Windows XP More exercises with files

To maintain order in your documents, you need among other things to be able to copy, move and delete them. Here comes a number of small practical exercises in file handling.

Exercise folders

Now you need to create a couple of folders for your exercises. First create the folder C:\My Documents\x1.
1.    You need to select C:\My Documents in the folder window in Windows Explorer.
2.    Then select menu items Files à New à Folder.
3.    Now enter the folder name x1, and close with Enter.

4.    Now you can copy this folder. It must be selected in Windows Explorers right window:

5.    When the folder is selected, you need to press Control+c to make c copy (nothing happens on the screen).

6.    Then press Control+v to insert the copy. That gives this result:

7.    A new folder named ”copy of x1” has been created. It needs to be renamed. Press ArrowDown to select the copy. Press F2 to rename. Enter the new name x2, and close with Enter.
8.    Now the folder My Documents contains this:

9.    You are goin to ”play more” with these files and folders. But ceate also the folder C:\Tekster, which you can use for your permanent data.
10. Close Windows Explorer with Control+w.

About naming files

You can freely switch between upper and lower case letters both in your folders and in your documents (files). Actually it makes no difference to your pc, at least not as long as you work in Windows.
It only gains significance once you work with home pages and want your HTML files placed on a web-server. Many web-servers distinguish between upper and lower case letters. I that case it is easiest to stay exclusively with lower case letters – both for files and folders.

Move files

Now have you created the sub folder x1 in My Documents. The two text files need to be moved into that.
1.    Open Windows Explorer.
2.    Select the folder My Documents and select the file hallo1.txt.
3.    Hold the Control-key down, and then also select the file hallo2.txt.
4.    Now these two files need to be moved down into folder x1. You do that in this way. Press Control+x, which is the shortcut to cut. Notice that the file icons became faded:

5.    Select folder x1, and open it with either a doubleclick or with Enter. Then you get ”down” in folder x1, which is empty. Then right away press Control+v to paste.
6.    To paste means that the data, which are either copied (with Control+c) or cut (with Control+x), are inserted at the cursor’s position in the active window. Here it is the two files hallo1 and hallo2. They are moved down into folder x1.
7.    You just need to check that the files are gone from the root level in the folder My Documents. You need to go one level up from folder x1. So click on the button with the green arrow:

8.    You see that the two files are gone from the root level in the folder My Documents.
9.    Now you need to copy the two files from x1 to x2 yourself. Try if you can do that without using the mouse: Select the files in folder x1. Make copy with Control+c. Shift to folder x2, and insert the copy with Control+v. That should work like hand in glove!

Make your own copies

You need to make another folder, which will contain copies of the two files. The folder should be named x3.
1.    Find out for yourself which procedure you want to use. You can choose to create a folder x3 and then copy the two files into that.
2.    You can also choose to copy the whole folder x1 (or x2 for that matter) with contents. Then you just need to insert the copy in the root level of the folder My Documents and then rename the folder copy to x3.
3.    So get started!

Additional ways to move and copy

There are many ways to move and copy files. I personally prefer to use the keyboard as much as possible (that is the fastest) and with that the keyboard shortcuts Control+c, Control+x and Control+v.
But there are other methods, which can be good in certain situations:

With right click. You can right click on files and folders and then select copy or cut in the menu that opens.
Then you shift to another folder and select in the same way (with right click):

With menu options. If you don’t like to right click, you can perform the same operation, which I just described, with the menu bar in Windows Explorer. You just select the menu item Edit, where you can cut or copy:

With the mouse. The most difficult way to cut and copy is by using the mouse. Here you just need to drag files and folders from one position to another. It takes some practice to navigate between folders with a mouse cursor, which drags files along, but it can easily be done.
If you drag files from one folder to another, they will be moved. If you want to copy them, you need to drag the files and hold the Control-key down in the moment you release the files in the new folder.
You can watch the sequence by watching the mouse cursor that drags kind of a ”shadow copy” of the icons along. If you hold the Control-key down, you will see a plus symbol follow the cursor to indicate that copying is being performed.
In Figure 44 I am copying two files from folder x1 (as can be read in the address field) to folder x2 by mouse moves:

Figure 44. Two files are copied through use of mouse and the Control-key. Read the explanation in the section .

Navigation between folders

Since I am now demonstrating the various techniques, let us just look at the navigation possibilities in Windows Explorer. There you find buttons and keyboard shortcuts, which you might know from the browser Internet Explorer. On the Internet you navigate between various home pages, which you have visited before. On your pc you can navigate between folders:
One level up. You can always use the button with the green arrow to move up one level in the folder hierarchy. Another method is to press on the Backspace key, located above Escape.

Navigation forth and back. You can navigate forth and back between folders that you have visited earlier, by using the two buttons Back and Forward:

Alternately you can use the keyboard shortcuts Alt+ArrowRight and Alt+ArrowLeft.
Panel views. You have seen that Windows Explorer is divided in two windows. Normally you see a ”tree” in the left window, where folders and drives are shown. But you can choose from among a number of other panels, which are also known from Internet Explorer. They can be shown in the left window in stead of the folder view:

If you choose the Summary panel, you get a list with different days where you see which ”addresses” (files), you have visited:

Delete files

You need to be able to delete files and folders.
1.    Use Windows Explorer and select folder x3, which you have created earlier.
2.    Open the folder; there should be two text files in that.
3.    Start by selecting the file hallo1.txt.
4.    Theh press on the Del-key. Then you need to click on Yes in this dialog box:

5.    Notice that Windows XP asks if you want to send the file to the recycle bin. This really means that it is not permanently deleted, since it can be re-created. Try this:
6.    You use the regret function by pressing Control+z.
7.    The file will be ere-established in the folder, right? Now try to delete the same file. Select it and press Shift+Del. When you click Yes the file will be really deleted:

8.    Try regret that delete again. That is not possible.
9.    Now delete the whole folder x3., but use only the Del-key to send the contents to the recycle bin.
Comments: The Windows function Regret works in all user program­s (such as Paint, Word etc.), but you can also use it in Explorer to reverse a delete.
To maintain good order in your data, you need to delete all temporary files on an ongoing basis. Also delete duplicate files – you should never have more than one version of the same document on your pc.

Recycle Bin

You can also delete files and folders with Del in Explorer or another Windows program. But the files are really transferred to the recyle bin.
The deleted objects can be restored from the recycle bin as long as they are saved there (that depends among other things on how much space you set aside for the recycle bin). When files are deleted with Shift+Del, they can only be restored with special program­s.
The recycle bin is actually a system folder. You have access to the recycle bin in different places, among others in Windows Explorer, but it can also be opened directly from the desktop, where it has its own hyperlink (icon):

1.    Press Windows+d to see Windows desktop. Somewhere[n14]  there you see the Recycle Bin:

2.    Double click on recycle bin to open it.

3.    In the preceding exercise you deleted folder x3 with the Del-key. You can see that in the recycle bin. You can see where the file was located before, and the deletion date:

4.    In the left task window you see the options. You can empty the recycle bin (which deletes the contents permanently), or you kan restore its content:

5.    It is a good idea to empty the recycle bin routinely. When I did this exercise myself there were more than 500 MB data there; get them out of there.

6.    If you right click on the recycle bin on the desktop, you can choose Properties. Here you can set how much hard disk space the recycle bin may occupy. By default the recycle bin occupies up to 10% of of the space on each drive; that can soon be gigabytes on large hard disks, and that is probably too much.

Figure 45. Here you control the size of the recycle bin.

Make a HTML document

I will conclude this set of execises by letting you make an ultrasimple HTML document. So you need to make a real small home page!
1.    Open the Notepad program.
2.    Save the empty document immediately. It should be placed in the folder x1, and the file name should be homepage.htm. Notice that the name suffix is htm – that is what makes the document a home page.
3.    It should contain this text:

Welcome

It must be typed precisely as shown here including the smaller/greater than symbols as shown below. < and > are found between M and ? on the keyboard:

4.    Save the document again with Control+s.
5.    Then use Windows Explorer to open the folder x1.
6.    Notice the icon for homepage.htm, which now indicates that it is a HTML document. Then doubleclick on the file:

7.    Then Internet Explorer opens, and your tiny little home page appears in the browser window:

Figure 46. The HTML document is shown in the browser.
An explanation: You made a small text file in Notepad. It is saved with the htm suffix, and therefore Windows XP had registerede it as a HTML document (a home page).
The home page has a welcome text, which is surrounded by the two codes (so-called tags)

and

. The codes cause the text to be shown as a heading with a large and bold font. That is actually all you need to make a home page. You can get a course in that if you read my booklet ”HTML – teach yourself”.

Registering file types

HTML documents (than could be files with the htm suffix) are displayed by default in the program Internet Explorer when you double click on them.
Many file types are read by a specific program when you doubleclick on them (see Figure 30 on page 42). This ”behaviour” is a consequence of the file type registry, which I now will explain for you.
The following review is somewhat technical; you could skip it if you are a complete newbie.
1.    Use Windows Explorer and select Tools à Folder Options…
2.    Then open the tab File Types. Here it is determined how the types of the individual files (determined by the file ­name suffix) are registered.
3.    The file type name htm is opened with the program Internet Explorer, as seen in the bottom of Figure 47.

Figure 47. Here you see the file type registry for HTM files.
You can change the registry by clicking on the Shift button. You might want to open all HTM files with a different browser. Don’t start on that right now, unless you are experienced and know precisely what you are doing.

Choice of program for editing files

So HTM files are opened through Internet Explorer when you doubleclick on them. But if you right click on a HTM file (like in Windows Explorer), you get the option to edit the file:

Try that! The document is opened in whatever program is registered as your pc editor. If you have installed the program package on your pc it will typically be either Word or FrontPage.
If you want a specific editor activated to edit HTM files, it is done one the Filtypes tab in the dialog ­box Folder settings. There you need to click on the Advan­ced button. Then you can select the Edit function and click on the Edit file type button:

Figure 48. The advanced file type settings. Here you can indicate which program will be used for editing the particular format.
In the dialog box ”Edit file type” you can speccify which program will be used for editing. Here I selected my favorite editor NoteTab:

Figure 49. Here I specify which editor I will use as default to edit HTM files.

Registering graphics files

You might encounter a need to change the registering of graphics files. You might experience that some program you have installed so to speak takes possession of certain file formats. Then all file types of that program will be opened, which may not be what you wanted.
Try to find the JPG file type, which is used for digital photographs. Find it in the list, then you can see that JPG files are opened with the program Windows Picture- and faxviewer (see page 56). So you can change that – if there is a need for that!

Figure 50. The JPG file type is by default opened with the pro­gram Windows Picture- and faxviewer. You can easily change that.

Always show file names

A concluding detail in this review. It can be practical that certain file types (such as the different graphics file types) are always shown including their suffix – regardless of whether you have set that for all folders or not. You can choose that for the individual file type in the dialog box ”Edit file type”.

Figure 51. The check mark in the field ”Always show file type name” means that the GIF suffix is always shown in Windows Explorer mv. – regardless of other folder settings.

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Creating An ADHOC Wireless Connection..

Creating

Start--> Run --> Type ncpa.cpl -->Press Ok



Right Click on the Wireless Network tab then the add button.



A new window will appear.  Give your network a name, and check the two boxes near the bottom.



Click OK to close that window and OK again.  If you try to View Wireless Networks, your changes may not be saved, so make sure to click OK first.

Your ad hoc network is all set up now!

Connecting

Open Network Connections (via Control Panel or the wireless icon) and select View Wireless Networks.  The following window will appear.



You should see the ad hoc network as a computer-to-computer network.  You may have to refresh the list.
Click on the network then the Connect button near the bottom.  It may take a minute or two to aquire a network address.

If you don't see your network, you may have to change settings to only connect to ad hoc networks.
Click on Change advanced settings.  On the new window, click on the Wireless Networks tab, then advanced.



Select the third radio button and click Close, then OK.
Open Network Connections again, and follow the steps above to connect to the network.

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How to hide your important data from other users?

• First click on Start button to open "Run" and type "CMD" (without the quotes) then press Ok button to open Command Prompt.

Now type diskpart on the blinking cursor and wait for 5 seconds to appear diskpart> utility.

To show the list of volume, type list volume command after the diskpart> prompt, this command will show you all system drives detail.

Now first select the volume that you want to hide, for example, 

if you need to hide F drive then first type select volume 2 (in this case) and press enter button.

After loading volume, type remove letter F (in this case) to hide F drive.

Now exit from command prompt and open My Computer to verify drives. 

But next time, when you want to unhide the D drive, just run assign drive F command after loading volume 2

 

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How To Create Unattended Windows 7 Installation Setup

Requirements:

1. Windows 7 ISO file with key

2. Blank DVD

3. vLite software (It’s free)

4. 15 minutes free time

5. Image extractor such as 7-Zip (free), WinRar, or WinZIP.

Procedure to create an unattended Windows 7 bootable USB or DVD:

1. Go to the folder where your Windows 7 ISO file is located and extract the ISO to a new folder. If you already have a Windows 7 DVD, just copy the contents to a new folder.

2. Download, install and run vLite to see the mail window. Note that vLite will ask you to install WAIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit), you need to install it. And if you are not in a situation to download the 1300 MB WAIK file, you can follow our how to use vLite directly without installing WAIK.

3. In the first vLite window, click on the browse button to select your Windows 7 extracted folder. Click Next button to continue.

Next, you need to select your edition.

 

4. In the following screen, Task Selection, you need to select unattended setup and Bootable ISO options. Click Next, again.

 

5. Here you need to enter your Windows 7 product key, and other things. Note that you have many options here. We suggest you to enable following options:

# Select this version on install

# Accept EULA (End User License Agreement)

You can also preselect your UI language, time and currency format, keyboard or input method in the Regional tab.

6. Once you enable all required options and enter the product key, click Apply button.

7. Choose the apply method as Rebuild one. Click ok button to proceed to the next step.

 

8. Rebuilding image process will start, and the process may take 10 to 15 minutes.

 

9. You are almost close to the conclusion. Clicking the Next button will allow you to create or burn image, label your copy and split image. Select burn image to burn your unattended Windows 7 to DVD.

10. You are done!

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Operate Your Windows 7 With the Help of Speech

To open Speech Recognition

1. Open Speech Recognition by clicking the Start button , clicking All Programs, clicking Accessories, clicking Ease of Access, and then clicking Windows Speech Recognition.
2. Say "start listening" or click the Microphone button to start the listening mode.

Speech Recognition commands for working with windows and programs

The following table shows Speech Recognition commands for working with windows and programs. Words in italic font indicate that you can say many different things in place of the example word or phrase and get useful results.

To do this	Say this
Click any item	Click File; Click Bold; Click Save; Click Close
Double-click any item	Double-click Computer; Double-click Recycle Bin; Double-click folder name
Right-click any item	Right-click Computer; Right-click Recycle Bin; Right-click folder name
Minimize all windows to show your desktop	Show desktop
Click something you don't know the name of	Show numbers (Numbers will appear on the screen for every item in the active window. Say an item's corresponding number to click it.)
Click a numbered item	19 OK; 5 OK
Double-click a numbered item	Double-click 19; Double-click 5
Right-click a numbered item	Right-click 19; Right-click 5
Open a program	Open Paint; Open WordPad; Open program name
Switch to an open program	Switch to Paint; Switch to WordPad; Switch to program name; Switch application
Close a program	Close that; Close Paint; Close Documents
Minimize	Minimize that; Minimize Paint; Minimize Documents
Restore	Restore that; Restore Paint; Restore Documents
Cut	Cut that; Cut
Copy	Copy that; Copy
Paste	Paste
Delete	Delete that; Delete
Undo	Undo that; Scratch that; Undo
Scroll in one direction	Scroll up; Scroll down; Scroll left; Scroll right
Scroll an exact distance in pages	Scroll down 2 pages; Scroll up 10 pages
Scroll an exact distance in other units	Scroll up 5; Scroll down 7
Go to a field in a form or a program	Go to field name; Go to Subject; Go to Address; Go to Cc

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Reset Windows 7 administrator password.

Windows Password Breaker is a powerful Windows 7 password reset tool for you to reset forgotten or lost Windows 7 password. You can create a bootable password reset disk (CD/DVD) or USB flash drive with it to reset administrator password with 4 steps:
Step 1: Download and install Windows Password Breaker Professional.
Step 2: Burn a bootable password reset CD/DVD or USB flash drive with the program.




Step 3: Reboot your locked computer from the burned CD/DVD or USB.
Step 4: Reset Windows 7 administrator password to blank.
Your Windows 7 administrator password will be removed and you can log on administrator account without entering password. The detailed Windows Password Breaker Professional user guide is also available.

Part 2: How to enable Windows 7 administrator account?

Method 1: Use Command Prompt
The easiest way to enable Windows 7 built-in administrator account is to use Command Prompt.
1. Click Start and type cmd in the search box. Right-click cmd and select Run as Administrator.
2. Click Yes when prompted to allow the Command Processor to run. And then the command prompt will appear.
3. Type net user in the command prompt window, and then hit Enter. All the Windows account user names will be listed. You'll also see the Administrator account, but now it is not enabled.
4. Type net user administrator /active:yes and hit Enter to enable Windows 7 admin account.



Assign a password for administrator:
Now the Windows 7 administrator account is created. To create a Windows 7 admin password, you can follow the below steps:
1. Switch to log on with the administrator account.
2. Click Start, Control Panel, User Accounts and Family Safety and User Accounts in order. You'll enter the screen where you can make changes for your account.
3. Click Create a password for your account on the screen.



4. In the coming screen, type and confirm your Windows 7 admin password.
5. Enter password hint and click Create Password.
Now a password has been successfully created for your Windows 7 admin account.
Method 2: Use Local Users and Groups
1. Click Start and type lusrmgr.msc in the search box, and then hit Enter. The Local Users and Groups screen will come up.
2. Double-click the Users folder. And all the Windows 7 accounts will be displayed for you.



3. Right-click the Administrator account and select Properties.
4. Uncheck the "Account is disabled" check-box and click OK on the Administrator Properties screen.



Assign a password for admin:
Now Windows 7 admin account is enabled. To set a password for the enabled Windows 7 administrator account, follow the steps as below:
1. Right-click the Administrator account and select Set Password.
2. Click Proceed to go on your operation.
3. Type and confirm your new Windows 7 admin password and click Ok.
4. Close the Local Users and Groups screen.



Now a password is assigned to your Windows 7 admin account.
Note: Please remember to create a Windows 7 password reset disk after assigning administrator password. You can use it to reset lost Windows 7 administrator password easily when you happened to forgot the password.



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Turn off your computer from a cell phone.

3diggsdiggI read about this online a little while ago, and found it really cool. Using this simple method, a user can shutdown, restart, hibernate, etc. his or her computer, just by sending an email from his or her phone. I know, sounds really cool. To do this, all you will need is Microsoft Outlook which should come with Microsoft Office, which most people have. This will need to be on the computer wish you wish to shutdown. So, this is how you do this:
Before I start, I would just like to note that I found where I think I read this. Original Source here

1. First, you will need the batch files that will be needed to perform the shutdown, hibernate, etc. You can either make these yourself, or download this zip file found on the original source: Download the files here. Extract it to the C Drive so that its extension is : “C:\sms_functions\”
2. Open up Microsoft Outlook. Make sure that you have already configured it for your email.
3. Now we will need to make it so that Outlook checks your inbox about every minute. You can do this by going to Tools>Options. Then click the Mail Setup tab, and afterwards, the Send/Receive button.
4. Make sure that the Schedule an automatic send/receive every… box is checked, and set the number of minutes to 1. Now you may close all of these dialog boxes.
5. Now go to Tools>Rules and Alerts… Next click the options button in the upper right hand corner and press the Import Rules button.
6. Now select the shutdown.rwz file that was found in the zip file named sms_functions that you downloaded (the one taken from the original source).
   1. Now, when you send a message from your phone to your e-mail address with the subject smsshutdown%%, your computer will shutdown.

You can also make your own rule, so that you can use your own batch file, and may specify the phrase you want to trigger the action. You can do this by:

1. Selecting New Rule… Then clicking the Start from a blank rule radio button, selecting Check messages when they arrive, pressing Next >
2. Select a trigger by checking its box…pressing Next >
3. Select Start Application, and under Step 2, click the underlined word, Application.
4. Now select the batch file, and you are done.

If you have any questions or need help, please either visit the original source and comment there or here.
Thanks for reading, good luck using this, and I hope you find it useful!


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Windows 8 tablet review

There aren't any Windows 8 PCs yet, especially not any running on ARM chips, although we've seen demonstration prototypes from Qualcomm and Nvidia at Build running the Metro-style Windows 8 Start screen interface.

So what Microsoft is giving to developers this week is a Windows 7 slate running the pre-beta developer preview of Windows 8. It also has sample apps written in 10 weeks over the summer by teams of Microsoft interns and developer tools for creating Metro apps, including the new version of Expression Blend for writing either Silverlight or HTML Metro apps.

You can check out our Windows 8 video preview - and see all of the key features on display below:

But what we got is the kind of premium Windows tablet that really shows what pen and touch can do when you put a Sandy Bridge Core i5 into a sleek metal case with 4GB of memory, a 64GB SSD and a beautiful and bright 11.6" Super PLS screen (with the 1366 by 768 resolution that Windows 8 needs to show two apps side by side in the Metro interface - with the larger app at VGA resolution and the smaller at QVGA, widescreen is a must).




The Windows Developer Preview tablet is actually based on the ultra-thin Samsung Series 7 tablet that was recently announced for Windows 7, and it has a lot of the design language of the ultra-thin Series 9 notebook as well.
You can't make a tablet with the curves of the Series 9, but the line of that curve is still there along both sides, albeit interrupted by the ports that stud the case - without making it uncomfortable to hold.

Windows 8 tablet up close

On the right of the Windows 8 tablet is the power button, the rotation lock button for when you don't want turning the screen to flip the orientation, and the SIM slot. On the top are micro SD slot, the twin array microphones - with front and rear-facing cameras this is going to be good for Skype video calls.




On the left side is the only USB port, with a neat USB blanking plate that you're going to lose as soon as you prise it out, the combined headphone and speaker jack next to the volume buttons which are slim but have a nice positive feel to them, and the mini HDMI port.
At the lower left corner is the power jack, which looks absurdly large on the slim edge. (The power brick itself isn't as small as some tablet chargers - about the size of a pack of cards, with sleek rounded edges.)



The bottom edge of the Windows 8 tablet has the docking port for the rather neat docking stand (which keeps the power cable tidily out of the way as well as giving you another USB port, plus HDMI, gigabit Ethernet and a headphone socket).




The tiny speakers on either end of the bottom edge give you the same surprisingly good sound as the Series 9. And even when it's in the dock, the all-important Windows button is easy to press to switch between the Metro Start screen and the desktop.
The inch-wide bezel is as absurdly shiny as on any other Samsung device, but having the flat glass surface right across the tablet from edge to edge is what you want because of the gestures where you swipe onto the screen from the side to switch apps or open the 'charms'.
The screen isn't as reflective as the bezel, and the fact that it will always be peppered with fingerprints might even reduce the minimal glare. Thanks to the brightness, clarity and beautiful colour of the screen you won't notice the fingerprints until the screen is off.



Touch accuracy is superb on the screen; the high touch digitiser resolution helps, as does the fuzzy hit targeting in Windows 8 and we could select every single icon, link, control and menu flyout we tried, as well as being able to swipe quickly and accurately.
There's no slot for the pen in the chassis, but it's a slender Wacom pen with a good grip that makes it easy to use the handwriting recognition; the tip has the right amount of friction too, giving you smooth inking but not sliding around on the glass screen as you write.
The 909g weight is very light for a Windows slate this large (most Atom-based Windows tablets have 10-inch screens) and it's nicely balanced, whether you're holding it in portrait mode for reading web pages or in landscape - which works well for typing with the on-screen thumb keyboard, playing games and enjoying video and photos.
Thanks to the processor, the Samsung tablet has no problem running Windows 8 Metro apps, Windows desktop apps like Photoshop, games, hardware-accelerated web pages in IE10 or any combination of those at once.
Pre-beta hardware
As this is definitely pre-beta hardware we're not surprised to find that the processor runs a little hot when you have Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth all running. The UEFI BIOS makes for a very fast boot; it goes from powered down to the lock screen in ten seconds - and as soon as you swipe the lock screen up you're at the Start screen ready to launch apps. It's actually quicker than turning on most phones.
With a Core i5 (and a screen this size), you can't expect the battery life of an ARM tablet. With Wi-Fi on, battery life is around three and a half hours; turn off the radios and get four and a half to five hours usage.
And while the Samsung tablet is sleek and slim, 13mm counts as slim for a PC but not for less powerful tablets - the hardware means it's still thicker and heavier than most tablets (although it makes the TouchPad look chunky and makes every Oak Trail Atom tablet we've seen looking both ugly and chunky by comparison).




Even with Windows 8, this is still a PC - but it's a very nice tablet PC, with far more power and functionality than any other tablet. It's also the ideal device for showcasing Windows 8 for developers, getting them to think touch first.
Microsoft is convinced that in a few years every screen will be a touch screen, even the ones that also have mice and keyboards. For now the Bluetooth keyboard that comes with the Samsung tablet is a necessity, but the point of giving this tablet to the Build attendees is to get them to build a new generation of apps that mean using a keyboard becomes a choice
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Welcome To Windows 8 Edition.. Overview...

 t's far from finished, but the Developer Preview edition of Windows 8 is already packed with important additions, from the colourful Metro interface, to a revamped Explorer, appealing desktop applets, useful system repair options, and more.
In places, though, Windows 8 is also very different to what's gone before. So if you've installed the new Windows 8 build, perhaps on a virtual machine but found yourself a little lost, don't worry - read our Windows 8 tips and tricks and you'll soon be back on track, and taking a close-up view at some of the best features Windows 8 has to offer.

Windows 8 tips: getting started

1. Lock screen
Launch Windows 8 and you'll first see the Lock screen, which appears whenever your system boots, resumes or you otherwise need to log on. If you have a touch screen, swipe up to clear it and enter your password; otherwise, drag up with the mouse, use the mouse scroll wheel, or just to tap the spacebar to clear it and move on.
2. The Metro home screen
Once you've logged on then the new Metro start screen will appear, packed with tiled apps. So packed you'll probably need to scroll horizontally to see them all (scrolling the mouse wheel, if you have one, will do this for you).
You don't have to put up with this arrangement, though. Click on individual apps to see what they do; press the Windows key at any time to return to the Metro screen; right-click (or swipe down on) apps you don't need and select Unpin to remove them; and drag and drop the other tiles around to organise them as you like.

3. Simplified Start menu
Metro has its own Start menu containing just a few simple options; Settings, Devices, Share and Search. Swipe from the right side of a touch screen, or move the mouse cursor to the bottom left of the screen to view and explore this.

4. Run anything
To run another app, just press the Windows key and start typing its name. The search window will appear (you can also launch this by press Win+F) with any hits, and clicking one will launch it.
Alternatively, hold down the Windows key and press R to open the old Run box, enter notepad.exe (or whatever) and launch it just as before.
5. Task switching
The Metro screen doesn't have a taskbar, so you'll soon lose track of the apps you've run. To see what's running, though, just press Alt+Tab. Pressing Win+Tab will switch from one running app to the next, and on a touch screen, swiping repeatedly from the left also cycles through running apps.
You could also simply launch an app again and, if there's another copy running, that one will be displayed.
If you have a keyboard, repeatedly pressing the Windows key will always toggle you between the Metro screen and the last app.
And if you have a mouse, move its cursor to the far left of the screen (roughly in the centre, vertically) and a thumbnail of the last app you used should appear. Click this to relaunch it.

6. Closing time
Metro apps don't have a "Close" button, and this is intentional: apps are suspended when you switch to something else, and are automatically closed anyway if you need the resources.
If you'd like to keep your system clean, though, you can always close them manually. Press Ctrl+Alt+Esc to launch Task Manager, right-click the surplus application and select End Task.
7. How to shut down
To shut down your system from Metro, call up the Settings dialog (move the mouse cursor to the bottom-left corner of the screen and click Settings, or just hold down the Windows key and press I), click the Power icon, then Shut Down.
Or, in the desktop, you can still press Alt+F4, and choose the Shut Down, Restart, Switch User or Log Off option.

Windows 8 tips: mastering Metro

8. Metro Internet Explorer
Click the Internet Explorer Metro pane and a full-screen version of the browser will appear. This is touch-friendly, and has some pluses for mouse users: right-clicking lets you pin a site to your Metro screen, for instance, or open a new browser tab or switch to an old one.
But if you prefer the old-style IE interface, that's available, too - open the desktop and launch it, or just hold down the Windows key and press 1.

9. See more apps
Metro apps normally run full-screen, but if you're using a touch interface it's possible to view two at once: just swipe from the left, drop the thumbnail onto the screen, and one app will display as a sidebar while the other takes the rest. (You can swap these by swiping again, but it's not possible to have each app take half the screen.)

10. Check the Weather
Many of the bundled Metro apps can be reconfigured, and this usually starts with a right-click.
By default the weather app will show the current conditions in Anaheim, California, for instance, but if you'd prefer to view conditions in your local city then click Weather to launch the app, right-click and select Add City, type the name of your nearest city, and choose it from the list, when it appears.

11. Spell check
Metro apps all have spellcheck where relevant, which looks and works much as it does in Microsoft Office. Make a mistake and a wavy red line will appear below the offending word; tap or right-click this to see suggested alternative words, or add the word to your own dictionary if you prefer.
12. Run as Administrator
Some programs need you to run them with Administrator rights before they'll work properly. The old context menu isn't available for a pinned Metro app, but there's something similar not far away: just right-click one of your pinned apps, click Advanced, and if it's appropriate for this app, you'll see a Run As Administrator option.
13. Hibernate or Sleep
By default Hibernate or Sleep won't appear in the Windows 8 shutdown dialogs, however you may be able to restore them.
Launch the Power Options applet (powercfg.cpl) and click "Choose what the power buttons do" in the left-hand pane.
If you see a "Change settings that are current unavailable" link, then click it, check the Sleep and Hibernate options, click Save Changes, and the new options should now appear in your shutdown dialogs.

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