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    Turn on Direct Write for fonts in FireFox/Win8.1x64

    I saw this and checked my Firefox v30 about:config settings and was interested to see that even though I have gpu hardware acceleration turned on in the browser, Direct Write font support is turned off by default. How to Enable Direct2D & DirectWrite Hardware Acceleration in Mozilla Firefox? -...
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    Solved Solved the case of the mysterious desktop Homegroup icon

    I think...;) If you are running a Win8 desktop (I am running a fully updated 8.1) and are being besieged by a pesky Homegroup icon that appears from nowhere in 33%-50% of your boots, I think I now know why it appears, and how to banish it permanently without resort to registry hacking...
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    Installed UEFI 8.1 (clean) boot partition & more...

    The title of this thread was too descriptive to fit within the character allotment...;) Here's what I would have titled it had things not been truncated: Installed UEFI 8.1 (clean) boot partition alongside 8.1 Legacy boot installation in the same system! Here are some comments... *My system...
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    Solved Mistaken OS requests for activation

    I've spent the last hour or so looking over several pages of these activation threads and haven't found one that addresses the problem I've recently had with my Win8 x64 activation. My copy of "8.0" Win8x64 has been activated since I bought it direct from Microsoft in January for $39.99 and...
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