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SOLVED: How to Shut Down or Restart Windows From a Shortcut and What is Hybrid Shutdown in Windows 8

UPDATE: Oct 20, 2012: Turn the Windows 8 Start Button back on which includes the power options: urtech.ca/2012/10/solved-solved-solved-oh-joy-solved-how-to-add-the-start-button-into-windows-8 ORIGINAL POST BELOW: _________________ Like older versions of Windows, Windows 8 has a built in SHUTDOWN executable, which means you can easily create your own icons and add them to your Quick Launch Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsSeptember 2, 2012 ago

SOLVED: XBOX 360 Can’t Connect To Windows 8

Well this was a tricky one. I installed Windows 8 Enterprise and found that my Xbox 360 VIDEO APP would not connect to my Win8 PC… or should I say any of my Win8 PC’s. Very frustrating considering they are all tied together by a Home Group and the Xbox Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsSeptember 1, 2012 ago

SOLVED: How to use Aero Peek and Aero Flip 3D in Windows 8

You can’t! Most Aero features have been removed from Windows 8 and that (sadly) includes Flip 3D. There was talk of this feature being tied to the Windows theme you were using, but I have tried several that used to include Aero Glass frames and none work (even though it did work Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsSeptember 1, 2012 ago

SOLVED: Windows Can’t Be Activated Right Now 0x8007232b – Windows 8

The solution is to: click START (gets you to the tiles) type RUN type slui 3 and press ENTER yes, SLUI: which stands for SOFTWARE LICENSING USER INTERFACE SLUI 1 brings up the activation status window SLUI 2 brings up the activation window SLUI 3 brings up the CHANGE PRODUCT KEY window SLUI Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsAugust 25, 2012 ago

SOLVED: How to Shutdown or Restart a Windows 8 PC from a Remote Desktop (RDP) Session

In Windows 7 and Vista you could do this by clicking START, WINDOWS SECURITY and then RESTART. Apparently WINDOWS SECURITY link has been removed from Win8 sooo I can think of just two ways to easily reboot a Win8 machine from an RDP session: on the tile page type RUN (select Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsAugust 23, 2012 ago

SOLVED: Windows Performance Tweaking Myths, AND How To Actually Make Your Windows PC Run Faster

I was going to write an article on all the crazy Windows performance improvement myths and then I found a great article which I have taken snippets from below (and provide a link to the full article below). The bottom line is this, Microsoft has a lot of massively intelligent Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsAugust 16, 2012 ago

SOLVED: How To Remove A Saved Password In Windows

Have you ever saved (cached) a password in your browser or in some other Windows application and then had the password change but not know how to edit your saved version? Well, if so, this will help. Windows stores passwords in the CREDENTIALS MANAGER which you can get to via Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 years ago

SOLVED: Can Businesses Apply For the Windows 8 Upgrade?

No. The $15 upgrade offer https://windowsupgradeoffer.com is available only for individuals.

By Ian Matthews, 12 years ago

Windows 8 Released to Manufacturing, Server 2012 RTM & The Windows Store is Open!

Windows 8 RTM’d on August 1st 2012 and will be made available to developers and techs on August 15th. “General Availability” meaning retail packaging and OEM hardware sales will commense on October 26th. The President of the Microsoft’s Windows group said: While we have reached our RTM milestone, no software Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsAugust 6, 2012 ago

SOLVED: Does Windows 8 Have a God Mode, Like Windows 7

Yes, you can get Windows 8 to display all Control Panel and Admin Tool apps in a single folder by: Right click on the desktop and select New, Folder Highlight this folder and press F2. Call the folder: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and press enter. Double-click the icon to view all the shortcuts

By Ian Matthews, 12 years ago

SOLVED: What is the Fastest Browser… In Real World Use

We see benchmarks and anecdotal evidence of so called “browser speed” all the time, but what really counts is real live production data. How fast does each browser take to load real web pages? Tonight I was playing around with my GoogleAnalytics and checking a dozen or so sites I Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsJune 22, 2012 ago

SOLVED: Windows 8 Release Preview Has No Antivirus!

Um, yes it does! Win8 Defender now includes Security Essentials. Here is the official word direct from Microsoft “Windows 8 Release Preview comes with Windows Defender, which has been improved in Windows 8 to provide the same level of malware protection as Microsoft Security Essentials. You do not need to Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsMay 31, 2012 ago

SOLVED: Where is Windows Media Center in Windows 8 and Why Don’t DVD’s Play?

Media Center is an awesome app the Microsoft is stripping from the default install of Windows 8. Windows Media Center is not preinstalled in Windows 8 Release Preview. If you want to use Windows Media Center, you need to add it by following these steps: Swipe in from the right Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsMay 31, 2012 ago

Windows 8 Release Candidate Available Now, Windows 2012 Server Too!

You can download the latest build of Microsoft Windows 8 from windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download . Keep in mind that you can download a SETUP or an .ISO. Personally, I would only work with the .ISO on a fresh harddrive (or fresh partition 🙂 ) The CD key for this is TK8TP-9JN6P-7X7WW-RFFTV-B7QPF And if Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsMay 31, 2012 ago

VIDEO: Hyper-V v3 in Windows Server 8/2012

This video covers many important features of HyperV version 3 which will be included in Windows Server 2012 as well as Windows 8 desktop, such as: the new VHD format is VHDx and supports upto 16TB multiple VHDx’s can be “pooled” into one virtual disk, up to 64TB in size Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsMay 14, 2012 ago

SOLVED: How to Extract the Audio from a Video… For Free

A friend recently needed to send the audio of his child singing a song to an audition service but all he had was a 200MB video; what to do? In this case, we pushed the 200MB up to my YouTube site and also stripped the audio to a stand alone Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 12 yearsMay 2, 2012 ago

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