Microsoft Confirms Release Date For Windows 8. It’s …

The date of Windows 8 general release is now official. Yesterday on July 18, Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows division, announced that the company’s long-awaited next-generation Windows operating system, Windows 8, will be generally available from October 26, 2012. Sinofsky made the announcement at the annual sales meeting of Microsoft Global Exchange Conference held in Atlanta.

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[Tutorial] How To Show Administrative Settings In Windows 8 Start Screen In Groups

If you need to have quick access to Windows 8 Administrator Settings and Options from your Start Screen you can add them with few mouse clicks, but even if you add them, it won’t be quite easy to find the one you need. That’s why, in this tutorial I will show how to add all your admin settings inside Windows 8 Start screen and then organize them into groups.

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[Tutorial] How To Create Windows USB Repair Drive

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a USB Repair disk for Windows operating system. You can use it to repair your Windows in case of a system crash. This can be quite useful if you do not have an optical drive on your computer or you don’t have a Windows installation DVD. To create the repair disk you need to have an empty USB drive with at least 256 MB free space.

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[Tutorial] How To Turn Fast Startup On/Off In Windows 8

Windows 8 brought a new feature called Fast Startup, also known as hybrid boot, which helps your computer to start-up or shut down faster. This new feature in Windows 8 saves only the kernel session and device drivers(system information) to the hiberfil.sys file on disk instead of closing it when PC is being shut down. When Windows 8 starts next time, it uses previously saved system information to resume the system instead of having to start a cold boot. Because the hiberfil.sys file saves only the important session information in a very compact format, the PC can boot faster. In this tutorial I will show you how you can make your Windows 8 start up faster by turning on or turning off this feature.

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[Tutorial] How To Show Extensions For Known File Types In Windows 8

As much as I can remember in almost every version of Windows (correct me if I’m wrong) Microsoft is hiding files extensions in order to protect them from average user who may accidentally rename them to unknown file type. When it comes to Windows 8, Microsoft didn’t make any exceptions and you are still not able to see those extensions but with few modifications you can easily make them visible and in this tutorial I will show you how to do that.

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[Tutorial] How To Stop Google Talk From Saving Chat Logs [Windows]

If you are care about your privacy and you use GTalk very often for our business meetings you should be considering of stopping Google Talk from saving your chat logs and in this tutorial I will show you how to do that in both version, GTalk Desktop application and your Gmail account.

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[Tutorial] How To Change Metro Start Menu Background In Windows 8

If you are bored with your default Windows 8 start menu color, you can easily change it to any other pattern you like. Since Windows 8 UI is different then Windows 7, some users find it difficult to locate even these simple functions. In this tutorial I will show you how to customize Windows 8 metro ‘start’ menu.

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[Tutorial] How To Record Video Conversation In Windows

With Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Google Talk, and many other messenger you are able to save the text of your conversations. However, if you are having a video conversation there is no option to save videos of your video conferencing sessions (except in some cases where an add-on can solve the problem). In this tutorial I will show you how you can record your video chat sessions with free software for Windows called CamStudio, regardless of the messaging software you use.

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