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In my previous tutorial, I showed you how to take control of your files and folder in Windows 8. This tutorial will follow the same path, but this time we will see on how to that with Windows 8 registry key. You will need to know how to perform this procedure, because one of our next tutorials will require from you to perform this change.

To get started follow the steps below.
Step 1: From your desktop press Win+R on your keyboard.
Step 2: Inside the Run window that opens up type regedit, and press Enter on your keyboard.

Step 3: When Windows Registry Editor window opens up, inside left pane go to the desired registry key, right mouse click on it and from context menu that appears choose Permissions.

Step 4: New dialog window will open. Click on Advanced button located in bottom right.

Step 5: Under Owner, click on Change button.

Step 6: Type in your username and click on Check Names button. It will automatically convert your username into the correct format.

Step 7: Click OK to save your changes.
Step 8: From Permissions and Display window, select your username and then check Allow checkbox under Full Control row.

Step 9: Again click OK to save your changes, and you will now have full permissions on chosen registry key.

To get started follow the steps below.
Step 1: Open Windows Explorer, and then go to a file or folder on which you want to take ownership.
Step 2: Right-click on that file or folder, and from the context menu choose Properties.

Step 3: When new window opens up, choose Security tab.

Step 4: From the given list, choose your username and you should see that it does not have full control.
Step 5: With username selected, click on Advanced button.


Step 6: Now, click on Change button located next to Owner.

Step 7: Under Enter the object name to select field, type in your username and click on Check Names button. Your username will automatically be converted to the correct format.

Step 8: Click OK to save your changes.
Step 9: Close last two opened windows and return to Properties window you opened in Step 2.
Step 10: Under Group or user names list select your newly added username.
Step 11: Under Permissions for Administrators, click on Allow row for Full control. Click OK to save your changes.

That’s it, you now have full permission on that folder or file.
Visit our Windows 8 Tutorial section for more tips and tricks.

I’ve written a lot about Windows 8 and some of it’s advanced features, but I haven’t yet gone through a detailed explanation of the new Start Screen in Windows 8. It’s obviously a very different experience than the traditional Start Menu, but I’ve gotten the hang of it now.
In this article, I wanted to go through the Start Screen and show you how it can be customized and rearranged to suit your style. I’ll also explain some of the features of the Start Screen and how to access them in Windows 8.

Customizing Start Screen Background and Color

The first thing you can do is simply change the background and color of the Start Screen. If you open the Charms bar, click on Settings, click on Change PC Settings, then click on Start Screen from the Personalize category, you’ll see about 20 different background options and some color choices.

These are the only options you get as of right now. For whatever reason, you cannot load your own background or choose a color other than the ones shown above. I personally find a lot of the backgrounds to be terrible because of the crazy floral patterns.

Adjust the Size of Tiles

The next thing you can do is adjust the size of the tiles on the Start Screen. You can right-click on a tile and then choose from either Smaller or Larger depending on the current size of the tile.

If you right-click on a tile and it doesn’t have the option for smaller or larger, then that just means the size of that tile cannot be changed. There are only two sizes for the tiles, one that is a square and one that is a rectangle. There is no way to change the tiles to a custom size.

Live Tiles

Live Tiles are a cool unique feature of Windows 8 that will show you real-time updates for an app in the tile on the Start Screen. For example, the finance app automatically updates with the latest Wall Street data and the weather app tile tells you the current weather for your location.

Depending on what app you install, you may not care about the live tile. You can right-click on the tile and choose Turn live tile off. This will replace the live info with just an icon for that app.

Number of Rows

With a small registry hack, you can also adjust the number of rows that show on the Start Screen. By default, Windows 8 will choose the number of rows based on your resolution. However, that may not be what you want. You can check out my previous post on 10 Windows 8 registry hacks where I mention how to adjust this setting.

App Groups on the Start Screen

By default, all apps are put into groups. You can tell which apps are in a group by the amount of spacing between the apps. The groups are spaced much farther apart than the apps inside of a group.

You can drag and drop apps from one group to the other by just clicking on an app, holding your mouse down and dragging it to another group.

As you can see above, the apps in the other group automatically move out of the way to accommodate the new app. If you don’t like the default grouping that you get when you install Windows 8, you can create your own groups. Instead of dragging the app to another group, drag it to the space between the groups or to the far right of all the groups. At this point, you will see a vertical bar appear, which would create a new group when you release the mouse.

Move Groups Around on Start Screen

Once you have created your groups, how do you move the groups around? Well, you first have to zoom out. You can do this in a number of ways. The easiest way is to just click on the dash (-) at the very bottom right of the screen.

You can also press CTRL + - or press CTRL and then scroll the mouse wheel down to zoom out. This will make all of the apps smaller and now you can just drag and drop the groups in any order you want.

Rename Groups

By default, no group will have a name. If you want to give your groups headings, you can go into the zoomed out mode that I just described above and then right-click on the group you want to name.

You’ll see a bar pop up at the bottom of the screen with an option called Name group. Click on that and give your group a name. So it’s easy to create groups for tools, news, websites, or whatever else you like. Hopefully that gives you a good overview of the different ways you can customize the Start Screen and organize apps in Windows 8. If you have any tips of your own, feel free to share them in the comments. Enjoy!

Windows 8’s touch friendly metro interface is a feature that has been heavily criticized for desktop and traditional PC use and applauded for tablet use. Microsoft is of course a tech leader, so could a simple, futuristic OS like Windows 8 help push PC innovation forward? When you create a hybrid, tablet/desktop OS like Windows 8, the answer is yes.

If you’re in the market for a new Windows 8 PC, you are going to have a few more choices than just notebook, desktop or tablet. Because Windows 8 is a desktop + tablet operating system, PC manufacturers and engineers have designed a slew of new Windows 8 ready devices that are certainly driving innovation and reimagining the consumer PC experience.

Windows 8 Desktops/All-in-ones

A standard tower PC and CRT monitor may not provide for the most optimal Windows 8 experience, but the new range of touch and optimized for Windows 8 desktops certainly will. Whether it be an all-in-one or a new kind of desktop all-together, PC manufacturers are pushing the limits early on creating new Windows 8 desktops.

The Acer Desktop, Aspire range reengineered for Windows 8, incorporating minimalistic, all-in-one design, touch screen integration, and redone Windows 8 optimized keyboard and mouse.

Want to switch from desktop mode to a full on touch interface? Move the keyboard and mouse to the side, pivot the Aspire’s “kickstand” base, and you now have a high resolution 23” tablet.

Windows 8 Tablets

Windows 8’s Metro interface is optimized for touch screens as is, so expect a wide variety of different Windows 8 tablets from different PC manufacturers, including Microsoft. With different varieties of Windows 8, including Pro and RT, PC manufacturers have more room to develop tablets using different architecture and components, meaning Windows 8 tablets will range from ultra affordable to high-end.



Microsoft’s Surface Windows 8 device is considered to be a tablet. However, it also has a minimal, detachable keyboard/cover, allowing for faster word processing and typing.

Windows 8 Hybrids

A cross between a traditional notebook PC and a tablet, hybrids aim to offer the best of both worlds, giving consumers a device that they can simply use as a tablet, or snap back into place and have full-on notebook capabilities.

Not to be mistaken for a Windows 8 tablet with keyboard cover like the Microsoft Surface, hybrid Windows 8 devices incorporate full-featured, traditional notebook bases with expandability ports such as USB 3.0, charging ports, card bays and more. Example, HP ENVY x2.

Windows 8 Convertible

With similar functionality to the Windows 8 hybrids listed above, Windows 8 convertibles offer a different way to go from notebook to tablet quickly and effortlessly. Instead of a simple, detachable tablet monitor, convertible Windows 8 devices simply rotate in order to switch to tablet mode.

The Dell XPS 12 features a rotating touch screen that is integrated to the device’s bezel.

The Asus Taichi utilizes a basic folding hinge design, but because it has two screens, you can simply close the lid to use tablet/convertible mode.

Windows 8 Touchscreen Notebook

If you will mostly be using Windows 8 via keyboard and mouse, but would like the ability to occasionally utilize the touch interface, you might go with a essential Windows 8 touchscreen notebook. No screen flipping or detachable tablet, but rather, a traditional notebook PC with a touch screen.

The Aspire s7 by Acer is one of their newest Ultrabooks that has been updated with a touch screen and more optimized trackpad for more effective Windows 8 usage.

Windows 8 Sliders

Unlike hybrids that feature a detachable screen and unlike convertibles that feature a rotating to outer screen, Windows 8 Sliders utilize a sliding mechanism rather then a hinge.

The Satellite U925T by Toshiba features a slider design that rests the screen in an upright position for laptop mode, but also a click and slide feature that slides the screen on top of the keyboard for tablet mode.
Those are just a few of the latest Windows 8 ready devices, and Windows 8 is still not even officially released yet! PC manufacturers and engineers now have a bit of room for innovation, aiming to provide consumers with more options when choosing their next PC, tablet, or hybrid device.
If you’re considering purchasing a new PC and are planning on running Windows 8 as a primary OS, you might want to hold off for a bit, because you now have more options and varieties to pick from than ever. Thank you for stopping by the site for today’s post.

I recently did a clean install of Windows 7 on my PC and downloaded all the drivers from the manufacture’s website and thought everything was good to go. I happened to go into Device Manager and noticed that there was a problem with Base System Device.
Actually, there were several Base System Device driver errors, all with question marks. I was surprised because I thought I had downloaded the important drivers for the system such as the graphics card, touchpad, network adapter etc.

Unfortunately, I didn’t seem to have downloaded all of the drivers. I eventually figured out what the problem was and didn’t get the error in Device Manager anymore. In this article, I’ll show you how to fix the driver issue in Windows.
Even though I installed most drivers, there were a couple that I didn’t install thinking that they were not necessary. The Base System Device is usually related to one of three pieces of hardware: the chipset, bluetooth or the SD card reader.

Go to the manufacturer website and find the drivers for your specific model. Make sure to download the chipset drivers and install the latest version. Also, find the the drivers for bluetooth and SD card reader, if you have those on your system.
Also, you can figure out what driver is needed by finding the hardware IDs for any device that shows up as unknown or with a question mark in Device Manager. To do this, double-click on the Base System Device and choose Details. Then click on Hardware IDs from the drop down.

It should look something like this:

PCI\VEN_15AD&DEV_0405&SUBSYS_040515AD&REV_00
PCI\VEN_15AD&DEV_0405&SUBSYS_040515AD
PCI\VEN_15AD&DEV_0405&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_15AD&DEV_0405&CC_0300

Now you can go to a site like PCIDatabase and type in the vendor ID and device ID. Where are those numbers? The part after VEN_ is the Vendor ID. In the first line above, it’s 15AD. The device ID is the part after DEV_, which is 0405 in the above case.

Now if I type those IDs into the respective Vendor search and Device search boxes on the PCIDatabase website, I’ll get the following results:


As you can see above, it’s a NVIDIA graphics card running under VMware. Since I have installed Windows 7 in a virtual machine, VMware is the the vendor. The device is the graphics card installed on my host PC. Pretty neat huh? The next time you see a big question mark or Unknown Device in Device Manager, you can now figure out exactly what piece of hardware is missing a driver.
Now just go through all the Base System Device listed there and figure out exactly which driver you need to download. If you have any questions, feel free to post a comment. Enjoy!

In today’s tutorial for Windows 8 I will show you how you can reset the folder view settings of all folders or only folder that are using the same folder template back to default.


Step 1: First you need to open File Explorer and then open the folder for which you want to reset view settings back to normal.
Step 2: Now choose View tab from top navigation.

Step 3: Click on last option in ribbon called Options (don’t click on arrow button on option icon)

Step 4: A new window will open, choose View tab.

Step 5: Now click on Reset Folders button.

Step 6: A confirmation window will appear, click Yes and then click OK.

There are several people who use your computer and you want to prohibit some of then to use a certain software or a particular game. To do this, Windows 7 has a new handy feature called AppLocker. By defining rules of restrictions, you can prevent one or more users to launch an application, game or all software from a particular folder. In this tutorial I will show you how to enable and setup AppLocker in your Windows.


Let me note before you start to follow below steps that AppLocker is only present in the Professional and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 so if you don\t have one of these two Windows 7 version you won’t be able to use AppLocker and I suggest you to try some other alternatives such as Parental Control or third-party apps
Step 1: First we meed to enable AppLocker, for that click the Start button, inside search field type gpedit.msc and press Enter on your keyboard.

Step 2: Local Group Policy Editor window, in left pane expand following path Computer Configuration/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Application Control Policies and then click AppLocker.

Step 3: In the right pane, under Configure Rule Enforcement section click the Configure rule enforcement link.

Step 4: Under Executable rules section check the box Configured and press OK to save changes.

Step 5: Now when we have successively activated AppLocker, go back to Local Group Policy Editor window and the path we opened in Step 2.
Step 6: In right pane under Overview click on Executable Rules link.

Step 7: From top navigation click the Action and from drop down menu select Create Rule.

Step 8: The rule wizard opens. Check the box in front of Skip this page by default and click Next.

Step 9: Under Action select Deny and click Select button.

Step 10: From bottom left corner of small window that appears click the Advanced button.

Step 11: Then click Find Now button.

Step 12: Under Search results at the bottom of the window select the name of the user you want to restrict and click OK.

Step 13: Under Select User or Group window click OK again.
Step 14: In Create Executable Rules window click Next.
Step 15: Now select Path and click Next.

Step 16: Click Browse Folders.

Step 17: Select the folder of the game or software you want to block. By selecting a parent folder, all software and games located in that folder will be blocked to the user. Click OK to continue.
Step 18: Click Next and in new window you can define exceptions. Under Add exception drop down menu select the type of exception (Path for example) and click Add button.

Step 19: In small window that shows up select the folder you want to exclude from blocking and then click OK. Click Next to continue.

Step 20: Give a name and a description to this rule and click the Create button.

Step 21: Click Yes to create the default rules. These rules allow Windows to run properly. Your new rule is added to the list.

Step 22: Now that your rules are ready, you must start the service so that they are effective on the user accounts on your computer. To do that click the Start button.
Step 23: In the search field, type the command services.msc and press Enter on your keyboard.

Step 24: Inside the right pane open the service called Application Identity.

Step 25: Click Startup type and from drop down menu select Automatic. The service will then automatically launched at Windows startup.

Step 26: Under Service status click the Start button to launch it.

Step 27: Click OK and close all opened windows.
Step 28: Now to see if its working correctly lunch program or software from the account you have added to restrictions. If it works correctly you should see a warning window.