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WINDOWS 8 VIDEO HELP TUTORIALS Windows 8 video guides: Repair Windows with the Refresh Tool Introducing File Explorer in Windows 8 Windows 8 guide: How to install Firefox Windows 8 guide: set up email Windows 8 guide: How to set up Parental Controls Windows 8 guide: Using the Action Centre Windows 8 guide: Install and search Windows apps Windows 8 guide: Update and remove Windows apps Windows 8 guide: Setting up the weather app Windows 8 guide: How to customise the Lock Screen Windows 8 guide: How to protect your computer with OpenDNS Windows 8 guide: How to use the News app Windows 8 guide: Working with apps Windows 8 guide: Introducing the Internet Explorer App Windows 8 guide: Log off, shut down and switch users Windows 8 guide: Set up a Home Group Windows 8 guide: Connect to a wireless network Windows 8 guide: Adding a printer Windows 8 guide: How to install and play Solitaire Windows 8 guide: Add a user with a Microsoft Account Windows 8 guide: Convert your user account to a Windows account Windows 8 guide: Add a new local user Windows 8 guide: Introducing the new Windows interface Windows 8 tips: Setting up Family Safety Windows 8 tips: Adding a new user Windows 8 tips: Signing in with Windows Live Windows 8 tips: Windows Update Windows 8 tips: Logging in and out Windows 8 tips: introducing the Metro interface .=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=. WINDOWS 8 - HELP ARTICLES Dual boot Windows 8 with Windows 7 10 Apps That Show Metro’s Potential From the Windows Store 10 Awesome Improvements For Desktop Users in Windows 8 5 Windows Command Prompt Tricks You Probably Don’t Know 6 Start Menu Replacements for Windows 8 6 Ways To Customize the Windows 8 Start Screen 6 Ways Windows 8 Is More Secure Than Windows 7 7 Ways Modern Windows 8 Apps Are Different From Windows Desktop Apps A Tour of the 20 Built-in Apps on Windows 8 and What They Can Do Add Multiple Types of Items to the Desktop Context Menu in Windows 7 or 8 Add Shutdown and Reboot to the Windows 8 Win+X Menu Aero Isn’t Gone in Windows 8: 6 Aero Features You Can Still Use An Introduction to Charms in Windows 8: What They Are & How to Use Them Beginner Geek: How to Stop Websites From Requesting Your Location in the Metro Internet Explorer Beginner: 5 Mouse Tricks in Windows that You Might Not Know Beginner: How to Make Explorer Always Show the Full Path in Windows 8 Beginner: How to Run an Application as Administrator in Windows 8 Beginner: How to See Used Drive Space for Metro Apps in Windows 8 Change the Default Number of Rows of Tiles on the Windows 8 UI (Metro) Screen Disable Windows 8’s Adaptive Brightness to Fix Dark Screen Problems Download the Official How-To Geek Trivia App for Windows 8 Download, Install, and Update Metro-Style Apps from the Windows Store in Windows 8 Enable, Use, and Disable Safe Mode in Windows 8 Get Our New Book: The How-To Geek Guide to Windows 8 Get the Windows 8 Charms Bar in Windows 7, Vista, and XP Using a RocketDock Skin Get to Know the New Shortcut Keys in Windows 8 Here’s How to Download Windows 8 Beta (Consumer Preview) Right Now Here’s 6 Great Tricks for Windows 8 that You Probably Don’t Know Here’s How to Download Windows 8 Release Preview Right Now How to Access Metro Apps from Windows Explorer in Windows 8 How to Access POP3 Email Accounts in Windows 8 How to Access the Control Panel in Windows 8 How to Add Items to the New Win+X Menu in Windows 8 How to Add the Old Control Panel to the Metro Start Screen in Windows 8 How to Block Websites in Windows 8′s Hosts File How To Boot Into Safe Mode On Windows 8 (The Easy Way) How to Boot to the Desktop & Skip Metro in Windows 8 How to Change and Manually Start and Stop Automatic Maintenance in Windows 8 How To Change the Default Search Engine in Windows 8′s Internet Explorer 10 How To Change the Window Border Color in Windows 8 How to Change the Window Border Size in Windows 8 How to Change Your Keyboard Layout in Windows 8 How to Clear Metro Application Notifications at Log Off in Windows 8 How to Clear Your Browser Cache in the Metro Version of Internet Explorer How to Create a Custom Refresh Image in Windows 8 How to Create a Folder from Selected Files in Windows How to Create a Portable Version of Windows 8 Without Extra Software How To Create and Use a Password Reset Disk or USB In Windows 8 How to Delete Your Application History in Windows 8 How to Delete Your Metro Application’s Usage History in Windows 8 How to Disable Application Switching in Windows 8 How to Disable the Animations on the Windows 8 Start Screen How To Disable the Charms Bar and Switcher Hot Corners in Windows 8 How to Disable the Lock Screen in Windows 8 How to Disable the Windows Store in Windows 8 How To Disable Toaster Notifications In Windows 8 How to Dual Boot Windows 8 and Linux Mint on the Same PC How to Easily Install Previous Versions of the .Net Framework in Windows 8 How to Edit the Win+X Menu in Windows 8 Using a Free Tool How To Enable Aero Glass-Style Transparency in Windows 8 How to Enable or Disable the Startup Sound in Windows 8 How to Enable the Delete Confirmation Dialog in Windows 8 How To Force Windows Applications to Use a Specific CPU How to Get a Fully Functional Recycle Bin in the Taskbar on Windows 8 How to Get a Metro-Style Start Menu and Start Button in Windows 8 How to Get All the Windows 8 Editions on One Install Disk How to Get the Classic Start Menu Back in Windows 8 How to Install a Virtualized Copy of Ubuntu in Windows 8 How to Install IIS 8 on Windows 8 How to Live Without the Start Button in Windows 8 How to Lock Down IE 10 by Disabling Flash in Windows 8 How To Log Into The Desktop, Add a Start Menu, and Disable Hot Corners in Windows 8 How to Make Everything on Your Screen Bigger in Windows 8 How To Make Images, Music, Video, and PDF Files Open On The Desktop in Windows 8 How to Make the Font of the Title Bars Bigger in Windows 8 How to Make Windows 8 Index Encrypted Files How to Make Windows 8 Metro Web Tiles Open in the Desktop Browser How to Make Your Windows 8 Computer Logon Automatically How to Modify Caching Behavior in Internet Explorer 10 How to Monitor and Control Your Children’s Computer Usage on Windows 8 How to Name Groups of Apps on the Windows 8 Metro Start Screen How to Open an InPrivate Tab in the Metro Version of Internet Explorer How to Pin Apps or Folders to the Metro Start Screen in Windows 8 How To Play DVDs on Windows 8 How to Print From Metro Apps in Windows 8 How to Re-Enable the Mouse Pointer Drop Shadow in Windows 8 How to Refresh or Reset Your Windows 8 PC Without the DVD How to Restore Uninstalled Modern UI Apps that Ship with Windows 8 How to Run PowerShell 2 and 3 Concurrently in Windows 8 How To Run Two Windows 8 Apps At the Same Time With the Snap Feature How to Run Windows 8 Apps as a Different User from the Start Screen How To Seamlessly Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Windows 8 (The Easy Way) How to See Which Metro Apps You’ve Installed on Each Windows 8 PC How to See Your Estimated Data Usage in Windows 8 How to Shut Down or Minimize Full Screen Metro Apps in Windows 8 How to Shut Down or Reboot Your Windows 8 PC How To Sideload Modern Apps on Windows 8 How to Stop Apps Spying On Your Location in Windows 8 How to Stop Users From Uninstalling Metro Applications in Windows 8 How to Take a Screenshot in Windows 8 with No Extra Software How to Turn Off or Disable the SmartScreen Filter In Windows 8 How to Turn Your Windows 8 Laptop into a Wireless Access Point How to Tweak the New Multi-Monitor Taskbar in Windows 8 How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 How to Use Chrome as Your Metro Browser in Windows 8 Release Preview How To Use Flash on Any Website in Modern Internet Explorer 10 How to Use the File History Feature in Windows 8 to Restore Files How to Use the Mouse to Get Around in Windows 8 How to Use the New Task Manager in Windows 8 How To Use The Search Feature in Almost any App on Windows 8 How To Use Windows 8′s Gestures on a Laptop Trackpad How to Use Windows 8′s Storage Spaces to Mirror & Combine Drives How to View That Forgotten Wireless Network Password in Windows How Windows 8′s Backup System Differs From Windows 7′s HTG Explains: How the SmartScreen Filter Works in Windows 8 HTG Explains: How Windows 8′s Secure Boot Feature Works & What It Means for Linux HTG Explains: Microsoft Accounts vs. Local Accounts in Windows 8 HTG Explains: What Is Windows RT and What Does It Mean To Me? HTG Explains: What You Can (and Can’t) Do on the Desktop in Windows RT HTG Explains: Why Does Windows 8 Want Me To “Trust This PC”? Make Pinned Metro Website Tiles Open in the Desktop IE in Windows 8 Make Your Own Windows 8 Start Button with Zero Memory Usage Organize Tiles into Groups on the Metro Start Screen in Windows 8 Pin the Task Manager to the Taskbar and the Metro Start Screen in Windows 8 Pin Your Favorite Websites to the Metro Start Screen in Windows 8 Restart the Windows Explorer Process in Windows 8 Share Files Between a Windows 8 Virtual Machine and a Windows 7 Host Machine in VMware Workstation Stupid Geek Tricks: How to Perform Date Calculations in Windows Calculator Stupid Geek Tricks: Manage Windows Optional Features From PowerShell in Windows 8 The Best Articles for Creating a Dual-Boot PC or Tablet The Best Articles for Learning How to Virtualize Operating Systems The Best Articles for Using and Customizing Windows 8 The Best Free Tools for Creating a Bootable Windows or Linux USB Drive Three Ways to Access the Windows 8 Boot Options Menu Transfer Files Between a Windows 8 PC and a Windows 7 PC Use a Windows 8-Like Task Manager in Windows 7, Vista, and XP Use Both the Metro UI and the Classic Start Menu in Windows 8 Use Classic Shell to Get a Classic Start Menu & Explorer Toolbar in Windows 8 Use the Windows 7 Start Menu, Explorer, and Task Manager in Windows 8 Using the New Windows Explorer Ribbon in Windows 8 What Happened to Solitaire and Minesweeper in Windows 8? Microsoft Windows 8 review Make Windows 8 boot straight to the desktop You don't really need a Start Menu in Windows 8 Quick Tip: Create a tile on the Windows 8 Start Screen The complete guide to a Windows 8 clean installation Windows 8 Apps designed for the tech savvy Benefits of the Tools menu and Windows Key shortcuts in Windows 8 Quick Tip: Customize live tiles in the Windows 8 Start Screen Transfer a Windows 8 ISO to a bootable USB flash drive Follow the right Windows 8 upgrade path What you should know about Windows 8 security features ...