Tutorial: How To Remove/Disable Ads on uTorrent!

Looking annoyed at the rotating ads on your uTorrent application? Wish you can just go Pro instead?

Well, you can do that, if you'd spend for it... or torrent it, but the only big difference between the Pro and free aside from being ad-free is the built-in antivirus, which may be redundant if you already have one installed on your computer.

If you just want to remove the ads on the GUI of the free version just follow these instructions - it is very simple:

1. Go to 'preferences' and open the 'advanced' tab. You might see a warning that the settings should not be changed, but that's a general warning for people who might come snooping in and mess the entire program up. That's not you.

2. search for the following and set them all to false [don't worry, they are alphabetical, easy to sort through]:
- bt.enable_pulse
- gui.show_notorrents_node
- gui.show_plus_upsell
- offers.sponsered_torrent_offer_enabled
- offers.left_rail_offer_enabled
- offers.content_offer_autoexec

3. click 'ok' and restart utorrent

How to Speed up Data Transfer to/from a USB flash drive

You might have noticed slow copy speeds with some USB flash drives. There is a tweak which helps in increasing the speed or giving a speed boost to USB-based storage.

By enabling this tweak, the write caching option in windows will be enabled.

• Plug in your USB Drive.
• Then Open My Computer> right-click on your USB Drive >click Properties.
• Select your USB drive Under Hardwares and choose Properties.
• You will see a dialog box saying ” Optimize for quick removal”.This option is selected by default.
• Select “Optimize for Performance”option.
• Now, remove USB drive and plug it again.
• Copy some files from the drive to your system or vice-versa. You should be able to notice a slight improvement in data transfer

Word of Warning: If you decide to enable this option in Windows, make sure you use the safely remove hardware option in windows each time you remove the flash drive from Windows. If not, you might encounter errors with the drive. This tweak is not designed to give exceptional speed improvements, it will come in handy while copying a large chunk of files.

How to View Up to Four Apps At Once in Windows 8.1′s Modern UI

 

One of the best new features of Windows 8.1 is the ability to split your Modern UI screen between up to four apps, and with the Windows 8.1 update, you can now open and snap apps side by side for efficient multitasking. The function is still limited by your screen resolution — you get a window for each 500px horizontally on your machine. This means that if your device’s native resolution is 1920 x 1080, you can only have 3 side-by-side apps [3 x 500=1500 pixels]. For those with 1366 x 768, you're still stuck with 2 apps at the same time.

But even then, default display settings can prevent you from using more than two windows concurrently. If your screen resolution is at least 1500 pixels-wide, here’s how to make sure you are using the right settings to open up to four apps at once.

1. Type “Display” anywhere on your live tile home page. This brings up a search for “Display”.
2. Tap “Display Settings” from the results on the right.
3. Hit the dropdown arrow under More Options.
4. Select Smaller if you see that option. If your only other option is Larger, your device is already set to its widest resolution.

You should see your content decrease in size, and have more tiles on the Start screen at once. Now you’re ready to snap as many apps side by side as your device will allow.