How to Distorted Font and Hanging Issue in Office 2013

Among dozens of new features and changes, support for GPU hardware acceleration is a remarkable feature of Microsoft’s new Office 2013. Hardware Acceleration improves program performance by utilizing computer’s graphics card (GPU) rather than relying on the process alone. However, sometimes it will cause for hanging and distorted font issue in Office 2013, especially on older computers. Here is how to disable GPU hardware acceleration in Office 2013 to fix this issue.

Hardware acceleration isn’t a new thing. Almost all modern browsers now have hardware acceleration. If enabled this feature, the browser will transfer CPU intensive tasks such as video, games, etc.to GPU (graphics processor) to make everything smooth.

In Office 2013, hardware acceleration is enabled by default. So, here is how to disable hardware acceleration in Office 2013 to fix blurred font and program hanging issue.

- Open an Office 2013 program, for example Word 2013. From the start screen click on “blank document” option. Click “File” menu and then click on “Options” from the left-sidebar of the program window.

- Now, click on “Advanced” option and scroll down. Under “Display” section, locate the two options
“Disable hardware graphics acceleration” and “Use subpixel positioning to smooth fonts on screen”.
 Check the checkbox against “Disable hardware graphics acceleration” and click OK to save the settings. Restart Office and it should fix the problem.

If the problem still persist, try to disable “Use subpixel positioning to smooth fonts on screen” option, click OK to save the settings and restart the program. It should fix your problems.

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How to Fix Windows 8 Hanging Issue When it Shut Down

Windows 8 features a ‘hybrid’ boot technology. This means, Windows does not shutdown everything in the usual way, but instead partially hibernates some major system functions, so Windows 8 shuts down instantly. However, on some system setups, especially on older PCs it’ll create some issues.

To solve this issue, go to the Start screen and type ‘power’. Select “Settings” and from the search result, select the option ‘Change what the power buttons do’.

In the “System Settings” list that appears, scroll down and disable (uncheck) the ‘Turn on fast startup (recommended)’ option.

Now, you should have no further issues as now Windows 8 boot in in a more traditional manner that won’t conflict with your hardware.

Note: You may need to first click the ‘Change settings that are currently unavailable’ option, if the item is greyed out. Click “Save Changes” button and then reboot the PC.

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How To Search Apps in Windows 8 App Store

The new App Store in Windows 8 is growing into bigger with new apps and games each day. Users can discover new applications and games in the Store and install them on their Windows 8 computer. However, do you know how to search for apps and games in the App Store in Windows 8? Read below to know how it is.

Open the Windows Store by clicking the “Store” tile from Windows 8 Start Screen and press the Win + C keys on your keyboard to display the Charms Bar (You can also move the Mouse cursor to the top/right corner to display Charms bar). Then select the Search icon to bring the search box. Or, just click Win + F keys, select “Store” from the list and start to discover apps and games.That’s it!

The Windows App Store is similar to Apple’s Mac Store or Google Play Store where you can search, discover and install new apps (free and paid). Currently, most of the apps already in the Windows Store are games and other consumer-focused offerings.

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How to Enable Bookmarks Menu Entry in Chrome’s Context Menu

Many of us use bookmarking functionality of browser as a way to access our favorite webpages and web services fast and easily. In Chrome, bookmarked websites can be accessed from bookmarks toolbar (Ctrl + Shift + B), but by enabling an entry for bookmarks in Chrome’s context menu (right-click menu) accessing favorite websites indeed easier and quick. Here is how to enable bookmarks entry in Chrome’s context menu.

“Bookmarks Menu for Chrome” is a simple extension that adds a bookmark menu entry to Chrome’s context menu, which enables you to view and access your bookmarks by just right clicking.

This extension not only allows quick accessing bookmarked webpages from the context-menu (right-click menu), but also removes the annoyance of bookmarks toolbar. You can access your bookmarked sites by just right clicking from any page you are in and the new webpage is opened in a separate foreground tab.

Note that, bookmarks that do not have a title will not appear in the context menu. Also, due to limitations in the Context Menus API, favicon support is not possible at the moment.

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How To Replace the Google Logo with Your Doodle

The Google home page is famous for lots of impressive “doodles” recently. Each doodle stands for events like holidays, anniversaries, or current events and clicking the doodle sends visitors to Google’s search results page where they will get detailed information about the event. However, usually a “doodle” stays for a day only on the home page.

Would you like to have a doodle as long as you like on the Google home page instead of Google logo? Here is how you can do that; however, you are still able to see the new doodles on special occasions. The Chrome add-on “Favorite Doodle” lets you change the Google Logo to a doodle you like for as long as you like.

- To replace the Google logo with a doodle, after installing the add-on, go to google.com and click on the Google logo to get to the Doodle Gallery.
- From there click the button underneath your favorite doodle to set it as your favorite. You can change your favorite as often as you would like.
- In case you have not known about Google’s “doodles” yet, they are “the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists”.

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