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Customize your Windows 8 Startup Screen Wallpaper

Windows 8 Start Screen gives color on our Windows 8 UI. Its a bunch of wallpapers that acts as a background for the UI Screen and its only limited on the available images on the Setting Page. It’s better if we could add new ones but it cannot be manipulated on that page.

Looking for a tweak for it on the internet, i landed on this application called Windows 8 Screen Customizer which allows you to make your selected wallpaper to become your Windows 8 UI Wallpaper Background.

The application was developed bu Codigobit Apps and here is its interface…                                                   

Its easy to use right? But it has a downside, the changes only work while the tweak is running on the background. Its acts like a service on Windows 8 and the changes will not work without it.

If you want try the tweak, you may download it on Codigobit Apps or click this LINK.

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PHIWUG Community Launch for the Windows Server 2012!

The mechanics of the registration/raffle:
 
“Get Started on your IT Career”
 
1) Click on any of the following URLs:
 
2) Register by clicking the “Get Started” button
 
3) You will immediately receive an email with resources to guide you
 
4) Forward that email to techie-ph@microsoft.com
 
5) Print that email and bring it to the November 16 event!
 
6) Each interested attendee should download at least one of the products above to be able to confirm their registration and qualify in the raffle
 
Grand Prize: 1 Nokia Lumia 610
 
*One email = one raffle entry. Download all to increase your chances of winning.
 
**This promo is exclusively for WS2012 Rocks event attendees only which be held on November 16, 2012.
 
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Windows 8 To Go.. A OS in a USB

As Windows 8 will be available to the market on October 26, 2012, Most of the companies will definitely want to try this on their IT Environment. They will be testing it on their PC’s, Laptops, Notebooks and Tablet PC’s but of course when we say gadgets and computers we have to think in mind first that this are expensive and may not be justifiable to be bought. Come to think of it there is a way that we could test this remarkable reimagined operating system…. We will be using a USB instead…
This feature is already available since Windows 7 and for what unknown reasons it was not been used mostly here in the Philippines. In order to do this, you will be needing the following..

  • ImageX.exe (may be downloaded online or get it on WAIK disc)
  • Install.wim ( located on the windows 8 disk)

To do this, first you should open your CMD prompt and run it as a administrator.

then type the following sequentially:

  • diskpart
  • list disk
  • select disk (choose the disk where your USB drive capacity was shown to select your USB. It could be 1 or 0)
  • clean (will wipe out the whole USB Drive. Make sure you back up the USB.)
  • create partition primary
  • format fs=ntfs quick (will format the USB Drive with NTFS File System)
  • active (makes the partition active to use)
  • exit (ends diskpart)
  • Go to the location of the files imagex and install.wim
  • Run – imagex.exe /apply install.wim <USB Drive Letter>:\

It will take time to apply the install.wim to the USB Drive because its like installing the OS in the USB. Usually takes around 30 Minutes to finish.

  • bcdboot <USB Drive Letter>:\windows /s <USB Drive Letter>:\

After bcdboot finished, restart your machine and reboot to the USB Drive. It will prepare the USB for use and configure it by looking for drivers of the machine you are using. After that you may now use your USB as your Windows 8 Machine.

Please be reminded that if you insert it on other PC’s it will do again the drivers search features only once.

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Windows 8 to become RTM by First Week of August

At the WPC (“Worldwide Partners Conference”), CMO and CFO Tari Reller had announced that Windows 8 will go RTM by the first week of August. As Per Tari, those who have Software Assurance will have the full version of Windows 8 by August. As Windows 8 goes RTM, it will become a “Commerce Platform” so the early developer of the applications for Windows 8 could start earning money for their apps.

As disclosed on the conference, Windows 8 will be generally available for the public on end of October. So we will expect Windows 8 and Windows RT have to be available for selling and upgrades on October and it will be available on 109 languages and 231 markets worldwide.

If you want to watch the keynote at the WPC Conference, please click this link.