August 23rd, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
In Windows 8, the name for a lot of features in Windows 7 has changed. For example, Windows Anytime Upgrade is now called Add Features to Windows 8. Disk Defragmenter has now been changed to Optimize Drives. Not really sure why the name changes were necessary, but if you’re looking for something in Windows 8 [...]
August 22nd, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
If you haven’t heard already, Windows 8 has one huge chunk of software missing that used to be included by default: Windows Media Center. Due to media decoding licensing costs that OEMs have to pay for DVD playback capabilities, Microsoft has removed Windows Media Center from Windows 8 completely. There are two ways to get [...]
August 21st, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Windows 8 removed the Start Menu and now if you want to see all the apps that you have installed on your system, you have to go to the Start Screen, right-click and then click on All apps. I personally find this very annoying since previously I could just click on Start and All Programs! [...]
August 18th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Previously, I had written about 12 keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8 on Online Tech Tips and today I’m here to write about a few more! With the new Metro UI in Windows 8, keyboard shortcuts make a lot more sense to use now. Previously, I had never used keyboard shortcuts with any prior version of [...]
August 17th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
If you recently upgraded Windows 8 Release Preview or Windows 8 Consumer Preview to Windows 8 RTM, you may have run into a couple of strange problems like missing apps and tiles. Some users have reported that the Desktop tile was missing from their Start Screen and a bunch of other preinstalled apps like Windows [...]
August 16th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Even though Disk Cleanup is not a very often used tool in Windows, it still does come in handy and I have found that it does a good job of getting rid of some stuff that other cleaners can’t. In Windows 8, you can open Disk Cleanup in a number of ways. In this post, [...]
August 15th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Just like previous versions of Windows, Windows 8 also rates your system on a scale from 1.0 to 9.9. Note that the scale has changed from Windows 7. Before it used to be from 1 to 7.9. The score is broken down into several categories including Processor, Memory, Graphics, Gaming graphics, and Primary hard disk. [...]
August 11th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
In Windows 8, when you type in your login credentials, you will be presented with the new Metro interface Start Screen as shown below. In order to get to the desktop in Windows 8, you have to click on the Desktop tile. This is really not a big deal for me, but a lot of [...]
August 10th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
I’ve got several machines running Windows 8 at home and there are times when I would like to quickly remote into one of my Windows 8 machines so I can change some settings or install something, etc. In Windows 8, you can enable remote desktop and connect to your machine from Windows 7, Vista, and [...]
August 3rd, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
I’ve been using Windows 8 for a few months now and one thing that I have done is purchased a few cool looking Metro apps from the Windows Store. If you have ever purchased an app on an Apple device, you are probably familiar with the fact that you can then download that same app [...]