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WIMBoot or Windows Image Boot explained

Users slammed Microsoft Surface tablet over glaring disk space consumption issue. They believed, that the device’s operating system, ARM-compatible version of Windows called Windows RT consumed a little more than half of the on-board storage space available to the 32GB model, [...]

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Windows 8.1 PC Settings now shows Disk Space used by Modern Apps, Media, User Files

Most of you may have installed the Windows 8.1 Update by now. This free update to Windows 8 adds several new features. The Windows 8.1 Update focuses on customer-driven improvements, tutorials, more personalization options, the ability to boot to desktop by [...]

Rename computer via PC Settings easily in Windows 8.1

Windows users are already familiar as to how the operating system lets your change your computer name via the Control Panel. You have to open the Control Panel, select System applet, Advanced System Settings from the left side. In the [...]

How to Emergency Restart or Shutdown Windows 8 | 7

There may be some situations where you may need to restart or shut down your Windows system urgently. This could be an emergency situation, where you need to instantly shutdown or restart your system - or there could be a situation [...]

Find out Windows Installation Date using various methods

There may be a time, when you may want to or need to know your Windows installation date or the date and time when your Windows OS was installed on your computer. There are several ways to find this out, [...]

Windows 8.1 Update introduces new features and enhancements

When users provide feedback to a responsive company, they materially impact the brand and ensure that the product you get is the product what you expect. Ever since Windows 8 was introduced in 2012, we saw some changes happening with Windows [...]

Windows System Assessment Tool: Built-in performance benchmarking tool

Windows System Assessment Tool or WinSAT.exe in a built-in performance benchmarking tool that lets Windows users measure the performance capabilities of the computer. This tool was introduced on client computers, starting with Windows Vista and is available on Windows 8 [...]

Fix: Hidden files and folders in Folder Options is missing

We know that the Windows operating system contains some files and yet other system files and folders which are hidden by default. These are hidden so that the end-user does not by chance end up deleting or modifying their contents as [...]

Windows 8.1: The Anti Malware Operating System

We all use one or more antivirus software, Internet Security Suite or a Firewall software on our Windows computer. We keep them updated, go for zero-day patches, and keep hunting forbetter combination of anti-malware for better protections. But what most anti-malware [...]

How to transfer User Profile in Windows 7 | 8

If you have created a new user account in Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows Vista and if you’d like to transfer all your user data or user profile to this new user account, here is how you may do [...]

System Information Tools in Windows 8 | 7

You may occasionally need to know a little more about your machine…details about your hardware, software, etc. There are four ways you can get such info in Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows Vista, natively. System Information Tools in Windows [...]

System info: Find out when your Windows was installed and other system information

SystemInfo or System Info command tool in Windows, will tell you all you need to know about your computer system. If you would like to know when your Windows was installed and plenty other information about your system, this built-in tool [...]

My Family helps manage kids’ app and game purchases in Windows Phone

Kids of the 21st century are much ahead of us. There is absolutely nothing which can stop them for using mobile phones. The genius kids want all the latest apps and games, which of course takes a toll on your [...]

How to disable Windows built-in Zip support

Windows offers the feature to compress files by supporting Zip functionality. While it is a very useful feature, if you are already using some third-party compression utility, some of may want to disable Windows built-in Zip support, and let the external [...]

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Using Metered Connections for Devices in Windows 8.1

Metered Connection is one of the many new features introduced by Windows 8. This feature is quite helpful in limiting the data usage so that you don’t get shock while billing the data consumed payments. In India, many operators have [...]

Wait Chain Traversal feature in Windows 8 | 7

Wait Chain Traversal is a feature that was introduced in Windows 7. It is a tool that lets you identify the actual process that is resulting in a hung or frozen application. Windows 8 goes a step further and lets [...]

Turn Off Data Execution Prevention (DEP) for Particular Program

Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced DEP, a security feature that can help prevent damage to your computer by monitoring programs from time to time. Monitoring ensures that running program use system memory efficiently. If there is any instance of a [...]

Enable or Disable Data Execution Prevention DEP for Internet Explorer only

If a code loading from the default heap or stack is detected by DEP or Data Execution Prevention, an exception is raised. It happens since the behavior is indicative of malicious code (legitimate code does not generally load in this [...]

Verify the Status of Data Execution Prevention (DEP) settings in Windows 8 | 7

Data Execution Prevention, written in abbreviated form as DEP is a security feature that helps you safeguard your system against viruses and other security threats by monitoring your programs to make sure they use the computer’s memory safely. Users need [...]

Disk Defragmenter in Windows 8 | 7 explained

Starting with Windows Vista, the built-in Windows Disk Defragmenter has been much improved upon, and more so in Windows 8 and Windows 7, and is considered to be much better than its predecessor Windows XP. The defrag engine and the manageability of [...]

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The Windows Club covers Windows 8 | 7 tips, tutorials, how-to's, features, freeware. Created by Anand Khanse, Microsoft MVP.