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Microsoft has released a 90-day test edition for its last version of Windows 8 operating system, which is slated to go on selling on October 26 this year. The run, withal, is obtainable only for the Enterprise edition of Windows 8 and is aimed at developers who think to shape apps, and IT administrators who requisite to try out the new OS before making their pick to migrate, all onwards of its adjudicator commencement. Microsoft recently released closing variant of Windows 8 to MSDN and Technet subscribers.

 

The Windows 8 Task test edition is available in 32 and 64 bits versions. To download the operating group, users require to tally a subscription to Windows Lively. Also, users require to score a 1GHz processor with 1GB of RAM and 20GB of hard disc character as minimum falsification responsibility. A determine of run ISO images are also provided for a tracheophyte of languages in x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit)versions.

 

The Task edition comes with all the features of Windows 8 Pro and is statesman business-focused. It has options much as Windows To Go (which allows Windows 8 installation from a USB key).

 

If you are preparation to download the experiment association, beneath are many pointers before you commencement:

The rating edition testament suspire and cannot be upgraded.

To advance, the assessment must be uninstalled and a non-evaluation writing of Windows staleness be re-installed from your innovational instalment media.

Ponder spouting the evaluation edition in a realistic environment or instalment on a other semihard road or partition. The gift reckon you to rise your example Windows beginning to Windows 8.

During body (required) you staleness login with a Microsoft declare and furnish your canvass, e-mail tact and country.

You are required to change the fluid online within 10 life after installment.

Formerly the valuation is installed, you cannot grade. To turn to a old type of Windows, you moldiness do a unqualified pose from your model artifact media.

 

For more details on activation click here.

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Hello Everyone.

With the launch of Windows 8 Microsoft has reached new hights in User Interface. But though the UI has changed from good (windows 7) to wicked cool (Windows icon cool Windows 8 : How to Change the Number of Apps Rows in Windows 8 Metro Start Screen the same amount of learning curve is required. As you wont find the options so easily as you do on windows 7. So thats why i have started this WINDOWS 8 HOW TO series to help everyone find there way through windows 8.

So this time i will start off with tips on how to pin and unpin apps from Metro Start Screen.

If you want to pin an app on the Metro Start Sceen just follow the steps below:

1. Hover your mouse over the bottom most and left most corner of your screen. Click on search. ALternatively you can press Windows key + F.

Start Click

Start Click

 

2. Select apps from search list on the right and find the app you want o pin.

3. Now if you don’t see you rapp listed here then you need to go to the start menu folder (hidden by default) and create a shortcut form the app’s .exe file in the Start Menu folder and the trying searcing for the app again. The folders to see for Start Menu items are :

For Your Account Only:
C:\Users\User-Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

For All User Accounts: (must be administrator)
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

New Shortcut
New Shortcut

4. You will see the app now.

Pin App
Pin App

5. You can right click on the app to pin it to the start screen.

Pin App
Pin App

7. Now you can see you app on the Metro Start Screen.

Pinned App Metro Start Screen
Pinned App Metro Start Screen

Unpin An App Metro Start Screen

To Unpin an app from the Metro Start Screen simply search the app (Windows KEy + F ) and right click on it and it will be unpinned from the Metro Start Screen .
Hope this was helpful. Will soon be back with another Windows 8 How To. Comments and feedback are always welcome.

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Hello Everyone.

With the launch of Windows 8 Microsoft has reached new hights in User Interface. But though the UI has changed from good (windows 7) to wicked cool (Windows 8) the same amount of learning curve is required. As you wont find the options so easily as you do on windows 7. So thats why i have started this WINDOWS 8 HOW TO series to help everyone find there way through windows 8.

So this time i will start off with changing the number of apps rows in windows 8 metro start screen.

Windows 8 Metro Home Screen

Windows 8 Metro Home Screen

You should know that Windows 8 automatically detects the current screen resolution and then sets the number of rows as well as other pinned items that should be be available on the start screen. By default it is 3 to 5 in Windows 8.

So in the screen above you can see that there are 4 rows. The resolution for the above screen is 1920 x 1080. Here below i am adding a table for minimum and max number of rows for each resolution.

Screen Resolution Default Max Min
800 x 600 3 3 1
1024 x 768 4 4 1
1152 x 864 5 5 1
1280 x 720 4 4 1
1280 x 960 5 6 1
1280 x 1024 5 6 1
1440 x 900 5 5 1
1600 x 900 5 5 1
1900 x 1080 5 6 1

To increase or decrease the number of apps rows on metro start screen follow the steps below:

1. Press Windows + R keys to open the Run dialog box. And write regedit.exe in it and press enter.

Windows Run Command

Windows Run Command

2. If you are prompted by the UAC then click yes and you will see a registry editor window. In the registry editor navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Grid

You should see something like below:

Regisrtry Editor

Regisrtry Editor

3. Now double click on the key Layout_MaximumRowCount and you should see the window like below and here you can change the number of rows that you should see by default on your home screen.

Edit DWORD

Edit DWORD

4. If the key Layout_MaximumRowCount is not present then right click on a empty space in the right pane of the grid and click on New –> DWORD and then type Layout_MaximumRowCount and press enter.

New DWORD

New DWORD

5. Now log off and log on and you will see the same number of rows as you set here.

Hope you like it. I will be back with another How to very soon. Feedback and comments are most welcome.

 
 

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Do not have a DVD drive in your laptop or netbook, facing problems with DVDs getting scratched.Here is a permanent solution to have a reliable Installation source as USB or Pen drive.Also the installation would be 3X faster. The USB drive should be atleast 4 GB in Size.

  1. We will use the DiskPart utility inbuilt in Windows operating system to prepare the usb drive as a installation source.
  2. Open the Windows command prompt by typing cmd in Run box.
  3.  Type diskpart in the command prompt .
  4. Type list disk command to check the status of your drive
  5. Type select disk 1 where the “1” is actually the corresponding number of your USB drive.(It may different on your system, check the size of the disk to confirm it is the USB drive.)
  6. Type clean.
  7. After the USB drive is clean, type create partition primary.
  8. Now make the partition active by typing command active
  9. Then you need to set up the file system as Fat32 by running format fs=fat32 quick
  10.  Type assign to give the USB drive a drive letter .
  11. Then copy all the files from the Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation DVD onto the USB drive. If you have Windows 7 or Windows 8 ISO You can actually copy all the contents after extracting the ISO.For extracting you can use Power ISO or other similiar utilities.
  12. Now you can install the Windows 7 using the USB drive(might need to change boot options to boot from USB in your system BIOS settings) .

The installation will be atleast 3X faster than DVD.

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In the words of Jensen Harris (director of the Windows Experience) “Every screen needs to be touch. A Monitor without touch feels dead.” So it means that Windows 8 is designed for touchscreens (tablets, All In One PCs and convertible laptops). But today i am just going to discuss how the new OS might transform the Windows Tablet Experience.

  • Metro UI and Apps – The Metro UI is obvious which Microsoft has preoccupied with tablets. The start screen comprises of groups of interactive tiles which is borrowed from Windows Phone 7 and Windows Media Center. The start screen scrolls horizontally very smoothly even on low powered ARM tablets. Now the tiles that you see here are not merely icons but are live widgets which deliver vital information without having to delve into the app itself. This means that the new app will scroll through the latest headlines, the flicker application will display thumbnail photo slideshow, live stocks, live whether, calander events, etc. The apps icons can be resized or repositioned according to application. If you are developer then you should know that Metro apps can be coded in C / C++ / C# but Microsoft appears to be nudging developers to work in HTML /CSS / Javascript bcoz the apps written in standard web languages will not need recompilation for ARM based devices. Now you might be exited to know that Metro apps are full screen with no taskbar and no close or minimize button. This means that if you want to kill the app you need to go to the task manager to kill the app. Also the apps are suspend by the OS when they are inactive. Now you can switch between the open apps by flicking your finger from the left hand side of the screen, just like turning the pages of a book. If the native resolution of your screen is 1366 X 768 or higher then you can run metro apps side by side where one app will be covering 75% of the screen and the other app will occupy a sliver on the left or right side.
windows-8-metro-apps

windows-8-metro-apps

windows-8-metro-apps

windows-8-metro-apps

windows-8-metro-apps

windows-8-metro-apps

  • The Windows Store – Metro apps will be downloadable exclusively from the Windows Store which is Microsoft’s response to Apple App Store and Android Market. Its quite obvious that microsoft will offer both free and paid apps although no confirmation regarding the same has been made from the side of Microsoft. Also leaked documents suggest that MS plan to take the same 30% cut on apps sales that Apple and Google do. Unique store design will allow developers to offer free trials that will expire and wiped from the devices after a set number of days. MS also plans to list additional apps in Windows store alongside the new metro apps which will redirect the users to the vendors sites.
win8appstore

win8appstore

  • Sharing and Syncing Apps – Metro apps will be synchronised all your windows 8 devices using the Windows Live account that’s linked to your user ID. This means that Metro apps are sold on user user basis rather per device but the nuber of devices will be limited. Also the synchronization will not only sync the app but also the data so that for example you can play the game on your tablet where you left it on your PC.
sync-pc

sync-pc

  • Text Input – The software keyboard is good and comes with couple of smart innovations like auto complete. The on screen keyboard can be split into 2 allowing the users of larger tablets to tap away with their thumbs on either side of the screen. For the stylus users, handwriting recognition is also an option.
windows-8-thumby-keyboard

windows-8-thumby-keyboard

  • Windows On ARM – The words of Windows Shief Steven Sinofsky “all apps for ARM are going to come through the store which meand they will be metro apps. ” suggest that Windows on ARM  could be pure tablet play designed to compete with iPad and android devices while intel based processors will be used for laptops, desktops and hybrids.
Microsoft-ARM-Powered-Windows-8-Tablet

Microsoft-ARM-Powered-Windows-8-Tablet

So guys, hope you enjoyed the article….Do post your comments and feedback…