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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 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.