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Drag and drop across multiple touch screens

I just purchased an Acer all-in-one touch screen PC and an Acer touch screen monitor. I have them set up in extended mode. Using my mouse I am able to drag windows between the screens. However, using...

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lock/limit/disable "user widget" at Metro UI

Hello,I would like to disable/remove/limit the access to the "user widget" on the Metro UI. With "user widget" I mean the component at the very top right of the Metro UI. The best case for me would be...

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audio device is disabled Win8

its saying that the device is disable and ive tried everything and still does not work its a universal headset and work on the Xbox perfectly but doesnt on the PC

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call me STUPID!!!!

K !  I junked computer with window 8 ,,,  call me stupid i bought new computer  with windows7  can i put 8  on newcoputer for free  or  just take it  ............  and forget  8

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windows 8 app store binary files

i was havuing a lot of problems with an app called im+ from win 8 app store. I uninstalled it and to my surprise it was still showing up in the C:\program files\windowsapps\  folder and  my account is...

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Windows 8 - WD My Book Home IEEE 1394 Does not Connect

I have a WD My Book 1TB with two (2) IEEE 1394 connection options and one (1) USB 2.0 connection option.I have a Dell XPS 420 computer with two (2) IEEE 1394 connection options.I have a Texas...

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sideloading keys (J7S-00005) only available in bulk?

Hello,are the sideloading keys (J7S-00005) only available from 100 units or is it possible to buy less? I only need a few of them.Regards

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Why does Windows 8 "Refresh" kill the system?

In Windows 8, there are several options to recover from a failure. One of them is to "refresh" the system. It is supposed to leave user settings intact, but remove all installed non-store apps. What is...

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Create a windows 8 system image that can be applied to any computer /...

I was just wondering if the process for creating a system image has changed, I run sysprep with generalize, capture the image using imagex from the PE and was done. That worked for windows 7. Now when...

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Win 8 pro 64 bit to 32 Bit

HiRezaul Here.is it possible to create Win pro 32 bit from Win 8 pro 64 bit for pre- installed Win 8 pro 64 bit?Please help to resolve the issue.many thanksRezaul

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Windows cannot read the product key from the unattend answer file on Windows...

I'm trying to make an AutoAttend.xml file for a Windows 8 Pro installation, so we don't have to enter anything and Windows 8 Pro is installed. These computers have an OEM Windows 8 key from HP (So it...

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Enable BitLocker on a Virtual Machine using MDT 2012 U1.

Hi,On Windows 8 as well Windows 7, you can enable BDE even when you don't have TPM chip by modifying the Group Policy settings. The difference, on Windows 8, you can use a Password instead. You can do...

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Win 8 clean install - We couldn't install windows in the location you chose...

Trying to install to a 2 TB clean SATA 6 HD. Created a 300 GB partition with a little space (1 GB) before and lots after. Get this message. Have tried several HDs. This is BIOS drive 0. Thought Sata 6...

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Windows 8 64 bit fails to install on a IDE Hard Disk

Dear All,I have a AMD 2 64 bit Opteron based system with 80GB IDE HDD and a 250GB Sata.I just got the beta version of Windows 8 and tried to install on to my system. Initially I disabled the SATA...

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Is there a solution to set user account picture from Active Directory...

I added a photo of each user in Active Directory (attribute thumbnailPhoto) to use them as account picture. This worked well in Windows 7 using this solution:...

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Login screen with all user account displayed

HiHow do Imake sure thatWindows 8 will always displaythe Login screenwith alluser accountsdisplayed whenIturn onorrestartthecomputer?ThanksByeBalubeto

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Hide Power User Menu Winkey+X

Is there any way to turn off the power user menu, Winkey+X in Windows 8? I'm starting to deploy Windows 8 and although I can disable the items in the menu, I would like to turn off the entire menu it's...

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Edge UI and Redirected Folders

Hi guys,I'm trying (desperately and without much success) to get a sort of default layout for the metro/edge UI. I will begin by describing our setup at the moment. Windows 7 with redirected start...

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Windows 8 black screen at user's first logon.

I have been deploying Windows 8 laptops for my company using MDT 2012 U1 for a while and everything was fine.Then just recently I get a completely black screen when users log in for the first time on...

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Installing windows 8 unattended over WDS

Hi,Iam trying to unattended install windows 8 over wds.I have installed WDS and it works corecty, but it doesn't skip OOBE. I have enabled unattended installs using "server...

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