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Download Windows 8 Release Preview Product Guide

How Windows 8 will be a boon to Business, has been explained in this new guide released by Microsoft. Titled simply as the Windows 8 Product Guide for Business, this guide how Windows has been reimagined in its 8th avatar [...]

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Windows 8 Release Preview : Installation Methods and Screenshots

Microsoft is providing different ways to download & install Windows 8 Release Preview – all this for the users’ convenience. In this article we will see various installation methods Microsoft is providing to install Windows 8 Release Preview. 1. Installing Windows [...]

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Windows 8 Parental Controls – An Overview

Parental Controls in Windows 8 allow better monitoring of your children’s activities than in the previous versions of Windows, including Windows 7. Unlike Windows 7 where you can place controls on a PC to PC basis, the parental controls can [...]

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Windows Upgrade Offer: Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 8 in $14.99

After observing consumers interest in Windows 8, especially after the release of Windows 8 Release Preview, and to prevent interested users, who may be in the process of buying a new laptop, from waiting for the release of Windows 8, Microsoft [...]

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Show Advanced Boot Options or Menu In Windows 8

A video at MSDN blog shows Windows 8 booting real fast – under seven seconds. The computer used was an Ultrabook, a product of Intel that offers super-fast computing with the latest technologies embedded inside. The problem with Windows 8 [...]

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Windows 8 Release Preview: Download Links and Changes

Microsoft has released the Windows 8 Release Preview and looks very close to the finished product, Windows 8. The new test version appears to be the final stage of development of Windows 8 before being rolled out for tablet and [...]

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Windows Reader: Windows 8 Built-in PDF File Viewer Features

Earlier, Windows never shipped with a built-in PDF viewer. It shipped an XPS Viewer in Windows 7. But starting with Windows 8, Microsoft has decided to include a PDF reader called as Windows Reader.  Windows Reader is Microsoft’s first and very own built-in [...]

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Freeware to add Start Button & Menu to Windows 8

Windows 8 introduces the Start Screen instead of the traditional Start Menu, which most Windows users have been used too, for years and years! While most have liked the Start Screen, there are some who have not. We will discuss [...]

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How to Edit the Text of Items in Windows 8 Charms Bar

It’s always fun tweaking our system modifying Windows dll’s editing texts, etc. People even took editing the start button text in Windows 7 as a challenge – untill we released the Start Button ToolTip Text Changer. In this article I’ll [...]

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How to Enable or Disable Proximity Feature in Windows 8

Windows 8 introduces a new experience called as Proximity. The Proximity Service enables applications on your Windows 8 PC to exchange information with another PC when you bring your PC and the target device very close to each other. Windows [...]

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New Shortcuts, Shell Commands and CLSID in Windows 8

Windows has a set of certain folders which are identified by unique strings referred to as CLSID or Windows Class Identifiers. These folders can be accessed by using the CLSID identifier codes that Windows assigns to each individual folder in [...]