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Category: Windows

  • Difference between Windows Client Hyper-V and Server Hyper-V

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    Windows 8 supports virtualization on the client OS to allow IT professionals and developers to use Hyper-V as a desktop operating system. If you are an IT Professional or developer that uses Windows Server as development operating environments, you should be excited about new client Hyper-V feature in Windows 8 and wonder what are some…

  • Install Hyper-V Manager on Windows 10

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    To remotely manage your Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V server from a windows 7 desktop, you need install RSAT (Remote Server Administrator Tool). This has been simplified in Windows 10. In Windows 10, Hyper-V management tool is built in, Hyper-V manager can be turned on via “Turn Windows features on or off” dialog directly without downloading…

  • Solution for Unresponsive Win8 Guest VMs

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    If you’re going to run Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 in a virtual machine on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, please install this hotfix patch http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2744129 on the Hyper-V host server, Without applying this hotfix, you may experience one or more of the following issues: The Windows 8/Server 2012 virtual machine becomes unresponsive. The Windows…

  • Windows 8 How to stop app tile from changing

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    Tiles are introduced by Microsoft to Windows Phone. Tiles allow user receive latest update on start menu, without the need to open the application. For example, a weather app could show you the latest forecast. Tile is widely used in Windows 8 metro UI applications. For some metro application you don’t want notification show up…

  • Windows 8 Getting Start Experience

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    After the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I was very excited to give it a try on my hyper-v VM. There is a lot of difference between Windows 7 and 8, especially Windows 8 has optimized a lot for tablet users. Lock screen Windows 8 lock screen provides quick view of latest data, time,…

  • How to Reboot or Shutdown in Windows 8

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      It’s pretty hard to figure out how to reboot or shutdown Windows 8 only use mouse/keyboard. After a few hours search in Google, here comes all options I found. All of them work but involved too many steps. It sucks there is no one click shutdown shortcut. Hover the mouse over the lower right…

  • Using Hyper-V in Windows 8

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    In Steven Sinofsky’s this blog – Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8”. He talks about that Windows 8 will support virtualization on the “client” OS.  This is very helpful for developers as they typically have the need to setup additional test environment on their PC/Laptop. Hardware Requirements Hyper-V supports creation of both 32-bit and 64-bit operating…

  • Windows 8 Developer Preview Key

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    To install Windows 8 Developer Preview you do not need a product key for activation. However, you would be asked to enter a product key while re-installing Windows 8 Developer Preview Key. If you need to reinstall Windows Developer Preview or use the Reset functionality, you might be asked to enter this product key: 6RH4V-HNTWC-JQKG8-RFR3R-36498…

  • Windows 8 Shortcut Key Combination

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    Here is a list of new shortcuts specific to Windows 8. You might it useful when you are in Windows 8 new Metro style UI. For me I found WinKey + C and WInKey + I really helps a LOT Hotkeys unchanged from Windows 7 Windows Display or hide the Start menu. Windows-Left Arrow Dock…

  • How to install DotNet 2.0 or 3.5 on Windows 10

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    Updated on 2015/10/4: Update the screenshots to Windows 10, however, applies to Windows 8/8.1/10 Windows 10 includes the 2.0, 3.5 and 4.5 versions of the .NET Framework. However, only 4.5 is available for immediate use after a clean install. The versions 2.0 and 3.5 of the framework are not installed by default. If you open…