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Create a Custom System Image for use in Windows 8 Refresh Your PC feature

Windows 8 comes with two new options to restore your PC to its original state, the Basic Refresh and the Complete Reset feature. The Refresh your PC gives you an easy option to restart afresh, while retaining all of your [...]

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How to Share Files in Windows 8 while on a Homegroup Network

Windows 8 has simplified file sharing, and allow users to easily share files and folders with other users on public network as well as Homegroup. While the method remains the same as what it was in Windows 7, navigating to [...]

People App in Windows 8 – Share, Access Contacts, Address Book, Status Updates

Managing contacts has always been a tough task, owing to the increase in the number of devices used to store and access them – and the increase in the number of online friends. You do not get an easy single [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

How to Create a System Recovery Drive in Windows 8

It is always advisable to create a recovery media when you are trying to install a new operating system or upgrading the existing one. Because, in the event of a system failure, you can always boot the computer with the recovery drive [...]

How to change Windows 8 Default Programs

The Windows operating system allocates a program by default for opening certain file types, but you can easily change and open them in the program of your choice. For example, pictures in Windows 8 open with a new photos app – but you [...]

Create New, Resize, Extend Partition using Disk Management Tool in Windows 8

For any partition management work there are many free third-party tools available, but Windows includes a pretty good Disk Management Tool which should suffice you for most of your disk management work like partitioning, formatting, merging, etc. Similar to Windows 7, [...]

How to Configure Windows 8 Power Plan Settings & Options

Windows describes ‘Power Plan’ as a collection of hardware and system settings that manage how your computer uses power. The plan, to a great extent, helps your system save energy, maximize its performance, or balance the two. Windows users know [...]

How to use Read Mode feature in Word 2013

The changes in appearance and layout will be immediately visible to anyone who sees the new version of the Word. The new word processing program Word 2013 looks much better than the older version. Since this is not the final version of [...]

How to create Storage Spaces in Windows 8

Windows Home Server Drive Extender technology has now been discontinued, but its concept has been preserved and improved upon in the new Windows 8 feature called Storage Spaces. With Storage Spaces, physical disks can be grouped together into Pools, and [...]

The Improved Disk Defragmentor and Storage Optimizer in Windows 8

In Windows 8, the humble defragmentation tool has evolved to carry on other roles, apart from its disk defragmentation role. While in Windows 7 and Windows Vista, the disk defragmentation tool did improve, it still continued to only defragment the [...]

Download Media Feature Pack for Windows 8 N and KN versions

The Windows 8 N and KN editions do not include Windows Media Player and other Windows Media-related technologies, such as Windows Media Center, Windows DVD Maker, etc. Windows 8 Media Feature Pack Therefore to carry out any of the functions [...]

Configure Multi Core Settings In Windows 8

Windows 7 already provides an option to configure its cores using System Configuration Utility (msconfig). This gives us solid proof that it is multi-core supported. But talking about the new OS i.e. Windows 8, we are not able to configure [...]

Complete list of what’s new in Movie Maker 2012 and Photo Gallery 2012

Recently Microsoft released new versions of Windows Movie Maker and Photo Gallery for Windows 7 and Windows 8. We had earlier seen some of the features included in the new version. In this post we will check all the new [...]

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Tips To Customize Microsoft Outlook 2010

Today I will give you some tips on how to customize Microsoft Outlook. Different people have different needs and they can customize Microsoft Outlook 2010 accordingly. There are plenty of options available with Microsoft Outlook 2010 under File menu that [...]

What is Folder Merge Conflict in Windows 8

Windows 8 introduces a new feature, which was not available in Windows 7 or earlier. This feature gives you an option, whereby you can prevent or allow the “This destination already contains a folder named” warning dialog box from appearing, [...]

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