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Windows 8 indeed starts faster and so shuts down with great speed too. This is because of the hybrid start and shutdown procedure that Microsoft had added in Win 8 which makes the boot time and shutdown time remarkably lower in comparison to previous version of windows. This may be the reason why hibernate option
What’s new in Windows 8? If you go through several of windows 8 topics on our blog, you’ll find a lot of new stuff which is unique to windows 8 and not available in previous version of windows i.e. 7. Task Manager in Windows 8 has also changed greatly from its previous version in Win
With every pc manufacturer trying to encroach every other form factor with aim to dominating the prospective breed of hybrid computers niche that windows 8 has given birth to. In fact, I sometimes conclude that Windows 8 is the OS that has propelled or created the previously-hyped ultrabook market and provided it the strength it
If anything has improved in Windows 8, it is no doubt, its appearance, although not in a majorly way, yet neatly attractive and appealing, especially the metro UI, the start screen. As we’ve started using more of Windows 8, we’re doing our due course of getting maximum out of it while personalizing to the the
Ever pressed win key + x together on Windows 8? If not, hold windows key on your keyboard and press x, you’ll see a little context popup menu at the bottom left corner of the screen with advanced system settings and configuration related quickly accessible shortcuts like Device Manager, Disk Management, Command Prompt(Admin), Computer Management,
Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 Pro has two modes, one for the desktop, other one for the metro. The desktop version works the same way as it used to work on previous version of windows, albeit with improvements. The metro app version of IE 10 features neat, minimal design with simplistic controls and full
The start screen in windows 8 contains metro tiles which are being updated in real time, so this makes every metro app shortcut a live widget in itself, so that you need not launch to program to know what’s inside. In this tutorial, we’ll see how to interact with these tiles i.e. customize windows 8
Since windows 7, we’re getting snipping tool, a tiny utility by Microsoft installed by default, to capture screenshots of selected visible region or the entire visible region or a particular window or full screen. We could also use print screen key (marked as PrntScr on keyboard) to take screenshots of full screen, and the captured
In Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10 is there and surprisingly, for the first time, Internet Explorer browser not only looks appealing, but is also as fast as other competing browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. IE 10 is with two modes i.e. Metro mode as well as desktop mode in Win 8.The metro mode
Look-wise windows 8 modern/metro UI looks neat and very appealing, but things are a little obscure in Windows 8. Various settings and customization options are buried in unknown menus about which we might not be well aware of. Did you know you can change Lock screen (The screen which comes after windows 8 loads/boots up),