How To Set Up A Picture Password In Windows 8re - Everything Microsoft | Leading Unofficial Microsoft Site

One new feature that’s been added to Windows 8 is a new Picture Password log in which has been designed with touch users in mind. This touch friendly way to log in simply requires a user to draw a pre set pattern on a picture and Windows 8 will then log them in. This will undoubtedly prove quicker to log in than typing out a long password for most users.

How To Disable Windows 8 Lock Screen

How To Disable Windows 8 Lock Screen By Usman on Apr 09 2012 Leave a comment In the past, we covered a guide on Windows 8 Lock Screen and discussed some of its features. The newly added Lock Screen is basically designed for tablet PCs, allowing users to quickly view the applications notifications, battery status, date and time, WiFi status/dynamic network icon etc. Although Windows 8 lets you tweak both Start and Lock Screen UI elements, it doesn’t provide an option to permanently disable it. You may know that Microsoft Management Console snap-in called Local Group Policy Editor allows system administrator(s) to tweak system core components and change default behavior of native utilities. Using the LGPE, you can easily disable the Lock Screen for all PC users. By default, Windows 8 shows Lock Screen at startup, but when it’s disabled, it takes you directly to Logon screen to choose the user account to log in to Windows.

How To Create Wireless Ad Hoc Internet Connection In Windows 8

Apart from Start Orb and classic Start Menu, what most Windows 7 users, who decided to take Windows 8 for a spin, miss in Windows 8 is ability to create ad-hoc network. If you’re a power users, you might’ve noticed that Windows 8 doesn’t include an option to create and setup ad hoc network connection to share files and internet with Wi-Fi enabled computers and devices. Windows 7 ad hoc connection feature does nothing except creating a shared connection with separate IP address to register the device on the virtual network. This allows users to use router’s default or specified DNS server address to easily connect to internet. Even though Windows 8 comes with ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) feature to allow devices to connect to yours PC internet connection, it doesn’t allow creating a wireless network connection to share the internet. In this post, we will look at some tools that let you easily create and manage ad-hoc connections in Windows 8.

How to Enable Split View on Windows 8 for Metro Apps

Wordpress Windows Live Windows 8 Windows 7 Websites Tutorial Office 2010 Freewares Enable Split View on Windows 8 for Metro Apps Tweet Follow @nirmaltv Advertisement Windows 8 consumer preview was released last week with a host of new features and a new start screen. We had talked about the start screen and the new Windows explorer in Windows 8. Another nice feature on Windows 8 is that you can enable split view for metro apps. This means that you can simply pin or split the screen into two section with one section for a metro app and second section can be used as a normal desktop. This is pretty handy feature when you want to work with multiple apps (metro apps) and desktop side by side.