I just upgraded (hah!) my stepson's new Dell laptop from Win 8 to Win 8.1. I had set up a local account for him under 8, but the upgrade seems to have been...

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 Win 8 on a laptop with Classic Menu (and some other tricks -- eliminate the lock screen, boot to desktop, etc.) I went to Metro and clicked Store. The...

These were in CBS.log. A LOT of these: 2014-04-09 17:16:33, Info CSI 00000400 Beginning Verify and Repair transaction 2014-04-09...

Since everything else failed in my attempts to upgrade to 8.1 including attempts to repair and to refresh 8.0, I decided to "reset". Since it does not...

I just installed 8.1 on my wife's computer and she reports a new behavior. Previously, when she right-clicked the word processor icon in the task bar, she...

Is there an update available for 8.1? If so, is it called 8.1 Update, or 8.1.1? Thanks.

I just noticed this, only because I have Classic Shell installed and we do not use any Metro apps. That said, I decided to try a Metro app because I saw that...

I have a LAN with 2 Win 8 and 1 Win 7y computers. My wife and I each have accounts on all three. I would like to set up sharing so that I could, for example,...

The mouse works, but I di not see it in Device Manager. How do I know that it is using the drivers I just installed???

I would ike the login screen to display the hidden admin account. How do I make it visible? Thanks.

Anyone familiar with Dell Backup and Restore? I'd like to be able to make a set of recovery DVDs so that in case, some day, I cannot boot from my HD, I can...

I'm missing something. I have a LAN with a couple of Win 7 computers on it and I would like to add my new Win 8 computer. I would like each computer to be...

The read-only attribute cannot be removed from folders. I have consulted the Microsoft site but to no avail. Has anyone cracked this one? -- Best wishes,...

Choke on it, sucker. Four more years! -- Alias

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9234216/Windows_8_uptake_More_like_Vista_than_Windows_7 -- Alias

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249971/Microsoft_wants_you_to_forget_Windows_8 Even Vista did better. Of course, this is in line with MS' good/bad,...

wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/22/ie_8_zero_day_dumped_after_7_months_redmond_says_harden_up/ Phishers get fresh code...

Things keep quite the same. Wish to be in Bronx with my tablet. Still the login keyboard filter problem .

They work building chipsets but can't have fun because their text keyboards are complicated.