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By Paul Thurrott Oddly, while the Windows 8 Photos app does use the contents of the Pictures library to display local content, it doesn’t work the same way as the Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps when it comes to determining which network-based content can be displayed. Here’s a guide to what...

I'm going to suggest that part of the problem w/ people using & understanding Win8 & taking issue w/ the UI may be the following... One does not need to 'dwell' on Start. One can use the familiar Desktop & yet, still, select any desired APPs BUT, let or have those active APPs (say, like...

Hi all, In UNIX, for changing the directory path, there is "cd" command. .This works fine in windows 7 too.. But the problem comes when we are trying to change the path using environment variables. . In UNIX, cd $JAVA_HOME changes the path to the value set for JAVA_HOME, Similarly is there...

Ok, I've had a real problem with I.E. overpowering Firefox. If I click on any link, it opens in I.E. I've tried every suggestion as to how to make FF my default browser, from at least a dozen sources and nothing works. So I tried this. I have a desktop shortcut to this forum on my desktop...

Hi That's my question, I'm putting together a slide show of 3D images that I want to show on my TV next week when we have company. I would like the images to stay on the screen a little longer without having to actually create a slide show in some special application like Premiere. The Slide...

When launching Internet Explorer, you may notice that Internet Explorer takes longer than expected to start. Link Removed

I only learnt about this a couple of weeks ago! If you want to make the Aero Peek button at the far right of your Taskbar into a plain and simple Show Desktop button: Simply right-click the Aero Peek button and un-check the "Peek at desktop" option. Et Voila!! That's it!

I am the sole user of my computer and log on as the Preferred User. Whenever I want to open My Documents, My Pictures, etc., I have to first select Desktop, then Preferred User (I am the ONLY user and I have already logged in as the PREFERRED USER), then have to select My Documents, etc. Is...

Press and hold CTRL key while clicking on each of the files that you want to rename. If your files are listed in successive order, simply highlight the first file, hold down the SHIFT key, and the click on the last file in the batch to select all files between them. Once the files are...

Is it possible to define another file management software (such as FreeCommander) as default instead instead of WE?

I want to search my entire computer (or perhaps an entire drive or folder structure) for a file called abc.txt. So I navigate in explorer to My Computer (or a drive or a folder structure) and in the top-right corner of explorer, I enter my filename search term. Instead of just seaching for that...

How can I add cover and description to avi file, to see it in WMC? I tried the following: movie1.avi (the movie) movie1.jpg or movie1.avi.jpg (cover) but it doesn't worked. I tried the description add to avi with abcAVI Tag Editor, and... it doesn't worked :frown: I found this: movie1.avi...

I use a laptop for work but I have 3 monitors that I use and I don't use the laptop screen. All monitors are identical and set to the same resolution. My 3rd monitor doesn't line up properly; when I scroll over to it the mouse jumps below where it was on the previous screen. When I go into...

Did it ever happen to you, were you highlighted and copied something then forgot all about it and copied something else, thereby losing the original copied text? I was wondering how you can retrieve what you copied first? Does it have something to do with the clipboard?

When I currently llok at my WinExplorer then the drive letters appear NOT alphabetically sorted. Drive W:\ eg. comes above drive C:\ and D:\ How can I tell WinExplorer to sort the drives alphabetically? Peter

Greg Shultz shows you how to remove Favorites from the navigation pane in Windows 7's Windows Explorer by editing the registry. More...

Windows: If you’ve put off tweaking the size of your desktop icons because you assumed it would be a pain, it’s time to enjoy some hassle-free resizing without digging in menus or replacing icon packs. (more…) Link Removed

# windowstip Windows: If you've put off tweaking the size of your desktop icons because you assumed it would be a pain, it's time to enjoy some hassle-free resizing without digging in menus or replacing icon packs. More » More...

Normally I can create shortcuts in START menu to a file on local harddrives without any problem. However when I want to do this with a file on a volume/network drive which is later (after bootup) mounted then this is NOT possible. When I drag a file e.g. from WinExplorer...

Bill Detwiler shows you how you a quick and easy way to disable the Windows 7 Snap feature, which is either loved or hated. Link Removed