That was over two years ago in the early adopter program for Windows 8, and now when I use Windows XP or Windows 7, I find it very inefficient to “have to click through so many menus” to find and do ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

You’ve successfully installed Windows 8. You’re staring at the Start screen, in all its flat-tiled glory, and it all seems completely alien based on your previous ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for ...

A Windows Command Prompt is a screen where you type in commands that you would like to execute. The command prompt is very useful if you want to use batch files, basic scripting, or to perform various ...

The Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant is a program by Microsoft that allows you to quickly assess whether or not your computer is capable of running Windows 8 and then purchase it. It does this by scanning ...

I recently got lucky enough to try out Windows 8 on an Acer Aspire S7 that I've been loaned as part of the Windows Champions program. I've been quite content with Windows 7 on my own desktop machine, ...