ultrabook

My HP Envy 4 Ultrabook was working fine until recently when the HP Support Assistant requested that I update my drivers just a few days before the launch of Windows 8. I updated all my drivers and I am getting a BSOD once a day. I tried to update all my drivers again but it doesn't seem to help...

If Intel has its way, touch will be just one of the ways to control Windows 8 ultrabooks. The chipmaker is looking to add voice commands and Kinect-like gestures for what it calls “perceptual computing.” On Tuesday, Intel announced a partnership with Nuance Communications to put a locally hosted...

First off, i apologize if this is in the wrong place or if there's another topic about this, i looked but didn't really see anything. I'm planning on buying an Asus Zenbook UX32VD soon and it comes with a standard 7200 rpm drive instead of an SSD. So because of that i want to upgrade it to an...

Hi guys, I am doing a clean install of Windows 7 on my friend's new Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook, which has a 500GB HDD with a 16GB SSD (Flash) Cache (Samsung 530U3B i5-2467M, 4096MB, 516GB, pink (NP-530U3B-A04DE) | Geizhals Deutschland). It's my first time dealing with such a drive so I am...

I have a 16GB USB 3.0 memory card, Lexar. I've used the MS usb/dvd tool to make it bootable. Downloaded 64bit of the W8 Release CP iso. I set my bios to boot in this priority USB HDD USB FDD HDD I have a Samsung Series 9 ultrabook, NP900X3B-AO1US I've used the same MS tool, same USB...

Hi all! I have an ultra book with 128GB. I also have a 1TB NAS drive on my network. I want to go through and archive old personal data files and move the archives to the NAS drive. I don't want to totally get rid of it. I know I can just move over want I don't want to keep on my computer...

I have a Win7 Ultrabook. I'm using Areca backup software to backup my personal data. I created a Scheduled Task to run my backup weekly. I set it so that it would wake from sleep to run the task. But I'm having trouble finding a setting to tell it to return to sleep if it woke itself up. Is...

Hi, It first started with explorer.exe crashing constantly... Everytime I would click start, it would crash etc... Then the first BSOD hit. It was a kernal something error and said a7 as a code. After the first BSOD, chkdsk ran and it fixed a whole bunch of errors. Then BSOD hit twice again...

Hi, So it all started with explorer.exe crashing. It kept crashing everytime I tried to hit the start button. Then boom BSOD. Then on startup the chkdsk ran and fixed a whole bunch of things. After that explorer.exe kept crashing and BSOD ensued about 2-3 times. Then it stopped. Chkdsk ran...

We were back at Lenovo’s suite today and got a chance to spend a bit more time with a laptop that we didn’t get around to discussing on Tuesday. We’ve covered the ThinkPad and IdeaTab already, but we haven’t spent any time on the IdeaPad line. Where ThinkPad primarily targets business users...

() ??One of Lenovo?s announcements is a new Ultrabook called ?Yoga? which converts from a laptop to a tablet simply by folding the screen back. In that position the keyboard (which is automatically disabled when the keyboard is bent back) becomes the bottom of the unit. ??The device, according...

Hi, I just bought a new ultrabook and I love its SSD and instant-resume. What I don't love, is that it instantly resumes to the login screen. I have only a single user account, with no password associated with it, and yet I'm still unable to find a way for my computer to skip the login screen...

Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss this week's Windows 8 Start screen revelations in depth and the silly noobisphere responses, the BUILD conference in September, Windows Phone news, Office 365 launching this month...

What angle will he take in what could be his last keynote? Source: Yahoo! News

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. -- This year's D: All Things Digital 9 conference here at the Terranea resort south of Los Angeles looks like tabletpalooza. Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live group, will give an update on Windows 8 and probably show it running on a...