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[infopane color=”4″ icon=”0049.png”]NOTE: Bitlocker encryption is available only in following desktop Windows versions: Vista Ultimate, Vista Enterprise, 7 Ultimate, 7 Enterprise, 8 Professional, and 8 Enterprise.[/infopane] If you encrypt files or folders then this tip is for you! Windows Vista, 7, and 8 allow you […]
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Here’s another free eBook courtesy of Microsoft… Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals (Final Edition)… available for download in PDF, Mobi, and ePUB formats: Get a headstart evaluating Window 8—guided by a Windows expert who’s worked extensively with the software since the preview
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**This article is published largely for the benefit of all the novice users out there who have upgraded, or may be contemplating upgrading, to Windows 8. The article refers to Windows 8 on PC. I would also point out that most of the information included
How To: Setup Windows 8 for quick/easy familiarization & acclimation! Read More »
Regular DCT reader Holly Martin wants to know if she can upgrade her Windows 7 machine to Windows 8 and then go back if she doesn’t like the new operating system: Hi! I have a dell m-5040 with windows 7 home premium, and am wanting
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A couple of weeks ago we published an article concerning the Windows 8 Start Screen and Shutdown options, you can view that article here: Windows 8 missing Start button – What missing Start button! We received a comment in response to that article from regular reader
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I recently published an article concerning Windows 8 Start Screen and Shutdown options, including steps on how to access the Shutdown options built-in to Windows 8…. you can view that article in full here: Windows 8 missing Start button – What missing Start button! As you can
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I have called this “Part 2” because Jim has already posted one method for booting directly to the Desktop in Windows 8 via creating and scheduling a new basic task in Task Scheduler. You can read through Jim’s article here: https://davescomputertips.com/2012/11/how-to-boot-direct-to-the-desktop-in-windows-8/ What follows is another
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This guide is presented in response to a request from DCT Forum member Lanie. Lanie has run out of usable space on the system ‘C’ drive but has a large secondary partition, ‘D’ drive, which is near enough to empty. You can view the Forum
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One of the most common complaints regarding Windows 8 has been the so-called ‘missing’ Start button – have a look around any discussion forum or blog and you’re bound to find numerous references. In fact, there are already at least half a dozen or more 3rd party products available
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You’ll probably be aware by now that Windows 8 boots into the Start screen by default and there is no magic button to change that behavior. To be honest, it doesn’t bother me in the least… after all, accessing the desktop from within the Start
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It’s been just about a month since Windows 8’s official release, but Microsoft is already hard at work on its successor. Of course, this isn’t really a huge surprise. What is surprising is that Microsoft may be gearing up to launch the new version as
Windows Blue: New Windows due for release in mid-2013?? Read More »
When you upgrade from a previous operating system to Windows 8 you will end up with a very large folder in the root of your main (C) drive called “Windows.old”: This folder contains program and operating system data carried over from the old installation and is created as a safety
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Stories of Windows 8’s poor showing in these early weeks following official release are inevitably doing the rounds. One such story which has been propagated across the net claims a Microsoft “insider” has divulged that sales to date have been “disappointing” and “well below projections”.
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Windows 7 Amnesia I was excited about the Windows 7 release and purchased a license right away. It didn’t take long for me to notice that it no longer remembered window Sizes and Positions. XP didn’t have that problem. I thought for quite awhile that
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