November 16th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
In Windows 8, you actually have three main options for recovering the operating system: refresh, reinstall and restore. While all of these options can be used to recover Windows, they all operate a bit differently. Each of the following Windows 8 recover methods performs a specific type of operating system reset: Refresh Reinstall Restore By [...]
November 12th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Windows 8 offers a new feature called Storage Spaces that gives you more drive setup options than before. If you utilize external drives, multiple internal drives or even network storage, you can use the Storage Spaces feature to not only manage the drives, but also customize the setup of the drives. Here are a few [...]
November 1st, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
If you’re one of the many people who installed Windows 8 RTM, you had to wait until October 26th before you could install Windows Media Center on your machine. I immediately tried to add the feature to Windows 8 and got the message that the product key I was using would not work. This key [...]
October 24th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
With Windows 8, .NET Framework 4.5 comes installed by default. Since .NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade of 4.0, you can automatically run any applications that are geared towards .NET Framework 4.5 or 4.0. That’s fine, but what if you need to run programs that require older versions of .NET Framework? What’s the lowest version [...]
October 17th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Windows 8’s touch friendly metro interface is a feature that has been heavily criticized for desktop and traditional PC use and applauded for tablet use. Microsoft is of course a tech leader, so could a simple, futuristic OS like Windows 8 help push PC innovation forward? When you create a hybrid, tablet/desktop OS like Windows [...]
October 16th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
I’ve written a lot about Windows 8 and some of it’s advanced features, but I haven’t yet gone through a detailed explanation of the new Start Screen in Windows 8. It’s obviously a very different experience than the traditional Start Menu, but I’ve gotten the hang of it now. In this article, I wanted to [...]
October 9th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
In previous versions of Windows, you probably remember the good ol paging file. It’s used to when physical memory becomes overcommitted and it hold objects that usually have not been accessed in a long time. That is pagefile.sys. Next, we had the hibernate option in Windows that let you save the kernel and all applications [...]
October 8th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Over the past few months, we’ve covered a significant amount of tips and hints regarding Microsoft’s upcoming operating system, Windows 8. However, we’ve yet to mention any tips regarding whether or not we would recommend Windows 8 to our site visitors and subscribers. The fact is, many people will be updating their operating systems to [...]
September 29th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
The charms bar is a nice little feature in Windows 8 that lets you quickly access settings and perform searches while in a Windows Store Metro app, but it has also proven to be a little annoying. For example, whenever my mouse happens to touch the top right corner o bottom left corner of the [...]
September 28th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Taking screenshots has always been fun in Windows, especially with Windows Vista and 7, which included the new Snipping Tool. Basically, since Vista, there have been two ways to take screenshots in Windows without third-party software: using keyboard shortcuts or using the Snipping Tool. Before Windows 8, it was very complicated to take screenshots of [...]