When installing programs on windows 8.1 most of the shortcut icons installs on the Metro UI instead of the desktop including Microsoft Office programs like Word that means we need to go back and forth between the desktop and the Metro UI to run basic programs like Microsoft Word. [Read more...]

Mirroring ( RAID Level 1) is implemented when fault tolerance is desired. In a mirrored array, all of the data is duplicated across 2 or more hard drives. Windows 8.1′s mirroring is only available in Professional edition [Read more...]

Windows 8.x has a new feature called Fast Startup (hybrid boot or hybrid Shutdown) to help your PC Boot faster after shutting down by using a hybrid shutdown which is a partial hibernate, making it impossible for users who are Dual-Booting with Linux or Unix OS to see the GRUB menu. Windows 8.x uses saved system information to resume your PC instead of having to do a cold boot to fully restart. [Read more...]

VLC is one of the most powerful player and easy to set up! VLC plays all major video and audio and  It’s designed to play all types of HD videos and audio like mp3,wav. [Read more...]

Windows 8.x tends to create tiles of all installed apps or program clogging the metro UI with a bunch of unwanted tiles, so instead of removing them on a one to one basis I’ll show you how to get rid of all additional tiles at once with a simple command. [Read more...]

The most popular way of retrieving Windows product key is to use a third-party software. While there are plenty of free apps and software available for this job, the fact is that you can recover Windows product key from the registry without using third-party software. [Read more...]

Windows To Go is a feature in Windows 8 Enterprise that allows Windows 8 Enterprise to boot and run from mass storage devices such as USB flash drives and external hard disk drives [Read more...]