Ballmer’s Pending Departure Only Makes His Mistakes More Obvious "The announcement of Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer’s plans to retire within the next 12...

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...

Does anyone here know if Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml and...

I wanted to search the archive for this NG, so I went to https://groups.google.com/forum/ and did a "search for groups named" alt.comp.os.windows-8 and...

Michael Dell: We Are Going Back To Our Roots Taking Dell Private The idea behind the buyout is to radically move the company away from the shrinking PC market...

Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install...

Does anyone know if Mike Lin's StartupMonitor (written for WinXP) https://web.archive.org/web/20131105052937/http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml works...

Toshiba Machine: recovered from HD failure. Now what is the minimum update I need before I can get free Upgrade to Windows 8.1. The Store doesn't show...

I'm thinking of installing an SSD as drive C: on my Win 8.1 desktop as a replacement for the 1TB regular HD that's there now. I have 800GB free on that drive...

I have a couple of Win 8.1 and Win 7 computers on the same LAN, all belonging to "Workgroup". 1) One of them, ACER (Win 7), is empty! 2) CAV (8.1) acts as I...

Has MS said how long they will continue to provide support for Win 8.x? If so, when does support end? Thx.

If I clone my C: drive to another HD of the same or larger size, and then remove the C: drive and replace it with the clone, should I expect any glitches when...

What is this C:\boot? It contains one folder, macrium, that contains two folders, drivers and WA10Kfiles Drivers ahs three folders -- disk (empty), network...

I created an image of my wife's hard drive and restored it to a new hard drive. I swapped out the old HD and of course it wouldn't boot, so I booted from the...

Have any problems been reported after installing last Tuesday's patches? Thanks.

Flipboard is a Win 8.1 Metro app. Is there a way to make the type face larger? Thanks.

Yousuf Khan wrote in message DirectX 12, won't be useful to you if you don't play...

I collect bits and pieces of info from here and there and put them in appropriately named folders. That works for a while but pretty soon there are a lot of...

I checked Newegg.com and bestbuy.com to try to find a "full retail" version of Windows 8, but those sites only have upgrades or OEM versions. I'm building my...

I've only been using Windows 8/64 for about a month now and I love it. But I moved to this directly from Windows XP Home, on which I ran Sunbelt Personal...