Showing posts with label back. Show all posts
Showing posts with label back. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Browser Review A look back to 2014
Browser Review A look back to 2014
Another year has gone from our calendar. And were one more year close to the final day. 2014 was really a nice year with some technological breakthroughs. Actually we have innovations in every moment. Today I would like to write a review on Internet Browsers. In this post, I want you have a look back to the 2014.
Look at the following table:
| Browser | Statistics (2014) | Statistics by Marks PC (2013-2014) |
| Google Chrome | 56% | 48% |
| Firefox | 26% | 28% |
| Internet Explorer | 9% | 13% |
| Opera | 2% | 4% |
| Apple Safari | 4% | 2% |
| Others | 1% | 5% |
Here you get two statistics side by side. The first one is published by w3schools.com. You know they publish statistics month by month. Ive summed them up to show you the yearly users of the popular browsers.
And the second one is the statistics by Marks PC Solution itself. Its generated from Blogger Dashboard. Here Ive included the statistics of two years - 2013 & 2014. The browsers used by the visitors of Marks PC Solution from 2013 to 2014 are shown here.
Ive also created pie charts for better understanding. Have a look at them.
Reviews by Marks PC . . .
- Google Chrome: Market leader and the most popular browser as well. Chrome has captured more than 50% share of the browser market and ever growing!
- Mozilla Firefox: Beaten by Chrome about 2 years ago and now gonna lose its position as market challenger. Firefox has now only 26 to 28% market share and losing users to Chrome rapidly.
- Internet Explorer: Released in 1995 and survived as #1 for more than a decade. Now just keeping the honor of default browser of Windows OS. Capturing only 10 to 12% market share, the explorer will not give you a bad browsing experience at all!
- Opera: Tried their best to be popular in desktop environment. But it really disappoints the users! Being branded for mobile devices, Opera Mini is really successful in smart phones, tablets and featured phones.
- Apple Safari: A default browser for Mac OS. If the browsers were reviewed by weight, Safari would be the champion in this arena! I really hate this stupid browser. Its too heavy to work with. Your system may suffer to run it. It loads pages slowly as per my experience.
- Others: Combining all other browsers, you cant get more than 2 to 5% share. In Marks PC Solution, Ive detected these browsers - Mobile Safari, UCBrowser, Iron, Maxthon, Chromeframe, CriOS, NetFront, Netscape, Dragon etc.
Chrome has taken the first position in 2012. And now its going far away from Firefox. Nice look, continuous development, new features have made it unbeaten. Recently, Chrome has added some exciting features like - Cloud Printing, PDF conversion etc.
On the other hand, Firefox is still popular to the developers. Thousands of extensions have made it popular to the advanced users. But its heavy looking interface is mainly responsible for decline.
As a default browser, the number of users of Internet Explorer is really low. It should have at least 20% users. But its beaten by the browsing experience, compatibility and extensions (add-ons) of Chrome and Firefox. Microsoft is trying hard to make it popular. Earlier, the developers used to follow IE standards. But now they follow Firefox or Chrome sometimes!
Ive just tried to share my thoughts with you. Dont take it otherwise! Of course you got choice to discuss here . . .
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Get Start Screen Back in Windows 10
Get Start Screen Back in Windows 10
Windows 8 came with a really smart look. But due to the negative feedback, the latest version of Windows (Windows 10) has come with traditional Start Menu. And to be honest, I can hardly find any change in Windows 10 which I can appreciate.
Applies to - Windows 10 Technical Preview.
Combination of Start Menu & Tiles
It looks really frustrating. To be honest its not worth of including here. In this combination, I cant work comfortably. And I guess most of the users have already adjusted with Windows 8 Start Screen. So it was not necessary to change this feature in Windows 10. Windows 8 lovers will hardly appreciate the new look!
Anyway, if you are comfortable with Start Screen and wanna get it back, there is no problem at all. You can easily switch between Start Menu and Start Screen. Simply follow the steps below:
- Right Click on your taskbar and select Properties.
- Go to the Start Menu tab.
- At the top, you will find this option marked - Use the Start Menu instead of the Start Screen.
- Simply click on the checkbox and unmark this option.
- Hit on Apply > OK and get your smart Start Screen back!
Installing .Net Framework 3.5 in Windows 10
.Net Framework 3.5 is missing by default as it was in Windows 8 and 8.1. And it causes problems while running those software which require this feature. Dont worry. You can install .Net Framework 3.5 following the same instruction as it was in Windows 8. Simply follow this method.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Get Photo Viewer Back in Windows 10 !!
Get Photo Viewer Back in Windows 10 !!
Microsoft is playing with the users. Theyve made so many stupid changes that puzzled the Windows 10 users. By default, Windows 10 users are not allowed to use Windows Photo Viewer. Instead, were forced to use a new app called - Photos! Though it provides a number of options for image editing, as a viewer, its not good at all.
The most funny thing is that, Microsoft hasnt removed the Windows Photo Viewer at all. Its just disabled. By adding a small registry file, you can easily re-enable it! My question is - what is the logic behind hiding it? Whats the benefit of Microsoft??
Enable Windows Photo Viewer
- Download the Registry Key from here. Less than 100 KB!
- Unzip it.
- Double click on the file WPV.reg and hit Yes > Yes > OK.
- Youre done and Good to go!
Open Photos/ Images through Photo Viewer
- Right click on any image.
- Open with > Choose another app
- Click on More apps to see the full app list
- Select Windows Photo Viewer
- Mark the option - Always use this app
- Hit OK.
In the above example, you can see only .JPG files to be viewed through Photo Viewer. But you can run the same operation for PNG, GIF or any other image format. Then those pictures will also be displayed via Windows Photo Viewer.
The Registry File
The Registry File
The registry file Im sharing is -
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dll]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellopen]"MuiVerb"="@photoviewer.dll,-3043"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellopencommand]@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,72,00,75,00,6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,20,00,50,00,68,00,6f,00,74,00,6f,00,20,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,50,00,68,00,6f,00,74,00,6f,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,22,00,2c,00,20,00,49,00,6d,00,61,00,67,00,65,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,5f,00,46,00,75,00,6c,00,6c,00,73,00,63,00,72,00,65,00,65,00,6e,00,20,00,25,00,31,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellopenDropTarget]"Clsid"="{FFE2A43C-56B9-4bf5-9A79-CC6D4285608A}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellprint]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellprintcommand]@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,72,00,75,00,6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,20,00,50,00,68,00,6f,00,74,00,6f,00,20,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,50,00,68,00,6f,00,74,00,6f,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,22,00,2c,00,20,00,49,00,6d,00,61,00,67,00,65,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,5f,00,46,00,75,00,6c,00,6c,00,73,00,63,00,72,00,65,00,65,00,6e,00,20,00,25,00,31,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsphotoviewer.dllshellprintDropTarget]"Clsid"="{60fd46de-f830-4894-a628-6fa81bc0190d}"
If you dont like to download the registry file, then -
- Right click on your desktop
- New > Text Document
- Copy the above script as it is and paste it in the newly created text document
- Save it with a new name - WPV.reg
- Double click on the file > Hit Yes > Yes > OK. Thats it!
Hope this will work great for you. Still if you face any problem, please knock me . . .
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