Windows 8.1: Setting up a HomeGroup the Desktop Screen Way
If you have your own WiFi network setup at home and you’ve got plenty of people who are connected to it then you can create a HomeGroup to make the sharing of files such as documents, music, photos, videos and some other stuff easier. In a Windows 8.1 machine, you will discover two methods in […]
Continue Reading »Setting Up and Joining a HomeGroup the Metro Screen Way
After connecting for the first time to a private network, you will see a prompt that will ask what type of files would you like to share such as documents, photos, music and other stuff saved in your computer’s hard drive. If the network that you got connected to is one that can be trusted […]
Continue Reading »Downloading Updates in Windows 8.1
Updates are an important component in maintaining your computer’s overall status and downloading them is a very crucial step in ensuring that your Windows machine works in top performance. Windows updates contain some security patches and other such stuff to ensure that your computer is protected from security threats and vulnerabilities which can be a […]
Continue Reading »7 Tips for Working with a Local Account
After booting up and getting through the Lock Screen, Windows 8.1 will bring you to a section that shows your picture and a box dedicated for inputting password in it. If you are currently logged in, you will see only your account picture and an input box where you can enter your account password but […]
Continue Reading »Logging in and Switching from a Local to a Microsoft Account
Back in the days of some older Windows editions, the only account that you can create are local accounts. A local user account is one of the most important thing that needs to be setup and in fact, it is a requirement that needs to be provided during installation. A Windows machine won’t work as […]
Continue Reading »Make it More Secure and Hard to Crack
How often do you use a password on your Windows machine? Most of us would always put passwords on any important account that we own and even on every device that we have. Passwords have become an important part of computer security and Microsoft knows how important it is to have a strong password which […]
Continue Reading »Security Tips You Should Know About
On our last tutorial, I have shown some tips that will help every Windows user secure their machine by using some built-in and as well as third-party tools which can be downloaded for free online. In this tutorial, I’ll be giving more tricks that will make everything even more secure simply by using the stuff […]
Continue Reading »How to Improve Security
No matter what Windows edition you are using, your computer will always be vulnerable to different types of threats especially those that are coming from the web. If you are using your machine for a lot of web surfing activities, it will always be a very big advantage on your part if you know some […]
Continue Reading »Staying Safe with Windows 8
One of the things that users really take good care about in any operating system version or platform is the security of its contents. In the advent of Windows 8, the list of possible instances where users can become a victim of certain security and privacy problems has increased but Microsoft has designed it to […]
Continue Reading »Sharing Your Files Safely
One of the things that we often use our computers for is sharing files either by using a wireless method (bluetooth or on a wireless network) or by transferring it to a portable storage device and finally copying it to the machine that you want to save the files in. However, with Windows 8, all […]
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