Hi All, Anyone have the official MD5sum or similar for the Windows 8.1 64 bit ISO? Many thanks, -T

Windows 10 Upgrade Just gone to upgrade windows 8.1 running on parallels on my MacBook air 2014, Thought I better have a look and see what its like and so I...

Anyway to copy Chess Titans and/or Solitare and/or 3D Pinball from Windows7 and have them run in Windows8?

I have a hard disk that is failing do I replaced it and attached it via USB. I then attempted to run CHKDSK on it (drive K:) and CHKDSK reported that it has...

Hi All, I got to a customer's site with Frankenstein (W8.1). She had a single web account and she did not know the password. This was unusual as I was the...

I've had it with the maddening "App Shelf" that Google has pushed down to Windows users. No relief in sight for Desktop users so far as I can see. My problem...

My friend lent me an almost new Win8 Toshiba laptop, running the chrome browser. In only an hour, I've never seen so many popups. They were so...

On my 8.0 touch screen ZenBook, the Google Chrome window spontaneously resizes to a rather small window. Sometimes I will open it and see it resize, other...

Its now officially available for various operating systems: Introducing the new Microsoft Edge: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge Enjoy computing with...

Hello, genius. Proud to say I've tried Chromium OS Vanilla initial screen on Virtualbox but it wasn't so great as I expected. Maybe settings were not perfect...

Classic Microsoft Solitaire Is the classic Microsoft Solitaire that has been in Windows since at least DOS 6.0 available for Window 8 I tried to get it...

I'm a long-time WinXPpro user. I'm wondering how familiar will Win8 with Classic Shell http://www.classicshell.net/ look to me? Will there still be a long...

I had to install Classic Shell on another Win8 machine yesterday. One of my friends was absolutely frantic! (Like me she's in her 60's) She said that she and...

I have been using Classic Shell for a while in Win 8 and like it very much, Now I see there is another similar utility out there called Retro UI. Has anyone...

One of the suggestions on an MS support site to people having trouble download and installing 8.1 was to do a Clean Boot. Well, that disables connection to...

I have been playing around with Microsoft since dos 5. I am no expert nor do I claim to be. A friend just bought a new laptop and wants me to help him set it...

I had an OEM Windows 7 on mmy laptop, bought along with the notebook. When I bought the update from Windows 7 to 8, I could choose various options on where I...

Oh dear!. Why did you get this message? Are you sure you are using the correct Newsgroup compliant newsreader? Try reinstalling Mozilla Thunderbird to see...

Where are the client software files located in Windows 8? I installed MS Office and find that I can open MS Word by double clicking on one of the old Word...

I loaded ClassicShell and installed it. One quewstion was asked -- which shell I wanted. That the only chance to do anything --and it closed. I can't tell that...