You just need to install an update from microsoft to allow it to run on your current hardware.
Follow the links below for both 64bit and 32bit systems and you will be up and running in no time at all.
For 64Bit Click Here
For 32Bit Click Here
This Is a blog for the Day to Day Computer issues we face, the Super Kev is here to help.
You just need to install an update from microsoft to allow it to run on your current hardware.
Follow the links below for both 64bit and 32bit systems and you will be up and running in no time at all.
For 64Bit Click Here
For 32Bit Click Here
Have you even tried selling items on Facebook ?
Never seemed to get a response by a personal message or someone says they have PM'd you but it never arrived in your inbox.
This is pretty common and there are hidden messages in your inbox, if like me you dont normally fully open your mailbox just use the drop down menu and click the new message then check this out.
Click on the Drop down then onto show all at the bottom on the drop down.
You will notice that there is the word Other next to inbox, Click on this and you will see all the messages that are from people who are not in your friends list and probably people who have said they have PM'd you on your selling sites.
Once you have opened this for the first time it will then appear next to the word inbox on the drop down menu.
Have you installed the Orbit Downloader and realised its crap and annoying and want rid of it. (Google Chrome Users)
Run through the normal uninstall process from Programs and Features, then reboot.
Once you have rebooted and you next go to download a file you will notice that it would appear to be still installed.
So Open a new tab in chrome.
Type (chrome://plugins) into the address bar, find the orbit plugin and disable it.
For internet explorer i believe you can just delete the folder in the APPDATA folder in your profile, ask if you cannot find this.
Since Installing windows 8 on my Laptop i have noticed that i have had a few issues loading my games via steam and also standalone ones,
The error that i have come accross is Direct X related and is 2 different DLL files that are missing D3DCompiler_43.dll and also D3DCompiler_42.dll, as per image below.
To Fix this simply go to microsofts website and downlaod the latest Direct X installer and run it, once it has finished restart your computer and then try the game again, this has happened
to me twice in the last 2 days the first time being the 42 dll and the second being the 43 dll.
Like in Windows 7, you can also add the God Mode Shortcuts to your desktop in windows 8. God Mode gives you more than 230 shortcuts, all the control panel and setting items that you have on your computer.
Follow the steps below to add God Mode to your computer.
1. Create a new folder anywhere on your desktop. Right click on your Desktop and create new folder.
2.Once created, rename the folder from ‘New Folder’ to this exact code, Including the words GodMode at the front.
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Once you have copied the text above press the enter key.
The folder icon will change to the Control Panel Icon.
Open up the shortcut to reveal over 230 items to chose from, all of which can be found in various ways from searching on the Start Menu or within the Control Panel itself.
Navigating Windows 8 can be a nightmare if you are used to the start button, and also depend on it so much.
Here are a few shortcuts and helpful tips to get you on your way, as i already mentioned in an earlier post you can get the start button back with the stardock app.
The Windows 8 Task Manager has been significantly improved over previous versions of Windows. Some of the new changes include showing a total percent usage at the top of your Processes, which makes it easier to determine total memory and CPU usage, improved Performance graphs, a Startup tab to see startup processes and their impact to system performance, and the App history tab (as shown below) that gives you the total resources an app has used over a period of time. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to start exploring the new Task Manager.
Windows Search
With Windows 8 if you are on the start screen you can simply just start typing to search for anything you are looking for, weather it be an app or a file, just type the letters and your results will start to appear on the left hand side.
The Search is also found through Charms and can also be opened by pressing Windows key + F.
Hot Corners
The corners on your screen are hot corners and give you access to different Windows features. Below, is a brief explanation of each of these corners.
Bottom Left-hand corner
The bottom left-hand hot corner of the screen will allow you to access the Start screen, if you're in the Start screen and have the Desktop open, this corner will open the Desktop from the Start screen.
Right-clicking in the left hand corner will open the power user menu.
Top-left corner of the screen
Moving the mouse to the top-left corner and then down will display all the apps running on the computer. Clicking and dragging any of these apps to the left or right-hand side of the screen will snap that app to that side of the screen. Each of these open app icons can also be right-clicked to close or snap.
Right-hand side of the screen
On the full right-hand side of the screen will be given access to the Windows Charms.
It looked for a short while that the Lightening to Micro USB connector was going to only be available in Europe, but Apple has decided to sell it in the USA too, the tine adapter finally made its way to the US Apple store website for only $19 US (over in Europe, it's £15 / €19) i am not sure of the release date for Australia but it wont be too far away.
Will this be one of many adapters converting us from the lightening connector, me personally am still waiting for the connector to allow me to use my existing dock, although im doubtful it will allow me to charge my phone when it arrives.
A*STAR's Data Storage Institute has unveiled a new Hybrid drive that is only 5mm thick, and at 1tb with a 32GB SSD thrown in, its a pretty good contender for the latest and greatest 2.5 inch drives.
Its named the A-Drive and has a new proprietary motor and 30 additional patents to lower the power consumption, A*STAR envisions the drive to work in not only laptops/ultrabooks but also the latest tablet computers too, this could stretch the battery life by up to 30% .
A*STAR has said that the Hybrid drive will be cheaper than SSD's currently used in ultrabooks and Yahoo! News reports it could be as little as $73 US.
Want this drive now, unfortunately we could be waiting upto 8 months before we see them for sale in the retail market as A*STAR aare still trying to cut a deal with manufacturing partners, so keep an eye out.
I have been asked a few times in the past why certain programs will not work, mainly web-servers running on port 80, the sites wont start due to another application using the port.
There is a simple command you can run to cross check with task manager what ports are being used, you may already be familiar with netstat it is used for many things within the OS to check what your computer is doing on the internet, simply doing a "netstat -n -n -o" in a command prompt will give you a lot of results, showing all the inbound and outbound connections and what ports are being used.
If you specifically want to find a certain port you can use the pipe command after and the word findstr so the command would look like this netstat -a -n -o | findstr :80 this would find all the connections that are on port 80 in and out.
To drill down even further you need to put in 0.0:80 at the end so the command will look like this netstat -a -n -o | findstr 0.0:80 this will then give you a very small number of results specifically for the local host and anything with 80 in there as you can see from my picture it has both port 80 and port 8080.
Now you will notice at the end of the results are some numbers these are whats known as the PID and we can cross check these in Windows Task Manager, then by going to the Services tab you will see there is a column with PID sort by numerical order and find the matching number to give you the service which is using the port, and if you need to stop the service.