For those of you who don’t know, Microsoft announced a while back that the Windows Media Center will no longer be included for free in the standard version of Windows 8. Instead users will have to purchase and upgrade to Windows 8 Professional to get the feature.
The Media Center is used by many people as a way of using their PC to watch and record TV, as well as to share music and pictures around their home. However if you’re running the release preview of Windows 8 there is still a way to get it back.
Getting Back the Windows Media ...
The new StartUp menu in Windows 8, also known as the boot menu, has been dramatically improved graphically. Microsoft have continued using the Metro UI in the StartUp menu and added in tiles and a similar layout to what you see in Windows 8.
The StartUp menu is quite a powerful tool for troubleshooting and booting up your Windows 8 PC. In this post we’re going to have a look at the various different options available to us.
Entering The StartUp Menu
To enter the StartUp menu, you ...
Two of the new features that can be found in Windows 8 are “Refresh” and “Reset”. These are two great new features which will quickly and easily allow you to get your Windows 8 PC running like new in no time if you start having issues with it. In the past if you wanted to reset your computer to it’s factory settings you would have to manually perform a complete clean install which was too difficult for the average user. What’s more you also lost all ...
Windows 8 has a great new feature called "File History". Once you’ve enabled File History, Windows 8 will automatically back up files and folders that you specify at a scheduled interval. This way if you ever accidentally delete your files or your computer crashes and you lose these important files, you’ll be able to quickly and easily recover them.
File History backs up your data automatically to an external drive or a network location and you can specify how often it backs up and how many copies of your files ...
Searching in Windows has improved dramatically since Windows XP. Windows Vista first saw the search bar integrated into the start menu, and while it worked, it didn’t work half as well as the search bar in Windows 7 works. However, there is always room for improvement and Microsoft have done just that in Windows 8.
The new Smart Search feature allows you to not only search for files and programs on your PC, but now it also allows you to search ...
The newcomers to Windows 8 are noticing some subtle changes and other not so subtle ones. The Charms Bar is one of the not so subtle changes. Charms Bar is the cool clock in the bottom left corner of the screen and the vertical bar along the right side of the screen. By pointing your mouse to the top or bottom right corner of your screen, you can make it appear.
The purpose of the Charms Bar is to ...
One of the new features in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is the ability to set up a picture password. These are new innovative passwords from Microsoft which make logging in a breeze.
Instead of having to remember long complicated passwords or pins, all you have to do is draw a picture which is much easier for the majority of people to remember. You simply pick a picture and you can ...
Windows 8 is without doubt predominantly built around a touch interface thanks to the new Metro UI which now doubles up as the start menu. Microsoft have added in a few new clever shortcuts and gesture controls to help you navigate the OS, but these controls seem to be more suited for touch input more so. However after playing around with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview I’ve become a lot more accustomed to using these controls with my mouse.
In this post I’ll show ...
Microsoft have worked hard on Windows 8 to bring it from its “Developer Preview” stage up to a much more refined “Consumer Preview”. There’s a whole host of new features in the Windows 8 consumer preview that really sets it apart from the developer preview.
Of course this being a consumer preview you probably all want to install it and take ...
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