{"id":44790,"date":"2013-07-16T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T12:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=44790"},"modified":"2013-07-16T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T12:10:24","slug":"windows-8-survival-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/windows-8-survival-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 Survival Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h3>Windows 8 Survival Guide<\/h3>\n<p>By Dave for PCTechBytes.com<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8 is a polarizing Operating System. Some people love it, some people despise it. Newcomers struggle how to navigate Windows 8\u2032s confusing Graphical User Interface, can\u2019t figure out how to shut down applications and don\u2019t know where to find the control panel. Wouldn\u2019t it be awesome if there was a Windows 8 Training Guide available from Microsoft?<\/p>\n<p>Well, there is. And Microsoft has done a wonderful job of hiding it.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, in May of 2013, Microsoft finally got around to publishing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=39055\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 8 Training Guide<\/a> on their website. While it took several months for Microsoft to put this guide up, it is a very helpful resource for users that are new to the Operating System. The Windows 8 Training Guide is also helpful for those of us who have toiled learning how to function normally in an Operating System that is better under the hood than its predecessors but lacking in overall useability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pctechbytes.com\/windows-8\/windows-8-training-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post is excerpted with the permission of PCTechBytes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/win8survival150.jpg\" alt=\"win8survival150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44795\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A very helpful resource for users that are new to the Operating System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3974],"tags":[538],"class_list":["post-44790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pctechbytes-2","tag-windows-8"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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