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If you still have some bluetooth devices that you want to use on Windows 8, you’d first have to enable it.

Bluetooth is a short range wireless technology that enables you to quickly transfer data between 2 devices. Windows 8 is a modern OS with full support for Bluetooth just like its previous versions released by Microsoft. To enable Bluetooth on your Windows 8 system, follow these instructions. Before you start though, make sure your device has Bluetooth capability.

1. Logon using windows 8 admin account

2. Use your administrator account and login into Windows 8. Click Control Panel on the Desktop by clicking on Computer icon.

3. Type Bluetooth in the search bar and click on Change Bluetooth Settings.

4. A new window would pop-up to allow you to make changes as appropriate. Check all 3 boxes and click on OK.

5. If you want to send a file using Bluetooth File transfer option, you can right click on any file/folder to send, go to Send To and select Bluetooth Device. Onscreen instructions would guide you to the rest of the file sending process.

A DHCP server automatically provides IP addresses, the address of the default gateway as well as that of a DNS server to all to all the client computers on its network, whenever its requested to do so.

By default Windows 8 is configured to get all these details from a DHCP server when connected. I rare cases this setting might not be enabled by default, or might have been changed by the administrator. Here is how to enable it on Windows 8.

1. Press the Win+R hot key to initiate the Run dialog box. Type NCPA.CPL and press Enter.

2. Right click on the NIC card icon for which you want DHCP to be enabled. Next click on the Properties option

3. In the properties dialog box that open, double click on the option Internet protocol version 4 (TCP/IPv4)

4. In the box select the options Obtain IP addresses automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically. Click on OK to enable DHCP.

Conclusion

Make sure that you disable the settings for remote connection once you are done with it in order to avoid unauthorized access of your system.

To allow remote assistance connections, you first have to make sure the remote desktop feature is enabled.

Windows 8 features the remote desktop option to enable access to your PC from other computers. This is a great feature that has been introduced since Windows XP. One has to be careful when using this service because this could lead to system data being lost or stolen in case unauthorized access is granted. If you need remote access to your PC or want to give it to someone else to fix a problem you have, here is what to do.

1.Press the Win+R hot key to initiate the Run dialog box. Type cmd and press Enter.

2. In the command prompt that opens up, type in SystemPropertiesRemote.exe. When you hit Enter, you would be prompted with a new window having a list of remote network connection options. Make sure to select the 2nd radio button that says Allow connections from Computers running any version of Remote Desktop (less secure). Now Click OK

4. Obtain the IP address of your computer by typing ipconfig in the command prompt. Your IP address is the one which has IPv4 Address written against it.

5. On the machine from which you want to access the newly setup remote desktop, once again press the Win+R hot key and type in mstsc without the quotes. Enter the IP that you received from your own system to get connected.

Conclusion

Make sure that you disable the settings for remote connection once you are done with it in order to avoid unauthorized access of your system.

Telnet by default, is disabled in Windows 8. This is to protect an unsuspecting user from hacking attacks. But if you know what you are doing, and want to re-enable telnet, here is how to do it.

1. Open up Control Panel by clicking Computer shortcut icon on Desktop and clicking Control Panel on the top taskbar.

2. Open Programs and Features.

3. In this window, select the option Turn Windows features on or off found on the top left side of the taskbar.

4. This will open another dialog box listing all of windows features. Scroll down till you find the option Telnet Client and Telnet Server. Tick check both of these options to enable telnet on Windows. It is important you check both of these to enable remote computer sharing.

5. This would continue with the installation process. In moments, Telnet should be installed and when done, you can click Close as shown below.

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An IP address is a unique ‘numerical label’ assigned to every device, such as computer, printer, etc. for communication purposes. You will need an IP address for a broadband connection and/or to LAN. If you need to find your IP address, then just go through the instructions.

1. Open the command prompt by holding down Win+R key and entering cmd. Press Enter.

2.Once the Command Prompt is open, type in ipconfig and hit enter.

3.Now scroll down and look for the IP address of your device. This would be the IPV4 address of your system.

4. To find out your online IP address go to a popular website like http://www.whatismyip.com/ – this is the IP that you are broadcasting to websites out there. All websites that you visit have this IP in their log files (including ours)

So, not for one minute think you are browsing anonymously, even if you are behind 10 proxies and 10 VPN’s, there are ways to track you.

There might be quite a few reasons one might want to format a hard drive. It could have become corrupted, or infected by a virus that you can’t seem to get rid of. In any case, formatting a drive is quite simple, simply follow the instructions.

Tip: For erasing a hard drive, you should always have 2 hard drives, then install Windows on the new hard drive and add both drives to your PC. Boot into the drive that you want to keep

1. Log in to your windows 8 as the administrator and click on Desktop Icon in the Windows Start Metro Menu.

2. Right click on the Computer shortcut icon and click Manage.

3. Once the computer management screen opens, click on the Disk Management option on the left pane. On the right side, you will now see a list of attached hard disks. Right Click on any disk which you want to format and click on Format.

4. This will open another context menu, in which you should select the format option, format timings, and the format type for your HDD. By clicking on OK, it should perform the format on your hard drive.

Conclusion

Make sure that the disk you are formatting does not have your data because such an action cannot be undone and the data is recoverable in case you lose your important files during the format.

If you are looking for a free method to locate your unique MAC address for your PC, then you came to the right place – windows8themes.org!

Mac addresses are unique addresses assigned to networking devices for unique identification purposes. These are done in order to avoid clashes while connecting with other networking devices. You might require knowing your mac address for various purposes such as for port forwarding. If you need to find your mac address, here is how to do it:

1. Logon using windows 8 admin account

2. Open the command prompt by holding down Win+R key and entering CMD. Click OK

3. Type ipconfig /all in the Command prompt and hit Enter.

Conclusion

The physical address is your MAC address and since many systems have more than one network devices installed, there are chances of having more than one physical address of the PC.

Every version of Windows has a unique product key, which is different from the same versions run on other systems throughout the world. In case you want to know your windows 8 product key, here is the list of steps you can follow:

1. Click on Windows Explorer Icon and right clilck on Computer from the left task pane. Click Properties.

2. A new window would pop-up for System properties where you would scroll down to find the Product ID: of your Windows 8. This is your Product Key.

Instead of formatting your PC every time you run into problems, learn how to fix it, e.g. how to fix your MBR in Windows

If you are having problems rebooting Windows 8 and constantly get bombarded with the missing MBR, you need to repair MBR via the installation DVD disc. MBR stands for Master Boot Record, and plats a vital role in safely booting the Windows. MBR keeps a register of every single file that needs to be loaded when Windows boots up. At times, the MBR could get damaged and corrupted. Windows is pretty much prone to viruses and file corruptions if it gets shutdown or restarted improperly.

Forget about reinstalling Windows 8. Think about repairing the MBR to get rid of this problem, and here is how you do it:

1. Insert the Microsoft Windows 8 DVD in the DVD rom and reboot your computer by selecting the 1st bootable device as DVD/CD Rom from the BIOS settings of your system.

2. When Windows boots up, click on the Next button

3. Click on the Repair your computer link at the bottom.

4. When Choose an option window pops up, click on Troubleshoot.

5. Now click on the Advanced options in the next Troubleshoot window that pops-up.

6. On the next Advanced options window, click Command prompt.

7. When CMD opens up, type in BOOTREC /FIXMBR command and press enter to fix the MBR.

8. You should see The operation completed successfully. notice, after which you need to restart your system in order for the changes to take effect.

If you, for some reason, want to flip your screen or use the portrait mode, then read this simple how-to.

There are various reasons why someone might want to flip the default orientation of their computer screens. It could be because the monitor is more convenient to keep upside down, or someone might want to flip it sideways for advertising, reading, or maybe some other purposes. It’s very easy to flip your screen the way you want to. Here, follow the instructions.

0. Hit Windows key + E to open the Windows Explorer

1. Go to Control Panel by Clicking Computer Shortcut on Desktop and then clicking Open Control Panel, from the top taskbar.

2. Click on the Display icon. Make sure that the Small Icons view is shown in the Views by category.

3. Once the display window is open, select the Adjust resolution link in the upper left of the display window.

4. You will find the Orientation option on the right side of the window. Click on the flip option in this menu because you have now 4 choices from which you would be able to select. You would be asked to Keep changes or Revert. Make sure to select the one that suits you best.

Conclusion

If you are comfortable then proceed with screen orientation, or otherwise it would be next to impossible to use your system afterwards in an awkward way.

Here’s a great tutorial that explains how you would enable the auto-login feature in Windows 8 and bypass the login screen entirely!

If you have installed a recent version of Windows 8 and the computer is not shared with anyone else, then you can get rid of the hassle of typing your username and password time and again when Windows loads up. Use automatic log on feature instead. In this aspect, Win 8 is similar to Win 7. Here is how you enable windows auto login:

1. Move your mouse over Start Menu button and click Search.

2. Click on Apps and type in netplwiz. Press Enter and a user accounts screen would open up.

3. You would see the list of all those accounts used to login on Windows 8. Uncheck the box Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer and hit the OK button.

4. This would prompt you up to verify this action by getting your password. Type in your password and press OK.

Conclusion

You are done and when you restart your computer you should be able to get through the windows metro screen without logging in manually.

Here’s the easiest way to format a hard drive.

Formatting a Hard Disk Drive in Windows or Mac is normal and in case if something goes wrong and out of control, it evidently gets essential to format. Before formatting, make sure that you have made a safe & secure backup of your important files and data on another hard drive or external USB drive to avoid any losses. Here is how you format a HDD in windows 8:

1. Right click on the Hard Drive you want to format and click Format.

2. You would be prompted by a new window pop-up to format your Hard Drive. It is upto you to Format with Quick Format checked, but I would personally suggest NOT to check this option if you want a thorough and clean sweep of your Hard drive. Now click on Start and Format the Hard Drive. It should take no more than 5 to 10 minutes depending upon your computer’s performance, and Hard Disk speed to perform a speedy format.

Conclusion

You have successfully formatted your Hard Drive. As of now, the system should run smoothly without any errors, nags and bugs.

If you want to know, how to add Disk Cleanup to the Right-Click Menu for a Drive, go through the tutorial below.

Generally when you want to run the Disk Cleanup utility, you either need to find it through the start menu, or need to open driveproperties window to access it. You can skip all these steps and can add Disk Cleanup option to the Right-Click Menu for a Drive to access it quickly. You just need to add some keys and value to your registry. The whole procedure is very short and easy.

Follow the steps to add Disk Cleanup to the Right-Click Menu for a Drive

Steps to add Disk Cleanup to the Right-Click Menu for a Drive

1. First of all move your mouse cursor to the lower right corner of the screen, the Start menu sidebar will pop up. Click on Search option.

2. Now, click on the Apps option in the Right Hand Search Menu to open "Search Apps” text box and type regedit in the "Search Apps” text box. Apps Search result will appear in the left. Click on regedit.exe.

3. Click on Yes in the UAC (User Account Control) dialog box.

4. Now in Registry Editor browse down to following sub key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell

by clicking their respective expand icon.

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Windows 8 gets its first ever social live tile through FlipToast — an app that allows you to stay social without having to go in to your browser.

Windows 8 Gets Its First Social App

Fliptoast for Windows 8 is a social app that has its own live tile that allows you to stay connected to your Social networks at all times without needing to open the browser. And this app does more than just pour out your updates outside your browser; it allows you to chat with your contacts and also supports drag and drop image sharing. You can also invite friends and recommend games that you are paying while you are playing them.
FlipToast makes use of a built in feature inside Windows 8 called Contracts. It allows any Windows 8 app to open their data for sharing with any other app. This way, apps do not have to be ‘aware’ of each other to share information between them. FlipToast uses this intelligently to make it easier for you share things on your Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
This app is fairly new in the market although it has recently hit the one million users mark. As a social app that is not for a particular social network (like the Metro Twitter client we reported about earlier), it is a first on Windows 8.
Social is going to be one of the biggest things on Windows 8 Metro not only because it is one of the biggest things around anyway but also because of the way the Metro User Interface works. With the Live Tile feature and things like Metro Contracts, social apps will be much more dynamic that than what they are on other platforms like iOS and Android.
For those who don’t know — Live Tils is a feature that allows apps to have a toned down presence on the Start Screen as a square or rectangular tile and the tile will display changes in information automatically without the full app running somewhere in the background. So your social updates will still reach you in real time without the whole app running and adding to the work load and slowing things down.

To know, how to add power options to desktop Context Menu in Windows 8, go through the tutorial below.

You may want to add Power options like Lock, Switch user, Sign out, Shut down, or Restart to your desktop context menu. That can be done very easily. You just need to download an archive (.zip) which contains two REG files. Download Link is also provided in this tutorial.

Follow the steps to add power options to desktop Context Menu.
1. First of all Download this .zip archive from here

2. Unzip the archive and place two REG files on your desktop.

3. Now, Double-click on Add_Power_to_Desktop_Context_Menu.reg file. You will get a security warning. Click on Run option.

4. User Account Control (UAC) dialog box will pop up. click on Yes option.

5. You will get a registry editor dialog box. Select Yes option to continue the process.

6. Now, a registry editor confirmation message will appear. You have successfully added keys and values contained in Add_Power_to_Desktop_Context_Menu.reg file to the registry.

Now Right-click on your desktop and you can see Power option is available in your context menu.

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If you want to Automatically Login to Windows 8, see to the tutorial below.

When you boot your computer in Windows 8 Consumer preview , first it will ask password for your chosen user account. If your machine is not generally used
by any other person, or you don’t want to keep a password, then you have to use Automatic Log In. Asking password becomes irritating time to time.
In Automatic Log In, the computer know the user password before login and thus it will not ask you for entering it. You have to put your user account name and password once to set Automatic Log In, and from next time the machine will remember you and login automatically with the given user ID and password.

1. Press Windows button to open the "Start Menu”.
To get Automatically login into windows 8, type "netplwiz” without quotes in the start menu of Windows 8 Consumers preview
and hit ENTER.

2. It will open a User Accounts dialogue box.

3. Now select a User from the list.
Here I am having only one user administrator, so I select the account "Rick”.

After selecting the User, uncheck the box mentioning
"User must enter a username and password to use this computer” and click OK

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Verizon has shown interest in taking up Windows Phone 8 as their third smartphone platform after Android and iOS.

Verizon Working On Getting Windows Phone 8

According to Verizon CEO Fan Shammo, the wireless carrier is actually working with Microsoft to bring about the upcoming Windows Phone 8 platform to their network. Verizon carries only one Windows Phone handsets at the moment but that seems to be held up for the release, now that the CEO has made this announcement.

Shammo said that they were working with Microsoft on the Windows Phone 8 software because they think it is a "differentiator”.
The one Windows Phone that Verizon carries was designed way back in 2010 — the HTC Trophy. It is poorly supported by the carrier and no further Windows Phone activities have happened in the time between then and now. Verizon’s apparent indifference caused many to question the viability of the platform itself in comparison to iOS and Androir. Now it seems more like Verizon has been working in the background to make things better before really taking the platform onboard.

Shammo believes that the platform has the capability of competing with market leaders Android and iOS on the same level. He said Verizon will have Windows Phone devices on its roster for the 2012 holiday season.

Looking back, Verizon was chiefly responsible for the early adoption of Android through the massively successful Motorola Droid handset that sold enough to put Verizon on competing terms with then market dominating iPhone. This happened in 2009 and it really pushed Android to the masses. Theoretically, with a good enough handset, the wireless carrier to launch Windows Phone 8 in the same way.

Right now we do not know much about Windows Phone 8 except that it would be a part of the Windows 8 platform and its been codenamed "Apollo”.