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How to disable Fast Start in Windows 8
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesWindows 8 Release Preview users find an option to turn fast startup on or off in the power options control panel applet. Fast startup, also known as hybrid boot, basically prepares the system for a faster startup the next ...
How to use a custom image for Windows 8′s start page background
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesIf you had the chance to play around with the final version of Windows 8, you may have noticed that Microsoft has limited backgrounds of the start page of the system to images that it is making available. The ...
How to add desktop programs to the Windows 8 start page
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesWhen you look at the list of programs on your Windows 8 start page, you may notice that desktop programs and Modern UI apps are displayed both on the page. You don’t find all of your desktop programs here, ...
Windows 8 start screen backgrounds are colorful
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesI like my operating system to be as minimalistic as possible. This may make me a minority in times where everything needs to be glamorous and colorful, but that’s how I grew up and the release of Windows 8 ...
Windows 8 Themes – Default Wallpapers, and the Start Screen
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesRecently, the Windows 8 background patterns became available to view. Rumor has it that Microsoft might be set to include no less than 20 StartScreen patterns in Windows 8 in the release to manufacturing build.
As one blog posted in Win8China, shows what the ...
Customize the Windows 8 Start Screen: Group, Arrange & Name Tiles
Posted on Windows 8 News, Rumors & TipsJust as with previous versions of Windows, Microsoft has given the user the ability to customize the look and arrangement of the different items on the desktop. With the new release of Windows 8 CP, the user interface paradigm has shifted quite a ...
Customize the Windows 8 Start Screen: Background Theme Color
In the previous post on customizing the Windows 8 Start screen, I covered how to group, arrange and name live tiles on the Windows 8 Start screen. In this post, I’ll vcover how to change the colour and accents used on the background on the Windows 8 Start screen. From ...
Ed Bott’s Windows 8 Head Start (Need2Know)
Ed Bott's Windows 8 Head Start (Need2Know)
Windows 8 won’t be available to the general public until sometime in 2012. But what if you want to dig into Microsoft’s radical new operating system right now? Whether you’re a software developer, IT professional or simply a Windows enthusiast eager to get your ...
Microsoft Comments On Windows 8′s Start Button Issue