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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…
After upgrading Windows 8 Enterprise to Windows 8.1 Enterprise (RTM), the store app won’t launch anymore, hanging on the splash screen forever. Is there a trick to reset the store app or something? Restarting or killing the app didn’t work. There are no error messages in the event logs (TWinUI/Operational etc.). Solution: Found this on…
I purchased Windows 8 online from Microsoft a while ago. Today Windows 8.1 was released as a free update to Windows 8 users over the Windows Store. I was planning to do a fresh install of Windows 8.1 to have a clean system again and UEFI support because I got new hardware since the Windows…
I cloned my windows 7 installation on c: to external hard drive. I applied usb patch using pwboot and i could successfully boot into windows. But My problem is even though i am booting in to external hd the file reference and system path is pointing to c: on my internal hard disk. If i…
I’ve googled and googled and googled, but I can’t find a decent FREE windows video editor. Does anybody know one? Solution: For basic editing there is Virtualdub. For effects, I’d go with ZS4 or Jahshaka (the latter is my preference).
When installing apps that are built around Windows Installer, it would appear that it often uses my external usb hard disk (when it’s connected) as the temp location while it expands and installs the application (creates a folder off the root with a guid name). Is there anyway to change this so it always defaults…
