After downloading the exe, run it to see a slider that lets you adjust the border width anywhere between 1 px to 10 px. While an earlier version of the utility required a log off for changes to take place, you can now just hit apply and watch the borders change in size immediately. Decor8 is a similar tool that lets you rotate backgrounds and also allows you to control the number of tiles in the Start screen. Besides just that, Decor8 lets you create color schemes for Windows. The new Windows 8 start screen with all the Metro apps is cool and novel, but it sure brings productivity down because of its consumption centric playful UI.
RetroUI brings a host of features that help you skip metro altogether. After installing RetroUI, you can go directly to the usual desktop, bypassing the usual start screen. However, if you ever want to run Metro apps, you can run them inside a window in the classic desktop. And if the hot corners annoy you occasionally, you can turn them off completely as well. Windows 8 manages the priority of your wireless networks automatically.
If you have two networks active, and if you choose one over the other, Windows notes the change and connects to the one you preferred, next time. As simple as that. SMB 3 is another behind the scenes improvement.
But, when fully implemented, it's one that users will probably come to appreciate. SMB 3 brings to the table major performance and feature improvements. SMB 3 also boasts encryption in transit and other features, including a new feature known as SMB multichannel. This allows the system to use multiple network channels, increasing overall throughout and adding fault tolerance to the environment.
It's worth a read. Although Microsoft estimates the percentage of Windows users with multiple monitor installations in the low double-digits, for those people myself included , multiple monitor support has often been frustrating, requiring add-ons in order for things to work as expected.
For example, in my three-monitor setup, the taskbar appears on only one monitor. While this isn't a huge problem, it is a frustration. Windows 8 adds, for example, a multiple monitor taskbar and the ability to have different backgrounds on each display. While the background images won't matter much, having the taskbar across all assets will make life a bit easier for the I've been extremely concerned about some changes that Microsoft has made to Windows 8, namely the removal of the Start button and some window management challenges I see with Metro.
However, as I start to use it more, I'm beginning to warm to it, but still believe that Microsoft needs to listen to their audience before the final product ships. That said, there are a number of business-friendly features that may be compelling for the enterprise user and administrator. Since , Scott Lowe has been providing technology solutions to a variety of organizations.
You'll see a list of programs and services that launch when you start Windows. For each one, you'll see its name, its publisher, whether it's enabled and the "startup impact" -- how much startup is slowed down by launching it. If you'd like to stop any of the programs or services from launching at startup, right-click it and select Disable. This doesn't disable the program entirely; it simply prevents it from launching at startup.
If you later decide you want it to launch at startup, get back here, right-click it and select Enable. Some programs might have a small triangle next to them, indicating that they have multiple processes that run on startup. Click the triangle to see all the processes. It's not a good idea to disable some but not others, because that could cause instability in the program. So either disable all the processes or none.
You'll likely recognize some of the programs and services that run at startup, such as SkyDrive. But you'll also probably come across many that aren't familiar to you and whose purpose is almost impossible to discern. What to do about something called "persistence Module" or "hkcmd Module? The Task Manager offers some solid help. Right-click an item and select Properties, and you'll see more detail about it, including its location, whether it has a digital signature from a company you know and other information such as the version number, its size and the last time it was modified.
Alternatively, when you right-click you can select "Open file location" and you'll open File Explorer to the folder where the file is located. That may give you a clue about the program's purpose. Best of all, though, is to select "Search online" after you right-click. Bing launches and provides links to sites with information about the program or service. You'll usually very quickly find out information about the item, including its purpose and advice on whether it's safe.
For more ways to use the Task Manager to speed up your system, see "Track and fine-tune performance with the Task Manager" later in this article. There's another place to go if you want to stop programs from launching when you start your system -- the Startup folder. You can run File Explorer in one of these ways:.
Make sure you can view hidden files in File Explorer: Click the View tab and check the boxes next to "Hidden items" and "File name extensions" in the Ribbon at the top. Delete the shortcuts of any programs you don't want to run at startup. Don't worry; you won't delete the programs themselves, only their shortcuts. When you shut down your PC, all user sessions are closed but the Windows kernel session is saved to disk, or hibernated.
Then when you start Windows again, it loads the hibernated system session from disk, cutting startup time. By default, Fast Startup should be enabled on your system. But it's a good idea to make sure it's turned on, just in case your system wasn't set up correctly or Fast Startup was accidentally turned off. On the Start screen, type power , click Settings and click the Power Options icon that appears on the left side of the screen under Settings.
Click "Choose what the power buttons do" in the left pane, and under "Shutdown settings" at the bottom of the screen that appears, make sure that the box next to "Turn on fast startup" is checked. Here are the latest Insider stories. More Insider Sign Out. Sign In Register. Sign Out Sign In Register. Latest Insider. Check out the latest Insider stories here.
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