Windows 8.1 may include a straight to the desktop setting
There are two main points of criticism in regards to Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system.
Latest Windows 8 News
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How to display the Windows 8 product key
If you have bought a PC that shipped with Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system preinstalled you may have noticed that it did not ship with a product key label
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Windows App Boss: uninstall apps from the desktop in Windows 8
If you are using Windows 8 or have tested it for some time you have probably tested a few Windows Store apps to get a feel for what they have to offer […
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Windows 8: Mail, Calendar and People app no longer sync with Google
Windows 8 users who have been actively using the Calendar app of the operating system may be in for a surprise if they have configured the app to sync data with
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Windows Blue: Windows 7 File Recovery option gone
One of the many new features that Microsoft added to Windows 7 was a new backup and recovery feature that users of the operating system could make use of to bac
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Windows Blue build with minor improvements leaks
Rumors about Microsoft's strategy for the next version of Windows was all we had until recently.
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ImmersiveTaille: Windows 8 start screen on the desktop
You have a couple of options to improve how you interact with Windows 8's start screen and the apps that run on it.
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You can now remove ads from all Windows 8 apps
Windows 8 apps can be monetized in different ways.
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ModernMix: Make Windows 8 better by running apps on the desktop
We have seen attempts before to bring Windows 8 apps to the desktop of the operating system.
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Steam survey shows Windows 8 on the rise, beats XP
There are not many reliable sources for operating system market share trends.
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Metro Scaler: Scale Windows 8's start screen to different resolutions
You probably know that Microsoft is limiting what is being displayed on Windows 8's start screen in several ways.
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Fixing Error Code 0x80073cf9 in Windows 8
Every week I'm spending time in Windows 8's store to discover new apps for my weekly column over at Betanews.
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How to open the control panel in Windows 8
Opening the control panel is a pretty straightforward process in all versions of Windows except Windows 8.
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Remove multiple Start screen apps at once in Windows 8
While many of us in the tech world have been using Windows 8 for some time -- perhaps even since back when the Developer Preview came out, which is when I moved
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Troubleshoot Windows Store apps issues
Windows Store has been integrated natively into the Windows 8 operating system by Microsoft.
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You can still buy Windows 8 for a discount
To increase demand for its newest operating system Windows 8, Microsoft ran a promotion until January 31, 2013 that made available the operating system at a dis
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Speed up the loading of Windows 8 start up programs
While Microsoft changed the way users boot into the company's Windows 8 operating system which is a couple of seconds faster on average than in previous systems
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CNN app for Windows 8 and RT arrives
If you are a news junkie like me then Windows 8 offers you some tantalizing features.
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Acronis promising fix for Windows 8 bug
Acronis, maker of one of the better backup programs for Windows, seems to have a Windows 8 problem.
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Windows 8 start menu programs are downloaded in record numbers
Microsoft decided to ship Windows 8 without a start menu and the main reason for that was probably to get users to use the start screen of the operating system
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How to enable transparency on Windows 8
I was never a fan of Aero glass transparency as I prefer my operating system to use solid colors only and nothing else.
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How to change your account password in Windows 8
If you are logging in to Windows 8 with a Microsoft Account to benefit from a couple of features such as data synchronization between accounts and options to re
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How to backup and restore Windows 8 apps data
Windows 8 ships with a set of new backup and restoration tool like the refresh option that let you keep settings that would be lost if you'd install the operati
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Jailbreak Windows RT to run deskop software
Earlier this week news broke that it was possible to circumvent Windows RT's code integrity mechanism which effectively paved the way for a jailbreak of the sys
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Whitelist Flash domains in Windows 8's Internet Explorer 10
Microsoft made the decision to limit the domains that users of Internet Explorer 10 on Windows RT or Windows 8 can load Flash contents from.
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Windows 8's Fast Startup does not play well with dual-boot systems
One of the new features that Microsoft has integrated into Windows 8 is the new Fast Startup feature that is activated by default.
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Create quick screenshots in Windows 8
You probably know that you can create screenshots in any version of Windows by tapping on the print key, opening an image editor, pasting the contents of the Cl
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How to move installed Windows 8 apps to another drive
If you are using a Solid State Drive as your main drive in Windows 8, you may have found it to quickly fill with data, apps, programs and of course the notoriou
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Microsoft: 60 million copies of Windows 8 sold to date
How successful is the Windows 8 operating system? One way to find out is to compare its performance with previous Microsoft operating systems, and while situati
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Fix The Video Failed To Play errors in Windows 8
For the past couple of days I have experienced a strange error whenever I tried to play videos in an application on Windows 8.
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Modify Windows 8 boot options with Boot UI Tuner
Microsoft has optimized the boot cycle of the Windows 8 operating system so that long-used features such as hitting F8 for the advanced boot menu no longer work
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Show Windows update notifications on the Windows 8 desktop
Microsoft has changed the way users are notified about updates in Windows 8.
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Windows 8: Important January deadlines
Windows 8 has been released a couple of months ago and while the verdict is still out in regards to how successful or not the operating system is, it is importa
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What would you like to see in Windows 9 / Blue?
Rumors have it that Microsoft is already working on the next version of Windows, and while it is not clear if it will be called Windows 9,Windows Blue or someth
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How to change default apps in Windows 11 and Windows 10
To change default apps in Windows 11 or Windows 10, open Settings, select Apps, then Default apps.
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Clean up the Windows 8 All Apps listing
If you have ever opened the All Apps listing on a Windows 8 system, provided that you found it in first place, you have probably asked yourself why you find tha
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Finally Windows Store becomes available on the Internet
If you want to browse Windows Store, the store that Microsoft has integrated into its Windows 8 operating system, then you need to have that operating system to
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Disable "was installed" notifications in Windows 8
If you are installing applications you find in Windows Store regularly on your Windows 8 operating system you may have noticed that you always receive a notific
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EnhanceMy8 is a new Windows 8 Maintenance Utility
The jury may still be out regarding the success of Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system.
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Surface Pro: price and battery life disappoint
I had high hopes for the Surface Pro ever since Microsoft announced that it would release the device a few months after the Windows 8 operating system.
