Windows 8 Has a Great New Backup Feature. It’s Called File History

Windows 8 Has a Great New Backup Feature. It’s Called File History......

When people talk about Windows 8, they usually can’t think of anything more noteworthy to discuss than whether they like the Modern interface and all its Live Tiles or hate them. Windows 8, though, is more than just a pretty face. It offers upgraded features throughout. One of the most useful new features that Windows 8 offers goes by the name File History. If you know of the well-loved Time Machine feature on Mac OS X, File History is just like it.

Windows File History allows you to create automatic backups of your files to a flash drive or a drive connected over a network (File History doesn’t allow you to create backups to a local internal hard drive installed right on your computer). When you lose a file or simply wish to take a look at an older version of a file, you are able to access this backed up version. File History and Windows 8 exist alongside of the Backup feature that was first seen in Windows 7. File History is considered a more advanced version.

How to Use Check Disk to Fix Problems With Your Hard Disk

How to Use Check Disk to Fix Problems With Your Hard Disk

Hard disk manufacturing defects and improper shutdowns over a period of time can result in errors showing up on your hard disk. You may be faced with data losses and random computer freezes. When you are in such a situation, your first step should be to run the Windows Check Disk utility. When run, the program goes through your hard disk sector by sector to find out what parts are unusable. It then reroutes traffic around those parts. It is usually a good idea to run the check disk utility once every quarter as a preemptive measure before you start experiencing problems.

The easy way to use Check Disk

While keying in the right command into the Command Prompt is the usual way to use Check Disk , Windows has a GUI method, too. To run the disk checker, you need to right-click on the hard disk partition that you need to check, select Properties and then click on the Tools tab on the dialog box that appears. This brings up a new Check Disk dialog box with two options, both of which you should check.

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How to Use Check Disk to Fix Problems With Your Hard Disk

Hard disk manufacturing defects and improper shutdowns over a period of time can result in errors showing up on your hard disk. You may be faced with data losses and random computer freezes. When you are in such a situation, your first step should be to run the Windows Check Disk utility. When run, the program goes through your hard disk sector by sector to find out what parts are unusable. It then reroutes traffic around those parts. It is usually a good idea to run the check disk utility once every quarter as a preemptive measure before you start experiencing problems.

How You Reassign Your Caps Lock Key to Something Useful

Here’s How You Reassign Your Caps Lock Key to Something Useful

When Google released its first Chromebook, reviewers praised the way its designers had left the Caps lock key out of the keyboard. They felt that the Caps lock key was a vestige of another era. Modern writing doesn’t need a Caps lock key. Mostly, it only serves as a key to hit by accident.

Many people use a Windows registry hack to disable the Caps lock on their keyboard. If you do plan to go to all the trouble of performing a registry hack, though, there is no reason to use it to waste a perfectly good key and disable it. You can emulate Mac OS X users and simply remap it to something useful.

What could you reassign it to?

Google’s Chromebook has the right idea – on the Chromebook, the place on the keyboard that is usually occupied by the Caps lock key is given over to a Search key. It could be an idea to remap the Caps lock key on your laptop’s keyboard to a search function, too.

3 Windows 8 Tips to Make Life Easier

3 Windows 8 Tips to Make Life Easier

Windows 8 has been around for a full year, already. To many people, though, the Modern interface is still a mystery. Here are a few tips on getting things done on Windows 8.

Using your Modern interface on the Desktop

The Modern interface on Windows 8 that’s filled with touchscreen-optimized tiled apps hasn’t been a hit with Desktop users who don’t have a touchscreen monitor. On a Desktop computer that’s mainly intended to run traditional Desktop programs, the fact that Windows 8 allows you to either use a Modern app or a Desktop program (but not both at the same time) can seem like a major oversight. The Desktop user with a dual monitor setup, for instance, would find it very useful to run a weather app or something else on one monitor and do his Desktop work on another. Windows 8 will have none of it, though.

If Microsoft allowed people to just run their Modern apps on a separate window right on their Desktop, they would possibly begin to care about Modern apps instead of considering them a hurdle to be crossed on the way to the Desktop.

Planning on Reinstalling Windows? Read This First

Planning on Reinstalling Windows? Read This First

Many people find that their Windows computers slow down over time. Often, the solution they come up with is to do a painstaking reinstall. They back up all their files, wipe their hard drive and put either their Recovery disk or their Windows disk in the optical drive to reinstall Windows. Once they do that, they may need to install all their drivers and programs all over again. The entire process can take up the better part of a day.

Why should Windows slow down in the first place?

Windows can slow down for a number of reasons.

Apple iTV release date, news and rumours

Apple iTV rumours are hotting up

We love the Full HD Apple TV box, but Apple really isn't so sure: the company has seemed more interested in getting iPads into your living room than its Apple TV box.

Apple says the Apple TV is a hobby, but the company is thinking bigger. Much, much bigger: it wants to sell you the entire TV set, not a little box beneath it.

In an early 2012 earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted again at the release of something bigger and better than the current Apple TV. Check out our in-depth look at How Apple's television will really work or read on for all the latest rumours.