Category: Windows 8 Tutorial
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Add an Account Summon the Settings Charm to add an account, and click on “Add an Account”. It will list the service providers that Calendar app currently supports. Select …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Calendar” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
Launch the Mail app from the Start Screen. Summon the Settings Charm to add a mail account through Charms Bar, or pressing “Win+I” key combo. Click on “Add an …
Welcome Screen Apart from the wallpaper-sized image, the welcome screen has 2 sections. Featured Destinations – It lists cities all over the world that are worthy as travel destinations. …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Travel” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
Welcome Screen The welcome screen displays a big image, embedded with a related news headline, and not related stock market indices. Click on the headline to read the details. …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Finance” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
Add an Account Summon the Settings Charm to add a mail account, and click on “Add an Account”. It will list the service providers that Mail app currently supports. …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Mail” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
How to Launch It Control Panel Way Open “Administrative Tools” applet from the traditional Control Panel. Launch “Component Services” from the list of administrative tools. Command Way Invoke Run …
How to Launch It Control Panel Way Open “Administrative Tools” applet from the traditional Control Panel. Launch “Windows PowerShell ISE” from the list of administrative tools. Command Way Invoke …
Revamped Windows Defender With Windows 8, Microsoft has integrated the functionalities of its widely popular anti-virus product Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) into Windows Defender, thus making Defender a complete …
Windows Fax and Scan Windows provides a program called Windows Fax and Scan to manage faxes and scanned document. You can send and receive fax documents through this program. …
Applications in Office Microsoft Office is a suite; a collection of applications, grouped together for productivity purpose. You may buy the whole Office suite, or selective applications from the …
How to Launch It Control Panel Way Open “Administrative Tools” applet from the traditional Control Panel. Launch “Computer Management” from the list of administrative tools. Command Way Invoke Run …
Windows Live Messenger integration Text, audio and video chatting with friends Multiplayer gameplay Video services to stream videos online Bing search engine Last.fm music streaming Achievement points for completed …
Targets – The storage devices scattered across the networks. However, sometimes, the computers to which the storage devices are connected are also considered as targets. Initiator – The client …
Friends section lists your Xbox and, perhaps, Windows Live Messengers friends. You may initiate a text, voice or video chat with a friend from this section. Game Activity section …
CPU, Memory, Disk and Network. How to Launch It Control Panel Way Open “Administrative Tools” applet from the traditional Control Panel. Launch “Resource Monitor” from the list of administrative …
Firewall Profiles When connecting to a new network, Windows prompts you to designate it as private or public network. Depending on the designation, Windows Firewall applies a profile that …
My Music Section This section lists content from the Music Library, as well as the songs that you purchase from the Marketplace. You can filter the music on the …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Music” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
Videos Library Bringing all your videos under one roof can be helpful when they are distributed over several partitions or hard disks. The Videos library can become that “roof” …
Music Library Bringing all your songs under one roof can be helpful when they are distributed over several partitions or hard disks. The Music library can become that “roof” …
CPU Idle Time CPU Busy Time Hard disk read speed Hard disk read time Hard disk write time Memory idle space Memory used space How to Launch It Control …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Video” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
My Videos Section This section of the app lists content from the Videos Library, as well as the videos (movies and series) that you bought in the Marketplace (provided …
How to Launch It Control Panel Way Open “Administrative Tools” applet from the traditional Control Panel. Launch “Task Scheduler” from the list of administrative tools. Command Way Invoke Run …
The admin tool ODBC Data Sources manages the data sources that are installed in your system. Through this tool, you can add, manage or remove Data Source Names as …