It appears that because Microsoft is not bundling a set of tutorials to learn the basic tasks in Windows 8, HP has taken it upon itself to release a Metro style app in the Windows Store called “Getting Started for Windows 8″, and it aims to teach users various beginner’s tasks in Win 8 — just [...]
Learn step-by-step how to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview on VirtualBox avoiding scary errors. Even though Microsoft recommends to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview on a physical machine, many people only have one computer, the one they use everyday for work, email, browsing, banking, etc., and installing a pre-release operating system in a primary machine [...]
Ready to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview? You’ll be surprised how easy it is to do this. The amount of steps has been reduced, and the installation time has dramatically decreased as well. In this guide, I’ll walk you through step-by-step to successfully complete the Windows Setup. To get started, download the Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO [...]
How to install Windows 7 — What to do before start: Backup files and settings. In part 1 we looked at hardware system requirements of Windows 7, possible issues and solutions, now in part 2 is the time to protect your data before starting anything. This goes for everything, dual-boot, reinstall, upgrade or clean install. You [...]
On how to install Windows 7 — What to do before start (which is the first part of three-part tutorial on the preinstallation of Windows 7 and it will continue throughout other tutorials, detailing various ways to install the operating system in your computer), we are going to cover when this process is useful. We’ll [...]
This is great for anyone who is a beginner to Windows 7, Word 2010, and Excel 2010. Microsoft Press has made available for FREE a series of video tutorials on YouTube from some of their Step by Step books with a total of over 14 hours worth of material. Each video in the series is [...]
In this tutorial, you’ll learn step-by-step how to create a VPN server in Windows 7 with a built-in tool, which will do a great job if you are the kind of person that is always traveling to different locations, e.g., coffee shop, hotel or any other public places and you need remote access to personal files or [...]
Configuring your router to use Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is not complicated, but before we dive into the process, you need to have a basic understanding of what Dynamic DNS is. Dynamic DNS (or Dynamic Domain Name System, a.k.a DDNS) is a method to keep a domain name synced to a changing IP address; as most [...]
For those of you that have been experimenting with Google+, you may have noticed that this new social network has a lot similarities with Facebook, not only in design but also in its features. One of them, and also the one I am going to be detailing in this article, is the ability for users [...]
Many people don’t know this, but when you delete any type of data from the computer hard drive, Windows doesn’t actually delete the data, it only removes the pointer that is associated with that particular piece of data. Windows also marks that space, where the deleted data resides, as eligible to be overwritten if the space is [...]