Anyway, another thing, since we don’t have touch in a desktop, here’s how to switch apps. Move your mouse to the left-center side of the screen until the app thumbnail appear.

Then, just drag it to the window and drop it.

And to switch back, is the same deal. Move the mouse to the left, then drag and drop.

As I said, although you can maintain the window hovering for a while, there is no option to make it multi-windowed. That’s something I hope to found later or just to wait until it gets added.

Of course, like Office, there is an option to hide it and save some space on the screen.

But the thing I liked the most, was the quick access buttons at the top of the window.

And again, as Office, you can customize which items you want in it, saving you a lot of work when managing files and folders. Another thing that pretty nice are the redesign of the close, minimize and maximize buttons; they just look better .

I still remember when I’m transferring files between hard drives and the system slows down since the bus it’s being used completely, and I can’t cancel it since the files are big (usually over 2Gb), and start the process again is always annoying.

Finally we will be able to pause this transfer and then restore whenever we’re ready for it. One of the most awesome features in Win8 so far, or at least one of the most necessary ones.

Right click on any part of the desktop, then Personalize.

In there, click on “Change desktop icons” to select which icons will be show by default.

Then just check on the ones you want and hit “Ok”.

This is a trick that exists also on Windows7, but will be most used on Win8 since the lack of the start menu will be something that most users will complain about, when actually there is no need for it when you actually don’t have it.

First, hover your mouse on the bottom left corner of any window. It can be desktop, the tiles screes, or an app. Just hover it

A little menu will popup from the left, click on settings.

Then, a large one will appear from the right, you’ll see the Power option and five more.

And from there you’ll be able to turn it off, restart it or set it to sleep.

Windows8 looks great. Nice buttons, nice animations, but it has some flaws. I’ll try to post more about these the next week. Have a nice weekend, everyone.

Finally, Windows 8 is here. And although the download links were released a few days ago, I finally build up the courage to actually post these and download it myself. And quickly, here are the only three downloads available of Windows 8:

• Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)
• Windows Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64)
• Windows Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)

In case you’re wondering if your PC will be able to run it, these are the minimum system requirements for Windows 8, which is the same of Windows 7:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
• Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch
• To run Metro style Apps, you need a screen resolution of 1024 X 768 or greater

Note that if you update your Windows, you won’t be able to undo de change, so you better make a clean install in another partition.

Via | MSDN

You should recognize the file easily, it’s called hiberfil.sys.

So, how to delete it and at the same time disable the hibernation?

Open the command prompt and type: powercfg -h off

Immediately you’ll see that the file is gone and you have over 1Gb of space free in your Hard Drive. Also, hibernation has been disabled.

Via | How-To Geek

Just drag and drop the folder(s) that you most use into the Favorites section.

You can change the name or the order of those folders since these are only shortcuts and can be customized and modified as you want.

Keep it in mind when you’re doing a project and need a quick access to most used folders.

This is one of the most funniest and amazing tricks to customize Win7. Nyan Cat is a very popular meme around the Internet and a programmer find the way to introduce it into our progress bar with a cool little portable program called Nyan Cat Progress Bar.

I can’t even tell you how funny and amazing this change is because you have to see it and listen it for yourself. Yes, it even brings a very funny music theme that will repeat until the task you’re doing ends.

This has now become a must have program in my PC. It will make your day. Only works in Win7.

Link | Nyan Cat Progress Bar

Anyway, I found a way to disable it very easily and permanently. First of all, download Unlocker and install it. Then go to the Windows folder (usually ”C:\Windows\”).

Now, look for these two files: HelpPane.exe and winhlp32.exe.

Select them and then open Unlocker trough the context menu, and select “Move”, move them to your desktop.

The files should now be in your desktop, and the F1 button won’t do nothing, no matter how many times you hit it.

You can delete, backup or rename those files. Anyway, help won’t be displayed until those two are back in the Windows folder.