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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 my external harddrive (where all my important stuff is). I have not had this problem on other OSs with this same external HDD. […]

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: Note that my WinSxS folder has several folders and sizes 6.88 GB, however DISM won’t detect it. I understand that a healthy source

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 and type control and hit Enter now select the option Default Programs. Now you can select the option between Set your default programs

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 to   C:Program Files (x86)GoogleChromeApplication Is there a way of installing Google Chrome to   C:UsersUserNameAppDataLocalGoogleChromeApplication No, I have not installed Google Pack

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 name for the bar that can be made to appear on the right-hand side of the screen: It is designed to allow a

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:   “Your machine is offline please try to sign in with the last password used on this PC.” I have not changed my password

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 too (here). Tom’s Hardware (I’ll spare you the links due to ads) Unfortunately, none of the solutions there have worked. In short: even

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 fault), now her Windows 8 installation just keep locked on logon/password screen. How can I change the Windows 8 password for her account,

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 of IE; and the Metro IE does not appear to have a way to configure it. Can anyone tell me how to get

Task manager reports 2.53 GHz, but CPU-Z reports 1192 MHz.  My windows is a fresh install of the Windows 8 Pro Upgrade.  When I used the Consumer Preview, task manager would report different frequencies, but in my current installation this doesn’t happen. I’m currently running on battery, 64-bit, Intel Core i5 540M. Solution: I turned