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How to Create a Bootable Flash Drive to Install Windows
We recently wrote an article explaining how to install Windows 10 Technical preview and made mention of how you can easily do this from a pen drive. Following the article, we received a question from a user asking how to create a bootable flash drive, not from an ISO file this time, but from a…
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How to Download and Install Windows 10 Technical Preview Right Now
Can’t wait till next year to get Windows 10? You can be one of the first to experience the exciting new features in Microsoft’s latest operating system by installing the technical preview that’s already available for download officially. Before going any further, you might want to see the new features to expect by checking our…
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Windows 10: New Features, Technical Preview & Release Date
Windows 9 was what everyone expected it to be named but yesterday, Microsoft unveiled its latest operating system, Windows 10. An operating system labelled the “most comprehensive platform, ever,” it did came with a few surprises and a lot of Windows users already think it’ll be way better than Windows 8. Judging from what we’ve…
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Enter Advanced Boot Options / Safe Mode On Windows 8 with F8 Key
Before Microsoft released Windows 8, one could easily access Advanced boot options by pressing the F8 key. This shows options like: Safe Mode Safe Mode with Networking Safe Mode with Command Prompt Enable Boot Logging and more. Unlike Windows 7, you might have noticed Windows 8 boots a lot faster and its partly due to…
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Fix: Windows 8 PC Display Whitens on Battery
I’ve been dealing with this issue since I started using Windows 8 and each time my notebook is running on battery, the display is always messed up. It’s not about the brightness because I can easily increase or decrease it at will, the problem has to do with the display itself getting so whitened that…
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Fix: Weird Rectangle Symbols on Windows 8 Metro Icons & Login Screen
If you’ve been noticing some sort of rectangles where icons should be on Windows 8, something is definitely wrong. These seemingly corrupt icons may appear on the login screen and you may even notice these weird looking rectangles on your Internet Explorer scroll bar navigation icon. Does your PC look like the image shown above?…
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Post Status Updates to Facebook “Via Microsoft” on Windows 8
Windows 8 is now almost 2 years and back then when it was released in 2012, one of the things I loved about it was the default People app that allows you to manage multiple social media accounts. For an operating system that’s almost 2 years old, one should’ve explored every nook and cranny of…
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6 Reasons the Windows Phone is Worse Than You Thought
Windows is often maligned, usually for good enough reasons, and unfortunately, the Windows Phone – more specifically the Nokia Lumia – is doing little to salvage that reputation. It’s easy to scoff at Windows phone users in a sea of Samsung Galaxies and iPhones, but do they deserve the backlash? In a word: yes. Here…
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How to Increase File Transfer Speed on Windows
Have you ever spent almost a whole day trying to move gigabytes of data and just sitting there, waiting for the transfer to complete? Have you ever wished there was a faster way to copy and move files on Windows? Today i will be showing you how you can copy or move large files easily…
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Windows 9 May Surface This Summer, Windows 10 Going Cloud
Right about time, Welcome Windows 9! We all know Windows 8 is a setback for Microsoft and Windows generations but Windows 9 is about to be released, this is more like a reminiscent of Windows Vista and Windows 7 saga. Facts and Rumors It is pretty cleared that the company is suffering the same syndrome…
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Fix: Windows 8 Starting Up With Notepad
My PC has been showing this thing for almost 3 months and I’ve always ignored it until I decided to do something about it a few hours ago. [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%system32shell32.dll,-21787 I had no idea what caused this error or what the stuff in the note means, I just wanted to get rid of it and…
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Microsoft Ends Support for Windows XP by April 2014
Microsoft Windows XP was indeed a revolution when it was released over a decade ago and it truly served purpose. Although some people still find it hard to migrate to newer OS, Microsoft has announced that support for this operating system ends by April 2014. Also, Microsoft Office 2003 too would be put in Microsoft’s…