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Secure portable storage devices using BitLocker To Go in Windows 8

We have seen earlier how to encrypt USB flash drives with BitLocker To Go in Windows 7. In this post we will see the steps involved to secure portable storage devices using BitLocker To Go in Windows 8. Portable storage devices [...]

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Mañana Mail add-in for Outlook: Schedule Mail, Cancel or Undo Send Mail

Here’s a new Microsoft Research Add-in for Outlook! Its called Mañana Mail. Its an Add-in for Outlook which will allow you to send an email at 9 AM the next day (or any time set) and also provide about 10 [...]

How to add RSS feeds to Bing News App in Windows 8

Recently various Bing Apps of Windows 8 namely Travel, Maps, News, Finance, Sports received an update. These apps received several updates. Though the details about Weather app updates, too were announced, it wasn’t included in this set of updates. With [...]

Microsoft Silverlight Application Storage & Configuration Options

Many of us have Microsoft Silverlight installed on our system, but we rarely make use of its configuration options. In this post we will see its configuration options, specially its ‘Application Storage’ option. To configure, we have to open the [...]

Indian Rupee Currency Symbol: How to use keyboard shortcut in Windows 8 | 7

Its been quite a while that, the INR or Indian Rupee Currency Symbol was introduced. Earlier there were some ad-hoc solutions released by a 3rd party – like a Rupee symbol Font was released which had to be installed on the [...]

Fix: ABBYY FineReader Add-in causing Office Programs to crash

Recently I installed Office 2013 on one of the machines running Windows 7. After the installation, during the first run itself, it started to crash and was not able to even start. All the Office Programs seemed to be affected [...]

How to retouch photos using Windows Photo Gallery

If you are one of those who often click some interesting pictures or have a nice collection of family photos, then this post will be of some use to you. Lets say you find that one of your old family photo [...]

Surface Pro Questions & FAQ

On 6th Feb 2013 Panos Panay, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, working on Surface and his Surface Windows 8 Pro Engineering Team hosted a Reddit chat and answered queries on Surface Windows 8 Pro. It was the Second AMA (Ask Me [...]

How to display different Live Tiles for different email accounts in Windows 8

We have seen in earlier post how to add multiple e-mail accounts to Windows 8 Mail app. After adding the multiple email accounts, the Start Screen the Mail Live Tile shows the latest mails from all your accounts. And many of [...]

PowerShell Scripts to create Windows 8 Shutdown, Restart, Logoff, Switch User, Hibernation Tiles

As you know Windows 8 has a Start Screen replacing the Start Menu. And this for many is still the concern as they are used to Windows 7 Start button providing this menu. Though I can say, that with bit [...]

Tweak to improve upload speeds in SkyDrive on a Windows or Mac computer

Many a times when uploading large number of files to your SkyDrive account, you may encounter slow uploads speeds. Manual Configuration change under the hood will now improve the upload speeds in SkyDrive. Tweak to improve upload speeds in SkyDrive [...]

Outlook.com adds new features; some of which make transition from Gmail easier!

Outlook.com was launched in July this year. It is growing fast and feedback to it has been overwhelmingly positive! People love its clean looks and features. As of now there are over 25 million active users of the new Outlook.com. Microsoft [...]

How to use Selective Sync option in SkyDrive

As we have been seeing, SkyDrive is continuously improving and the SkyDrive team has been implementing user feedbacks and feature requests. Recently we have seen SkyDrive improvements like the Recycle Bin feature, Excel Survey feature, Inline Twitter image support for SkyDrive links, [...]

Create Windows 8 Start Screen like Cover Photo for Facebook Timeline

Windows 8 Cover Photo Creator for Facebook is a Facebook app from Microsoft that lets you create a Windows 8 start screen like, cover photo for your Facebook Timeline. Came across this fun app from the Windows team on Facebook, [...]

How to use the, now available, Excel Survey feature on SkyDrive

Earlier we had seen how SkyDrive had introduced the Recycle Bin feature and how Microsoft had then said that the Excel Survey Feature would soon be made available too. And today, Microsoft announced the availability of Excel Surveys on SkyDrive. The Excel survey [...]

Access and fetch any file on your Windows PC remotely using SkyDrive

Many of us must have used SkyDrive for accessing files anywhere and sharing with anyone. With SkyDrive, you can securely store your files and get to them from any of your devices be it your PC, Mac, Smartphone, iPad or [...]

Skype App for Windows 8 unveiled

A few days back, there were reports of people spotting a Skype tile on some of the new Windows 8 devices launches. Microsoft has now officially unveiled Skype App for Windows 8. This app will be made available on October 26th [...]

Windows 8 Weather App – Features, Settings & Download

Recently Microsoft has started rolling out updates to the Windows 8 built-in apps. Microsoft is adding new features and improving the apps that come with Windows and rolling out updates for these apps before general availability (GA) which will be [...]

Surface Team answers questions about the Surface tablet

There’s a lot of excitement over the pricing details and pre-order announcement of Surface RT yesterday. You must have already read about it on our earlier posts. But still many of us have a lot of doubts about Surface and [...]

Windows Essentials 2012 gets a minor October 2012 update

A few months back in Aug , we had seen the release of a new version of Windows Movie Maker and Photo Gallery 2012 for Windows 7 and Windows 8. We had also seen what’s new in Windows Movie Maker and [...]

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