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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
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
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
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
Microsoft Announced the following features will be included in Windows 8 Enterprise. Win8 Ent, will include everything in Windows 8 Professional plus: Windows To Go is a fully manageable corporate Windows 8 desktop on a bootable external USB stick. This will allow IT organizations to support the “Bring Your Own Read more
Microsofts Steven Sinofsky announced that Windows 8 RC1 will be released in the first week of June 2012. This means it will almost certainly make a September Release to Manufacturing (RTM).
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: _________________ In many posts I and seemingly thousands of others have complained that the lack of a START button in Windows 8 will kill its corporate sales. Apparently Read more
After Google Chrome and a number of viruses were removed from a Windows 7 64Bit PC, Internet Explorer 32 Bit could not surf the internet, but Internet Explorer 64bit had no problems. This was very odd. I later determined that all 32 bit apps, including Malware Bytes could not connect Read more
It appears that Microsoft has depricated Gadgets in favour of Tiled Apps in Windows 8, so know you have four choices: Use the half dozen Gadgets built into Windows 7 andVista Use the 35 or so more Windows Gadgets found on http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize/gadgets?SignedIn=1 Search (Bing, Google…) for specific Gadgets and download Read more
If you have a PC in which you can not open .EXE files do this: On a different PC open notepad and copy the contents below to a file called (well, anything you like, but I like) EXE-FIX.REG Double click on the file and select YES when prompted Reboot when Read more
Windows To Go is a Microsoft Windows 8 feature that allows you to install a fully functional version of Windows 8 on a thumbdrive/ usb stick. However, you CAN’T install it… not yet anyway. It is NOT included in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Interesting facts about ToGo: To protect Read more
If you want to rule out YOUR mail server and /or mail client as a problem, you can easily send a short message to a server using the following command line: telnet mail.arrrrs.com 25 note: change the mail server to the server you want to CONNECT to. ehlo mail from:[email protected] Read more
It appears that Microsoft is planning 9 potential versions: Windows 8 Starter; Windows 8 Home Basic; Windows 8 Home Premium; Windows 8 Professional; Windows 8 Professional Plus; Windows 8 Enterprise; Windows 8 Enterprise Eval; Windows 8 Ultimate; and Windows 8 ARM. That is two more versions than what was in Windows 7. Read more
I am a Windows guy and like (apparently) everyone else I am very impressed with the slick and smooth new Windows 8 tiled interface but I sure am disappointed in many other facits: No Start Button = No Corporate Sales. I am an authorized reseller and I Read more
I am downloading Windows 8 Consumer Preview right now and will be installing it much later today so I was looking for details on options and features. What I found were two items: If you have a TechNet subscription you can get the “Windows 8 Consumer Preview WITH APPS” version. Read more
If you want to use Group Policy to configure the 10 UAC related group polices so a Windows 7 client will be set to the third level on the slider bar: “Default – Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer. Don’t notify me when I make changes to Read more