windows 8 does not see SSD when installing I took the 540 spin drive out of a new cheap laptop and decided to put an old SSD in. Yes it totally makes a differnce. However, when trying install off the USB drive, windows would not see the SSD I just installed. After a number of trying and lots of searching, I found the… Read More
Preview of the new Microsoft site. Metro with dynamic media response Well this is a treat. Via reddit I checked out a preview of the new Microsoft.com preview website. Its pretty clear they are all in with Metro, and also all in with 1 view from many devices as demonstrated by the use of dynamic media response. {Update} Seems they have this redirecting now. Shame. The… Read More
Aero dies in Windows 8 and stops trying to copy Apple I have been using Windows 8 for awhile now on my home computer. The first thing I noticed about windows 8 is how fast and clean everything feels. It does not have the lipstick on a pig feel that was Windows Vista. After reading Brooke Crothers post on cnet, it reminded me as to why… Read More
HP TC1100 in popular culture As a TC1100 fan, I was looking up installing Windows 8 on my machine. Although installing the wifi card is a bit tricky you can still do it. And for fun I checked up on the TC1100 wiki page only to see the reference to popular culture section deleted! WTH? So I grabbed an old… Read More
Tip #192 By pass the splash screen in windows8 with a click One thing that bugs me about windows 8 is I have 2 screens I have to get pass to get to my desktop. First the splash screen, or whatever its called, then the login screen. Well I just found out by accident that if you click on the spacebar, that will execute the ‘slide open’… Read More
A Fix for brightness, sleep and other keyboard controls not working in Windows 8 This is just a consumer preview, so do not expect everything to work right of the box. This morning I got an update for windows 8 and that loaded a few drivers (I expected) and suddenly my keyboard control keys started working. Also I finally got the Sleep option! Finally. So if you having any… Read More
How to create a bootable USB Drive to install Windows 8 I want to install Windows 8 on my tablet but do not want to dig around to find my DVD player, so I decided to grab an old 4gig USB key and creating a bootable install for Windows 8. There are two ways to do this. The easy way is to simply download the Windows 8… Read More
How to Dual Boot Windows 8 on your Windows 7 machine This is mostly a repost from teknobites. I took a few screenshots out, edited a few things, add a few others. The instructions for setting up dual boot for windows8 is pretty easy. If you have every setup a dual boot system before, you will see there is not much new here.. Before you start,… Read More