multi-tasking

Hi everyone from the Build 2015 conference happening right now in San Francisco! If you haven’t already, Link Removed about all the Windows 10 announcements we made today. If you’re at Build this week or at Ignite in Chicago next week – keep your eye out for me and say hello! Today we have a...

We know there’s a vocal set of people who just love virtual desktops. Having desktops beyond the limitations of a physical display is a powerful way to organize and quickly access groups of windows. Virtual desktops aren’t new. In fact, Xerox PARC created one of the earliest virtual desktop...

Recently a few of us were discussing the improved 'Snap' feature in Windows 10. This is when open Windows are snapped to either the right or left side of the screen. Windows 10 has seen this feature improved on and now open windows can be snapped not only to either left or right but upper or...

Is there any way to resize the calculator in Windows 8.1 so that is does not take up the entire screen when opened. I would like to work on an excel file and have the calculator small enough so that I can see the file I'm working on. Thanks

I am using a trial version of Star8, and I received an email introducing Modern Mix. I would like to share with you. One of the features that interests me most is "multi-tasking". Win 8.1 by default runs an app in full screen. Modern Mix fixes that and now one can run multiple apps, just like...

For the past week i've been having BSODs but only when i multi-task or run demanding games. I think it might be my computer overheating but i'm not sure. My logs, hardware, info, etc is attached. Couldn't find the dump file...

Hi guys, I'm experiencing slight freezes every once in a while. Computer is getting slower and slower by day and I have no idea what is causing this. Was multi-tasking yesterday and suddenly my computer froze completely with a BSOD as a result. I have no idea what the exact problem was, but...

I've been working on this Reddit app for Windows 8. I call it Redditopia. It started as a quick weekend project to teach myself the WinRT programming model. But after I bought my first tablet(Surface RT), I kept craving that one more feature and have now spent more weekends(and nights) on this...

Hi folks, I've been having these hard crashes for roughly 3 weeks now and i'm not too sure what the cause of them are. It seems to usually be when my computer is playing a video file or running a game or multi-tasking. When it happens it's very sudden, the whole computer completely freezes...

A couple of weeks ago I installed Windows 8 (fresh install from scratch, not an update) on my computer. I do a lot of web browsing and over the last couple of weeks I've been using Windows 8, I could swear the web browsing wasn't as fast at it used to be on Windows 7. I then noticed I was...

Hii am facing a regular BSOD problem from past few days.actually everytime when i play high graphics games or do multi tasking and use much of RAM size.Then everytime my gets restart, sometimes long time use of pc also makes my pc restart.so i entered msconfig, and there i disabled some start up...

A rather interesting article over at Informationweek.com tells of Windows 8 being demonstrated to run Windows 7 virtually amongst other things.. Link: Windows 8 To Run Windows 7, And Vice Versa - Software - Windows 8 - Informationweek

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Link Removed to discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:25] Windows Phone 7 Announcements at Mobile World Congress [02:57] Window Azure Team -Link Removed, includes performance enhancements, improved diagnostic, cache size option, and...

Channel 9 has arrived in Barcelona and Brandon Watson took some time to chat with us about all of the announcements Windows Phone 7 is making here. One of the biggest pieces of news is the Nokia announcement and he shed some light on what that means to developers. We also talk about: IE9 on...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Parrots, like humans, choose to use one side of their body more than the other, with more of them left handed -- or, more precisely, left footed than anything else. Some species even try out both before deciding on one side. Australian researchers found...

I'm learning via tutorials and I don't want to shift through too many windows then is more than necessary. How can I strap two (or more) open windows together. i.e. two sets of set information files on a drive (let's say D) and then operate between an application and a media player. I don't...

I am trying to figure out how to make flash players stay in full screen mode when they loose focus (I click somewhere else). I am using dual monitors, google chrome (though I don't mind switching if necessary), and am watching videos on youtube or something while trying to work on my other...

Hi Guys, I have just switched from a desk top running Vista to a laptop using Windows 7 Home Premium. From day one the cursor, mouse or touch-pad has done its own thing, one minute its a scroll cursor and scrolls the window up and down or side to side, it will close/resize windows if I let it...

Hello, hope someone can help me! I've recently started using Windows 7, and am having an annoying sound issue. If I'm playing music or listening to an internet radio station either through Windows Media Player or through my internet browser, if I then get another sound come through in...

I use a wide screen monitor as most of you do. The monitor has enough space to accomodate two screens (files). Is there easy way to resize two or three screens automatically when I open two or three files together? I hope that Windows 7 has such a hidden function.