How to Connect a Laptop or Desktop Computer to a TV Easily

Suppose you wish to watch a movie or share a slide-show of pictures with your family on your PC but have a screen that leaves much to be desired. In such a situation, you can connect your computer to a television screen to allow your entire family to enjoy comfortably.

There are many ways in which you can connect your laptop/ computer to a television. However, the overall video quality will be different for different methods. You can choose which one to use based on the quality or the availability of hardware. The first step is to know what type of ports and connections your TV and computer have. If you already know the type of ports and connections available on your hardware, you can directly jump to Step 2. If not, then the different types of ports are explained in detail below:-

Different types of PC to TV connection ports

1) RCA/Composite: The oldest and the lowest quality connection available. They are the Yellow, Red and White connections most of us are familiar with. Yellow is used for composite video, white for left analog audio and red for right analog audio.

2) S-Video: S-Video or Super Video offers slightly better quality than Composite connections. As it is one of the oldest type of connections available, most televisions and computers have it. There are two types of S-Video ports, one containing 4 pins and the other containing 7 pins. This type of connection is used only for video. So you will need to connect an audio cable from your computer's headphone jack to the red and white audio inputs on your TV if you want audio to work.

3) VGA(Video Graphics Array): Most computers and televisions have a VGA port. It offers much better quality than S-Video and should be preferred if you have a HDTV. Older CRT TVs however, will not have a VGA port and will require a PC to Television converter. Just like S-Video, VGA also does not support audio and will require an additional audio cable.

Different types of connecting cables to connect computers to TVs

4) DVI: Digital Video Interface offers much better quality than VGA connections. Most laptop computers and HD TVs will have these connections. Just as the name suggest, this type of connection can be used only with digital TVs. Also like the previous two, DVI connections also require the use of an audio cable for audio to work.

5) HDMI: The highest quality connections available. Most HD TVs will have this connection, however, chances are that your computer would not. If your computer happens to have a HDMI connection port, this should be preferably used. If your computer doesn't, you can use an HDMI to DVI adapter to convert HDMI to DVI.

Step 2: Once a common type of port between the two devices is recognized, you will need the right connector cable to physically connect them. The different types of connector cables are pictured above. If you do not find two matching types of connection ports, you will need an adapter to make the connections type match.

Step 3: After connecting the two devices, on your TV, select the external input with which your TV is connected to the computer. It may be HDMI1 or AV1 depending on how you have made the connection. This is much similar to how you select input from your DVD player.

If you have followed the steps correctly, your TV should now be displaying your computer's screen.

Important: If your computer is not recognizing the external display, you must connect the TV before starting your computer. If the picture appears distorted, you will need to change the screen resolution of your TV by altering the display settings from your computer. Most older TVs will support only one display resolution while newer TVs will support plenty of them.

How To Disable YouTube Pre-Video Advertisements

There are a lot of ways to block ads, but with a simple command, you can disable all ads on YouTube by following the below given steps:

#1 Open up a YouTube video (any will work).

#2 Open up the developer console (Ctrl+Shift+J for Chrome, Ctrl+Shift+K for Firefox)

#3 Enter the following code:

12document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=oKckVSqvaGw; path=/; 
domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();

#4 Boom, you just disabled YouTube Pre-Video Advertisements.


P.S When you close the window and reopen it, you need to add the command again for disabling the ads.

How To Boot Into Windows 10's Safe Mode ?

Contents:
● Method One: System Configuration
● Method Two: Tapping F8
● Method Three: Shift + Restart Combination
● Method Four: Boot From A Recovery Drive
● Method Five: With Auto Registry

Method One: System Configuration

The fastest way to launch System Configuration in Windows 10 is to use the Run window. To do that, press the Windows + R keys on your keyboard. Then, write msconfig in the text field and and press Enter or OK.

Another way, to reach the System Configuration screen by using Cortana search. Typing either msconfig or system configuration and pressing Enter will open the System Configuration panel.

Head to Boot, and note the Boot Options. Selecting Safe Boot from the options will force your system to boot into Safe Mode followings its next restart.

You can choose from additional options. Here’s what they do:

● Minimal: Starts Safe Mode with the absolute minimal amount of drivers and services, but with the standard Windows GUI (Graphical User Interface).

● Alternate Shell: Starts Safe Mode with a Command Prompt, without the Windows GUI. Requires knowledge of advanced text commands, as well as navigating the operating system without a mouse.

● Active Directory Repair: Starts Safe Mode with access to machine-specific information, such as hardware models. If we unsuccessfully install new hardware, corrupting the Active Directory, Safe Mode can be used to restore system stability by repairing corrupted data, or adding new data to the directory.

● Network: Starts Safe Mode with the necessary services and drivers for networking, with the standard Windows GUI.

Select Minimal, followed by Apply, and OK. Windows 10 will tell you that you need to reboot your device in order for the new setting to take effect. You can select to "Exit Without Restart" if you want this effect to happen later. If not, you can Restart Now and your device will automatically boot into Safe Mode.

Method Two: Tapping F8

The most common method of reaching Safe Mode was by tapping F8 but Windows 10 has F8 Safe Mode disabled. But here I will show you how to enable that option by using Command Prompt.
Right-click the Start menu and select Command Prompt (Admin). Select Yes in the User Account Control dialogue, if it appears. Command Prompt should now be open.

Type or Copy/Paste (Don't use CTRL+C or CTRL +V) the following command:

1bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy

And press Enter. Job done!

To undo this legacy command at any time, reopen the elevated Command Prompt as per the above instructions and type:

1bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy standard

Method Three: Shift + Restart Combination

Use the SHIFT + Restart combination. Open the Start Menu and click or tap on the Power button.

Then, keep the SHIFT key pressed and click or tap on Restart.

Then, Windows 10 will reboot and will open Advance Boot Options. Choose Troubleshoot.

Then, on the Troubleshoot screen, select Advanced Options.

On the Advanced Options screen, choose Startup Settings.

Windows 10 will tell you that you can restart your device in order to change Advanced Boot Options, including enabling Safe Mode. Press Restart.

After Windows 10 reboots, you can choose which boot options you want to use; use F4 - F6 to use the Safe Mode boot option.

Shortcut Method:

Open the Settings menu and head to Update & Security > Recovery > Advanced Startup. Clicking Restart Now will restart your system in recovery mode.

Method Four: Boot From A Recovery Drive

Use the Recovery Drive app to create a system Recovery USB Drive.

Once USB recovery drive is created, use the drive to boot your Windows 10 device and, when you're asked to load its content, do so.

The first screen will ask you to choose the layout for your keyboard. Select the one you want to use, or if you don't see it listed, press on "See More Keyboard Layouts" to get the complete list of available layouts.

Once you chose your Keyboard Layout, on the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot.

After selecting the Troubleshoot option, follow the instructions giving in the "Method 3".

Method Five: With Auto Registry

To Boot into Safe Mode you can copy the text below to Notepad and save it the extention .REG and then launch the file.

1234567RunWait('bcdedit /set {current} safeboot Minimal', "", @SW_HIDE)
;Runwait(@ComSpec & ' /c ' & @WindowsDir & '\system32
eagentc /enable', "", @SW_HIDE)
RunWait('bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Windows 10 (Safe Mode)"', "", @SW_HIDE)
RunWait('bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot', "", @SW_HIDE)
RunWait('bcdedit /set {current} bootmenupolicy standard', "", @SW_HIDE)
RunWait('bcdedit /timeout 5', "", @SW_HIDE)

How To Stop/Disable Windows Updates In Windows 10

Microsoft release its new Windows 10 with its latest features and attractive look. Windows 10 becomes popular because it is free to install and user can update it from any of previous version of Windows. Windows 10 provide multiple desktop, that is each desktop with a separate task. New users of Windows 10 also like its personal assistant called cortana.
Windows 10 provide automatic update feature. It’s smart service automatic find and download, install its latest updates when we connect to internet. This feature is good for users how have unlimited internet connection. But some users are not interested in updating windows. There are many reason behind that like some user have limited internet pack or other reasons include software compatibility issues etc. Windows 10 do not provide feature to stop this automatic update in its Windows update settings. If you also suffer from this feature of Windows 10 and wanted to stop it then this article is really for you. In this article we are going to explain about different methods to stop automatic updates of Windows 10.

Method 1st :- Stop Windows 10 Updates From Services.

Step 1. To stop the windows 10 updates you should first go to the control panel.
Step 2. In the control panel go to Administrative tools.

Step 3. Then look for services option.

Step 4. In the services window you will see many types of windows services running.
Step 5. In this window scroll down and to find windows update service and turn off it.

Step 6. To turn of this service you have to right click on the service and click on the properties option.
Step 7. In the properties options select general setting.
Step 8. In the general setting look for start up type option and select disable option.
Step 9. After that look for service running status and click stop button.
Step 10. Click on OK and your automatic updates will stop after that.

Method 2nd:- Disable Windows 10 From Network Settings

If you have limited internet connection and you want to stop automatic updates of Windows 10 and other Application then you can take advantages of Windows 10 Amazing feature called metered internet connection. By using this feature you can stop Applications and Windows from updates. To set your internet connection as metered you have to follow the below steps.

Step 1. Open the settings Apps in Windows 10.
Step 2. After that select Network & Internet.

Step 3. After that Scroll down and look for Advanced options.

Step 4. Then select the Set as metered connection option.

Step 5. Now this option will be set for all WiFi Network.So these are some best possible ways to turn of windows 10 updates. In case you have any problem or you know any other best method let us know.

How To Hide Local Disk Drive Using CMD Diskpart

As Every computer user have some personal or private data which they want to hide or protect from others. If you want to Store Less amount data which you can easily Store in Folder.

But If You want Hide large account of data or want to hide full drive from others. Then follow these steps carefully

Steps To Hide Your Local Drive

• Go To Start >> Then Run >> Then Type Diskpart

• New black Window will appear and then type list volume press enter

• Now your all drive will appear, now if you want to hide Drive D

• Then Type select volume X and press enter. (Replace x with volume no)

• Then Type remove letter D and press enter again.

• Now Go to your my computer then you will find that your D drive is hidden.

Steps To Get Back Your Hidden Drive

• Go To Start >> Then Run >> Then Type Diskpart

• Then Type list volume press enter

• Now your all drive will appear, now if you want to unhidden Drive D

• Then Type select volume X and press enter. (Replace x with volume no)

• Then Type assign letter D and press enter again.

• Now Go to your my computer then you will find that your D drive is unhidden.

Then your Hidden drive will start appearing. Lets take one look on all steps in this figure

Note:- Volume No of each drive is according to its drive letter. Never use the same values as mention in the post. Volume no is just before the drive letter.

How to automatically redirect Blogger blog to another blog or website

That is you can redirect your specific post URL to another post or page, all 301 or 302 redirection within your blog. That will be useful for redirecting 404 error pages and broken links; however with that you cannot redirect homepage to any particular URL. Here we will show you how to automatically redirect Blogger blog to another blog or website or any URL. So with this technique you can redirect your Blogger Homepage or any particular page to external websites.

When to use this?

This one will be useful if you have just migrated to new domain with new blogging platform. You are always limited in Blogger that’s why people moving to self-hosted wordpress blogs. Usually you won’t get much traffic to your new blog when you just shifted. Also your old blog will have some decent traffic flow from organic search results as well as from backlinks. So by using this method you can drive traffic from your old blog to your new blog and also it passes all the ranking factors.

How to redirect Blogger blog to another blog / URL / Website

Here we will share three different codes that automatically redirect Blogger blog to another blog or URL and each code does different tasks.

Let’s say you want to redirect your complete Blogger blog to another page or URL. That is redirecting your homepage, posts page, archives page and all other URL in your blog to another specified external website. You have to use this if you just moved to new domain. To do this you are going to make changes to your template file. So before you mess up with the codes it’s recommended that you backup your template first.

1. Login to your Blogger dashboard

2. Go to template and click edit HTML

3. Now you can see template codes. Press CTRL + f and then find <head>

4. Now add the following code below head tag

12345<script type='text/javascript'>
  var d='<data:blog.url/>';
  d=d.replace(/.*\/\/[^\/]*/, '');
  location.href = 'http://yourdomain.com';
</script>

In the above code change http://yourdomain.com which is the destination URL. Now all your pages from the blog will be redirected to destination URL.

Now we will see another piece of code that redirects particular blog URL to another blog or website. If you wish not to redirect the whole blog then you have to make use of this code. Also you can use this for redirecting user from a particular page to another external website for promotional purpose.

To do this just paste the following code below head tag and change the from URL that is http://yourblog.blogspot.com and destination URL that is http://yourdomain.com

123456<script>
if(window.location.href == 'http://yourblog.blogspot.com ')
{
window.location="http://yourdomain.com";
}
</script>

The above code just redirects user from the specified BlogSpot URL to another website or URL.

Here comes another code; with this you can redirect all your blog pages including home page to another blog or website with specific set time. So users who lands in your blog will be automatically redirected to anther blog after a specific time period.

1<meta content='5;url=http://yourdomain.com' http-equiv='refresh'/>

This is the code, just copy and paste below the head tag in your template file. In the above code 5 is the set time where users will redirected to http://yourdomain.com in 5 seconds after landing.

Hope this article guided you on how to automatically redirect Blogger blog to another blog / website or URL. Share this and if you found it useful then please leave your comments.