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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Fast Startup mode makes Windows 8 boot faster

In Windows 8, Microsoft has introduced a way to start your computer. This feature is called as Fast Startup. Currently, in Windows 7, users could either shut down their computers, put it to Sleep or Hibernate. According to usage data it [...]

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Enable or Disable CPU Core Parking in Windows 7

Core Parking is a new feature, that dynamically selects a set of processors that should stay idle and not run any threads based on the current power policy and their recent utilization. This decreases the energy consumption  and therefore reduces [...]

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How to set up and use File History in Windows 8

The practice of creating backups of important file is always considered as a good idea, as you never know when you may need them. However, the activity is ignored by many users. In fact, statistics reveal that less than 5% of [...]

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Notable changes in Windows 8 Release Preview

It has been almost a month since Windows 8 Release Preview was released. Obviously, the current release is considered as being more stable than the previous release i.e. Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Today in this article, we’re going to discuss [...]

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8 Smashing New Features of Windows Phone 8 Platform

Its been almost year and a half since Windows Phone 7 was launched. And now at Windows Phone Summit, Microsoft previewed Windows Phone 8 . It talked about what the future holds for the Windows Phone platform and shared various aspects [...]

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Compress Files, Folder, Drive in Windows to save Disk Space

To save disk space, the Windows operating system allows you to compress files and folders. When you compress a file, using the Windows File Compression function, the data is compressed using an algorithm, and re-written so as to occupy lesser [...]

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More amazing features of the Microsoft Surface Tablet

We have already posted about the launch of the Surface Tablet from Microsoft, seen its images, and the basic specifications of each of the variants. Now we will see some more amazing things about the Surface Tablet ! These have [...]

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Windows Explorer Drag and Drop behavior explained

Have you noticed that sometimes, when you drag and drop files or folders from one location to another, on your Windows computer, they get copied – and sometimes they get moved. Although this has been the default behavior of Windows since [...]