Windows 8 Tips: Backups Guide tips System Images and Windows 8 Recovery

Just like the dual Metro and desktop interface and the dual Metro IE and desktop IE, you also have dual backups in Windows 8. Everything in Windows 8 is like a split personality: you have the new shiny Windows 8 style and features and then all the left over stuff from previous versions of Windows. It’s...
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Windows 8 Tips: 10 cool registry hacks you can use to customize your Windows 8 install

As Windows 8 gets closer to the final release, I’ve already started seeing a lot of ways to customize or tweak the registry! There are a lot of visual and under-the-hood changes in Windows 8 and not all of them can be changed via the GUI settings. In this article, I’ll show you 10 cool registry...
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Computer Tips:Guide to Permissions and Protection in Word 2010 document

I barely use Office 2010 nowadays, so when I actually need it for something, it takes me more time to understand how to do something than it does to actually do it. Case in point: I wanted to make a document read-only in Word 2010 and I thought it would be fairly easy to setup. Unfortunately,...
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Windows 8 TIPS-- customized tile on Windows 8 Start Screen

Looking to do a little customization to the Windows 8 Start Screen? Well, you really canot do much with the built-in options in Windows 8. You can make the tiles a little larger or smaller and change the overall color scheme of the Start Screen, but that’s about it. Luckily,someone wrote a nifty...
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windows 8 TIPS-- OTT(over the top) Explains-User Account Control(UAC) in Windows 8

User Account Control is one of those features in Windows that many people really don’t understand. Most people just find it annoying that you keep getting pop up dialog asking for permission to do things like install apps, change settings, etc, etc. A lot of people even disable UAC just so they...
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Windows 8 Tips: System Speed up Windows 8 Use 5 Ways

Windows 8 is pretty darn fast compared to Windows XP and Windows 7, especially on boot up. If you replace your hard drive with an SSD (solid state drive), it’s even more ridiculously fast! But I’m always about optimizing the system to make it even faster. I’ve been using Windows...
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