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All of a sudden I can't reliably play any video media on my Win 8 64bit computer -- was working fine yesterday and AFAIK nothing (other than perhaps Windows automatic updates) changed. My first thought was to try and restore but even though I'm sure I created a restore point it tells me there...

I kind of like the start screen now that I've gotten rid of the clutter, but I *really* like to see the large Date/Time I can see when I bring up the Charms menu. However, that vanishes the minute I click on anything else and it doesn't come up by default. Is there a way I can pin this to the...

I really feel like an idiot (but my wife came over and made me feel better -- we're a couple of idiots). I doubleclicked on an MP4 to play it (from Explorer) and this XBox Video thing came up and played it. Fine, looks like a nice player. But when I stopped it wanted to exit the application...

Dear folks, Just got Win 8 and perhaps it's something with the OS or maybe just my ignorance of the system but I can't write to my NAS (which is running normal Windows shares as well as DNLA), unlike my Win 7 and XP systems also connected to the network (actually, even my Macbook Air has no...

Dear folks, I just bought a Dell 8500 and it came with Win 8 installed on the HD. My plan was to install an SSD (which I have) to use as my boot drive, and to put Win 7 on it (because I had assumed, wrongly, that a piece of hardware I owned didn't have Win 8 drivers). Then the machine came...