Computer Tips: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI) in Windows 8

VDI is an alternative desktop delivery model that can help you embrace BYOD. It gives users secure access to centrally managed desktops running in the data center.Using their  personal devices, users can access their hosted desktops for work, while keeping their work and personal environments...
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Computer Tips: Choosing the right VDI deployment in Windows 8

As this chapter already mentioned, RDS provides one platform to deliver desktops by using multiple methods, including: 1- Personal VMs  Personal VMs give users access to a dedicated, high-performance desktop over which they have full administrative control. 2-  Pooled VMs  Pooled...
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Computer Tips: Complete desktop virtualization in Windows 8

Microsoft VDI can provide users a work desktop environment on multiple devices, but what about their applications, settings, and data? Microsoft has elegant solutions for both problems that work across all VDI deployment methods: A-- Application virtualization  Microsoft offers two technologies...
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Computer Tips: User state virtualization And Client Hyper-V in Windows 7 and Windows 8

With user state virtualization, user data and settings are centralized in the data center,eliminating the constraints of local storage and giving users the ability to access their data and settings from any PC. It makes backing up, securing, and managing the availability of users’...
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Computer Tips: Guide to Chkdsk in Windows 8

Chkdsk has been one of those great little tools built into just about every version of Windows that help fix NTFS file system errors, corruption in file system metadata, or hard disk errors. Before Windows Vista and Windows 7, chkdsk hadn’t changed much at all. In Windows Vista and 7, there were...
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iPad-iPhone tips: Increase iPad Battery Life Use 5 Ways

I have an iPad 2 and I realized over the last few months that my battery was draining faster than I would have liked. I was determined to increase the battery life and I was suprisingly successful. At first I thought the battery was just getting old and could not hold the charge as long, but I had...
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Windows 8 Tips: An Old PC Revitalize by Installing new Windows 8

Got an old computer sitting around running Windows XP? Don’t use it for anything other than as a dust collector? Well, maybe it’s time to try out the fresh new Windows 8 and give it some life back. Now I’m not super supporter of Windows 8, but I’ve been using it for a few months...
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Windows 8 TIPS: Desktop Icon Spacing Change in Windows 8

In Windows 8, there is no easy way to adjust the desktop icon spacing as we used to be able to do in Windows 7. There you could go to Personalize, choose Window Color and then click on Change advanced appearance settings. Then the dialog Window Color and Appearance box above would...
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Computer Tips: Five Ways Automate Your Computer When You are Not Using It

If you’re like most people, your home computer probably sits idly most of the day. Maybe you’re at work or watching the kids or grocery shopping or watching TV. Whatever the case, 80% of the time my computer at home is just sitting around doing nothing. What a waste! I recently decided...
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Computer Tips: Email Contents and Encrypt Text to Secure Data

Previously, I wrote about a service called LockBin that lets you quickly send short encrypted emails to whoever you want. They have a free service plus some additional premium services and overall it works fairly well. The recipient has to know the secret password you create (and tell...
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