Windows 8 – Page 5 – Cloud Distilled ~ Nithin Mohan

Windows 8 Client Hyper-V and Windows Phone 7.x emulator slowdown

Nithin Mohan TK January 28, 2013 0 Comments

Hyper-V is a great platform for virtualization and luckily Windows 8 have inbuilt/integrated support for hyper-v technologies. Windows Phone 8 SDK uses hyper-v for emulator virtualization and it works pretty good with Visual Studio 2012. Hyper-V integrated to the Windows…
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StartW8–a closer, free Windows Aero start menu alternative–for Windows 8

Nithin Mohan TK January 18, 2013 0 Comments

While searching for Third Party alternative software’s for bringing back windows start menu feel on Windows 8, I came across few interesting tools – and I introduced them in my earlier blog posts – Stardock’s Start8 (licensed version), Classic Shell,…
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Power8–yet another replacement to bring back old Windows Start Menu in Windows 8

Nithin Mohan TK January 18, 2013 1 Comment

Power8 is a similar windows start menu alternative like ‘Classic Shell’, which I introduced in the last post. Benefits Power8 includes: No system files patching; No hooks over system objects; No app-init DLLs; No additional services, drivers, etc; No trash…
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Classic Shell – the Free Start Menu alternative for your Windows 8/7

Nithin Mohan TK January 10, 2013 2 Comments

Being a Windows 8 user you always dreamed of having Start menu back, unfortunately there is no straight work around for having our old Windows 7 kind of start menu back. We have to rely on third part alternative software’s,…
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Free eBooks from Microsoft Press on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

Nithin Mohan TK December 1, 2012 0 Comments

Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals (Final Edition) You can download the eBook in: Introducing Windows 8- An Overview for IT Professionals – PDF ebook Introducing Windows 8-An Overview for IT Professionals – Mobi format for Kindle Introducing…
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Free HTML5 Certification and Training Offer from Microsoft–Prove your HTML5 Programming Skills for free

Nithin Mohan TK December 1, 2012 8 Comments

Microsoft few month back launched a free HTML5 Certification program for exam – 070-480 – Programming in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. To prepare for this exam you have set of nice Training materials also available through http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com. Lets go through…
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