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One of the most utilized items from the [now missing] traditional Windows Start menu has always been the Shutdown menu. For years, shutting down Windows has been a simple matter of clicking Start and then Shut Down (or Restart). In Windows 8, this function is now […]
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Windows 8 has arrived and I guess there will be quite a few befuddled new users out there looking for guidance. Our Dave has already published a series of great ‘Getting Started’ guides here on DCT, you can access them all in the Windows 8
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Windows 8 Hotkeys List The new Windows 8 interface leaves many of us left in a state of perplexity. This list of keyboard shortcuts should help us in this new age of touching, tapping, swiping, pinching, and all the other things that have strange suggestive
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I’m sure you’ve heard all the ruckus surrounding the Start Screen in Windows 8 and probably fallen into the “I must have Windows 8” or “They’ll have to pry Windows 7 from my cold dead hands” camps. Either way you’ll hopefully agree with me when
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As you may be aware by now, unlike its predecessors, Windows 8 does not include Windows Media Center built-in to the operating system. It’s now an ‘extra’ that can be purchased through the Add Features option in Windows 8. However, for a limited time, Microsoft
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Windows 8 a new beginning… By now you are probably aware that Microsoft has released Windows 8, the latest version of the ubiquitous Windows family of Operating Systems. Windows 8 boasts many cool new features, including the ability to be loaded across a new range
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*For the sake of convenience, the mobile side of Windows 8 will be referred to as “Metro” throughout this article. When it comes to Microsoft’s new operating system, regular DCT readers would be aware that I have been numbered among the detractors. I have criticized
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Microsoft put quite a bit of design effort into the new Start Screen. It is simplistic, yet beautiful and functional. I was somewhat dismayed that Microsoft did not continue that design theme, or at least some elements such as the desktop background, in the Windows
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Windows 8 may come in in fewer flavors than its predecessors but it seems pricing policy is set to be as confusing as ever, if not more so. One thing appears certain; anyone wishing to purchase the new operating system, whether it be via upgrade,
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We have discussed many aspects of Windows 8 (and will continue to do so) including the new Start Screen and the lack of a “Start button” or Orb on the taskbar of the classic Desktop, which has to be the one change that had everyone
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It’s been a long time practice for many Windows users to wait until the release of an SP1 before actually migrating to any new operating system, and it seems Microsoft is working toward convincing these users otherwise. In an uncharacteristically short post entitled “Updating Windows
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SlipStreaming? What the heck is that? Deciding whether you want to slipstream Windows 7 depends on if you know what slipstreaming is. In this article I’ll tell you about slipstreaming and how to slipstream Windows 7, the Service Pack 1 update, and the most recent
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Windows 8 presents a new interface to the user named Metro Modern and the cornerstone of this new interface is the Start Screen. The Start screen is best thought of as an expanded replacement for the Start Menu in Windows 7 and previous versions of
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ChkDsk Countdown Timer If you run ChkDsk on several hard drives/partitions several of them may require a computer re-boot to complete successfully. When your computer re-boots you will be presented with a countdown timer before ChkDsk performs its magic. I believe the default time is
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