Microsoft Details Differences of IE 10 on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

 Windows 8  No Responses »
Nov 082012
 

Recently Microsoft announced that Windows Phone 8 would come with the new Internet Explorer 10 browser too. And today, Nov. 8, Microsoft has detailed the differences between its Internet Explorer 10 (IE 10) for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 ahead of the release of the mobile operating system (OS) in the US.

Microsoft’s principal program manager lead Charles Morris said in a post on its developer blog that though both versions share many similar features, the IE 10 web browser is not identical on both mobile and PC systems.

IE 10 deals with effects such as 3D transforms, shadows for both text and boxes in websites and support for more fonts. The hardware accelerated rendering function also allows transitions and animations to run independently of the main browser thread for better performance.

“By popular demand we now have full support for Web Open Font Format (WOFF) on Windows Phone. Better yet, our friends from Typekit, who provide a super popular library to add cool fonts to any website, announced official support for Windows Phone 8,” Morris said.

However, IE 10 on Windows Phone 8 does not support inline video nor does it support new manipulation views for touch panning and zooming (except for -ms-touch-action). IE 10 on Windows Phone 8 also doesn’t support multi-track HTML5 audio, ActiveX, VBScript, drag-and-drop APIs, or file access APIs. Features such as link previews, pinned site icons and notifications, as well as support for connecting sites to apps is also not supported.

Making IE 10 to web and app developers as part of Windows Phone 8, Morris said, “Now that the software development kit (SDK) is available, it is a great time for you to use the included emulator to test your sites directly on Windows Phone 8.”

Will these differences make IE 10 on Windows Phone 8 less effective and convenient?

 

5 New Features in Windows Phone 8

 Windows 8  No Responses »
Oct 292012
 

The latest launch event to rock the technological launch season comes from Microsoft with the official unveiling of Windows Phone 8 in San Francisco. Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore and Steve Ballmer revealed the Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system just a few hours ago. Let’s get a quick look at what is new in this new smart phone.

Multi-core Processing

Windows Phone 8 offers support for processors with up to 64 cores, though this may not come that soon – Microsoft says there may be some quad-core Windows Phones out this year, but it mostly expects dual-core. It should be enough to see the join: for all the criticism lobbed Microsoft’s way over its mobile offerings, Windows Phone has always been light on hardware. So Windows Phone 8 should be zippy, with the right processors.

The primary benefit of multi-core processing for users is that background multi-tasking should become a cinch, and general speed when using your phone for multiple tasks should increase. Windows Phone developers face the challenge of living up to this promise, however.

MicroSD Storage Expansion

Windows Phone 8 supports MicroSD cards, meaning that it will be relatively inexpensive and straightforward to boost the storage in your phone. As a result, you are no longer limited to the amount of onboard storage with which your handset’s manufacturer deigned to bless you.

Fresh Start Screen

One of the big complains about existing Windows Phones is the lack of customization with regard to the home screens, though they are good in looking. Windows Phone 8 rectifies this, to an extent. The Start Screen still features the familiar Moder UI live tiles, but there is the option to change the tiles’ size, move them around and change the color scheme. Actually, you can now choose from up to 20 color schemes, which is very nice.

Kids Corner

Another intriguing new feature of Windows Phone 8 is called ‘Kids Corner’, which creates a separate place on your phone where children can access only the things you want them to. So they could, for instance play games and watch videos, but nothing else.

If you want to access Kids Corner, you should first head over to Settings, Turn on Kids Corner. There’s an off switch for those who don’t need this feature and checkboxes to choose what the kids can access. The Kids Corner home screen then displays only the apps that you have chosen, in the familiar live tile format. It sounds so simple and useful you wonder why no other smart phone platform has yet provided such a feature.

Easy Integration with SkyDrive

Microsoft has done a great job integrating all kinds of different services, like SkyDrive and various social networks, into Windows 8.  As to Windows Phone 8 key to this is Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud computing function. Using Windows Phone 8 and SkyDrive allows you to move files and apps from PC to tablet to phone to Xbox, according to Microsoft, and will “not only feel the same way, but work together in some powerful ways”. SkyDrive is built right into the PC and the phone, and is available on the Xbox as well.

It is undoubtedly that the biggest thing in Windows Phone 8′s favor is the billion or so people who use Windows on PC, laptop or tablet. And Microsoft is determined to make a great deal out of this. Speaking about the combination of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Belfiore said that using a Windows Phone 8 handset offered: “All of your content: office documents, photos, and music wherever you are.”

If you create a new document with your phone, it can be accessed on your laptop, PC or tablet as well. SkyDrive also supports voice notes. You start with 7GB of free space, and you can pay to add more so you don’t have to worry about running out of space.

Easy Backup with Windows 8’s File History

 Windows 8  No Responses »
Oct 082012
 

Backing up files is made easier with Windows 8’s brand-new feature File History, which automatically backs up files in the background and lets you restore them from a simple, time-based interface.

Few users know that both Windows Vista and Windows 7 has a very useful “Previous versions” feature, which can be used to automatically backup files or folders on a scheduled interval and it is also possible to restore the backed up files to an earlier version using Windows built in backup wizard. These earlier versions, often known as “Shadow copies”, were especially useful in restoring deleted files, files that have been modified recently or have been moved to a different location.

Features about Windows 8′s File History

Similar to Apple’s Time Machine, File History allows users to schedule regular backups to any hard drive directory on their computer. However, it doesn’t back up your whole system. Instead, it only backs up the files in your Libraries—essentially, your personal documents, files, and media. You can add any folders you want to a library, of course, but it won’t back up your entire computer the way Windows 7 File Recovery does. Also, instead of running large backups every week or month, it takes a snapshot of your files every hour, so you can restore your files in a much more careful way.

How to Set Up File History

It is very easy to set up Windows 8′s File History. You should go to Control Panel > File History. If you have an external drive plugged in, just click “Turn On”. Alternatively, you can plug in an external drive and Windows will ask you if you want to use it for backup. If you want to back up to a network location, such as a NAS, click “Change Drive” in the left sidebar first. Pick your network location, then return to the main window of File History and click “Turn On”.

You can also decide for it how often to backs up: click “Advanced Settings” in the left sidebar. You can change how long it takes a snapshot of your files and how long it keeps files.

However you may have no access to these backups if you lost Windows password, as a result it becomes equally important for you to keep your Windows 8 login password safe. In the event that you lost Windows 8 password, you‘d better have a Windows password recovery tool get your password back.

How Windows 8 Improves Security

 Windows 8  No Responses »
Sep 252012
 

Every new version of Windows would focus on improved security, which is considered necessary to withstand the constant barrage of attacks aimed at the popular platform. So is Windows 8. Now let’s have a look what security changes Microsoft has made in Windows 8.

Hardware-based Security

Windows 8 will no doubt take good advantage of hardware-based authentication capabilities of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), as Steven Sprague, the CEO of Wave Systems, noted. TPM stores sensitive configuration data and credentials, making it possible to implement single sign-on and access to VPN. Device-based security could be used to log in users to the network, Sprague said. No passwords required.

Windows 8 machines can optionally ship with self-encrypting drives, which provides businesses and security-minded end-users with hardware-based encryption that can never be turned off. SEDs are ready-to-go out of the box, protecting data right from the start. Hardware-based encryption has less impact on performance as well. These are just some of the obvious security changes Microsoft has made in Windows 8. More security changes, which are designed to protect mass users from been attacked, are waiting to be explored. 

 

 

Windows Defender

Windows 8 is released with built-in antivirus, a much more robust application than Microsoft Security Essentials, the free anti-malware                                software that users could download and install by themselves in earlier versions of the OS. Windows Defender (Microsoft repurposed the name for the anti-malware product) is enabled by default, which means users have some form of security protection as soon as they turn on their machine. The front of Windows Defender running on Windows 8 looks very similar to Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 7.If user wants to install a different security product, they can feel free to uninstall Windows Defender. In fact, Windows Defender must be disabled if you want to install a third-party security suite.

AppContainer

AppContainer is an invisible security change in Windows 8, a more secure application sandbox environment where Windows 8 apps will reside. Designed to prevent apps from disrupting the operating system, AppContainer decides which actions are available to which apps. Similarly Internet Explorer plug-ins run in their own sandboxes under Windows 8. Apps will also be available through the new Windows 8 app store, which means Microsoft will be able to check beforehand for malicious applications.

Picture Password

Speaking of the amazing changes, it is obvious that we cannot leave out Picture   Password. This allows users to select a photo from your image library and then define three gestures on the photo using combination of circles, straight lines, and taps. This kind of encryption is quite different from the original text password, and it is best used on tablets or computer with touch screen.

Secure Boot

Microsoft designed Secure Boot to protect the computer from low-level exploits such as rootkits and bootloaders. Secure Boot is a security process shared between the operating system and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI, replacing the BIOS), requires all the applications running during the booting process to be pre-signed with valid digital certificates. This way, the system knows all the files being loaded before Windows 8 fires up have not been tampered with.

When a bootloader has infected your computer and it tries to load during the boot-up sequence, Secure Boot will undo all the changes and thwart the attack, making it much harder for attackers to try to compromise your PC’s start-up sequence.

Windows Logon Password Does NOT Protect Your Data

 Windows Password  1 Response »
Sep 122012
 

Your Windows logon password–the one you type every time you boot– is easily hacked.

windows password recovery, recover Windows passwordThat finding was made by two security researchers who’ve been studying ways to increase the reliability of tools designed to extract Windows registry information. The logon password isn’t intended to protect your files. It’s intended to keep others from logging onto your computer as you.

Why is that important? Because you do things on your computer that only you should be allowed to do, such as read and write your email. Unless you’ve set up your mail client to require a password every time you boot, anyone who can log onto your computer as you has full access to your mail.

And remember that only someone logged on with an administrator-level account can install software or make other important changes. You need a way to control that.

If you want to protect your files, you should encrypt them. And that brings up the exception I promised to tell you about: the Windows’ Encrypted File System (EFS).

EFS encrypts files automatically, in the background. When you’re logged in as yourself, the files appear normally. Otherwise, they’re indecipherable.

Not all editions of Windows come with EFS. For instance, in Windows 7, only the Professional and Ultimate editions have this feature. And that makes sense. Careless use of EFS can render your files permanently inaccessible to anyone–including yourself. EFS works best when there’s a IS department that knows what it’s doing, and users who don’t even have to know that their files need to be encrypted.

But there is a solution if you have a good and easy-to-use Windows password reset tool. Within few steps, you can reset your Windows password weekly or monthly for preventing being hacked, and no worry about if you lose the password, this Windows Password Recovery Tool could find it anytime.

Forgot Windows XP Password? 2 Powerful Tools Will Help Much!

 Windows XP  2 Responses »
May 312012
 

Cannot login your Windows XP computer? Already lost or forgot Windows XP password on your PC?

Don’t worry! Forgetting Windows XP password is nothing serious actually. You may have heard of the only way to regain access to the locked XP machine is to format the hard drive and reinstall the operating system. In fact, you don’t need to risk in doing that since it doesn’t cost time but also cause necessary data loss. Well, thanks to the rapid development of technology, especially in the field of computer software, we now can easily and quickly remove or change forgotten password for Windows XP-based computer. Below are two ways to troubleshoot Windows XP password forgot problem.

Way 1 : Ophcrack LiveCD—Best freeware to crack Windows XP password.

Type Ophcrack in any search engine, you will easily find there is pretty much information about this program. It is quite popular recently for it has been regarded as the best freeware to crack forgotten Windows password so far. Below are the specific steps to use this tool:
How to crack Windows XP password with Ophcrack LiveCD?
Step1: Free download the Ophcrack LiveCD software.
Step2: Burn the ISO file of Ophcrack LiveCD to a disk.
Step3: The Ophcrack LiveCD disk you just burned is a “bootable” disc. So bring this disk to the computer which you cannot get in to and then set this PC boot from the burned disk.
Step4: The burned disk will crack passwords for all user accounts created on your XP PC automatically.

However, one of the very limitations of this freeware is that password cracking efficiency. By using Ophcrack, one cannot use it to crack Windows password with exceeding 10 characters. For better crack your forgotten Windows XP login password, you need to seek for professional Windows XP password recovery tool.

Way 2: Windows Password Recovery Tool – Best professional tool to reset XP admin password.

Compared with freeware—Ophcrack, Windows Password Recovery Tool has no limitations faced with recovering Windows passwords. That means, no matter how long or how complex the password is, this tool can crack it efficiently. Still feel hesitated between freeware and professional tool? Then, let’s see how professional software – Windows Password Recovery Tool works first.
Step1: Download Windows Password Recovery Tool Standard and install it to another accessible computer properly.
Step2: Insert a blank and writable CD/DVD to computer, and then click “Burn” button to start burning an ISO image file to the CD or DVD.
Step3: After finis the burning, remove the CD or DVD from the computer and then insert this CD or DVD to the locked computer.
Step4: Set the locked computer to boot from CD or DVD in BIOS.
Step5: Reset the forgotten windows XP password with burned CD/DVD. Within minutes, you then can access to your computer without password again.

Note: The above steps on how to crack forgotten XP password are based on Windows Password Recovery Tool Standard, one of the 4 versions of Windows Password Recovery. Additionally, if you want to change Windows XP password when it is forgotten, you then can use the last version of this tool—Windows Password Recovery Tool Ultimate to solve the problem!

Article Related: http://www.windowspasswordsrecovery.com/forgot-windows-xp-password.htm

How to Recover Lost Password for Windows Vista?

 Windows Vista  1 Response »
May 232012
 

It would be more complicated to deal with the problem when lost Windows Vista password.

Many people use passwords to protect access to computers. It is a simple yet effective way to protect sensitive data and equipment. Unfortunately, by their very nature, passwords can be easy to be lost or forgotten. This can be an especially difficult problem when the forgotten password is for Windows Vista. This is because a lot of different functions available on XP are not available on Vista.

 

An administrator password cannot be changed without knowing the original password on Vista.

In Windows XP, one can change an administrator password even without knowing its original password. Do you know how? It’s pretty easy. The first step is to right click “My Computer”. Then in its options, choose “Manage” → “Local Users and Groups” → “Users”. Click the targeted account and “Set Password” for it without tying its original password. However, if you forgot or lost an administrator password on Vista, you cannot solve the problem in this way unless you can remember the original password. Then, any other chances to recover the lost Vista password?

 

Best way to crack Vista password—to use a password recovery software program.

If you do not mind losing data on your Vista machine, then reinstalling your machine could be a solution. But I don’t recommend people using this way to rescue a locked computer sine lots of time and data will be lost. Then, to use a password recovery software program, in my opinion sometimes could be the best or even the only way to recover Vista password. What is the password recovery software program? Here I would suggest Windows Password Recovery Tool Standard.

 

How to use Windows Password Recovery Tool Standard to reset lost Vista password?

Step1: Download and install Windows Password Recovery Tool Standard on a working PC.

Step2: Burn CD/DVD with the program.

Step3: Set the target computer boot from CD/DVD.

Step4: Reset the forgotten Vista password with the burned CD/DVD. Then log on to your Vista pc without a password.

 

Above are the easy steps on how Windows Password Recovery Tool works. If you don’t have an extra CD or DVD, you can also use a USB flash drive to replace it but at this time you need to use another version of this tool—Windows Password Recovery Tool Professional. This version has more functions than the Standard one, if you are in need of Windows Vista password reset for your lost Vista admin password, and interested in this tool, you can get more information by Google search “Windows Password Recovery Tool 3.0”.

 

 

I Lost My Windows XP Password – How to Login

 Windows XP  3 Responses »
May 032012
 

Situation 1: Windows XP machine can still be logged in.
If you have forgotten or lost Windows XP password, but you can still log in to the system with another user, there are two ways you can regain access to the account so that you won’t lose privilege to any program, document stored in that account.

Way 1: Reset lost password Windows XP from Control Panel.
Step1: Log in with the accessible user.
Step2: Click Start, Control Panel and User Accounts in order.
Step3: Pick the specified Windows account whose password you want to reset.
Step4: Click on Remove the password.
Step5: Now restart your PC and log in with the target user. (Note: No password is needed.)

Way 2: Change lost Windows password XP from Computer Management.
Step 1: Log on your XP profession computer with the accessible user.
Step 2: Right-click Computer and select Manage.
Step 3: Click Local User and Groups, and then click Users. And all the accounts will be listed for you.
Step 4: Right-click target account and select Set password.
Step 5: Leave the password text field blank and click OK.

Situation 2: Windows XP machine has been locked already.
To reset a forgotten or lost password on Windows XP when there is still access to the computer is pretty simple. However, when there is no access to XP machine, the above ways won’t work at all since the situation would become complicated. Though complicated the situation is, we can still find effective ways to cope with it. Below is the exact way to reset a lost XP password.

Way 3: Use Windows Password Recovery Tool.
Windows Password Recovery Tool 3.0 is powerful lost Windows password reset software. No matter the password you’ve lost is a local or a domain password on any Windows operating system, Windows Password Recovery Tool can help you solve all the possible lost Windows password problems.
Here’s how Windows Password Recovery Tool works:
Step1: Download and install, run the Windows Password Recovery Tool 3.0 on an accessible computer.
Step2: Burn a password reset disk with a blank CD/DVD or USB flash drive.
Step3: Boot the locked computer from the burned CD/DVD or USB.
Step4: Start to remove the forgotten or lost XP password. (Note: If your computer is a domain controller, you can also reset the forgotten Windows domain password in this step.)

One more tip: After you finish resetting Windows XP password lost, it is highly recommended to put up the burned CD/DVD or USB well in case you can use it in future.

Source: http://www.blog.windowspasswordsrecovery.com/lost-windows-xp-password.htm

How to Recover Windows Password for Locked Computer

 Windows Password  No Responses »
Apr 232012
 

How to recover Windows password? If you are one of the many people who have forgotten Windows password, the following article shows you how to recover password Windows with smart methods.

These methods described below will be suitable for all Windows operating systems including Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows 2000, 20003, 2008 etc.

Method 1: Windows Password Recovery with another user account on the computer.

The first way you may quickly think of is to use another user account to recover your forgotten Windows password if possible. Many people have created two or more user accounts to protect their PC, and give each different privilege over the PC. When using another user to recover Windows admin password, there are 2 options you can take.

Option One:

1. Start your computer and log on computer with the accessible account on your PC.

2. Right click “My Computer” icon on your desktop.

3.Click on “Manage” on the “My Computer” menu, this will bring up computer management window.

4.Find “Users” in “Local Users and Groups”. Then find your password forgotten administrator account and right click it to select “Set Password***”.

5.In the pop-up “Set password for…” windows, type a new password and then confirm it.

Option Two:

1.Click Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts and Family Safety > User Accounts.

2.Find the target user account, and then double click it.

3.Click change your password.

4.Type your password in the new password and confirm password box respectively.

If you are lucky enough to have created two or more user accounts on your more before, then you can use this method to perform Windows login password recover of course. But in case you are not so lucky, then you have to turn to other methods.

Method 2: Take use of Windows Password Recovery Tool Standard.

Windows Password Recovery Tool is an easy-to-use tool designed to recover any forgotten Windows password quickly without needing another user account. It only requires you 4 simple steps to finish the whole recovery process.

Step1: Download, install and run Windows Password Recovery Tool Standard to a working PC (not the locked one).

Step2: Insert a blank and writable CD/DVD to this PC and burn the ISO image file of Windows Password Recovery Tool Standard to it. Once the burning finishes, take out the CD. Thus a Windows password reset disc has been created.

Step3: Insert the created password reset disc to the target computer and set this PC boot from CD/DVD.

Step4: Start to reset Windows password with the password reset disc with only one click of “Next” button on the interface. Few minutes later, you will get a message “Password has been successfully reset”. Then after you reboot the PC, you can access to your PC again.

Method 3: Try Windows Password Recovery Tool Professional.

This is another edition of Windows Password Recovery Tool. Unlike Windows Password Recovery Tool Standard, if you don’t have a CD/DVD, you can also use a USB flash drive to replace CD/DVD with this Windows Password Recovery Professional. In addition, the whole processes to recover Windows admin password are almost the same as described above.

I Forgot My Windows 7 Password

 Windows Password  4 Responses »
Apr 162012
 

Have you ever forgotten your Windows 7 password?

If you forgot Windows 7 password for your computer login, I bet there ‘s nothing more annoying and frustrating than being locked out of your PC. And forgetting Windows 7 password has long been a problem for many computer users around the world.

It’s not that difficult to fix Windows 7 password forgot problem.

When faced with the problem of forgotten Windows 7 password, many people feel depressed. Actually it’s not that so hard to fix the problem. This is due to new tools that have recently been released and also due to some good precautions. And in the following, this article is going to show you how to regain access to your computer when you forgot Windows 7 password.

New tools and reasonable precautions to fix the problem once forgot Windows 7 password

As we know, there are 3 ways to log into a Windows computer-one is to type in the right password, one to change the password and the final one to remove the password so that you can bypass Windows password to access to a computer. However, use some professional tools which can help you reset or remove the forgotten Windows 7 password is the most efficient and fastest way. Don’t believe that? Then let me prove it just right with a very powerful Windows Password Recovery tool.

How does Windows Password Recovery Tool work for Windows 7 password forgot?

Windows Password Recovery Tool is a professional Windows 7,Vista, XP, etc. password recovery tool. For the whole recovery process, only 3 steps are needed.

Step1: You need download Windows Password Recovery Tool Standard and then install, run it on your computer.

Step2: Prepare for a blank and writable CD or DVD and then insert it to an accessible computer for burning the ISO image of Windows Password Recovery Tool Standard to the CD or DVD, thus a Windows 7 password recovery disk has been created.

Step3: Set the locked Windows 7 computer boot from CD/DVD in BIOS. Once done, you then can reset your forgotten Windows 7 password with this burned disk quickly and easily.

Use early created Windows 7 password reset disk to remove or change Windows 7 password.

Making a Windows 7 password reset disk in advance is a good precaution to prevent you from being locked out of your Windows 7 computer. Then how to make such a password reset disk and how to use this disk to remove or change forgot Windows 7 password, you can take reference in this website: http://www.windowspasswordsrecovery.com/create-windows-7-password-reset-disk.htm

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