Tag Results For: Windows 8

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Toggle Windows 8 Start Menu Without Rebooting Your Computer

Ever since the release of the Windows 8 Developers Build, many users have been finding an easy way to switch between the Windows 8 and Windows 7 style Start Menu. We previously covered two applications, Windows 8 Start Menu Toggle and Metro Controller, which allow bringing the Windows 7 style Start menu and reverting back to the [...] (more…)

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Roundup: Our Exclusive Coverage Of Windows 8 Developer Preview

This week, with the start of Build Windows developers conference, we promised to cover every new feature of Windows 8. Now that the week has come to an end, it’s time to revisit all the guides, tips, features, and hacks that we have covered so far. You will discover plenty of new and useful Windows [...] (more…)

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New Memory Power Management Options In Windows 8

Windows 8 brings extra memory power management options to Windows Power Plan Advanced Settings which is accessible from Power Options. These options provide the utility to monitor short memory history, channel power history, backoff channel heat break tolerance, backoff idle utility threshold, and so on. It can help you specify power management settings for your [...] (more…)

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How To Share Files Between Windows 7 And Windows 8 In Dual Boot

When you dual boot Windows 8 with Windows 7, you are likely to end up willing to use many of the files which are located within your Windows 7 user directory (e.g. Administrator account).  Although these files can be accessed manually, doing so is both tiresome and time consuming task. Copying files to the Windows [...] (more…)

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How To Keep Ribbon Minimized In Windows 8 Explorer

The Ribbon Explorer in Windows 8 includes most commonly used shortcuts in a ribbon, like copy and move to user library, remove properties, hide file name extensions, etc. While this may come handy to find Explorer options more easily, it has been considered as an obstructive inclusion to Windows Explorer by many Windows 8 users, [...] (more…)

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How To Enable Windows 8 Hibernate Option

Hibernation is a feature of an operating system which allows the contents of RAM to be written to the hard disk, before powering off the computer. When the computer is started again, it reloads the content of memory and attempts to restore to the same state as it was before shutdown. For example, if you [...] (more…)

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Use PIN Code To Login To Windows 8 With PIN Logon Credential Provider

Aside from allowing users to log on to Windows via Windows Live account and Local account (see guide here), Windows 8 also includes an option to create a custom PIN which can either be connected with your local or Windows Live account. Although this option has been added to Windows 8 for tablet users to [...] (more…)

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A Quick Overview Of Windows 8 Lock Screen

Inspired from Windows Phone 7 Metro UI, the Windows 8 Lock Screen is optimized for both tablets and PC users. The new Lock Screen includes two main components; the lock screen image with dynamic battery and network icons & application status message badges and login screen to enter password in order to login to Windows [...] (more…)

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How To Enable 64-Bit Mode In Internet Explorer 10 On Windows 8

As most of our desktop computing devices move from 32 bit towards 64 bit platforms, more and more programs are being made available in both 32 bit and 64 bit versions. While Windows 7 has already had Internet Explorer 9 in both these variants, they were available as separate apps. That changes with Windows 8, [...] (more…)

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Windows 8: Extended Wallpaper And Taskbar Across Dual Monitors

After years of offering only the bare minimum dual monitor support with its operating systems, Microsoft has finally decided to change things for the better. The recently released Developer’s Preview of Windows 8 has added better dual-monitor support natively to the OS, letting you extend your wallpaper across multiple monitors as well as extending your [...] (more…)

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How To Restart, Log Off, Sleep And Shutdown Windows 8

Users who have started using Windows 8 struggle finding options to Shutdown, Restart, Sleep and Shutdown their PCs. From Windows 95 to Windows 7, the Power Control options have always been accessible from Windows Start Menu, but because Windows 8 is specifically optimized for tablets where users generally don’t require shutting down or restarting a lot, [...] (more…)

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How To Automatically Login To Windows 8 [Direct Logon]

We earlier covered a post which explained how users can login directly into Windows 7 without entering a password. The recent release of Windows 8 has brought forward the same question. In this post we will tell you how to directly login to Windows 8 to circumvent the login screen. The procedure does not change [...] (more…)

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Windows 8 Jump Lists Comes With Better Privacy Options

With Windows 7 came a feature that changed the way users interacted with applications; Jump Lists. You right-click a pinned application in the taskbar to view the Jump List. The problem with Jump Lists is that you cannot control the history of all items that show up in the list. Windows 8 now allows better privacy control; [...] (more…)

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Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts [With Screenshots]

The new Windows 8 operating system was recently launched with a number of new enhancements. Other than the Metro based interface and other changes, it also came with a slew of new keyboard shortcuts. In this post we will show a number of Windows 8 hotkeys which can help you use Windows 8 more conveniently. [...] (more…)

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Disable Metro Features While Keeping Ribbon Explorer In Windows 8

First we covered a simple Registry hack to disable Metro and bring back the Windows 7 Start Menu in Windows 8. Then, we covered a small tool called Windows 8 Start Menu Toggle which allows users to quickly change the value in the registry to switch between new metro interface and old classic interface. The problem with [...] (more…)