Windows 8

Learn how to display last logged on information for Windows 8 and 8.1 in this quick how-to article by Petri IT Knowledgebase founder Daniel Petri.

Need to quickly edit environment variables in Windows 8? Learn three ways to do exactly that in this step-by-step tutorial article by Daniel Petri.

Microsoft announced that it is buying Minecraft maker Mojang for $2.5 billion. Does this mean that Windows Phone users will finally get Minecraft for their favorite smartphone?

Need to manually restart Windows Explorer shell in both Windows 7 and Windows 8? Daniel Petri shows us how in this handy how-to article.

Need to connect to a Windows 8 client remotely? Russell Smith shows us how to use PowerShell to do exactly that in this handy how-to article.

Russell Smith shows an easy way to enable PowerShell Remoting in Windows 8 with the command line or Group Policy.

Russell Smith shows us how to configure Internet Explorer proxy settings in Windows 8, using both the Windows 8 Modern UI and desktop Control Panel.

So what Windows 9 features would make you upgrade? Russell Smith provides a wish-list of features he’d like to see in the next version of Microsoft’s client OS.

Learn how to search using file size filters in Windows 8 by using some little-known File Explorer options in this how-to article by Daniel Petri.

Russell Smith shows us three different ways to add a network printer to Windows 8, including one that relies on Windows PowerShell.

Russell Smith shows how easy it is to create a USB recovery disk for your Windows 8 system.

Russell Smith shows us three different ways to start windows 8 in safe mode, including using the system recovery tool, a boot disk, and keyboard commands.