I Love Windows 8 ...AND Windows 10
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Thursday, November 20, 2014
KB3000850 November 2014 update rollup for Windows 8.1
The November 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 resolves issues, and includes performance and reliability improvements. With more than 700MB this update rollup includes the following new features and improvements:
Refreshed language packs
Defence-in-depth security and Schannel hardening
Support for newer hardware (boot order allowance, SD card improvements, USB debugging)
Improved Web Services for Devices (WSD) printer support during network switches
Performance and reliability improvements in clustered virtual machine mission-critical environments
Improved manageability
Additional hardware support (devices that have third-party disk encryption software enabled can now be upgraded to Windows 8.1 more easily). More information about this update here.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Ars Technica, this is NOT news, nothing to do with Windows today
NOT news at all. Besides, this is a Windows XP screenshot! |
Monday, November 3, 2014
How to start Windows 10 from a virtual hard disk
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Figure 1. A virtual hard disk as a new choice in the boot menu. |
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Figure 2. A new BCD store entry to include a VHDX |
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Windows 10 Tech Preview: upgrading to build 9860
These 2 updates get the Build 9860 |
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Windows 7 + Windows 8 = Windows 10
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Windows 10 Technical Preview running under Windows 8.1 |
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
It's 10, Windows 10, the Microsoft newest OS proposal

Search through your Internet Explorer bookmarks the easy way
Internet Explorer is one of my favorite Web Navigators, but it has always lacked a decent and practical "bookmark manager" like the one that comes with Firefox. However, since IE bookmarks are directly attached to your Windows profile you can easily search through your bookmarks, a task that otherwise can become unwieldy since you can easily accumulate hundreds of bookmarks. To find where your IE bookmarks are located do this: 1) Press the Windows Key (left to the ALT key) and the R key simultaneously, which will open the Run utility; 2) In the text box labeled Open type: %HOMEPATH% and then click OK or hit Enter; 3)This will open the current user profile folder C:\Users\YourUserName\, where you should look for a subfolder called Favorites, where bookmarks are organized into folders and subfolders and each link is a file in the form of an Internet Shortcut (.url). Besides, this allows you to organize and re-organize them to your heart's content. Once you get to the Favorites folder you can search by typing key words into the text box with the grayed text that reads "Search Favorites", on the right-hand side of the window. Bingo! By double-clicking on each one of the results you can jump directly onto that particular Web page you had bookmarked. A little piece of trivia: the Favorites Bar, the one that includes your most visited Websites, for some reason is stored in your system under the C:\Users\YourUserName\Favorites\Links subfolder but it appears in the File Explorer as Favorites Bar.
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