.ajbell.co.uk) and Interactive Investor (www.iii.co.uk). You needn’t be a millionaire to play the stock market – in fact, you don’t need any money at all. Here’s how you do it Microsoft OneDrive Oh dear. Has Microsoft rebranded something again? Yes! This time it’s SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage service. It was formerly known as Windows Live SkyDrive, which was previously known as Windows Live Folders. Its rebrand comes with a snazzy new web address (www.onedrive.com). I understand Microsoft’s marketing strategy, but what is ‘cloud storage’? Cloud storage refers to saving files online, rather than locally on your computer, which means you can access them from anywhere. OneDrive is competing with Google Drive and Dropbox in this market. So what does OneDrive do differently to its competitors? OneDrive’s big selling point is its tight integration with Microsoft’s online version of Office, which includes Excel and Word web programs. This means that you can create a document online and access it from any computer or smartphone with an internet connection. A new feature with the rebranding is simultaneous collaboration, so you can work on a Word document with other users. How much storage do you get with the OneDrive service? The service starts with a mere 7GB of online capacity, but you can add 3GB by syncing photos from your smartphone, and you get an extra 500MB (up to a maximum of 5GB) for every person to whom you recommend the service. This brings the total storage to a potential 15GB – the exact same amount that Google Drive provides by default. Is it worth using? Microsoft has brought its online storage offering up to date with the OneDrive rebrand, but this also means there’s little difference between it and other providers. We’d say to go with OneDrive if you use Hotmail and Office, pick Google Drive if you use Gmail, and try Dropbox for sending larger files. BANK ACCOUNT Click ‘Sign up now’. Connect with Facebook, or set up an eToro account. CURRENCY EXCHANGE At the top of the screen are various currencies. Click to buy and sell them. TRADING PLACES Re-enter www.etoro.com/ webtrader. Key in your username and password. EXCHANGE RATES Trade currencies with eToro “Sign up and Halifax will give you £10,000 – of virtual money” Discover Trading stocks online May 2014 | Help & Advice | 9 +NJ1Ǜ<ǀǏ1Ǩ+NJ67(5 7(Ǩ+NJǢ3(57 Tip of the month Portable powerhouse Struggling to get something to work? Need a tip? Then email us your woes (to windowsmagazine@futurenet.com with the subject line ‘Windows Insider’) and we’ll share your perfect Windows tweaks in a future issue. A handy new feature in Windows 8 is the power report. This is brilliant for us when we’re testing the battery life of the latest laptops, but it can be just as useful for home users as well. To access it, press [Windows], then type CMD and click the ‘Command Prompt’ icon. Next, type powercfg / batteryreport and Windows will generate a report, the location of which will be displayed in the command prompt. Open this file and you’ll be able to see a history of when your computer has been active or suspended, and at the very bottom of the page you’ll find battery life estimates. These estimates are useful for working out how long you can use your laptop between charges – essential when you’re travelling. Power up Windows’ Taskbar notification area is the little bit of your screen to the lower right where you can see the time, as well as icons for programs that are running. By default, Windows hides inactive icons, but this isn't necessarily helpful if you’re having problems with your computer. To make sure icons are permanently visible, right-click the Taskbar, then choose ‘Properties’. Uncheck ‘Hide inactive icons’ and you will be able to see all the icons. Unchecking ‘Show the clock’ means the time is hidden; to see it, move the cursor into the area. Click the ‘Customize’ button to choose which icons are shown. How iconic Even though sending photos and videos online has become second nature to many of us, DVDs still have a valuable place in the world of computing – particularly if you want to send media to relatives who don’t have internet access, or want to display content on the big screen. Handily, Windows Vista has built-in DVD authoring software, and you don’t even need to be Steven Spielberg to use it. Hit the [Windows] key and then type DVD maker. Next, import the photos and videos that you would like to burn to disc, and reorder them if necessary by dragging them up and down. Insert a blank DVD when you’re ready, click ‘Next’ and DVD Maker will create your multimedia extravaganza. Make movies If you frequently use your laptop away from home, you’ll know how annoying it is when the battery suddenly dies. Fortunately, Windows versions from Vista upwards include Microsoft’s Mobility Center, which allows you to quickly adjust settings to give your battery a little bit more juice when you’re out and about. The Mobility Center can be found in the Control Panel of your computer, and you can also access it by pressing [Windows] + [X]. Among the settings you will find brightness and sound adjustment, battery level and wireless network status, and the ability to switch your laptop to a presentation mode so you don’t get interrupted by incoming emails when you’re delivering that important talk. Sometimes you will find additional options provided by your laptop’s manufacturer. Boost your battery Quickly change those all-important power settings with the Windows Mobility Center POWER USER Mobility Center also includes options for rotating your screen and connecting external projectors and monitors, as well as synchronisation settings 10 | Help & Advice | May 2014 [...]... upload it to YouTube for the world to see WorldMags.net May 2014 | Help & Advice | 33 WorldMags.net SUBSCRIBE AND START SAVING TODAY! WANT THE DIGITAL EDITION? 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