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( I think you meant to say PC applications instead of Windows applications) No need for Microsoft Windows (more properly PC Applications) applications at all. There is an Android app for most all things you could want to do as well as this thing can dual boot with Linux which can run many...

Really? I didn't know they ever released a version to test. Are there updated versions, do you have a link? Reading the material makes this OS coupled with something like the Minnowboard MAX (or even my present laptop) look really sweet if it can live up to all the claims. We'll see in...

I know they were working to that end via their 2nd youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAZaN7A27RM

The Worlds most popular OS, Android has been redesigned to scale up from a mobile OS to a full desktop OS, to dual boot with windows 8 - even natively on Surface 1, 2 and 3 tablets, has full support from Intel, and Minnowboard Max (Atom based mini motherboard) and lastly to be a fully...

I have this middle line DSL through AT&T Uverse. My personal pc connects wirelessly to the router which is hooked up via ethernet cable in the living room to my house pc. At night sometimes the router will seem to half crash, and when I wake, I find a limited wifi connection. On trying to...

The tutorial says, So this to me means If I have a 500 gig drive and 450 gigs are being used i need to have 8.87 gigs free plus 450 gigs free to do the repair install? If this is correct then only folks that have used less than half their hard drive space can ever do a repair install - is that...

Windows is telling me my headphones are not plugged in BUT they ARE and I can use them with my wife's Windows 7 or my dual booted Linux Zorin 9 (Ubuntu 14.04) Both headphones and microphone do work in Linux so i know my sound card hardware does work and the headphones and microphone jack do work...

For those who hated Metro and loved the apps like Start 8 that gives Windows 8 users back the ability to have a start button and go straight to the desktop on boot - essentially making it so you Never have to see or use the Metro screen - this may be a Big issue because now, you won't be able to...

Article Title: Leaked build of Windows 9 shows reborn Start menu, Metro apps running on the Desktop New leaked screenshots of an early development build of Windows 9 show the Start Menu is Back - but so is Metro and now they are together in one. Read more at: Leaked build of Windows 9 shows...

I'm with you about the RT part.. too restrictive as I like to disable UEFI/secure boot and run other dual booted OS's. I'm not a fan of Windows 8.1 either.. all the changes they made are changes I do not want or need. Assuming the cheap laptop isn't RT I may try to install a full windows 8...

Article Title: Microsoft readies $199 Windows 8 laptop and $99 tablet to combat Chrome OS and Android: Will this plan work? (I am posting selected paragraphs, please see the link for the whole story) Source: Microsoft readies $199 Windows 8 laptop and $99 tablet to combat Chrome OS and...

That's an idea Count and it's good that you know something like this can happen with UEFI BUT ( LOL ) I do not have UEFI or secure boot enabled on this laptop at all. That's the first thing I do with Windows 8 install is disable those features that will give me problems with my Linux installs...

You might say this happens all the time for dual booters thinking the hardware is dead but let me explain the situation. On Linux dual booted with Windows 8, my hardware crashed - on booting Windows this same problem was still active - it is as if the hardware problem ( driver problem) carried...

Again folks.. you cannot trust the Boot tab from MsConfig - I used Visual BCD Editor to remove 4 unwanted entries - MsConfig's boot tab did not list any of these entries. Check my Edit #2 in my post above. EasyBCD is not just a straight Only Graphical User Interface. The way it works can...

Ah.. By George you're right.. i was thinking of EasyBCD.. sorry.. I'll have a look at windows built in bcdedit.exe - Choosing Boot from Msconfig does Not show the entries that it shows in the bootmenu, it only shows the one Windows default. Edit: I can only pull up bcdedit.exe with a command...