Tips And Trick Windows 8

A) Open the Metro Start menu, click on Search.
NOTE: You could also press the Windows Key + F to open Search.

C) If the app is not listed, then go to the hidden Start Menu system folder below in Windows Explorer, create a shortcut from the app's .exe file in the Start Menu folder, and close Windows Explorer. Go back to step 2A to select the app.

For Your Account Only:
C:\Users\User-Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

For All User Accounts: (must be administrator)
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

E) Go to step 4.

A) Click on the Start button or press the Windows key to go to the "Start" screen.


B) Right click on the pinned app (ex: Registry Editor) to select (check) it, and click on the Unpinbutton at the bottom right corner.

To Add "Disable/Enable Metro" to Context Menu

1. To Toggle Windows 8 "Metro" to be Enabled or Disabled with Sound

2. To Toggle Windows 8 "Metro" to be Enabled or Disabled without Sound

3. Double click on the downloaded ZIP file, and extract (drag and drop) both the .reg and .vbs files to your desktop.

4. Right click on the extracted .vbs file, click on Properties, click on the General tab, and unblockit.
NOTE: If you do not see a Unblock button, then the file is already unblocked.

5. Right click on the extracted and unblocked vbs, and click on Copy.

6. In Windows Explorer, navigate to and open the C:\Windows folder. Right click on a empty area in the C:\Window folder, click on Paste, then cick on Continue and Yes (UAC) if prompted. Close the Windows Explorer window.

7. Right click on the extracted reg file and click on Merge.

8. When prompted, click on Run, Yes, Yes, and OK.

9. Disable/Enable Metro has now been added to the context menu.

10. You can delete the download files left on your desktop now if you would like to.

To Remove "Disable/Enable Metro" from Context Menu

1. Click on the Download button below to download the file below, and save it to your desktop.

2. Right click on the downloaded .reg file and click on Merge.

3. Click on Run, Yes, Yes, and OK when prompted.

4. Disable/Enable Metro has now been removed from the context menu.

5. In Windows Explorer, navigate to and open the C:\Windows folder, right click on the file below, click on Delete, and Yes (if prompted).

6. You can now delete the download reg file if you would like to.

To Increase or Decrease Number of Apps Rows on Metro Start Screen

1. Press the Windows+R keys to open the Run dialog box.


2. In Run, type regedit and press Enter or click on OK. (see screenshot below)

3. If prompted by UAC, then click on Yes.


4. In regedit, navigate to the location below. (see screenshot below)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Grid

1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click on the Action Center icon.


2. To Manually Start "Automatic Maintenance"
NOTE: It's recommended to only start Automatic Maintenance when you are not using the computer since performance could be negatively impacted while running.

A) In Action Center, expand Maintenance, and click on the Start maintenance link. (see screenshot below)

B) Go to step 4.

A) In Action Center, expand Maintenance, and click on the Stop maintenance link. (see screenshot below)

4. If prompted by UAC, then click on Yes.


5. When finished, you can close the Action Center.

3. Select the time that you would like to have Automatic Maintenance run daily at, then allow (check) or not allow (uncheck) Automatic Maintenance to wake the computer to run at this time. When finished, click on OK. (see screenshot below)

4. If prompted by UAC, then click on Yes.


5. When finished, you can close the Action Center.

When Windows 8 Build 7950 was leaked we had covered Windows 8 Tweaker &Bluepoison Tools to unlock hidden features of Windows 8 Build 7950 unfortunately those tools doesn’t work on recently leaked Windows 8 Build 7955 which requires more work than simple registry edits to activate & unlock hidden features of Windows 8.

Now here is first tool NoPill to unlock all new fancy features of Windows 8. NoPill is capable of unlocking following Windows 8 features.

1.  Ribbon Explorer UI

2.  Touch Pattern Login

3.  Full DWM (No blur on Aero)

4.  Immersive Browser

5.  Modern Webcam

6. Modern Reader (PDF)

7. Lockscreen (UI)

Windows 7 and Vista users must be aware of file permission and ownership issue and Windows 8 inherits similar security mechanism to prevent any accidental system related file & folderdeletion or modification. If you really need to edit those files you must first take ownership of files and grant permission to users.

Unfortunately the process of taking ownership and granting permission isn’t so easy in Windows 8. If you are new to Windows 8 and looking on how to take ownership then here is detailed step by step guide for you.

1. Locate the files/folder you want to take ownership in Windows Explorer.

2. Now right click on file/folder and select Properties option from content menu.

5. Click on Edit Button and select user from given Change Owner to list, if user or group is not in given list then click on other users or groups. Enter name of user/group and click ok.

6. Now select User/group and click apply and ok. (Check “Replace owner on subcontainers and objects” if you have files and folder within selected folder)

7. Click ok when Windows Security Prompt is displayed

8. That’s it ownership of file much have changed to select users. You may bow click Ok to exist from Properties windows.

1. Download Take OwnerShip.zip file

2. Open above downloaded zip and file and extract its contents on desktop

3. Now double click on InstallTakeOwnership.reg to install Take Ownership option in context menu