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Posts tagged "windows 8"

Get started with Dropbox on Windows 8?

March 20, 2014 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 3 Comments
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I’m running Windows 8.1 and need to hook up DropBox so I can access some files my boss wants to share. Can you help me out?

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Prevent Windows 8 Apps from Reporting my Location?

March 1, 2014 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / No Comments
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I didn’t realize it, but apparently a number of Windows 8 programs are finding out and reporting my location. How can I see what programs are doing this and disable this feature?

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Add a Bookmark to the Taskbar on my Windows 8 Desktop?

January 29, 2014 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / No Comments
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I’m a big hockey fan and visit the NHL site multiple times a day. Is there a way to bookmark the page so that it’s an actual button on my Win8 Desktop Taskbar?

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How do I Activate my Windows 8 PC Settings?

January 6, 2014 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 8 Comments
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Hey Dave. This is crazy frustrating: I’m trying to change the background color on my Windows 8 Pro system and am getting an error that I need to “Activate my Windows 8 Settings”. How do I fix this?

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Fix the timezone on my Windows 8 Tablet PC?

December 15, 2013 / Dave Taylor / Apple iPad Help / No Comments
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I don’t know why, but my Windows tablet is two hours off on the time display. It’s exactly two hours off, though, so it seems to be getting the time off the network, just for the wrong timezone. How do I check, and how do I fix my timezone setting?

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Access Microsoft SkyDrive on a MacBook?

December 14, 2013 / Dave Taylor / Mac & MacOS Help, Windows PC Help / 2 Comments
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Is it possible to access Microsoft’s SkyDrive service from a Mac system, either my iMac in the office or my MacBook Pro? I could use Dropbox, but SkyDrive is so well integrated into Windows 8, it’d just be a lot easier if I could access my files on my Mac too.

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Dell Venue 8 Pro – Unboxing!

December 10, 2013 / Dave Taylor / YouTube Video Reviews / No Comments
Dell Venue 8 Pro unboxing

Yes, I have succumbed. My first unboxing video: Seriously, though, this Venue 8 Pro is a very sweet little tablet, powered by the super zippy Bay Trail chip from Intel. And the fact that it was on sale early in December through the Microsoft Store for a killer $99.00? Well, if you can find it

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How do I resize a photograph or picture in Windows?

December 2, 2013 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 5 Comments
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I’m running Windows 7 and want to resize a few photographs I’ve downloaded from my digital camera before I email them to friends. How do I quickly and easily resize pictures or photos in Microsoft Windows on my old PC?

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