Hide or Unhide Hard Disk Partition in Windows 8.1/8/7/Xp/Vista

Hiding a Partition from my computer or explorer can be extremely useful when you have some sensitive information on the local disk and you want others to stay away from it. After you hide a partition, the partition will be invisible to all users until you manually unhide it.

Windows OS Disk management system allows hiding drive except the System drive where the OS is installed and volume is reserved for the OS. Hiding a drive does not means deleting the volume or erasing any data but it only prevents that partition from displaying. For doing this the user must have administrative access to the system. 

In future if you want to use it again, simply unhide it and it will then show up again in My Computer and Explorer.

How to hide a drive ?

1. Right click of computer and click on manage.

2. Manage window will open. From the left Pane select the disk management under storage.

Alternatively type diskmgmt.msc in the run and pressing enter to get the Disk management.

2. Now right click on drive which you want to hide and select Change Drive Letters and Paths.

3. After that Select remove. This action just removes the drive letter. This will not harm your drive.

4. Pressing on the Remove a warning message will be shown and accept it by clicking on yes. It’s just telling you that all programs installed on that drive won’t work or this drive is opened by another program.

After that, The hidden drive won’t be appearing to the administrator of the OS unless it is unhide.

How to unhide the drive ?

1. Right click of computer and Select the disk management under storage from the left pane.

Alternatively type diskmgmt.msc in the run and pressing enter to get the Disk management.

2. Now right click on drive which is hidden/removed and select Change Drive Letters and Paths. Tips: the hidden drive doesn’t contain any drive letter.

3. Now Select Add to add drive letter or path to the hidden drive. Choose a drive letter to assign the drive/partition and press on OK.

4. The hidden partition is displayed in explorer or my computer. No data is lost or damage. Even the installed files are working again without any errors. 

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How To Embed SoundCloud Tracks in Your Blogger Posts

SoundCloud is one of the most popular ways to upload and add audio to your blog. It's cool and most importantly, it's free to use. In this post I will show you how to add Soundcloud tracks in your blogger post.

Upload your sounds to SoundCloud

You can upload your own audio track and then embed to your blog post. If you want to embed other artist audio track then skip this upload steps.

1. Go to Soundcloud.com and login with your user name and password. If you don’t have account on soundcloud, then create a new account or you can sign in using your Facebook or Google account.

2. Now click on upload from the top menu bar and record sound or choose an audio file from your computer. Note: You can upload your own sounds that is up to 2 hours.Upload will take few seconds to few minutes depending upon the file size.

3. When upload is in process you can add title, description, tags and enter the genre for your music file.

4. Now at the bottom click on enable widgets, by enabling this player widget you and others can embed your track anywhere on the web. Click save when you are done and your sound is now live at soundcloud.com.

Embedding SoundCloud tracks in blogger posts

You can download, share or embed your own track or other artist tracks anywhere in the web, but only if they enabled those features. Follow these simple steps to embed SoundCloud tracks into blogger posts.

1. Atfirst, search the file you want to embed to blogger post.

2. Click on share button below the audio file and a screen pops up.

3. Now you will see three options: share, embed and message. Choose embed option and before grabbing the embed code you can choose to show artwork, auto play and you can even pick the color for the play button.

4. Copy the iframe embed code after the player customization. The code looks like below screenshot.

<iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/202760222&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true"></iframe>

5. After that login to your Blogger.

6. Now, in your Blogger dashboard, create a new post, set it to the HTML mode, and paste the iframe embedded code into it.

7. The embedded SoundCloud player just looks like below screenshot.

Embedding SoundCloud playlist in Blogger Posts

Find the playlist that you wish to embed; next below to the artist image you will see share option. Just click on share, choose embed and then embed the entire playlist just like above steps.

Thats it !!!

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How to Configure Grammar and Style Settings In Word 2013

You might be aware of the spell check feature in Microsoft word, but you might not be aware that Word can also check the grammar of the text in your documents. The grammar-proofing tool in Word 2013 is capable of performing a thorough analysis of the line/lines of texts of a document rather than a single word. This will help you to correct common grammatical mistake in word document.

By default, Microsoft Word 2013 basic Grammar checking is enabled. If required, you can turn on additional styles as well and configure other options.

1. Open Microsoft word, click on File and select Options.

2. From the options displayed in the left pane, select Proofing and scroll down to the Grammar section.

3. Click the drop-down arrow under Writing Style: and select Grammar & Style.

4. Now, if you would like to calibrate other additional Grammar and Style checks, just click the Settings box. Tons of options are available there, some of which may suit your requirements.

Enable Readability Grammar Check

Readability Statistics Feature in Word 2013 is one great feature that helps you assess your work by giving you a readability score out of 100. Hence, very useful. The Word 2013 readability check is disable by default. To enable it, just check the show readability statistics box under the Proofing area.

The easiest way to bring up the readability statistics is to press F7 to run the spell checker on the open document, or by clicking on the Review tab and then on the Spelling and Grammar button.

With the Show readability statistics now enabled, all the document stats will display including Passive Sentences %, Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level.

That’s it. I hope you like it.

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How to Disable All WIN+X Keyboard Shortcuts (Hotkeys) in Windows

The windows Hotkeys are all combinations of the Windows Key + something else. There are many such keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) available in Windows, such as:

WIN+R : launch RUN dialog box

WIN+D : show the Desktop

WIN+L : lock

WIN+M : minimize all running programs windows

WIN+E : launch Windows Explorer

WIN+F : launch Search

WIN+P : launch External Display selection screen

WIN+X : show WIN+X menu (Windows 8 and later)

WIN+C t : show Charms Bar (Windows 8 and later)

WIN+PrntScr : capture computer screen and save screenshot (Windows 8 and later)

WIN+SHIFT+M : restore all running programs windows

WIN+Break : show System Properties

WIN+B : set focus on system tray (Taskbar notification area) icons

WIN+T : set focus on Taskbar buttons

WIN+number key (0-9) : switch between Quick Launch toolbar or Taskbar buttons

However these WIN+ hotkeys are very useful and time saving but sometimes people might find these built-in hotkeys annoying. If you want to turn off all hotkeys in your Windows, then follow these steps below. 

Easiest Method

To disable them, simply right click anywhere on your screen and select Graphics Options and then Hot Keys and then Disable. After that restart your system, the hotkeys will disabled.

If this method not works, then follow the below method.

Using Group Policy Editor

1. Open Run (Win+R), type gpedit.msc in RUN dialog box and press enter to open Group Policy Editor.

2. Now navigate to:

User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> File Explorer/windows Explorer

3. In the right-side pane, look for "Turn off Windows+X hotkeys" option.

4. The option would be set to Not Configured. Double-click on it and set it to Enabled.

5. To finish press ok button and close Group Policy window. After that hot keys immediately turn off in your system.

6. To re-enable the hotkeys feature, again set the "Turn off Windows+X hotkeys" option to “Not Configured”.

Using Registry Editor

1. Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press enter to open windows Registry Editor.

2. Now navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3. In the right-side pane,right click and select create a new DWORD NoWinKeys and set its value to 1.

4. Close Registry Editor and restart your system. After reboot the WIN+ hotkeys will be turned off in your system.

5. To re-enable WIN+ hotkeys in future, delete the DWORD NoWinKeys created in above step.

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