500 Blog Posts!! :D HURRAY!!

Hey all my dear readers! :D I hope you all are doing great! ^_^

Wishing you all a happy 500th post at BlogDeToxifier! :D Keep reading, have fun! :)

Maintenance Drive

Hey all my dear readers! :D I hope you all are doing great! ^_^

Been long eh? Yes, very! All those scheduled music posts are doing it, but I am seriously not able to get much time to post. Though I try and visit back on weekends. Phew! Job keeps me damn busy and tired all the time.

Anyways, I am not here to say about my job or anything, but to share something with you all my readers.

I have been running this blog since 2011 and it's been a great journey and I hope it continues to be. I hope that I keep you all updated with all the things, music, fun, tech anything I like to share with you all. So like most of us I too added these advertisements to my blog. But frankly they have not been fruitful for me. Adsense didn't accept my blog when I started it, and then they never let me apply, some error occurs if I try to. So I moved to other advertising portals and tried a lot of them. But the only thing I realised was that they were nott giving me money but rather making my blog slow and all. So I have not given up on them completely, but I have removed most of them from my blog. The older posts that have ads will continue to be there, but in my newe posts I will refrain from adding ads as much as possible, only those few ads here and there that exist on my blog's master page will continue to be there.

So I hope you enjoy this new flavour of my blog with less ads and better performance. I am checking the template(HTML) of this blog and might do some tweaking to imrpove the performance further. So enjoy the less-ads avatar of my blog. Anyways they were not giving any money(nothing as yet! -_-) So I think we are better off them.

So I will take a leave on this note, and will post something soon(let's hope so! :D :D)

Good night dear friends! :) Sweet dreams, and keep reading my blog :D

Happy New Year 2015!

Hey all my dear readers! :D I hope you all are doing great! ^_^

I am here to wish you all a happy happy new year 2015!!! :D I hope this year fills your and your loved ones' loves with happiness, prosperity, and love!











Dear all, I hope this year is a great one. For me, for you, for our families, for our friends, and their friends, and everyone in the world.









Let's pray that the world finds 2015 to be the most peaceful year ever, everyone settles their differences, and happiness, love, and prosperity caress the air around the world!

On a positive note, I wish you all a great year ahead, go on make a resolution, but be sensible! :P

Keep reading and keep blogging!! :D

Just wanted to share some words with you all

Hey all my dear readers! :D I hope you all are doing great! ^_^

Been long, right? A bit too long. All those Musical Mondays in last 4-5 months were all scheduled posts. I had no Internet Access, and well, no laptop/PC either to blog/visit back or do anything I had been doing until June '14.

Well, that travel for the job in the June end, was really a big change for me. Living without family, friends, Internet, games, it all was like, as if I was totally fun deprived. Not that I couldn't have fun with the resources there, people there, but well, my own rules and routines didn't allow me to. Thus, those 4-5 months became total dormancy for me.

Disconnected from a lot of friends, and my family, it was a new experience for me. I don't know how much have I been able to develop myself, either personally, or professionally, but somewhere my heart says, the experience stored in my sub-conscious mind will help me in life further.

Now I am moving to another new city, even farther from my family and friends. But well, I will have my laptop with me. So I will try to find an Internet connection too. Then atleast I can connect with some good old friends so that I don't feel that lonely, and well, this blog will always be there for me to help me spend that little bit free time I might find to make myself feel lonely and depressed.

Well, but I have learned a lot of things, and I don't want to discuss all the events that happened with me which made me feel sad and depressed. Now that all is gone. And now I am again moving. Of course it will be hard for me to not feel homesick, I love my home and family just too much. But, atleast I won't be that sad since I have experienced a lot already.

On a positive note, and positive thoughts, I hope I can get time, and resources(INTERNET to be precise!) to continue blogging so that I keep interacting with you all.

Hope to be back to normal soon, I mean the Toxifier self :D for you all, and the small, nagging kid for my family. I guess I shouldn't write further, or these watery eyes will begin to water my beard now, LOL! Anyways, see you all soon again!

Good Evening!

And I forgot, if I get time tomorrow, I might schedule more posts. Else, wait till I get my stable Internet connection in the new city. And of course, a place to live, a place to eat. :)

400th Post!

Hey all my dear readers! :D I hope you all are doing great! ^_^

I just noticed, my next post would be 400th post! So I thought to make a post which can be uniquely identified as 400th. LOL! I know that doesn't sound too cool, but well, I thought it's been a while since I posted something. So Happy 400th post! haha! :D

Happy Women's Day, 8th March

Hey all my dear readers! :D I hope you all are doing great! ^_^

Today on the occasion of International Women's Day, I made this vector graphic to wish all the wonderful women in the world, a day specifically dedicated to them!



Although there are so many 'days' like valentine's day, women's day, etc. which were though started to promote the gift business, the greeting cards, etc. but for a common person these are days to celebrate and dedicate one day in the year to something special(like to love on valentine's day).

An excerpt from Wikipedia:

"International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women's Day, is marked on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political, and social achievements. Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries, primarily in Europe, including Russia. In some regions, the day lost its political flavor, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother's Day and Valentine's Day. In other regions, however, the political and human rights theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner. This is a day which some people celebrate by wearing purple ribbons.

In some cases International Women's Day has led to questionable practices that discriminated against men. For example Tower Hamlets Council closed off one of its libraries to all males to "celebrate" the occasion, forcing them to travel elsewhere, going as far as even banning male staff from the premises.

In Communist Czechoslovakia, huge Soviet-style celebrations were held annually. After the fall of Communism, the holiday, generally considered to be one of the major symbols of the old regime, fell into obscurity. International Women's Day was re-established as an official "important day" by the Parliament of the Czech Republic only recently, on the proposal of the Social Democrats and Communists. This has provoked some controversy as a large part of the public as well as the political right see the holiday as a relic of the nation's Communist past. In 2008, the Christian conservative Czechoslovak People's Party's deputies unsuccessfully proposed the abolition of the holiday. However, some non-government organizations consider the official recognition of International Women's Day as an important reminder of women's role in the society.

International Women's Day sparked violence in Tehran, Iran on March 4, 2007, when police beat hundreds of men and women who were planning a rally. Police arrested dozens of women and some were released after several days of solitary confinement and interrogation. Shadi Sadr, Mahbubeh Abbasgholizadeh and several more community activists were released on March 19, 2007, ending a fifteen day hunger strike."

That could be said a quick introduction and some controversies that surfaced during Women's Day celebrations around the globe over the years. Well you know, someone or other will always take care that your happiness is spoilt well! -_-



I am not a feminist, neither do I celebrate 8th of March as such, but I do respect women. I'd say that, every day in this life is a man's day, a woman's day, a valentine's day, a parent's day, everyday, except for the birthday or deathday! LOL! :D Sounds a little awkward, or too philosophical? Well, let me explain my point of view. As a living being we need to stay connected to the environment around us, continuously adapting to it. As a human being, we need to stay bonded with each other, which includes your girlfriend/wife/sister/mother/grandmother/daughter(women in your life), or your boyfriend/husband/brother/father/grandfather/son(men in your life), which does include your love(valentine), and your family. Thus, why just one day for them? You earn for them, you live for them, because of them! So everyday should be a so-n-so day :)

Being specific to women, I'd say we should respect them. I don't know if there's a weaker gender because I know the female wrestlers who'd break your neck in a single stroke(ouch! you shouldn't underestimate!) and at the same time men who would cry out loud if a syringe pokes them. The gender fight will go on and on since it is heated up by the so called 'leaders' of the much hyped and known to corrupt, and agitating, the 'political parties'. So instead of being moved by their motto(which is only to benefit themselves, not you), we should rather keep our head straight. That means, both men and women should respect each other. If you are stronger, you should protect the weak(weakness is not implied by your gender). If you are good at something, you should help others. If you are too rich, you can of course help the poor in some or the other way.

That way, promoting equality is a better message than empowering women. Why empower men/women? They are both equal. They don't need any political party backing up their strength. If men are considered strong, then always remember guys! you are living/breathing in this world just because there is some lady out there who suffered immense pain just to make you living in this world. So do remember you have a mother who also is a woman, and you would never like if anyone dares to speak in a bad tone with her. So why treat some other woman as inferior?



A woman has so many important roles in anybody's life:

1. "A lad comes from a lady and a man from a woman" - Never forget that! NEVER!

2. Mother: You know god? But how? Because she told you about the existence of god. The other version of god who is everywhere in this world to take care you since god is up there watching.

3. Sister: You know you fight with her, but when she gets married and leaves for the other home, you will cry more than her.

4. Daughter: A son might keep your pedigree chart alive, but a daughter will make sure you are respected everywhere.

With all that said, let me just summarize my scattered thoughts that I put forward.

"They are not weak, they are equal. Men-women, they both have their roles in the world. Nature didn't give men breasts to nurture the children. Nature knew the yin-yang balance. Then who are we to create an imbalance? If there are god, so are goddesses. We are all equal. Respect everyone, that does include women. A woman is a daughter, sister, and a mother. She'd take care of all the things for you which includes you."

What's new, What's old. What's coming up, What's gone...

Hey all my dear readers! :D I hope you all are doing great! ^_^

I have been trying to post here regularly these days and I hope you guys are appreciating my effort that I am trying to take out time for this blog when this final semester is damn too busy! I have not been so busy in my life ever! :/ I can't even imagine how busy I would be in future when I'll get a job or something :O

But that's some heavy-emotional scene I was not here to discuss, right? LOL! I got my exams for next three days, so I'll just visit back my daily visitors but I don't think I'll be able to post anything as such. In the meantime, let me tell you about some new and old things at my blog.

So, as you guys know my blog's look was changed a few months back including my cbox, blog's background, font, etc. Or is it that, it has not been that long? Damn, what am I saying? geesh! Back to the topic! BACK TO THE TOPIC!! What back? I am already in the topic, so don't act smart dear insight, and let me type. Well, okay.

The thing is, I have been seeing a lot of crappy advertisements at my blog which I think have been the result of link/banner exchange with certain stupid websites/blogs apart from the cool ones. So I am running a cleaning drive at my blog removing the link/banner exchange things with such blogs of questionable material. I am pretty sure if you read this your blog is not on the list of being deleted. Since I am just removing those links which I should not have had exchanged links with, i.e., some blogs with 'not-to-be-mentioned' sort of content.

Anyways, that was the far gone part, or the old things. Now to the new things, I mean the ones that are coming up.

I have been asked by a blogmate of mine, Sherry-the-booklion, for some tips on speeding up the PC and about some other maintenance tasks, so I'll be coming up with them next week onwards. The security tips I hope you guys are enjoying :D I'll alternate the security and maintenance ones every Tuesday, I mean I'll post one security post on a Tech Tuesday, then a maintenance one on next Tech Tuesday, and then one security post on the next Tech Tuesday, and so on till the time I could continue these series. The security series will have around 6-7 more posts since I have got a lot more to discuss with you all about them.

Also, I'd like you guys to check out the TwCiH[TIPS] page of my blog to find links to some interesting posts of my blog. I update that page whenever I get time to, so consider it being updated once a month or so! Slow pace? I know, but well that's all I could do.

I guess I have mentioned all the important points I wished to share about this blog with you all. Let's hope I keep on killing my time on this blog to write articles that help you, or entertain you! :D And ever wish to contact me for something you wish to be posted here, or want to make a guest post at my blog, you can comment at my posts, or check out my disclosure policy page for the contact email IDs I have made especially for my blog contacts.

So on a positive note, I hope to see you all soon again with more cool posts. For the time being, I should delve into my books. This time the course is a skyscraper for the 3 exams, it's already around 7 pm in the evening, and I am still at the ground floor waiting for the elevator that would make me start studying, phew! Oi! I just realized the poet inside me is not yet dead haha, those were nice lines. Oh I gotta go, see ya all later, this weekend, kay? Good evening! :D I talk too much I see! :P

Happy Valentines Day! :D

Hey all my dear readers! :D I hope you all are doing great! ^_^

Though I don't have any valentine as such, but still I can wish everyone a happy Valentines Day! :D

SO I created this vector graphic:

Happy February!

Hey all my dear readers! :D I hope you all are doing great! ^_^

I am loving this Inkscape software! :D Vector Drawing is becoming a hobby of mine. Lately I have created signatures for some good blogger friends of mine, including myself! LOL! :D And today I made this Happy February image for my blog! :)



How's that? :D I hope you all like this! ^_^

A new signature for my posts! :D

Hey all my dear readers! :D I hope you all are doing great! ^_^

I was buys Inkscaping his afternoon and created a nice signature for my posts at this blog. How's that?! :D



Now I'll be adding it to all the posts I'll make here, of course at the end.

And I am about to come up with some games in a couple of hours and tomorrow the tutorials. Later on Tuesday I will coming up with part 8 of the security guidelines series. OK? Good Evening!! :D

Happy Birthday to me!! :D

Hey all my dear readers! :D I hope you all are doing great! ^_^

It's 9th August today! :D I know it's 12:00 AM, but well I wanted to be the first to wish myself, LOL! :D It's my birthday! :D So I turn 21 today :D Happy Birthday to me :D

Hey there new look Blog de Toxifier! :D

Hey there my dear friends, readers, visitors, and blogmates! :) Howdy? :D I hope you all are doing great!

Did you all notice the new look of the blog?! :D Since the start, once the layout was set, I just did tweaks in the sidebars and all. Never considered to change the look. A few days back, I was bored and was exploring the features in the blogger. I didn't come across anything new. Though I did come across something that remained untouched.

Why untouched? Actually the Template>>Customize Tab keeps crashing my browsers. I have tried IE, Opera, GC, and Firefox. Everything crashed. The reason for crash? I don't know. But possibly because the size of page was a little high due to the pop-up ads. Sorry about those, but wanted to monetize my blog, I hope you can bear that. Anyways, when at the start of this blog I was customizing using that tab, I had a lot of trouble due to frequent crashes. So I just did as much as I could and left it. I thought things might get better as time passes. Though I rather forgot to update the layout and got carried away with the flow of the blog :) You guys have been so great visitors! :D

Then, I was telling you guys I was getting bored the other day. So I found that blogger itself has too many custom backgrounds for all layout that blogger gives itself. That meant no copyright issues, everything for free! :D :D :D :D

So I started to explore. But it was a nightmare. It crashed with every background. Though I became determined and with my hard work, finally transformed the sphere! :D So from the former mountain background that looked okay with my blog's color settings, etc. could finally be changed for the current one, which looks just mind blowing and totally in the theme with my blog! :D

I hope you all love this new look. Though I would like that blogger pays attention to this crashing issue and fix the things. Apart from that I hope you all love this look and visit my blog regularly, and I too can keep you all updated always! :)

Oh, I speak too much :D

By the way, though I am late in delivering this news, but I received the email today only. The famous Android beloved notes app, CatchNotes is now going away! From August 30th, they will be closing down their services.

You can check this link for the last notes by Catch for all users:

http://support.catch.com/customer/portal/topics/549605-catch-is-shutting-down/articles

The following is the copy of email all the users would have received:

---STARTS---

Catch has made the difficult decision to take the company in a different direction. As such, we will be terminating service next month. We value our users and have greatly enjoyed providing Catch to millions of people over the last several years, but it is time for us to move on.

Catch will no longer be available after 30 August 2013. Please follow these directions to download your data before this time. Our support staff will still be here to help you with exporting your data until that time.

For more information please visit the link on exporting your data on the web: http://support.catch.com/customer/portal/articles/988949-how-can-i-export-notes-on-the-web-interface-

We thank you for your support. If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at support@catch.com. We apologize if we are not able to respond to all emails.

The Catch Team

Support Hours
Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 6:00pm (Pacific Time).

---ENDS---

Well, evernote's bigger rival is gone. Let's see the fate of the Catch Apps. Though I didn't use it too much, but still it was quite a nice experience with that note making app. Goodbye Catch Notes.

So let's see what would be next good/bad thing we see. By the way, don't forget my birthday is on 9th August! :D So be there for party with gifts, LOL! Just kidding. See you all later, and sorry for not posting any games today. Maybe I post the games a little later, but I doubt it, seriously. Actually I didn't find any cool games this time. So maybe next week. See you all later guys. Enjoy the Saturday Night! :) Good Night!! ^_^

My blog turns 2 year old today! :D

You know what?! It's 26th of July! :D What's Special? O_O No!!! You should not ask! Blog de Toxifier, my personal blog where I have spent hours with you all was started on 26th July 2011. It turns 2 year old today! :D



It is celebration time, right?! haha! Just kidding. But well it has been really cool to maintain this blog with so much enthusiasm for two long years. Pray for my blog that I keep it updated always and all of you can enjoy my posts always! :D

I have updated the icon of my blog with this image. It was a free image and goes with the name Toxifier, right?! haha! :)



I hope to keep updating this blog always and keep you all informed, up-to-date, and entertained with my fun-filled blog posts! Thanks all for your support and visits. Have a great day! :D

Wassup on my side?

Hello my friends! :) How are you all? I'm doing good, by the way, and hope the same for you all! :)

Actually it's been a little while since my exams got over. Still I have not posted much here. Only a guest post this morning. Actually I have been damn busy since the exams got over. Now that does sound strange that after a long tussle with exams when they finally got over I am still busy, phew! :/

Well, I have been busy visiting relatives, buying books, and also looking around for training, which I finally found a good one and joined the other day. So the 6 weeks of the holidays, all that I have left now will be totally engulfed by that training. But don't worry that certainly doesn't mean I won't be posting here anything. I will be posting as regularly as I can.

For the coming time, I have a couple of things in my mind like a review of a cloud storage website I recently joined, and some games I want to share with you all. But apart from that I am looking for guest bloggers who would like to share stuff at my blog. I didn't know much of this guest blogging earlier, though I'm now trying to get familiar with this trend.

Apart from all this, I have updated my Disclosure policy, that can be found here. Also you might have noticed the link on the page-select bar above. Apart from all this, I have been busy with maintenance of my blog. What maintenance? You didn't notice any changes, right? Well they are minute. I have tried to improve the performance of my blog a little, deleted some redundant code, and also many broken links have been removed.

I was thinking of going on with a nice maintenance of all my posts to get rid of many broken links that must've been there in my old posts since videos get removed, websites are closed, etc. But with more than 250 posts, this task seems quite irritating and for the time being I have dumped this thought of mine.

So what maintenance is going on these days here? Well, I have been seeing if there are any link/banner exchanges that are no longer cool enough. I mean only I have their link here, or the link is broken, changed, etc. Such links are being renewed and removed. So a lot of small things here and there are going on my blog. So don't think that I am neglecting this place even though my exams are over for now.

I am trying to spend time here, but seriously things have been quite busy at my end. Also I am taking care of many things at the blog at the moment, and I will be coming with a few posts real soon.

Also I just want to inform you all again, that I have started to accept guest posts here and if you wish to make a guest post here, you can contact me at gp4blog@gmail.com. The post will be reviewed before going live, but certainly not be edited. At most 2 backlinks to your blog/website will be acceptable.

So that's all going on my side, how about you all? Hope to post here soon again! :) Good day friends! :D

New Topic for Sundays! :D - Super Sunday

Hey all! Welcome to my blog on this Sunday Evening! :)



Sundays on my blog are called Super Sunday, as you all know it. I am not thinking of dumping this topic, but I am thinking of adding a new one to it. Why keep Sundays just for fun? And if they are meant for fun alone, why can't fun comprise learning? So this is the logo I made for the new posts:



Looks cool, right?! :D

Okay, so I wanted to tell you all one more thing. Super Sundays will not cease to exist, they will continue. I'll keep the Super Sunday posts coming in future as they have been in the past. But just to add more informative and learning stuff here, I thought of this nw topic. I hope you all like it. All suggestions and comments would be welcomed as always. You can ask for specific topic tutorials you want me to find. If I can find them, I'll share them here with you all for sure! :)

How did this idea come to my mind?

You know exams are going on these days for me. This made me think of introducing this topic to my blog. This way I can find tutorials to learn things, and as well as pass time sharing them with you all at my blog! :D

By the way, I have already shared a few Maya Tutorials with you all earlier(here), in 2 or 3 posts ago. If you havern't seen them, be sure to check them out now. For convinience, I am posting those videos here too :) Plus, from the channel fo the same person a few more videos to chill out! :D

Some nice video tutorials for Autodesk Maya I found

More videos from same channel

All these above videos belong to this YouTube Channel. Must see, you'll find it nice :)

This is the start, I'll try to update whenever I find cool ones. More to come, have fun! Please do send me suggestions and requests. I want to make my blog better! :)

New Topics? :D

Hey all! I know I haven't been active here lately, but seriously I have been super busy. To visit back visitors daily I hardly get time, so updating here is something out of the schedules! Anyways, gotta tell you all that I'm always trying to be here and post here whenever I can, and so I have thought of some new topics, let's see how much I can be actively using them, LOL! :D

The new topics are: "Weirdo", "My Take", and "Wow Logic". Since in the beginning I said I don't want this blog to end up a tech blog and I realised lately that I failed to keep that word, I'm now trying to diversify the topics and this is another reason for not posting regularly. I agree I don't get much time to post, but I can think of no topics other than tech and computers :O So after much pondering over things, I found these few new ones, and let's see if they help, so as my dearest blog reades, WISH ME LUCK! :D

And here are the post logos I made for these posts :D








My Take: This topic is my personal opinion about anything I have read/heard. This would be my personal opinion, so in case it is not liked by someone, please don't take it on yourself and don't feel hurt.

Weirdo: There are always things happening around, things you listen about, things that you see, all that are unbelievably weird, this topic would feature the recent weird thing I came across.\

Wow Logic: Certain reasons given by people for certain things are undigestable. This topic would feature such stupid logics about various things.

I hope you all will find this all interesting and funny :D If you have something to share do let me know. Leave it as a comment and I will love to share that! :D

So what you all think? Any suggestions? How's the idea? and how are these logos? :D :D

Happy New Year 2013

To all my dear readers, visitors and friends! - A very happy and prosperous new year to all of you! :)

Is Windows 8 worth the wait? - Fromrum Friday

Hello all my dear readers! I hope you all are doing just great! :D



I installed the Windows 8 Release Preview(finally and reluctantly!) this Monday and using it for almost 5 days, I am in a position to throw some light on it. The following post includes my own experiences and I have shared at the end some good ones I read on the Internet. I hope you people like it and do get an overview of the Windows 8! :)

So, Windows 8, the much awaited Windows all because Microsoft released it's Developer and Release Preview, I guess for the first time Microsoft did that, else nothing else than Windows Vista was it's dream project and much awaited by the world. Anyways, Windows Vista was crap as the people say. but I say Windows Vista was the best Windows released by Microsoft. no, I am not out of my minds, neither I am becoming paranoid or sleepless or something that is hallucinating me! LOL! I'm fine and saying that in all my senses. Well actually, why I say Windows Vista was the best is because of the tonnes of features Microsoft released in that Windows. I agree they were all full of bugs and the Windows Vista crashed much often, but the features were so amazing that hey are still not present in Windows 8, I mean atleast not in the Release Preview! And Windows 7? well that's the worst one! Why? Why? Why? Well, Microsoft just suppressed the buggy features of Vista and released Windows 7! How foolishly we welcomed it! >_< Anyways, we were to discuss Windows 8 and not Vista or 7! :P Coming back to the topic, Windows 8. I installed it's release preview on Monday, July 2nd, 2012. In five days what my experience suggests is, well, I love Windows 7 now! >_< Windows 8, not that irritating, but enough to be completely rubbished by me atleast! It has big turn-offs and only some rare turn-ons!

Where the hell is my Start Menu?! >_<

The Start Button and the Start Menu that gave Microsoft the "almost" Monopoly in the Computer Market in terms of Operating System for last 16 years(I think so! :O) is shattered! is no more. is gone. is Vanquished. Is O_O NOWHERE!!! And the start menu that is now in it's new Metro Interface is soo irritating that I felt like my once superb PC is nothing more than some kind of Lumia 700 >_< There are no folders inside the Start Menu or whatever it should be called, it is not start menu, it is Start-Page! huh! Everything I installed, all the files that came inside the start menu in some folders upto Windows 7, were now openly ling in my so called start menu. Though they were bundled together and not scattered, but that doesn't means I am gonna thank Microsoft for that!! >_< Whatever, I hated the new Start Menu.

I found a little tweak to revive a simple, but yet approximate Start Menu on a website. The link goes here

1. From the desktop, right-click the taskbar, point to Toolbars and select “New toolbar.”
2. Type or copy and paste the following path into the Choose a folder window:
   

   %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

3. Click the “Select Folder” button and you’ll get a Programs menu on your taskbar.
4. Right-click the taskbar and uncheck “Lock the taskbar” if you want to move the new Programs menu around.
5. Drag and drop the grip at the left side of the toolbar to place it somewhere else on the taskbar, like at its left side — the Start menu’s traditional location.
6. Right-click the “Programs” text if you want to change or hide its name. After you’re finished, right-click the taskbar again and select “Lock the taskbar.”
   
   There’s one catch with this method — it won’t actually show all your programs. The Start menu actually grabs shortcuts from two different places. In addition to the system-wide ProgramData location, there’s a per-user Programs folder at the following location:
   

   %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Backward Compatibility? LOL! You are kidding me damn-it!!

I remember, much before it was released, they said that Windows 8 will be having backward compatibility that means the programs of all Windows Versions from Windows 3.x to Windows 8 will run on Windows 8 which was completely lacking in the Release Preview. What happened was that, do you guys/girls remember that Windows Vista and 7 had problems running some games like GTA San Andreas, Hitman 2 - Silent Assassin, etc.? The problems I thought would be eradicated, were rather much more magnified in Windows 8. The games crash much more often rather they crash more than the times they run properly and moreover, all the problems that one could encounter in those games due to Operating System compatibility issues were multifold! Apart from that, Adobe Pagemaker 7.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, etc. all either crash while working else in no case would they close properly!!

Easy on resources? Come again! To hell!!

Don't you dare tell me that it is light on resources and easy on your processor! My Corei5 760 @ 2.80GHz was being used around 51% constantly when I was running nothing on my system but Windows 8 alone! Not a single app!! Though the memory was much free but my processor is so badly eaten up that I cannot multitask! oh yes! Multitasking, I will take on this one separately! >_<

Boots lightening fast!

Okay one thing I loved about Windows 8 was that it boots real fast, atleast 1.5-2 times faster than Windows 7. Unlike Windows 7 whose boot time kept increasing as the day passed by, Windows 8 till date boots at almost the same pace! That was awesome to see that my PC starts up and shuts down quite fast. This is one thing that I loved about Windows 8.

The pre-loaded Apps are amazing

Now this time, I have a pre-installed PDF Viewer on my system that came with nothing but Windows 8 and the Photo Preview is real cool too. Both apps are quite fast but with limited functionality, but for read operation, I would say they are quite nice! :)

Multitasking? GTFO!

This Windows 8 is completely tablet/mobile oriented version of Windows. Not a bit for the Desktop users I must say! It doesn't say "Click" anywhere, everywhere you'll see, "tap" >_< And when you run more than one software simultaneously, that is you multitask, doesn't matters if you have a damn-amazing processor, Windows 8 would rubbish it all!! YOU CANNOT MULTITASK PROPERLY AND EASILY AS MUCH YOU DID IN XP OR 7.

Metro interface v/s the original Windows GUI

It no doubt looks good but not for a Desktop or Laptop, that is, not for a PC! It looks good, but is irritating for any PC user. Super-Big icons and all the apps running full-screen and hey! there is no Chrome-Bar, I mean no "Minimize"/"Maximize"/"Close" Buttons, or Title bar! For closing any app that ran full screen and came installed with Windows 8, I had to press Alt+F4 to get it closed, there was no other way!! Thank God! that Windows Explorer is not in Metro Interface as yet, else it would have been a complete disaster!

Improved Task Manager, Copy-Move Processes

A good thing about the Windows 8 was the Task Manager. It is quite good-looking and also shows good deal of details and groupings of similar tasks/services. The Copy or move processes can be paused, a new thing and real awesome to see. Moreover, when you copy/move, you can see the speed graph too! :)

Internet Explorer 10

Well what else can I say more than that it's "Microsoft Internet Explorer" ? LOL! It looks good, no doubt, does seem promising when released full-fledged, but I don't think it would be any better than Internet Explorer 9 other than it's looks! Since it's release preview certain websites don't work like Yahoo! Mail shows huge amount of errors running on IE 10. Maybe the no-tracking policy is to be blamed, but I'm not sure. Whatever, it's just another Internet Explorer which looks better, but is irritating like it's predecessors!

My this review is totally based on the release preview, if the actual Windows turns out to be something else, then it's a different case! And don't think why this might happen. Microsoft is such a big company that even if it would do this, people won't be startled! >_< You may refer to some reviews in the following links:

Guardian

Telegraph

Engadget

Thanks all for your time that you spent reading this article. I hope to see you all soon again. All comments and suggestions are welcomed like always! :) Have a great Friday and an awesome weekend up ahead! :D