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I have a Toshiba Canvio 3.0 external HDD. It has USB 3.0. It flashes blue if you connect it to a USB 3.0 port. If it is a 2.0 port, the light … Windows 8 – How to detect if a USB port is 3.0 or 2.0?Read more

I’m using Windows 8.1 with an external hard drive. My external seems to go to sleep very quickly, like in a single minute. I constantly wait 2-3 seconds when accessing files on … Windows 8 – How to keep harddrive spinning / prevent spindown?Read more

How can I run DISM agaisnt a USB Windows installer to repair my local Windows files? This is what I tried in Windows 8.1: DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth It returns error 0x800f081f: … Windows 8 – How to run DISM against a local source?Read more

How can I change or set the default application for handling a given file type? What about for some specified actions, like “open web browser” and “preview image”? Solution: Press the Win+R … Windows 8 – How to set the default program or application for handling a given file type or url protocol?Read more

I recently have installed a second drive to my PC and decided to install Windows 8 on it. While installing all of my favorite programs I noticed that my Google Chrome installed … Windows 8 – Install Google Chrome to appdataLocalGoogleChromeApplicationRead more

I’ve seen a number of references to the “Charms Bar” in discussion about Windows 8. What is it, and how is it accessed? Solution: What is it? The Charms Bar is the … Windows 8 – What is the Charms Bar?Read more

I have been using windows 8 x64 from MSDN for about a month now. I woke up this morning and when I tried to log in I got the following error:   … Windows 8 – Your machine is offline please try to sign in with the last password used on this PCRead more

This is a problem I’ve seen described in many places: Super User (here, here, here and so on) Microsoft support forums (here, here…) The Lenovo forums have some users complaining about this … Windows 8 hard disk usage 100%Read more

I installed Windows 8 on my mother’s notebook, she typed a new password for her and she lost it, she can’t remember what she typed and no notes about it were made(my … Windows 8 locked because the password were lost, how can I change it without needing to reinstall it?Read more

There appear to be two copies of Internet Explorer in Windows 8; the Metro version, and the normal version. The Internet Options settings do not appear to apply to the Metro version … Windows 8 preview – In Internet Explorer 10 Metro, how do you change the home page?Read more