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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

If you have installed Windows 8 as a secondary OS along with Windows 7 or XP or Vista, you must be aware that your computer has to reboot twice when switching to any other OS except Windows 8. This is what any typical Windows user is doing right now : When you Turn on PC : Reach the Windows 8 ...

Every Windows user loves to have a picture of different style and  in Windows 8, it is now possible to have a small video clip as your account picture apart from the regular picture. Even though Windows 8 allows this, you can only have a video clip of only five seconds. To setup the video follow the steps below : ...

Windows 8 Explorer view is pretty simplified compared Windows 7. It seems to be not listing many folders, Devices by default, even if you expand the collapsed folders.  Most importantly I saw the Favourites and the Desktop icon was missing from the explorer view.  Both of these were important for me as it was easy not navigate to those folders ...

Windows 8 is all about Metro, Apps Settings and even Browser. Like always, Windows 8 comes IE 10 as the default browser which here comes in two avatar. One that is purely a Metro App and has all metro gestures, settings etc available, while the second one is close to how you use Internet explorer currently i.e. Opens in Desktop ...

F8 or F2 is one most used keys when you want to troubleshoot Windows either in safe mode or command prompt or get into bios to change settings. Starting Windows 8, users will find it impossible to enable those options by pressing those hot keys at the boot time. Why ? Because Windows 8 boot is so damn fast that ...

A good news for all Windows users having tons of monitors setup on the desk, Windows 8 is coming up with some cool enhancements which will make you productive and also let you enjoy wallpapers smartly!!!. Well Jokes apart but with the announcement made by the official blog posts on the Windows 8 Wallpaper, Multiple Windows Support and Taskbar enhancements,  ...

We all remember Device Manager, Devices and Printers Windows where all devices were used to be listed and then can be configured by finding the settings option for each of these devices. This had never been an issues, at least in Windows 7, but starting with Windows 8, you get a brand new interface or application called as Microsoft Device ...

I was not surprised when Microsoft today gave out details on Windows 8 Themes and clearly said that Windows 8 Themes will not work on Windows 7 even though themes made for Windows 7 will work on Windows 8 but will not be able to utilize all the features. In this post, I am first explaining why it is different ...