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I installed Windows 8 early to setup everything up so when it comes out in October I can just buy it and activate it. Then I got tired of not being able to customize anything so I found where Windows stores various images and here they are. Note: After each one you may have to restart explorer.exe (cmd> tskill explorer) Tools: Take Ownership registry edit- media.askvg.com/downloads/2007/10/Add-Take-Ownership-Option.zip User Account Picture: -Go to C: Drive -In the ribbon go to "View" Tab and choose "Options"> In the new windows go to "View"> choose to Show Hidden files -Back in the explorer go to "ProgramData" since it is not hidden anymore -Then Microsoft> then User Account Pictures -The images you want to change are user.bmp, user.png, user-40.png, user-200.png (You may not see the .png or .bmp) Now in Photoshop (or any other image editing software) make 4 images of the image you want using these settings: user.bmp= ...

I installed Windows 8 early to setup everything up so when it comes out in October I can just buy it and activate it. Then I got tired of not being able to customize anything so I found where Windows stores various images and here they are. Note: After each one you may have to restart explorer.exe (cmd> tskill explorer) Tools: Take Ownership registry edit- media.askvg.com/downloads/2007/10/Add-Take-Ownership-Option.zip User Account Picture: -Go to C: Drive -In the ribbon go to "View" Tab and choose "Options"> In the new windows go to "View"> choose to Show Hidden files -Back in the explorer go to "ProgramData" since it is not hidden anymore -Then Microsoft> then User Account Pictures -The images you want to change are user.bmp, user.png, user-40.png, user-200.png (You may not see the .png or .bmp) Now in Photoshop (or any other image editing software) make 4 images of the image you want using these settings: user.bmp= ...

Scott M. Fulton   April 23rd, 2012 Yes, there really are 10 important and beneficial changes you'll find in Microsoft Windows 8, beginning with  Refresh . Let's just say it's closer to perfect than Windows Backup. Refresh is Microsoft's first real attempt to address Windows' most touchy consumer pain point: Reinstallation as a solution to problems that no one can diagnose or understand. Now, there's a chance that with this  partial  installation feature, you can have Windows start over without losing absolutely everything, including your applications and the files in your libraries. In this 10-part series, 26-year veteran Windows tester Scott Fulton walks you through the best features, faculties and functions of Windows 8. Perhaps you've seen the famous comic posted to Oatmeal.com titled  How to Fix Any Computer . Not to give away all the secrets of the comic's trenchant forensic analysis, but Step 2 of the Windows side of the equation is unfo...

hi guys, Here I will introduce the easiest way to disable UAC in Windows 8. Using Control Panel : 1. Open Control Panel. 2. Under User Account and Family settings click on the "Add or remove user account". 3. Click on one of the user accounts, for example you can use the Guest account. 4. Under the user account click on the "Go to the main User Account page" link. 5. Under "Make changes to your user account" click on the "Change security settings" link. 6. In the "Turn on User Account Control (UAC) to make your computer more secure" click to unselect the "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer". Click on the Ok button. 7. You will be prompted to reboot your computer. Do so when ready. hope this methods works for you. Disabling User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 8 With the new User Interface of Windows 8, accessing simple panels and doing easy tasks can be a pain. This b...

We apologize for the inconvenience. I will assist you in trying to resolve the issue. Start the computer in clean boot  and then try installing the Office suite and verify the result. a. Log on to the computer by using an account that has administrator rights. b. Press the  Windows key  +  R  and type  msconfig.exe  in the Start Search box, and then press  ENTER  to start the System Configuration utility. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. c. On the  General tab , click the  Selective startup option , and then click to clear the  Load startup items check box. (The Use Original Boot.ini check box is unavailable.) d. On the  Services tab , click to select the  Hide all Microsoft services  check box, and then click  Disable all . Note: This step lets Microsoft services continue to run. These services include Networking, ...

Windows 8 Upgrade - Extended Attributes are Inconsistent Posted on   January 26, 2012 by   chentiangemalc One day while happily working away on my liquid cooled Windows Developer Preview beast I came across this error when launching regedit: Pretty quickly I found  every  program that tried to elevate to Administrative privileges had this problem. The UAC prompt to click Yes/No appeared very briefly then was rapidly replaced with this error message. Unfortunately this also applied to my beloved ProcMon. So what to do? First to find out to whom the dialog box belonged. Using Process Explorer ( http://live.sysinternals.com/ProcExp.exe ) and the feature to drag a target over a Windows to identify the process I found out the message box belonged to  cmd.exe  if run from Command Prompt, or  Explorer.exe  if launched from Explorer. As WinDbg doesn’t require admin privilege (for limited user mode debugging of non-elevated processes) it ...