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How to play DVD movies in Windows 8

You will not be able to watch DVD movies on the default installation of any Windows 8 edition. While Windows Media Player is present, the DVD playing feature has been removed from it. It will however be possible to play [...]

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Fix: Windows 8 restarts to a blank screen with blinking cursor

Microsoft has released a hotfix to resolve an issue, where a Windows 8 computer installation that is Unified Extensible Firmware Interface or UEFI-compliant and that has a UEFI/GPT configuration, restarts to a blank screen after a standard shutdown or hibernation. If [...]

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How to Setup Proxy for Metro application in Windows 8

Today, we’ll discuss how to enable or configure Proxy Server for Metro applications in Windows 8. By default we can setup Proxy for Internet Explorer, but for some reason it’s not working correctly for Metro application. When I tried it [...]

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10 Useful Mouse Tricks For Windows Users

I love my mouse! Hey, don’t get me wrong!! I don’t have a pet mouse or something. I am talking about my computer mouse. Yes, I love to use my computer mouse and truly speaking it is one of the [...]

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How to change Product Key in Windows 7 | 8

You may for some reason need to change your Windows product license key – maybe you want to upgrade your copy of Windows to a higher version or maybe you want to change the default setup product key to a [...]

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Restore missing Internet Explorer Tile in Windows 8 Start Screen

No matter which version of Windows 8 Operating System you are using Internet Explorer browser is available in 2 styles – Internet Explorer 10 ‘Metro’ app version and Internet Explorer for Desktop. The Metro or Windows App style IE browser has [...]

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Using Show More Tiles setting in Windows 8

The Windows 8 Start Screen displays Tiles, that allow you quick access to your favorite Windows Store apps or installed software. By default, the new operating system will display number of tile rows depending on your screen resolution. Screen Resolution [...]

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How to Enable Hyper-V in Windows 8

Windows 8 supports client Hyper-V; a flexible, robust, and high performance client virtualization technology that enables IT pros and developers to run multiple operating system instances simultaneously on their Windows 8 computer. Hyper-V requires a 64-bit Windows 8 system that [...]

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Windows 8 apps not working? Repair Windows 8 Apps

The Windows 8 operating system offers an easy way to repair the Metro apps, should they not be functioning properly. If there is some problem with any app, when you click on an app to open it, you find that [...]

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NEW: Automatic Memory Dump Settings on Windows 8

In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has introduced a new Memory dump option called “Automatic Memory Dump”. This is the default option set in the operating system. For those you don’t know, on Windows 7 we have Minidump, [...]

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How To Customize Windows 8 Default Apps

The default Windows 8 apps, like the News, Sports, Weather, Travel and Finance apps can be customized to display the information you want and are looking for. For instance, you can add your own news section to the News app for keeping [...]

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How to Delete Usage History of Windows 8 Apps

The Task Manager in Windows 8 is a really powerful tool that does you do a lot of things including managing your start up items. It also keeps a history of the resources being used by your Windows 8 Metro [...]

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Windows 7 features deprecated in Windows 8

When Windows 7 was released, we had seen the list of Windows Vista features which were removed in Windows 7. Microsoft, based on user usage data, decides to enhance or deprecate a feature in the next release of the Windows [...]

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