Since the Start Menu has been removed from Windows 8, some of the features of the start menu are not accessible directly. Take an example of the startup folder. The startup folder can not be accessed from the new Metro start screen of Windows 8. The startup folder is quite a handy folder if you…
All latest processors come with physical and logical core to support multi-threading and boost up parallel computing operations. I have recently written about the difference between a physical socket, physical core and a logical processor. Windows 8 is the newest Operating System from Microsoft. Microsoft has introduced a lot of visual changes in Windows 8….
Windows 8 has just been released officially on 26th of October, 2012. When we go to Microsoft Windows 8 page, we get a straight forward Windows 8 system requirements from Microsoft. You will see the following system requirements: Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2 RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB)…
Windows 8 language packs have not been released to the public officially. Since Windows 8 is only available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, the language packs are also available for download to those subscribers. But Microsoft has made it quite easy to install a language pack in Windows 8. I have already written about 2…
Since Microsoft has released Microsoft Office 2013 Customer Preview, it has been a good time using the Office suite until now. I had been prompted about activating my installation of Office 2013 whenever I opened any Office app but I never cared about the warnings. But today the period has ended and now I must…
With the release of Windows 8 Final, Microsoft has also released Visual Studio 2012 and .NET framework 4.5 to the web. Like Windows 8, Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework has been made available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers first and will be available to others afterwards. According to Microsoft: The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5…
Back in 2009, we discussed about a site that would make your audio louder. But the solution in that article is not valid now because the site vloud is not working. I have a laptop with Windows 8 installed in it. Since I don’t use any external speakers or the headphones, the problem with it…
I was working on Microsoft Excel 2010 and I needed to combine or merge the content in two cells into one. While searching the Internet, I found many methods of doing this so I thought of listing down all the methods here so that it may be useful for everyone to know. Using the concatenate…
What is Vistalizator? Vistalizator is a popular program for adding any language pack MUI to any edition of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Vistalizator 2.5 has been released with support for more languages. By default, the Multilingual pack (MUI) can only be installed on Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions. Same is the case with…
Recently I was reading about a Windows 8 problem faced by a Windows 8 user. The problem was weird because no matter how correctly he typed the password during Windows 8 logon, he would get the password incorrect error. I was able to reciprocate the error message on my installation of Windows 8. I setup…
