VLC is draining your battery.....Here is how to fix it..!


Many tests and researches have shown that Windows 10’s Movies & TV app offering more than double the battery life of VLC and other video players. This is because Movies & TV uses hardware acceleration, VLC also supports but we just have to enable it first. Then, you’ll be able to enjoy the advanced features of your favorite video player without the battery draining.


>>What Is Hardware Acceleration?

Before I tell you about the feature....firstly know what is hardware acceleration.There are several different ways to play back a video. One is through “software decoding”. A video player reads the video file and decodes the information using your computer’s processor, or CPU. Modern CPUs can handle this and provide smooth video.

Hardware accelerated decoding, however, is much more efficient. With hardware acceleration, the CPU hands off the decoding work to the graphics processor (GPU), which is designed to accelerate the decoding (and encoding) of certain types of videos. In a nutshell, the GPU can do certain types of math faster and with less electricity required. That translates to longer battery life, less heat, and smoother playback on slow computers.

Unfortunately, many modern video players–VLC included–don’t bother using hardware acceleration by default, even if they support it. So you need to turn it on yourself.Here is how one can do it...👇👇

>>How to Enable Hardware Acceleration in VLC

You must enable hardware acceleration if you’re using VLC on a laptop or tablet. The only reason not to do so is that this may cause compatibility problems on some old systems, particularly older computers with buggy hardware drivers. If you encounter a problem with playing video in VLC, you can always disable this option later.

To enable hardware acceleration in VLC, head to Tools > Preferences.
Click the “Input / Codecs” tab, click the “Hardware-accelerated Decoding” box under Codecs, and set it to “Automatic”.


VLC lists the video codecs it can accelerate. On Windows, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV3, and VC-1 are all hardware accelerated. On a Mac, only H.264 is hardware accelerated. Videos that aren’t hardware accelerated will play normally.....VLC will just use your CPU and you won’t get any battery life improvement.

>>Movies & TV is also not a bad option..!

If you want to save battery life, you can always use the “Movies & TV” application included with Windows 10.It is the default video player on Windows 10, so just double-clicking a video will open it in Movies & TV, assuming you haven’t gone out of your way to install a different video player and set it as your default video player.
While you might assume that, Movies & TV would be slower and heavier than a traditional desktop application like VLC, you’d be wrong. It’s designed to provide properly hardware accelerated playback for optimal battery life on laptops and tablets, while VLC isn’t.

>>Enable Hardware Acceleration in Other Video Players

If you have another preferred video player, be sure to poke around in its options–or perform a web search for the name of the video player and “hardware acceleration”–to ensure you’ve enabled the hardware acceleration option. If the video player doesn’t offer hardware acceleration, you probably shouldn’t use it while your laptop is on battery power.

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What does Refresh button actually do...

   

        What Does The Refresh Option In Windows Actually Do? It’s Not What You Think


Most of us constantly keep refreshing our Windows PCs or laptops. Many times, we just do this but we don't know why..?
But, we haven’t of the actual thing the Refresh option does to our PCs. Here is i am going to tell you what it does really...!!


Until a few days ago, I, being a loyal Windows user from the time when I got hands on my first desktop machine, believed that the Refresh option in Windows clears the system memory, making it clutter free. But, all my beliefs turned out to be false when I finally I dug through the internet for the actual task performed by the Refresh option in Windows.
What actually happens is that Windows has an auto-refresh feature inbuilt by Microsoft which enables the screen to display the changes made to a folder–even desktop is just a folder for your operating system either by you or a third-party application or if you want to re-align the folders on your desktop.




Sometimes, the auto-refresh option fails to display the change on your screen. So, you have to manually do it yourself by clicking the Refresh button in the context menu. I would like to tell you that no miracle happens when you click the refresh button. It won’t make any changes in the performance.


Most people, including me, have developed a habit of constantly refreshing Windows for no reason. I have shifted to Ubuntu recently and I find myself searching for the Refresh option in the context menu, but it is nowhere to be seen because Linux-based operating systems don’t have it.
It seems like a daily ritual for most of us, our hands involuntarily keep pressing the F5. And some of us even overcome our laziness and refresh windows using a mouse which is a tiresome job, though. So, try to get rid of this bad habit.


Technically... consider a frame generated by your OS as an image. Frames are displayed on your screen one after the other giving you a feel that everything is continuous. Each frame comprises of different  (User Interface) components like background, icons and their names. When each frame is constructed, all the components are placed on it, like first the background, then the icons and their names. The taskbar acts as a layer which is placed on the top of the background.


The refresh option marks all the components of the screen as dirty, so, the whole screen is recreated in the next frame and displayed on your monitor. That’s the main purpose of #Refresh button...

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How to Unsubscribe annoying mails in gmail..

Time to get Unsubscribe From All annoying Emails in Gmail At Within a Minute because we are here with an awesome trick that will let you unsubscribe all your Annoying Emails in Gmail with one click, The better part of this trick was you don’t need to use any extra 3rd party software to perform this action

How to Unsubscribe All Annoying Emails In Gmail At Once

The method is very simple and depends on a cool portal that will allow you to get unsubscribed from all the networks that irritate you in your emails. So follow up some simple steps below to proceed.

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Steps To Unsubscribe All annoying Emails In Gmail:

Step 1. First of all, you need to visit the site unroll.me in your PC browser. Now there simply click on Get StartedNow.
Step 2. Now you just need to sign up for your email account there where you want to unsubscribe from annoying emails.

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Step 3. Now you simply have to allowthe access  to your account.

Step 4. Now on the next screen, you will be able to found your subscription, you  just have to click onon continue to proceed to next step.

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Step 5. Now simply click on unsubscribe in the front of services that you want to Unsubscribe from your email.

Step 6. That’s it! You are done, now you will get unsubscribe from all other annoying emails from your account.
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How to Hack Trial Softwares to Use them Lifetime

There is a perfect tool that will do this and the name of tool is RunAsDate. With the help of this tool you can use any of software for free even after the trial period is over. You just have to follow some of the simple steps discussed below:



First of all download and install the tool RunAsDate from HERE.
  1. Now in your computer run the trial software and note down the date of installation.
  2. Now when the trial version gets over do not directly launch the software, just right click on it and click run as and then select Runasdate there.
  3. Thats it now the  trial date will get injected to that software by this tool and you can access the software as long as you want.
  4. And also everytime you open the just run as through this tool. Other wise this trick will not work.
So above is all about Hack Trial Softwares to use them Lifetime. By this hack now you can easily use any of your favorite software for free for lifetime and you will not have to pay a single coin for this. Hope you like the trick, so don’t forget to #share it with your friends..
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How To Make Your Computer Welcome You at Startup

I am going to share an interesting notepad trick on making your computer welcome you at startup. Follow the full post to know how to make your computer welcome you at startup.
 How To Make Your Computer Welcome You at Windows Startup
There is not at all any hardware implementation that works like this. This is just an uncomplicated notepad trick that operates for you and it will Make your Computer Welcome You Everytime You Start It. I will inform you whole procedure, just follow the simple steps below.
There is a very simple code that you have to paste in notepad and make your computer speak whatever you write in it. And your computer will speak the same so just follow some of the simple steps discussed below


Step 1. First of all, click on start and then type Notepad and then press enter. Open the notepad.

Step 2. Now in notepad copy and paste the below code:-
Dim speaks, speech speaks=”Welcome to your PC, Username” Set speech=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”) speech.Speak speaks

In the place of the user name you can put your own name and anything you want a computer to speak. You can put your name so that every time you open up your computer you will hear a welcome note with your name.
 
          
Step 3. Now save this as Welcome.vbs to your desktop. You can put any name as per your choice. You can replace Welcome and put your name, but “.vbs” is unreplaceable.
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Step 4. Now copy the file and paste in the C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersStart MenuProgramsStartup(in Windows XP) and to C:\Users {User-Name}AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\StartMenu\Programs\Startup(in Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista) if C: is your System drive.

That’s it! you are done, now every time you start your computer a welcome voice will tune by your computer. Make sure you have an error free sound system installed on your computer.
So above is the method for How To Make Your Computer Welcome You at Windows Startup. By this, you can effortlessly make your computer greets you when you starts your computer. That looks really very cool when you will be with your friends. Hope you like the article, don’t forget to share this cool notepad trick.

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