Category Archives: Windows

Have a shinny new Windows 8 machine and attempting to learn about its greatness?  Here are some articles to help you along the way.  Let me know if you need any others that are not on the list.

Picture passwords are nothing new, many devices and applications incorporate this feature.  Unfortunately like other companies implementation of picture password Microsoft’s versions can be just as annoying for mouse users.  I locked myself out of my domain account 3 times … Continue reading →

In past version of Windows shutting down your PC use to be trivial, Start –> shutdown and boom you were done.  Let me cut the comments off already, yes there are keyboard short cuts that did the same. With the … Continue reading →

One of the biggest complaints I had through the various beta’s of Windows 8 was that the tile interface everything was clumped together and after a few apps was unmanageable.  When the final beta released I was happy that you … Continue reading →

After a little smoke testing I decided to take the dive and upgrade my work notebook to windows 8 Pro.  Everything went great until I added it to the domain.  Once I added it to the domain I was getting … Continue reading →

Have an a program that requires .Net 3.5 in order to run on Windows 8.  Frustrated because you downloaded it from the internet and it gives you the error that a newer version is already installed.  No worries, the folks … Continue reading →

I understand for simplicity for the mom and pop that don’t care about file extensions.  I for one always turn them back on.  One because I sometimes need to make a specific file type, example make a registry file, and … Continue reading →