Given that Windows 8 has Windows Defender is it still necessary to have a separate Mall-ware and/or Virus programs?

I'm now starting to feel like one of those old men who got totally confused when Microsoft slightly changed the start menu between Windows XP and Vista or 7,...

where are the win7 type sound schemes? housetrained

Inadvertently I have set .cmd files to open in notepad. I will not go into details how I did this, but the result is that in the control panel ..cmd files...

Hi All, We have downgrade privileges with W8 Pro to W7 Pro. Will W8's key work on W7? Or as with the W7 to XP downgrade, do we have to use someone else's...

"Seth" wrote in message ... Cross posted to both Windows 7 and 8 groups due to likely...

Up to some extent the question about Start Button and NUI is cosmetic, although i also do not like the forced change of paradigm and hope it will finally be...

From today's (Thursday 18 April) _Wall Street Journal_, page C1: Column: "Ahead of the Tape" by Spencer Jakab Quoting the headline and the first...

What happened to the taskbar widget that we used to click in Win7 to release USB drives before pulling the plug?

So Win 8. Newbie with stupid questions. Do tablets run Win 8? The same Win 8 that a PC runs? If I have an app that runs on Win7, can I put it on a tablet...

Hello, I bought an official update DVD to upgrade my Win7 home Prem 64b SP1 desktop system to Win8 pro 64bits. The evaluation test gives few minor warning...

It's like 50% failure here. Trying to use Firefox in windows 8 64- bit. Flash player is the pits. When I do a right click context menu on a video, the menu...

I recently bought an HP Pavilion with Windows 8 Home Premium pre-installed. The mouse that came with it is a conventional HP push and shove type. I would like...

I don't use the metro interface too often so I don't know how long this has been going on. Bing, Travel, News, Sport and Weather open and lock up completely...

I have a Lenovo Tablet 2 with Windows 8 Pro (32-bit) factory installed, configured as a member of a domain. It will download my roaming profile OK, but refuses...

If you use Classic Shell you might like WinAero's free Windows 8 skin...

I installed ClassicShell to a Windows 8 laptop for a friend and he can now actually use it. At his request, I set it to still show the metro UI, but also have...

When I bought Windows 8 Pro it came with 32-bit and 64-bit DVDs I installed 32-bit. I just got to wondering what the difference is and the advantages of 64 bit...

Product Update Details (Release Notes) ================================ Note: applies the bundled set of apps (Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging) qp Release...

I have Win7 SP1 64bit installed and hundreds of programs left over from the ME days and after. Is there a Microsoft product to check my computer to see if all...