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Weird Windows 8 Flash Drive Glitch

Ask Dave Taylor / July 3, 2013

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Reformatting a USB flash drive in Win8 comes with bizarre challenges.

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Finding and Downloading an App in the Windows 8 Store

Ask Dave Taylor / June 11, 2013

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A step by step guide to finding and downloading an app through the Win8 App “Windows Store” (the name “App Store” is already used by Apple, so Microsoft wanted to avoid confusion, confusingly enough).

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How to Identify a Facebook Photo

Ask Dave Taylor / May 21, 2013

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There are no tools on Facebook to help identify photos but it turns out that Google Image Search has all sorts of amazing capabilities, including the ability to find matches online for an image that you upload.

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How to Fix Google Drive No Longer Supported Error

Ask Dave Taylor / April 24, 2013

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…when I started up my computer this morning it reported “This version of Google Drive is no longer supported. Please install the latest version.” And has no links to get the update. WTH? How do I update Gdrive on my Win7 PC?

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How do I open or unpack a RAR archive on my Windows PC?

Ask Dave Taylor / April 18, 2013

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There are a lot of different programs that can unpack a RAR archive file, but one that I like is has been around for a really long time and it is FREE.

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Can I Change My Windows 8 Lock Screen Image?

Ask Dave Taylor / April 3, 2013

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You can definitely change it, and Windows 8 comes with five different images if you don’t want to select your own, but you can also pick any image you want and it will just stretch and resize as needed.

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