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What Happens When You Refresh Windows 8
Windows 8 has come with a novel feature called Refresh. Until now, the only way to fix Windows problems which couldn’t be fixed was to reinstall Windows. Thanks to Windows 8 Refresh, you can save time spent on 1. Taking Backup, 2. Formatting Hard Drive, 3. Install Windows and 4. Restore.
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Windows 8 Inbuilt Screenshot Feature: How to Play With it
Previous Windows versions too had inbuilt capability of capturing screen or taking screenshot but with Windows 8, it is improved. Unlike, saving the image in clipboard which required you to save in MS Paint like Image editing tools, Windows 8 can capture and save the screenshot image file directly.
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Advance Boot Menu was a very handy feature used in previous versions of Windows like Windows 7, Vista, XP etc. The advance boot menu is particularly helpful to boot Windows in Safe Mode. You will be definitely missing this feature when Windows 8 fails to boot due to some software upgrade or newly installed application. […]
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Cannot Activate Windows 8 Using Already Owned Legal Serial Key on New PC
If you have clean Installed Windows 8 on a new PC then activation might be a troublesome job. This case arises for two reasons when you are trying to activate Windows 8 on a new PC, using a key that you already used on other PC earlier. Another event when its likely to get an […]
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Windows 8 Comics Reader Metro App
We have already covered Free Comic Viewer Apps for Android and 6 best Comic Viewer software for Windows Pc. Now, if you are using Windows 8, added benefit is when you are using a Metro App for the same task you would have done in a general app. Specially the Comic reader adds extended appeal […]
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Solve Windows 8 Clean Installation Product Key Do Not Match Problem
In my previous post, I wrote about how to make a Windows 8 installation pendrive bootable in UEFI mode. Now, if you were on an old laptop with UEFI boot which did not came pre-installed with Windows 8 OEM then you are good to go. But if your system came pre-installed with Windows 8 OEM […]
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Create Windows 8 USB Bootable Pendrive For UEFI Boot
Earlier, with my old laptop in use and legacy BIOS, it was a piece of cake to format Windows using any kind of preferred media. I was never aware of this UEFI Boot Mode (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) until I upgraded to Alienware 14x. Nowadays, most of the new laptop comes bundled with Windows 8 […]
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Take Ownership of Drives, Files & Folders in Windows 8
There are times when we need access to system files and folders. Even though, being an Administrator, you do not have rights to modify these files as these system files are protected by Windows System itself. Well the reason of this protection is pretty obvious. Windows doesn’t want anyone to corrupt important system files.
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