Display fewer or more applications on the Windows 8.1 home screen

With Windows 8.1 Update your boot screen has been improved. Microsoft has worked hard to make the boot screen (16) more user-friendly. In this expansion series, you can now display more or fewer applications on your startup screen (16). By default, you will see a smaller number of applications when the down arrow is activated on your startup screen .

If you allow your Windows 8.1 system to display more applications, the same screen as above will be changed as shown above :

Obviously, more applications are displayed on the screen later, so the user can easily find their favorite applications and no longer has to scroll and search for the desired applications. Here are the possibilities to make this possible. read more

Find out what depletes the device’s battery with the Windows Sleep Study Tool

Windows Sleep Study Tool is a new tool from Microsoft that helps you determine exactly what your battery consumes on a computer supported by Windows 10/8.1 InstantGo. InstantGo is, as already mentioned, a new power mode on some Windows 8/8.1/10 devices that allows your system to sleep in the background while updating applications and resuming them if necessary.

A Microsoft blog post explains that your system will continue to operate in standby mode, although at a lower frequency. This exercise consumes energy and battery discharge is not easily noticeable. Windows 8.1 Sleep Study Tool plays a role in this regard. The tool generates a report in the form of an HTML file in which you can see the top five reasons why your device is low on battery power when you need it most. read more

Low WiFi performance. The wireless network connection is interrupted under Windows

If you experience poor WiFi performance and random connection problems when using a Windows PC to connect to certain WiFi access points, here is what you should try. The wireless network connection can even be interrupted!

Low WiFi performance

In most cases, this can happen when your Windows computer is running on battery power because some WiFi access points use wireless access points or routers that do not support the 802.11 Power Save protocol.

Connect the device to the network and see if it makes a difference, because when the PC is connected to a power source, the wireless network adapter is configured to use Maximum Power mode, which disables the 802.11 power saving mode. read more

Using DISM on Windows 8.1 gives Remote Procedure Call an error

If you The remote procedure call failed while DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth in Windows 8.1, then you may want to see if this message helps you.

We use System File Checker to search for and recover corrupted Windows system files. But sometimes, while running this tool, you get errors that can prevent the tool from working successfully or completing its execution. It could be them:

  1. System File Checker SFC cannot repair corrupted member file
  2. Windows Resource Protection found corrupted files, but could not repair some of them
  3. System File Checker does not work,
  4. Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service

In this case, you can try running System File Checker in safe mode or use DISM to repair Windows component memory and verify that it is working. read more

Windows could not start the AutoConfig WLAN service

We have already seen how to solve limited WiFi connection problems under Windows 8/10. But sometimes your system may not be able to identify or detect a WiFi or wireless network. In some scenarios, this may be a hardware problem that you can check with the Device Manager (16). Here you should check whether your wireless driver is working properly or not. If you find that this is a hardware problem, you should go to the nearest computer repair shop.

If you are sure enough that everything is okay on the hardware side, you can check if the services Remote Procedure Call (RPC), Windows Connection Manger and WLAN AutoConfig work properly in the window Services (Run services.msc.msc.16) to get this. In our case, we found that the WLAN AutoConfig service was not working on the system, and we received the following error message : read more

Update Windows store applications without an Internet connection

We generally use the Windows Store application on our Windows 8 computers to update our Windows Store applications. However, you may want to update the applications and your system may not have an Internet connection. For such scenarios, Microsoft has released a collection of downloadable updates for Windows Store applications that are now available in the Windows Update Catalog.

The Microsoft Update Catalog is a Microsoft service that provides a list of software updates that can be distributed over an enterprise network. Using the Microsoft Update Catalog can be a single point of contact for finding Microsoft software updates, drivers and patches. read more

Exit the explorer via the context menu of the taskbar under Windows 10

There may be times when you want to quit exploring.exe. Your Explorer 538/538i may be suspended or frozen frequently, and you may need to exit or restart it. To do this, you normally start the Task Manager. Select explore.exe in the processes and click the Finish Task button.

Closing Windows 10

But did you know that Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 also offer this option? This is not exactly a new option, but it has been around for some time. If you simply right-click on the taskbar, this option is not displayed. To view it, press Ctrl+Shift and right-click. You will then see the Exit Explorer option. read more

Windows Resource Protection found corrupted files, but could not fix some of them

We have already seen how the System File Checker allows users to search for and recover corrupted Windows system files. We also saw how to use System File Checker and earlier. But what if you see the following message at the end of the race?

Windows Resource Protection found corrupted files, but could not repair some of them. Details are contained in CBS.log windirLogsCBSCSC.log.

This message indicates that although the system file checker has finished scanning and found corrupted system files, it could not continue and replace them with good system files. read more

How to make Windows 10 auto-login after bed

We often all want to close the laptop, but not by turning it off – so we use the sleep option. This way, you can wake up your system immediately instead of rebooting it, which takes longer. For security reasons, Windows prompts you by default to enter the user account password each time you wake up your system. We have already seen how to disable the sleep login function in Windows 8/7. In Windows 8.1, you can also disable the need for a password on waking from the’PC Settings’ screen and log in automatically. In Windows 10, you can do this via Settings > Accounts > Connection Options. read more

App Switcher does not display correctly under Windows 8.1

Since the beginning of Windows 8, Windows Store applications have become a great topic. We have seen ways to fix various bugs for these applications, troubleshooting , Windows Store and so on. Today, we discovered a new problem using the modern user interface in Windows 8.1. In this situation, we observed that whenever we tried to open App Switcher by moving the cursor in the upper left corner, we noticed that the list of changing applications was not displayed correctly. As you can see from the screenshot below, the list of applications was not fully displayed, so you cannot switch to other applications running. read more