Personally, the only one I find interesting is WIN+X which brings up EVENT VIEWER, POWER OPTIONS, DEVICE MANAGER, TASK MANAGER, RUN (very useful) and others. Keyboard Shortcut Details Windows + I Window Restart, Shutdown, Sleep, Taskbar Notification Icons like Network, Sound Control, Brightness, Notifications, Keyboard. Windows + X Menu for frequent Administrator Tasks Windows + Read more…
UPDATE: Oct 20, 2012: Turn the Windows 8 Start Button back on which includes the power options: urtech.ca/2012/10/solved-solved-solved-oh-joy-solved-how-to-add-the-start-button-into-windows-8 ORIGINAL POST BELOW: _________________ Like older versions of Windows, Windows 8 has a built in SHUTDOWN executable, which means you can easily create your own icons and add them to your Quick Launch Read more…
Well this was a tricky one. I installed Windows 8 Enterprise and found that my Xbox 360 VIDEO APP would not connect to my Win8 PC… or should I say any of my Win8 PC’s. Very frustrating considering they are all tied together by a Home Group and the Xbox Read more…
You can’t! Most Aero features have been removed from Windows 8 and that (sadly) includes Flip 3D. There was talk of this feature being tied to the Windows theme you were using, but I have tried several that used to include Aero Glass frames and none work (even though it did work Read more…
The solution is to: click START (gets you to the tiles) type RUN type slui 3 and press ENTER yes, SLUI: which stands for SOFTWARE LICENSING USER INTERFACE SLUI 1 brings up the activation status window SLUI 2 brings up the activation window SLUI 3 brings up the CHANGE PRODUCT KEY window SLUI Read more…
In Windows 7 and Vista you could do this by clicking START, WINDOWS SECURITY and then RESTART. Apparently WINDOWS SECURITY link has been removed from Win8 sooo I can think of just two ways to easily reboot a Win8 machine from an RDP session: on the tile page type RUN (select Read more…
The code is the same for both MASTER RESET and MASTER CLEAR and it is: 183729
Count the blue shirts in this photo, then count the number of customers and you can see why layoffs are in order: …Rumored layoffs, hours cutbacks and hiring freezes led to an immediate response from Apple, that seemingly puts new retail chief John Browett in a tight spot… Read more…
There are at least two different english manuals for the Samsung Galaxy S3 World Model with 4 CPU Cores: http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/model/GT-I9300MBAVOD-downloads?isManualDownload=true North American (Canada & US) Model with 2 CPU Cores http://www.samsung.com/ca/support/model/SGH-I727DARRWC-downloads?isManualDownload=true
Below are three brief videos I recorded explaining how to use the your S3: UPDATE: DEC 5, 2012 – Under Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, DRIVING MODE has been relegated to SETTINGS > LANGUAGE AND INPUT > TEXT TO SPEECH OUTPUT > DRIVING MODE . The button on the notification screen Read more…
I have been looking at this “N” (see right) for weeks and have not figured out what it is doing. I have turned off WiFi so it should not find an 802.11 N networks. This was making me nuts. It turns out that “N” relates to NEAR FEILD COMMUNICATION. If Read more…
I was going to write an article on all the crazy Windows performance improvement myths and then I found a great article which I have taken snippets from below (and provide a link to the full article below). The bottom line is this, Microsoft has a lot of massively intelligent Read more…
It turns out that Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) has a dandy EXPORT, IMPORT feature. The only thing that isn’t particularly obvious is that you have to EXPORT (and IMPORT) in the GROUP POLICY OBJECTS folder, and not on any of the OU’s. On the old/source domain, start GPMC Expand your Read more…
Have you ever saved (cached) a password in your browser or in some other Windows application and then had the password change but not know how to edit your saved version? Well, if so, this will help. Windows stores passwords in the CREDENTIALS MANAGER which you can get to via Read more…
An American tourist in a small village he was visiting in Newfoundland, approached a local person and asked, “What’s the quickest way to Marystown?” Jarge, the local, scratched his head, “Are ya walkin ER drivin?” he asked the stranger. “I’m driving,” said the stranger. Jarge replied, “That’s the quickest way.”
No. The $15 upgrade offer https://windowsupgradeoffer.com is available only for individuals.