Guided Help: Enable the Quick Launch bar in Windows 7

Guided Help: Enable the Quick Launch bar in Windows 7.

8GadgetPack – Gadgets for Windows 8

8GadgetPack – Gadgets for Windows 8.

Bring gadgets back to your Windows 8 desktop.

20 tips for Windows 8.1

I found several helpful tips here:

20 tips for Windows 8.1 | Reviews | CNET UK.

Winaero.com – Free small and useful software for Windows

A great collection of software to make Windows 7 and 8 better 😉

WinAero: Winaero – Free small and useful software for Windows.

How to Change the Window Border Size in Windows 8

How to Change the Window Border Size in Windows 8.

Windows Experience Index removed in Windows 8.1

Windows Experience Index in Windows 8.1.

I can’t imagine that Microsoft thinks it can make money off this one somehow…

Why get rid if WEI?

How to Disable SkyDrive Integration in Windows 8.1

How to Disable SkyDrive Integration in Windows 8.1.

F-you, Microsoft.

Pimping SkyDrive like a $2 whore. Pushing her “secure box” in my face everywhere. We all know it is just a matter of time before a couple teenage russian hackers steal all your datas. Oh, sure, it won’t be your fault. Just like Target.

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Set default drive to D:

How do I set my download drive default to D: ? – Microsoft Community.

I used to go to great lengths to do this. Still doesn’t address moving your entire ‘users’ folder to another drive (for that, look into NTFS junction points), but is very easy, and a great way to keep up with adding […]

ninite – finally a googlepack replacement

Ninite rocks. It is several different things, a auto-installed, a auto-updater and a group updater. They support Windows and Linux. I use to put googlepack on every build I did just to take care of the basics, now I use ninite for nearly everything. Alas, it won’t do flash unless you pay $$$ 🙁

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Windows 8 Activation Key Not Accepted

I was having trouble activating a new Windows 8 Pro install and stumbled on this advice for Windows 7. It worked great for Win8pro 🙂

Your key is an update only key… meaning it won’t allow a fresh install… unless you do the registry workaround from Windows 7.

You need to open a run box […]