Tag: Windows 8
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Windows 8.1 Skip Microsoft Account in Setup
In Windows 8.1 you can login with Microsoft Account ( previously Windows Live ID). It give you the benefits to sync your contacts, calendar, hotmail settings, and roam your personalization settings like your Lock screen picture or desktop background across multiple devices. When you setup a new Windows 8.1, by default you are asked for…
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Windows 8 – I can’t find the Internet Explorer on the new Start Screen. How do I get it back?
Internet Explorer 10 might have accidentally become unpinned. To pin it back to your Start screen, follow these steps: Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search. (If you’re using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, and then click Search.) Enter Internet Explorer, and then tap…
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How to Search in Windows Store
You might notice that there is not search box in Windows Store and find it’s difficult to see a way to search app in store. Here are steps: WinKey + C to open the charms bar Click or tap “Search” Enter what you want to search for Update: actually step #2 & 3 is not…
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Windows 8 IE 10 Launch Options
In Windows 8 You can configure IE10 to always open in the default Metro style or in Internet Explorer for the Desktop, as you prefer. To configure the way links display in IE10 when you open them: If you are using a Metro version of IE, when viewing a site in IE10, click Page Tools…
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Deploy Windows 8 to a virtual hard disk
Windows 7 introduced Native VHD boot which allows user to install Windows 7/Windows server 2008 R2 on a physical box to a virtual hard disk (VHD). You can do same process in Windows 8 Boot from the Windows 8 media (USB, CD, etc.). At the Install screen, press Shift+F10 to open a command prompt. Start…
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Difference between Windows Client Hyper-V and Server Hyper-V
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…
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Install Hyper-V Manager on Windows 10
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…
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Windows 8 How to stop app tile from changing
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…
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How to Reboot or Shutdown in Windows 8
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…
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How to tell if your CPU Supports SLAT
SLAT-enabled processor is the requirement of Hyper-V RemoteFX feature which is introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2. It’s the requirement of Windows 8 client Hpyer-V feature as well. For INTEL CPU models, following CPU models are SLAT-Capable Server: E5500 or higher. Desktop/Laptops: I3/I5/I7/I7-qm There is a handy tool named CoreInfo from systeminternals that can check…