Recently when I installed Skype for Windows 8, it merged Windows Live messenger account when I chose to opt in. What was good that it was one messenger service less, but it also resulted in lot of notifications as Facebook, Skype and Live Messenger all are in one place. What really disappointed me is that there is no direct way ...

Windows 8 has a heavy integration when it comes to syncing settings like Passwords, Personalization, Language, Browser, App preferences etc between multiple PC and tablets when they are trusted with your account. However, one thing you will notice is that it does not sync Apps itself i.e. If you install one app in one PC, there is no option to automatically ...

Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft has made it lot easy for Windows 7 / Windows Vista or even Windows XP user to migrate and upgrade their OS to a genuine Windows 8 Copy even if you have lost your Windows License or never had it before. There are couple of offers right now starting with cheap $13 or 699 Indian ...

Recently Microsoft announced availability of its first tablet running Windows RT. Even though the pre-orders have run out the biggest confusion that’s drooling around are What is Windows RT Is it right to buy Surface running Windows RT ? What is the difference between Windows RT and Windows 8 Will everything run on Windows RT like it was running on my ...

Microsoft opened up the online store for pre ordering Surface, the awesome tablet running, Windows RT starting at 499$ for Australia, Canada, Deutschland,  France and UK. There are three versions of Surface as of now, the basic version is 32 GB with no cover + keyboard but if you are ready to pay 100$ extra, you get the touch cover. In case ...

IE 10 App on Windows 8 is pretty limited when it comes to plugin and other access like downloads etc. The primary reason is the Enhanced Protection mode which is enabled by default which makes sure that no website or plug-ins can access data on your computer without permission or using any backdoor. This is the primary reason why you ...

Windows 8, RT & Server 2012 has this specific group policy setting which allows to secure the OS at boot level by checking if any of the driver can be initialized when the system boots up. This is specifically very useful for System Admins to secure corporate PC and keep it off getting tampered. Its called as Boot-Start Driver Initialization ...

Windows 8 Games section will be one of the attractive section for kids and if you have ever kept your account logged in and unattended, quite possible, that your kid or anybody else might buy a game accidentally. So just to make sure you don’t get into trouble, Xbox App & Windows Store has settings in place which you can turn ...

Windows to Go is a Windows 8 Enterprise feature which allows you to run the complete Windows 8 OS on a USB which is useful for corporate environment where they want to control certain features of Windows 8.  Now if you got the Windows 8 Enterprise because you just loved the Windows to Go feature,  below are certain settings which ...

Every time you right click to select an app on Windows 8, you get couple of options like remove from start screen, uninstall etc. Out of these one of the option is Run as Administrator which is useful when you do not have permission to run an app in your context. Now what if you are an admin want to ...

Windows 8 Start menu is full of tile which keep on updating with the notifications as they find something new. Now the problem here is that apart from anything new, some of the tiles might be displaying even the older notifications along with new, the next day or even after you had restarted your PC. I am guessing that there ...

Windows allows you to change the size of everything on Desktop using its Display size of properties. This is useful for reading the text on Windows controls but most of the time what users look to change is only text, specially on High Resolution. Thanks to Windows 8, this individual resizing option is available for Title Bars,  Menus, Message Box, ...