Windows 8.1 incorporates a new feature on the lock screen: if you move from top to bottom, you now access the camera of your tablet/PC. So you can start recording a video in seconds.
Windows 8.1 now includes the ability to stream an image slideshow when your PC is locked. Find out how to apply it to your user session in less than 5 minutes.
Windows 8.1 Preview, released a few days ago (see our article on this topic), provides a number of technical and ergonomic corrections, including the possibility to choose between the home screen or the desktop when connecting to the user session.
Microsoft has just released Windows 8.1 Preview, an update that can be described as Service Pack 1. Discover in this article, how to download it for free, install it and configure it.
Under Windows 8, by default, if during a copy, 2 folders end up with the same name in the same place, they are automatically merged. Enabled by default (it wasn't Windows 7), and probably for ease of user experience, it can be impractical if you want not to merge, and keep your folders distinctly.
On Windows 8, it is now possible to connect in 3 different ways: the “classic” password, the “Image” password and the confidential code (i.e. a PIN). Learn how to set up, this third method in 2 minutes time.
When using a Windows 8 tablet, the screen automatically switches to landscape or portrait mode depending on inclination. However, this feature may be annoying. Let’s learn in 5 minutes how to lock the tipping.
Quick startup is a new feature of Windows 8, which, as its name suggests, allows an accelerated start of the OS. To do this, Windows saves system info in a file when shutdown. When you restart your PC, Windows uses this system info to perform PC recovery instead of restarting it. The difference is very clear between the same PC on Windows 7 and another on Windows 8. Learn in this article how to check that this option is enabled.
At the time of all connected, everywhere, all the time, it becomes more and more difficult to focus on your work, in question the famous notifications (mail, social networks, system...). Today, I'm offering you a trick to turn them off on Windows 8.
Babylon search is a browser toolbar but dangerous. Considered as an hijacker, i.e., a program modifying, among other things, the default page of your web browser, this toolbar is impossible to uninstall. The solution to achieve this in this article.
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Customise home screen on Windows 8 with Windows 8 Start Screen Customiser
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Windows 8 Start Screen Customiser is a free utility that will allow you to easily customise the Windows 8 home screen with ease from the background images of your choice.
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Mount an ISO/VHD disk image on Windows 7, Vista, XP natively
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Directly integrated on Windows 8, the ability to mount an ISO or VHD disk image was not available on Windows 7, Vista and XP. This involved using third-party software such as Daemon or Alcohol. Except that Microsoft has just released the software for the old platforms for free.
Released on October 26, Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 8, has already sold over 60 million copies within 60 days. So success or failure? In the meantime, we offer you this video tutorial to learn how to install it without a head socket.
While it was necessary to have software on Windows 7, with Windows 8, you can customise the color of the windows borders and the task bar automatically. The color will be calculated according to the wallpaper.
Convenient in a mobility situation, Wi-Fi is much slower than the cable. However, Windows tends to always prefer wireless even if you connect a cable to your ethernet port. A somewhat radical method to overcome this problem is to disable WiFi. Discover in this article, a much simpler and practical method.
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