With the upgrade from Windows 8 to 8. We have got for you here a list of 20 useful tips and tricks for Windows 8. Whether you are entirely new to or beginning to get familiar with Windows 8. Windows 8 is the latest offering from Microsoft and has reinvented itself as an operating system for both Read more.
The Start button is back. It is similar to the Start button found on Windows 7. Left-click on the button bottom left of the screen and it will redirect you to the Start Screen. If you right-click on it, it will show options for Run , Search , Desktop , Shut Down, and many more. When you start your computer, by default it will take you to the Start Screen.
There is a way to start your computer and go straight to the Desktop instead. Right-click on the desktop toolbar, select Properties and go to the Navigation tab. Besides resizing icons, you can also customize your home screen tiles on Windows 8. To move and group tiles , just go to your Start Screen and right-click on any of the tiles. After grouping your tiles, you can also name them by filling in the Name Group field.
Windows 8. Just swipe the Settings Charm menu and tap on Settings. Click on Personalize to change the colors of the background as well as the accent. Previously, your Windows lock screen could only be a static photo. On Windows 8. Enable the option On to create a lock screen slideshow. Launch a Windows 8. Toolbox for Windows 8. You get a Facebook client, browser, calculator, weather app, clock and more. And instead of always appearing full-screen, you can run and interact with two, three, four, even six of these tools, all at the same time.
If Windows 8. Install it and you get the standard menu of your installed programs, for instance, along with Search and Run boxes, the Recent Items menu, and Windows 7-type shutdown options. And it can make Windows 8 boot directly to the desktop, too. A menu of installed apps enables you to launch them from the desktop, and you can alternatively switch to the Start screen with a click. While you can still set up desktop apps to load when Windows 8.
Quite the opposite, in fact — Windows 8. Restart and the desktop apps will now launch more quickly. Or for the sake of this example, enter. Right-click the shortcut, select Pin to Start and it should appear on the far right of the Start screen — just drag the tile wherever you like.
If a Windows 8. Maybe next time. This is a very good thing — a report by NSS Labs revealed that IE10 blocks more malware than any other browser — but if you have any problems then it can be tweaked. Here you can keep the warning, but avoid the requirement for administrator approval, or turn SmartScreen off altogether.
Make your choice and click OK to finish. Now Windows 8. Or, for an easy and free way to create VHDX files from physical drives, take a look at the excellent Disk2vhd. And if your Storage Space begins to fill up then just plug in another drive, add it to the pool and you can carry on as before. Yes, we know, this is just a consumer-friendly take on RAID. Install bit Windows 8. Launch OptionalFeatures.
Then switch back to the Start screen, scroll to the right, find and click on the Hyper-V Manager tile to begin exploring its capabilities. But if that sounds like you, Windows 8. Clicking the Start button then displays all your installed applications, rather than app tiles, perhaps making it easier to find whatever program you need. And it does this — but only in the logon screen. Closing a Windows 8. The solution? Get Windows to close the app without you having to travel quite so far.
It works like this. These define how far mouse and touch users will have to drag the app before they can drop and close it. You may also be more likely to close apps accidentally, of course. If this happens, reduce the value of the relevant Registry key a little the minimum value is 1, setting it to 0 prevents that method of closing at all , reboot and try again.
Or delete the keys if you have problems with this and would like to restore the default settings. Launch the Control Panel Power Options applet powercfg. By default Windows 8. But Windows 8. Windows will then limit what individual live tiles can do, while also downloading only priority Windows updates, and applying a few other restrictions. By default the Touch keyboard will try to help you out by, for instance, playing sounds as you type, capitalising the first letter of each sentence, adding a period if you double-tap the spacebar, and more.
One very useful Windows 8. Of course that may not always be a good idea. If several people use a device then you may not want your website passwords to be synced, for instance. This is customisable, too — click the arrow to the right of the default buttons, in the Explorer window caption bar, and choose whatever options you need.
And you can include add any other ribbon option on the Quick Access Toolbar by right-clicking it and selecting Add to Quick Access Toolbar. If you need to run the command prompt as an Administrator then your instant reaction will probably be to reach for the Start menu.
The default Windows 8. This certainly keeps the display simple, and if you want to list all your drives then you can just click Computer, but if you prefer to see everything upfront then it only takes a moment. Need to take a closer look at an ISO file? Right-click it in Explorer, click Mount and you can view it as a virtual drive, launch the files it contains, or add more if you like.
If you find a file type that none of your applications can handle, then right-click on the file in Windows Explorer and choose Open With. If Explorer locks up for some reason, then regaining control is now very easy. Click or tap the drop-down menu by the Apps heading to change how the items are sorted. In Windows 8. Open up the 'Personalise' link from the Settings charm on the Start screen and your current desktop backdrop will be one of the available thumbnails.
Windows 8. You can now shut the system down or log out of your account from here, rather than going through the Settings charm. By default Windows 8. It's not exactly a headline feature, but Windows 8. Right-click on a tile, choose 'Resize' from the menu at the bottom and there are four different options to pick from: Large, Wide, Medium and Small.
Having a static photo as your lock screen picture is so Windows 8. Join the Windows 8.
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