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[Windows 8] How to add Google Calendar to Windows 8 Calendar app [2nd Edition]
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In the original version of this article (shown below), I showed you how to add Google Calendar to Windows 8 Calendar app. However, since Jan 30, 2013, Google has dropped support for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) connections, which helps you sync email, calendar, and contacts across multiple devices. Therefore, since that [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to stop Windows Update from auto-restarting your computer or tablet
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When working with Windows, you may be distracted with many dialogs and notifications. One of these notifications is Windows Update dialog that asks users to restart in order to finish updating. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t designed to repeat after a period of time then finally restart [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to customize the clock on Lock screen
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With the goal of being a hybrid desktop-mobile operating system, Windows 8 contains many elements that are in smartphones. Windows 8’s Lock screen is one of them. You may already know how to customize the Lock screen with your own background and know to manage notifications in the Lock screen. [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to disable or change default signature in Mail app
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Have you ever received an email that was sent from the Mail app in Windows 8? Did you notice that it has the signature “Sent from Windows Mail”? Following email clients on smartphone systems, Windows 8 sets the sentence “Sent from…” as the default signature for all emails sent from [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to scan a file for virus or malware from context menu
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Viruses, malware, spyware, and all kinds of scumware always worry Windows users. Fortunately, Windows 8 comes with built-in Windows Defender, which is know as Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) on other versions of Windows, that can keep you safe without installing any third-party security software. However, there is a big issue [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to start, stop, and setup Automatic Maintenance, a feature that automatically scans for viruses, spyware, updates, and more
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Not only does it come with many new features, but Windows 8 also improves on features from previous versions of Windows. One of them is Maintenance – the feature that automatically diagnoses your system. It can scan for viruses, spyware, update the system, and other works to keep your Windows [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to disable startup sound on your Windows 8 computer or tablet
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Everyday, I spend hours in my college’s library to do my homework and I am always disturbed by the startup sound from people’s computers. By default, when you start your computer, it will make a sound to get your attention. However, in the classroom or the meeting, it’s not a [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to block access to your location by websites in Internet Explorer 10 and other Windows Store apps
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Nowadays on the Internet, privacy is the most sensitive thing to everyone. However, websites want every piece of your information for their purposes (usually for advertising goals); even it’s your location. Yes, your location! Most of current popular web browsers have the ability to track your location. However, the websites [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to install classic start menu on Windows RT tablets, including Surface RT
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Now that you have jailbroken your Windows RT tablet, you probably want to know what you can do. One thing you can do is get back the classic start menu. In this article, I will show you how to install the classic start menu for Windows RT. Take note you [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to jailbreak Windows RT tablets to install desktop apps
“Can I run desktop apps on Windows RT devices (such as Microsoft Surface RT)?” That is the main question most users are confused by when it comes to Windows RT. And officially, the answer is “No.” That means Windows Store is the only source of apps for Windows RT tablets. [...]
[Windows 8] How to view how much hard space each installed Windows Store app uses
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Pre Windows 8, you can manage installed programs from Control Panel (Add/Remove Programs). From here, you can also view how much hard drive space a specific program uses. In Windows 8, this still works… but it only works for non-Windows Store programs. That means you cannot see how large your [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to reinstall Windows Store apps that you uninstalled
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As you probably already know, there are two types of apps in Windows 8 – desktop apps (traditional software) and Windows Store apps. To help users become accustomed with Windows Store apps, Windows 8 PCs and tablets come with dozens of preinstalled apps. For example, you may notice many Bing [...]
Read More »[Windows] Can’t boot into Windows? Recover and backup your data using bootable Windows system repair disk or USB drive [Tip]
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A nightmare for Windows users is being unable to boot into Windows. In this situation, unless you know how to boot into Windows or some other trick, your data is likely lost forever. In this article I will show you a trick on how to use a Windows recovery bootable [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to show full path or URL of a location or folder in Windows Explorer’s title bar
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In previous versions of Windows, the title bar of Windows Explorer shows the full path of the location you are in. However, Windows 8 removes this small-but-useful feature to make the title bar look cleaner. For example, when I am in the direction “C:\Windows”, Windows 7 Explorer’s title bar shows [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to automatically login on startup at the Login Screen
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As you already known, once your Windows 8 account has a password, you have to enter that password every time you awake the computer or tablet from sleep mode or you turn it on. If you find having to manually login every time annoying, in this article I will show [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to add a Control Panel shortcut or tile to the Start screen
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By creating the Start screen, Microsoft wants it to become the place where you to go start everything. However, this is kind of hard with Control Panel because it has no tile on the Start screen. As you already known, there are other ways to open Control Panel in Windows [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to change how long notifications stay on screen
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Windows 8 is the first version of Windows that has an effective notification system. When you finish installing an app or a new message has just arrived, you are shown notifications on screen — sort of like Android and iOS. For some people, the default amount of time notifications show [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to install Windows Store apps in custom folder (and how to move already installed apps to custom folder)
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In Windows 8, there are two types of applications – desktop apps and Windows Store apps (aka Metro/Modern UI apps). As you already know from previous versions of Windows, programs are installed in “C:\Program Files”. Windows Store apps, however, are stored in a subfolder — in “C:\Program Files\WindowsApps”. If you [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to always show all users on the login screen
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Like many older versions of Windows, Windows 8 definitely supports multi-account. However, a small change that annoys some users is it automatically shows only the last signed out user on the login screen instead of displaying all users of the system. At the login screen you can click/tap the small [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to prevent uninstallation of apps from Start screen
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Start screen is a big new thing in Windows 8 from which you can launch all of your installed programs. When you install an app (desktop app or Windows Store app) its tiles will be placed in the Start screen. It becomes a main place to do anything you want. [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] What is ‘Flip ahead’ and how to use it to go to next page in Internet Explorer 10
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As you already know, Windows 8 provides two version of Internet Explorer (IE) 10 in order to satisfy traditional and touch-screen users. So that, IE 10 in Modern UI has some features, which lacks from IE desktop version, to help users easier navigate and view webpage on their mobile device. [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to quickly open File Explorer, Run, CMD, Control Panel, and more — use ‘Administrative Menu’
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The most annoyed change in Windows 8 for desktop users is the lack of Start menu. From Windows 95, Start menu became a place to start every work you want to do in Windows. Despite replacing Start menu with Start screen, which contains live tiles of apps, Windows 8 provides [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to go back to Windows 8 Pro after installing Media Center
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In an earlier article, I showed you how to get Windows Media Center for free in Windows 8. Additionally, I explained the issue that it changed my product key from Windows 8 Pro to Windows 8 Pro with Media Center. Despite removing Windows Media Center, the product key didn’t come [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to mount or unmount ISO files and how to burn ISO files
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ISO file is the archive file type like ZIP file, but it is used for optical disc. For example, when you download a Windows installation file from Microsoft website, you will receive an ISO file which can be “burned” to a DVD. Windows 7 is the first version of Windows [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to sync apps across devices and how to turn off Windows Store
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Being a system app store, Windows Store provides users many flexible way to get their apps. Additionally, the most powerful function of Windows Store is that a user can share installed apps across their Windows 8 devices. That means you just need to purchase an app one time then you [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to turn off localization in Windows Store
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Windows Store app is the big new thing in Windows’ history. For the first time, Windows has programs that are optimized for touch-screen device. Works like other mobile app stores, Windows Store has many options to help developers get highest profit as they can. One of them is the ability [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to share Internet connection with your phone, tablet, other computers, and other devices (aka how to setup hosted network)
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Despite having tons of new things, Windows 8 also eliminates many traditional features such as Start menu. One more thing that Windows 8 lacks the ability to create Ad-hoc networks. Ad-hoc network is a very powerful Windows feature for sharing your Internet connection with other devices (phone, tablet, other computers, [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to change the folder where screenshots are saved
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Windows 8 not only brings many new features, but it also level-up some great features from Windows 7. One of them is the ability to take screenshot. In Windows 7, you can use the new Snipping Tool to take and edit screenshot. And this tool still there in Windows 8, [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to turn off Windows Defender and/or Windows Firewall
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Security is always the most concerned thing on Windows. In Windows 8, you may heard that it is protected by Windows Defender (aka Microsoft Security Essentials), Windows Firewall, and many other things. Sometimes, however, users may not want to use Windows Defender and/or Windows Firewall, such as if a third-party [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How recover or restore files — by setting up and using File History
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Have you ever heard about Time Machine in Mac OS X? It’s a powerful feature that stores the copies of a file to help you easily restore that file to different times. For Windows 7 users, there is a similar feature called “Shadow copy,” but it doesn’t help much. Fortunately, [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to delete search history, live tile information, and app history
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If you are familiar with Windows 7, you may know about how to clean up your system. In Windows 8, with the appearance of Modern UI, users need to know how to delete the cache of search results and app tiles in order to keep the system fast and smooth, [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to set up and use multiple screens
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Since Windows XP, multiple screens support has improved so much. I still remember the first time I set up a projector in Windows XP for my teacher- it seemed to be a hardest work for me. However, each versions after XP, the way to set up multiple displays got easier [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to print in a Windows Store (aka Modern UI) app
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Although I don’t use a Windows 8 touch-screen device, I really like to use some Modern UI apps — which are optimized for touch users — for my daily work. One of them is the Reader app, which helps me to view PDF documents with basic functions. Additionally, it is [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to add (or remove) rows of icons on Start screen
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Start screen in Windows 8 is not only the brand new thing to focus on touch users, but it also confuses tradition users who use Windows with mouse and keyboard. However, it is the place that provides tons of information from everywhere by everyone at every time by using Live [...]
Read More »[Windows 8] How to resize window border
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Windows 8 provides two environments which are totally different in the purpose – one is optimize for touch user with fingers and another is for using with mouse and keyboard. But sometimes, a tablet user may also want to use Desktop environment to do something such as file browsing and [...]
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