Are you facing problems in your windows 8 with third party software’s? Are you planning to reinstall windows? No it’s not necessary in the case of windows 8. Windows 8 two features that will help the users to get rid of problems facing by third party software’s, Refresh and Reset are the two features offered by Microsoft.

Things to be Noted Before Refreshing or Resetting Windows

Before you Refresh or Reset Windows you have to note down few important parameters, Refreshing your windows will reinstall operating system and the apps that came up with windows and the apps you installed in the windows 8 store. None of your personal files or settings is removed or changed it remains the same in your windows.

If you reset your windows it will reinstall operating system and the apps came up with the windows. All your personal files and settings will be deleted. Your system will looks like a fresh installed windows. 

In some cases while resetting or refreshing windows may encounter some missing files in such scenario you will be asked to insert recovery media. Recovery media is your DVD or your Flash or USB Drives. If your system came up with windows 8 you will be asked to create recovery media during your first use. If you upgrade your windows using windows 8 DVD or Thumb drive you can use it. Alternately you can create recovery media in windows.

Refreshing Windows

Note: 

Refreshing windows 8.1(Recently you Upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 8.1) with the system having windows 8 recovery partition in it, your system will be restored to windows 8 only. You need to upgrade windows 8 to windows 8.1.

Apps you installed via website and DVD will be removed. The App that came up with the windows and apps you installed via windows store will be reinstalled. You will get the list of apps removed on your desktop after refreshing windows.

None of your personal files or settings will be removed during refreshing windows.

1. Tap or click on settings and then change pc settings

2. Tap or click on update and recovery

3. Tap or click on recovery 

4. Under Refresh your PC without affecting your files, tap or click Get started.

5. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Resetting Windows

Note:

Resetting windows 8.1(Recently you Upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 8.1) with the system having windows 8 recovery partition in it, your system will be restored to windows 8 only. You need to upgrade windows 8 to windows 8.1.

All your personal files, settings and the apps you installed with window will be removed and only the apps that came up with windows will be reinstalled during the Resetting.  Your system will be like a fresh installed window with default settings.

1. Tap or click on settings and then change pc settings

2. Tap or click on update and recovery

3. Tap or click on recovery

4. Under remove everything and reinstall Windows, tap or click Get started.

5. Follow the instructions on the screen.

You will be asked whether to erase data thoroughly or quickly. If you choose quickly resetting will be performed quickly. If you choose thoroughly it will take a bit longer time.  Share your windows refreshing and resetting experience with us.

Windows 8.1 update is released and it promised few features such as boot to desktop and start button. Windows 8 faces many issues and the update for a new version is released in a very short span of time. Windows 8.1 also face many issues. Laptop Price Online will update you with the various issues related and faced in windows 8.1. Users struck during the installation process are forced to reinstall windows 8. Before you install windows 8.1 you can check the compatibility of the softwares, apps, games and drives for various hardwares associated with your system or laptop.

Compatibility Check 

You can check for the compatibility of the softwares, apps and games by two different ways

Step1 - Windows Compatibility Centre

You can check compatibility of a particular hardware you used on your system or in laptop such as Graphics cards, Word processing software, Smartphones, Webcam and Printers too. In the windows compatibility centre search for your required software or hardware and the search result will bring you the compatibility result for your search query. 

Step2- Windows 8.1 Upgrade Assistant 

Windows 8.1 Upgrade Assistant can be used to scan your whole computer. It will check for the various apps, softwares and drives compatibility with windows 8.1. Upgrade Assistant result can be used to check the compatibility and proceed to the installation process.

Its is recommended to check with your manufacturer for the drivers for your hardware. It is recommended because without driver for your hardware you cant perform all your required operation in your system or laptop and it may lead to various issues. Hope this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

Planning to upgrade to windows 8 from windows 7 or from windows XP. During this some might get doubt will my system works well in windows 8 ? We list the Requirements of Windows 8. 

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) 

RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2GB (64-bit)

Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

If your system matches the above specified requirements and anyone can give you assurance your system will works with perfectly with the windows 8. Hope you would find above information useful for you. keep Visiting Happy Computing!

Windows released its latest version of windows 8 and now it also released its updated version 8.1. When Windows 8 released many users find its difficult to handle the next and next generation upgrades. You can find someone near you still windows xp for it impact in the computer users at that time. They find it more useful and they not ready to upgrade to the latest version.

Steps to be Noted While Downgrading Windows

* Windows or any operating system does not support downgrading

* If you have a copy of windows with you and when you try to install it

* A error message will pop up say it won't support downgrade

* You want to do a clean install

* Make sure you copied or moved your data's form c drive to another

* If you have a recovery version of windows use it

* You can also install windows as fresh install by using USB drive

* If you bought the laptop with windows 8 operating system

* You can't downgrade your operating system 

* As the laptops with windows 8 as inbuilt operating system will have the boot lock in it

* When you try to downgrade in it, it wont support 

Alternate options

* Windows released its latest updates for windows 8 as windows 8.1

* It is much easier and with lot of improvements

* You can notice the changes in all the apps and appearance in 8.1

* There is improvement in store too

* Much awaited start button is back in window 8.1

* It will suggest you to update it to windows 8.1 rather than downgrading

Hope this information might be useful in finding information about downgrading or updating your windows 8 and this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

Windows most popular operating system used by nearly 99% of the computer lovers. In previous versions of windows (Windows 7, Windows Vista and before ) there are lot of games in the windows. These games are simple and it is loved by many million users on the across the globe. With the latest release of the windows 8 and there is an release of the updated windows 8.1 these games are missing. Now the millions of these game lovers are in search of the those games in windows 8.

How to find Windows Games in Windows 8 

* In Windows 8, windows has announced a new option called store 

* In windows store you can buy the premium apps or you can download latest and free apps too for windows 8

* These apps are listed under different category

* We are now in search of windows games in the store

* Click on the games category in the store

* Remember the appearance of the store in the windows 8.1 is different form its previous version windows 8

* In the games category it will list games under free, latest and paid apps

* Almost all games released by Microsoft in the previous versions of the windows are free

* You can search for the games in the free games list

* You can also search for the game with its name

* When you search the game with its name you will find more games with the same name with slight modification 

* In such case select the game by the developer or by the publisher

* In the game description you will find the Microsoft as its publisher

* You can get all the games released by the Microsoft in the store

* Almost all games are for free which are released by the windows

Hope this information might be useful for you in finding the games in windows 8, Happy Computing !

When using our smartphone managing storage space is an important task. When you snap photos and you listen latest and most popular songs and apps, then storage space in smartphones are usually low. Managing the storage space in the windows phone can be done by three methods. You can check the storage space by using My windows phone app, in settings menu and in the Nokia Lumia series it can be done by storage check utility.

Windows phone has the option of sync your data in the cloud or in the pc and this will help to store the data for the long time.  You can manage the data in the My windows phone app and in the settings menu in the phone. Install the my windows phone app and sync it with your phone. Once the sync is finished then you can see the complete details of your phone storage with how much space is used for photos, Music, Video and Apps.

Meanwhile you can also check the storage of the phone in the settings menu. In settings select Phone storage to see the mobile version of the storage details. You can delete files in the windows phone by using windows phone tool to delete files or via windows explorer. 

Connect your phone via usb cable to the windows via usb. Now you know how to manage the storage in the smartphone. You can easily delete and add data to the phone using this option. Windows phone also has an tool to delete files . Using windows phone sync tool you can be used to sync files with the pc and it can be deleted in the phone. But this process is a time consuming one. 

Users having Nokia Lumia 920 and above has a tool named storage check utility and it has option to clear phone temporary files and you can also clear the browsing history in the internet explorer using this tool. If your phone is responding slowly you want to delete some of the apps and it can also be done from the apps list. Tap and hold the app you want to uninstall and click uninstall, this app will be removed from the phone. Hope this information might be useful for you visit us again for more, Happy Computing !

Windows recently released its windows 8.1 and with this release it also releases app for Android and iOS. It is an Remote Desktop App. We know how a remote desktop programs works and now with the help of this app you can access your windows system remotely from your tablet or iOS device. Its is the first time windows released a app that operates on the operating system that not own by microsoft. 

Remote Desktop is not only used by the business persons who can access the benifit of on the go access but the personal users can also use the remote desktop to access their system from a remote location. Please make sure that the system you accessing remotely must also also have to run the remote desktop on it as host system. 

The remote Desktop of the windows system in a android tablet looks like,

The various features listed by the Remote Desktop is “high quality video and sound streaming with improved compression and bandwidth usage“. You can even acess the system with Windows 7 or Windows Vista on the remote desktop app. The host system to be accessed must run the remote deskop app. A brief explanition of how to connect your system remotely in windows 7 and in windows vista is avaliable in windows website. I hope this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

When your laptop encounters a problem or it causing some problems randomly and you plan to remove this errors and problems by restore the system to default factory settings. Follow the steps listed below to restore the system to factory settings.

* Move mouse cursor to top right corner

* Click on the settings

* Now click on the PC settings

* Under PC settings tap or click on the General Tab

* Under Remove everything and reinstall windows click on get started

* Follow the onscreen instruction

Note:

If you restore to factory settings and please note all your data and personal information from the laptop or system will be removed or deleted permanently and you can't undo this process. Hope this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

Windows 8.1 is all set for its release on 17th October and you can buy it from store starting from 18th October. You may got a doubt will my system or laptop work fine with the latest release of windows, what will be the minimum requirements for this release. Windows 8.1 is the official name for the windows blue and it has many improved features on its appearance and on its performance.

System Requirements for windows 8.1 is

* Hard Disk: 16GB (32 Bit) or 20GB (64 Bit)

* RAM: 1GB(32 Bit) or 2GB(64 Bit)

* Processor: 1GHZ or Faster

* Graphics: Microsoft Directx 9

Windows Blue is renamed officially as Windows 8.1 and it has many improved features such as lock screen slideshow, Start screen evolves and different tile sizes. Hope this information might help you with the information you looking for, Happy Computing !

Windows 8 comes with a inbuilt antivirus program windows defender but it is not effective in handling virus as expected. So windows users planned to buy commercial anti virus programs and many latest anti virus programs support windows 8. Norton is one the antivirus and internet security program. 

Norton is one of the best antivirus program that is avaliable for windows 8. But when you try to remove it and plan to change to another antivirus and security program it won't get removed. You can try uninstalling from programs and features or other uninstall programs to force uninstall it but many of you won't get succeed in this process.

You will need a special tool to remove the norton antivirus and internet security program. 

Norton Removal Tool

* From the above link you can found the list of products avaliable that support norton removal tool

* Select the product you installed on your system

* It will open a page and give you download link for norton removal tool

* It will also suggest how to remove it from your system

* Follow the onscreen instructions during uninstalling

* Finally restart the system or laptop

Hope this information you might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

Windows 8 start screen comes with some of the predefined backgrounds and some textures. You can the combination of both that background colour and pre defined image texture. Working in windows 8 is totally different from the lower versions of windows and many find it difficult to change start screen background in windows 8 and we will guide you how to change it.

Steps to Change Start Screen Background

* Move mouse to top right corner

* You will see a bar click of settings in that bar

* In the following bar select change pc settings

* It will open the settings and by default it will be in personalize tab

* In personalize tab you can find lock screen, start screen and account picture

* Click on start screen

* It will display the colour palette and texture

* You can select the background colour of your own and the texture of your wish

* By clicking on lockscreen tab you can select change the lock screen background

* By clicking on the account picture tab you can change the account picture

Hope this information might be useful to find how to change the account picture and start screen background and this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

When you try to reinstall windows 8 or you try to downgrade to windows 7 you may find some error such as " UEF1 DVD1 PATH1(HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GU70N) " and this block you from reinstall windows. Here is the solution for your problem and this will help you to downgrade windows using installation disc or through bootable usb devices.

Windows 8 comes with a security feature that it blocks boot or installation disc to protect itself. It is mostly comes with the system that has certified windows 8. It is done with the help of UEFI. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) it acts as an interface between firmware and the operating system. It makes the windows 8 to have the ability to detect rootkit and block it.

To boot the system from a bootable drive or from a DVD you need to change the BIOS settings to default as other system. To change the settings during the system boot go to BIOS settings and you can find UEFI and change it to Load optimal default. Once you change the settings you can able to reinstall the windows 8 or you can downgrade the windows to its lower versions using bootable or with DVD's.

It's advised if you are not sure about how to change the BIOS settings then don't play with BIOS. It may harm your system once you not sure about the settings you changed. Hope this information might be useful for you and it might help you to answer your questions, Happy Computing !

Skype is one of the popular video application that is used for video call and audio call with the Skype users online. You can call mobile numbers but you want to buy credit for using mobile call facility. But when you use windows 8 as your system OS and now its a different you can use your skype application across various applications in windows 8.

In desktop or in other versions of windows your use of skype is limited but in windows 8 you can use it across various applications. In other versions of windows installing skype is a simple task, you can go to skype official website and download online installer or standalone installer to install skype.

In inline install it will prompt you to download and install skype from online. But in standalone versions you can download full skype application first then you wanna install it first. In windows 8 Version of skype things are quite similar but the difference is you wanna find skype application from windows store and install it.

In windows 8 download and installation are quite similar to online installer and once you installed it. You can use skype in windows 8, you can use skype across variety of application that will allow skype as a part of it. I hope this information might be useful to you, Happy Computing !