Forgot Windows Live Password in Windows 8

With Windows 8, you can sign in to your PC with a Windows Live account. This allows syncing and sharing personal data across multiple devices very easily. You might also be wondering, “How to log on the computer if I forgot my Windows Live password?” Well, here is a excellent hack for you.

With Password Recovery Bundle utility you can create a bootable password reset CD, and set your computer to boot from the CD and it enables you to reset forgotten Windows Live password which is stored on your local computer. After resetting, you will regain full access to your PC with a new password.

How to Reset Forgotten Windows Live Password in Windows 8?

1. First you need to download Password Recovery Bundle program on another computer. After installing and running the program, click the Windows Password button, which allows you to create a bootable password reset disk in 3 steps. Insert a blank CD/DVD or USB drive into the computer and click Start Burn to create a bootdisk.
   
2. Insert the password reset bootdisk you’ve created into your Windows 8 computer. Turn on the computer and hold down F2 or whatever the setup key is shown as during the initial boot screen. This should bring up the BIOS.
   In the BIOS look for the Boot Device Priority option, set CD/DVD as the 1st boot device if you want to boot from CD. You can either set Removable Device as the 1st boot device if you want to boot off USB drive. Save your changes.
3. Restart the computer and now it will boot from the password reset bootdisk. After one or two minutes the bootdisk will launch the Reset Windows Password utility. Choose the local user account which is linked to your Windows Live ID, and then click Reset Password button. The program will set your Windows Live password toPassword123 instantly.
   
   
   
4. Now remove the password reset bootdisk and restart the computer, you can then quickly sign in to Windows 8 using your Windows Live account and the new password: Password123.

Password Recovery Bundle could also reset forgotten login password in Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2000. It should be the first Windows password recovery program which supports the latest operating system Windows 8.

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How to Turn Off App Notification in Windows 8

Windows 8 displays app notifications in the Metro-style Start Screen for installed apps, Calendar events, new email, and other app events. But you might not be interested in getting notifications for all apps, in such cases you can configure which apps can sent out notifications for you. In this article we’ll show you how to turn off app notifications in Windows 8.

How to Turn Off App Notification in Windows 8?

1. Access the Charms bar by pressing Windows + C or moving your mouse to the bottom right of the screen and    slowly moving the mouse up. When the Charms bar appears, click on the Settings.

2. Click on More PC Settings link at the bottom of the sidebar.

3. In the PC Settings screen, navigate to Notifications section in the left pane.

4. In the right pane, there are ‘Show app notifications’, ‘Show app notifications on the Lock Screen’ and ‘Play notification sounds’ toggles. In order to complete turn off notifications for all apps, just turn off the Show app Notifications option.

5. Other than turning off notifications for all installed apps, you can do so selectively as well. The lower part of the Notifications settings screen allows you to turn off notifications for individual apps of your choice.

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How to disable Windows 8 Lock Screen

By default, Windows 8 shows Lock Screen at startup, which displays the date ad well as notifications. You have to click the screen before you can get to the logon screen. This seems like something that makes more sense on a tablet PC.

If you are using a desktop or laptop computer, you can disable the Lock Screen so the computer will boot up directly to logon screen to choose the user account to log in to Windows 8. Fortunately, you can disable the Lock Screen from Local Group Policy Editor.

How to Disable Windows 8 Lock Screen?

1. The first thing you need to do is to open the Local Group Policy Editor by pressing the Windows + R key combination to bring up a Run box, then type gpedit.msc and hit Enter.

2. Now, expand Administrative Templates settings from Computer Configuration, and then navigate to Control Panel –> Personalization. In main window, you will find Do not display the lock screen policy.

3. Double-click this policy and tick Enabled checkbox. This will permanently disable Lock Screen. When disabled, users will see the logon screen when they log off or lock out Windows. Similarly, you will be taken to logon screen directly, instead of Lock Screen, at startup.

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Turn On Bluetooth in Windows 8

In Windows 7, you’d turn on or off Bluetooth by entering the Device Manager and hunting around a wall of text for the adapter to disable. Managing Bluetooth in Windows 8 is much more user friendly.

To turn on or off Bluetooth:

1. Move the mouse to the lower right so that several icons begin to appear
2. Move the mouse upward to reveal them. This set of icons is called the Charm Bar
3. Click Settings
4. Click Change PC Settings
5. Click Wireless
6. Under Wireless Devices, turn Bluetooth on or off 

To manage a Bluetooth connection:

1. Move the mouse to the lower right so that several icons begin to appear
2. Move the mouse upward to reveal them. This set of icons is called the Charm Bar
3. Click Settings
4. Click Change PC Settings
5. Click Devices
6. Click Add a Device

Now, it's work perfectly.

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Download Windows 8 for free [Full Version]

Windows 8 is a new version of Windows that focuses on variety of hardware platform and form factors such as slim-type computers and new generation of touch devices. The new version free for download was made available for developers and testers of the new OS.

Here’s the download links for the Enterprise version of Windows.

How to get and download the latest operating system

Thankfully, Microsoft released the new version free for download designed for technological professionals, engineers and IT personnel's for testing and debugging purposes.

Download Links of the ISO file (x86 and x64)

• Windows 8 32-Bit version

• Windows 8 64-Bit version

If you can’t download the file, make sure that you are login to your respected Hotmail account.

Hardware and System Requirements

Windows 8 works with the same hardware that Windows 7 have:

• Processor: 1 GHz or faster
  
• Computer Memory: 1 GB (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
  
• Hard disk space: 20 gigabytes (GB) 
  
• Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver
  
• tablet or monitor that supports multi-touch.
  

Windows 8 uses a new graphical interface based on Metro design concept. It is a new tile based Start screen very similar to Windows Phone OS.

That’s it! Keep on reading!

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