Tag Results For: Windows 8

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How To Enable/Disable Fast User Switching In Windows 8 [Tip]

Like previous versions of Windows, The Log Off and Lock functions in Windows 8 enable users to quickly switch between all the available user accounts without having to restart or shutdown the PC. When you lock the screen, it shows you a back navigation button on the logon screen to let you quickly switch to any [...] (more…)

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How To Enable Hidden Explorer UI Animations In Windows 7 & Windows 8 [Tip]

The Windows 7 and Windows 8 Explorer have some hidden animations that cannot be enabled via Control Panel or Registry Editor. Why Microsoft has chosen not to include them in Windows settings is a mystery, but as curious as people are, things like these cannot stay hidden for a long time. Earlier, there was a [...] (more…)

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How To Switch To A New Desktop Background Using A Hotkey In Windows 7 & 8 [Tip]

The themes in Windows 7 and Windows 8 usually contains a number of images in each theme. Other elements remain the same, but the image changes to a new one after a specified amount of time. This time interval can be changed by opening Personalization settings and selecting the Desktop Background option. The time interval [...] (more…)

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Disable Display Of Recent Search Entries In Windows 8 Explorer [Tip]

Just like Windows Vista and Windows 7, Windows 8 File Explorer includes real-time search feature to let you instantly find the required files and folders from any location. It shows you search results for files, folders, apps and other items as soon you start typing in search keywords. Although it provides users with quick search [...] (more…)

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Disable Switching Between Metro Apps (Switch List) In Windows 8 [Tip]

The Alt + Tab shortcut in Windows for switching between open applications and other windows has been in use since a long time. However, Windows 8 comes with a lot of changes. Apart from the Metro Start Screen, a Desktop work space is also included enabling you to work just as you used to do [...] (more…)

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How To Turn Off Windows Store In Windows 8 [Tip]

Taking a page out of Apple’s Mac App Store, Microsoft has begun to build its own app store, the Windows Store, for Windows 8 applications. Right now, the number of apps in the latter is nowhere near the amount available for Mac users. Just like the other app stores, Windows Store also features both free [...] (more…)

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How To Add & Remove Shortcuts From Windows 8 Win + X Menu [Tip]

Compared to Windows 8 Developer Build, there are a lot of things that have been added to the Consumer Preview. In the past, we have extensively reviewed all the changes that have been made to the upcoming version of Windows. For instance, the removal of the Start Menu button has conjured up quite a debate on [...] (more…)

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Get Windows 8 Metro Task Manager’s Compact View Mode In Windows 7

The Consumer Preview of Windows 8 has a lot of similarities to Windows 7, but there are also a lot of changes as well, especially in terms of features and GUI. Windows 8 is the first PC-based operating system featuring the Metro UI. After the Windows 8 Consumer Preview got released, most developers had been [...] (more…)

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Disable Auto-Termination Of Applications That Block Windows 8 Shutdown [Tip]

You may know that Windows 8 comes with an auto-quit applications feature that looks for all active console & GUI based applications at system shutdown and restart, and forcibly closes them. Although this feature helps you quickly quit all those applications and processes, which are stuck in deadlock or livelocks, you often require to save [...] (more…)

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Clear History Of Recently Opened Documents & Jumplist Items At Log off In Windows 8 [Tip]

Like previous Windows versions, Windows 8 also saves shortcuts to all the recently used applications, documents, files, images, and folders in User Profile folder, namely Recent. These shortcuts help users easily access all the recently used items, but anyone with malicious intentions can use the shortcuts to get to the folders where your important files [...] (more…)

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How To Hide Specific Windows 8 Control Panel Tools Or Applets [Tip]

Windows 8, just like previous versions of Windows, displays all the installed system tools and default applets in Control Panel, and doesn’t provide a convenient option for system administrator to hide/remove Control Panel applets for standard users. Although Windows implements strict security policies to prevent standard and guest users from gaining access to system utilities [...] (more…)

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WinPlusX: Get Windows 8 Win+X Menu In Windows 7 & Vista

Since the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, there has been a lot of talk about its different features. Apart from the major UI related changes, Windows 8 comes with a lot of quick access shortcuts that were not included in previous versions of Windows. In this article, however, we are concerned with only [...] (more…)

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Tiny Notepad Is A Metro-Based Text Editor For Windows 7, Vista & XP

Notepad is the most basic text editor available for use in Windows. It is meant to provide users with the most basic options for editing text-only documents, such as cut, copy, paste, word wrap, change font etc. There are no options to include and edit images, include page margins etc. For those type of advanced [...] (more…)

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Create Bootable Windows 8 Installer USB With Win8USB

There was a time when we could only install Windows on our computers using CDs. Installing Windows from a USB flash drive seemed a thing of the future, but today, using a USB flash drive to install Windows is as common as using DVDs. Newer versions of Microsoft Windows, like Windows 7, can be installed [...] (more…)

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How To Disable Windows 8 Lock Screen

In the past, we covered a guide on Windows 8 Lock Screen and discussed some of its features. The newly added Lock Screen is basically designed for tablet PCs, allowing users to quickly view the applications notifications, battery status, date and time, WiFi status/dynamic network icon etc. Although Windows 8 lets you tweak both Start [...] (more…)