External hard drive not available? If you are faced with a situation in which your external hard drive becomes unavailable, this guide will help you to check it for errors / format from the command line (CMD). How to perform disk check, the CMD : Using the menu WinX in Windows 8 (8.1), open a […]
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The start screen in Windows 8 may have appear bright and stylish but it’s missing the ability to easily add your own choice of file or folder. Likewise the taskbar. Obviously you want your favourites files and folders a mouse click or screen flick away. Thanks to Pin to 8 you can do just that, […]
Windows 8 Picture Passwords Easily Cracked? Windows 8 and Windows RT come with a feature called Picture Passwords. Users can choose any picture, and then “annotate” it with three finger movements: tapping a point, drawing a stroke, or sweeping a circle. This pattern becomes a users’ means to open or unlock a device as an […]
While installing a theme pack (.deskthemepack or .themepack) is a straight-forward job in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, installing a third-party visual style (popularly known as theme) isn’t as easy as it sounds. For those who don’t know, a theme pack only changes the desktop background, window and taskbar colour, while a visual […]
QUESTION In Windows 7, the Start Bar shows the most recently used programs and there are shortcuts to the most recent used documents. I can’t find anything in Windows 8 similar to this. Is there anything which will allow me to see most recent documents that have been viewed? ANSWER Windows 8 doesn’t have the […]
The Start Menu as we knew it may never be coming back to Windows, Microsoft is returning some aspects of the traditional Start Menu in Windows 8.1. Hidden away in Taskbar and Navigation properties are new settings that will allow users to customize the full-screen Start Screen. Users will now be able to enable a […]
Twig’s Tech Tips: Windows 8: Restore Start Menu, skip straight to desktop after login and disable Metro. Taming new Windows 8! Restore Start Menu, skip straight to desktop after login and disable Metro 🙂
