How to start Windows 8 in Safe Mode

Safe Mode is a Windows mode that uses only the most basic drivers and programs that are required to start Windows. This mode will also not launch any programs that are set to start automatically when Windows starts. This makes Safe Mode is very useful for diagnosing hardware driver problems and computer infections in Windows 8. It can also be useful when you want to uninstall a program or delete a file that you are unable to remove when Windows is started normally.

Note: If you are unable to boot into Windows after numerous attempts, Windows will automatically load the Advanced Startup Options menu where you can then continue with these instructions to access Safe Mode.

To access Safe Mode in Windows 8, you need to do so via the Advanced Startup options menu. To restart your computer into the Advanced startup options menu please go to the Windows 8 Start Screen and type Advanced. When the search results appear click on the Settings category as shown below.

Now click on the option labeled Advanced startup options and you will be brought to the General PC Settings screen. Scroll down to the bottom until you see an option labeled Advanced startup.

Click on the Restart now button and Windows 8 will restart your computer and go directly into the Advanced Startup options menu.

 

Now click on the Troubleshoot button and then the Advanced options button. You will now be at the Advanced options screen where you should click on the Startup settings option.

At the Startup Settings screen, click on the Restart button. Your computer will be restarted and brought into the Startup Settings menu as shown below.

You can start Safe Mode in Windows 8 from this screen. There are 3 possible Safe Modes options that you can choose from, which are described below:

Enable Safe Mode

This version of Safe Mode starts Windows 8 using the most basic drivers that are required to get Windows to run. It will not start any programs or the networking system.

Enable Safe Mode with Networking

This version of Safe Mode starts Windows 8 using the most basic drivers that are required to get Windows to run. It will not start any programs automatically, but will start the networking subsystem so that you can access the Internet. This is the most useful Safe Mode version as it allows you to download any tools that you may require as well as the ability to update anti-virus programs in case you wish to scan your computer.

Enable Safe Mode with Command Prompt

This version of Safe Mode starts Windows 8 using the most basic drivers that are required to get Windows to run, but does not start the Windows shell. This means that you will not see the desktop, but will instead be shown the command prompt screen where you can type commands. This version will also not start any programs or the networking subsystem. This Safe Mode method can be useful if you are cleaning up an infection that is started when the Windows shell, or Desktop, is started.

Please select the Safe Mode option by pressing the corresponding option number. Windows will then boot into the Safe Mode version that you requested where you will be able to login. Once you login, you will be at the classic Windows desktop, which will have the words Safe Mode written in each of the corners.

 

You can now use the computer as normal and resolve any issues that required you to boot into Safe Mode. If you need to get back to the Windows Start Screen, you can press the Alt button on your keyboard.

Sifymail Configure in Outlook

First, change your settings in your Sifymail account:

• Sign in to Sifymail.
• Click the  gear in the top right.
• Select Settings.

1. Select POP/IMAP Download
2. Select Enable IMAP.
3. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

Note: This setting is not available while using the basic HTML view of Sifymail. To enable IMAP, use the standard view instead.

1. Now open your Outlook 2007
2. Go to “Tools -> Account Settings…”



3. On the Email tab, click New and a new wizard window should appear.


4. Enter in your name, email address, and password twice then click Next.
Note: Enter your full email address in the ‘your name’ field.


5. Outlook will configure the email server settings, the amount of time it takes will vary.


6. Provided everything goes correctly, the configuration will be successful and you can begin using your account.
If the above instructions don’t work, then we’ll need to manually configure the settings. Again, go into Auto Account Setup and select Manually configure server settings or additional server types and clickNext.


7. Select Internet E-mail – Connect to POP or IMAP server to send and receive e-mail messages.
    
8. Now we need to manually enter in our settings similar to the following. Under the Server Information section, verify the following.
   
   • Account Type: IMAP
   • Incoming mail server: imap.gmail.com
   • Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com
   
   Note: Enter full email address (user@sify.com) in the Your Name and User Name fields.
9. Next, we need to click on the More Settings button…
    
10. In the Internet E-mail Settings screen that pops up, click on the Outgoing Server tab, and check the box next to My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. Also select the radio button next to Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
     
11. In the same window click on the Advanced tab and verify the following.
    
    • Incoming server: 993
    • Incoming server encrypted connection: SSL
    • Outgoing server encrypted connection TLS
    • Outgoing server: 587
    Note: You will need to change the Outgoing server encrypted connection first; otherwise it will default back to port 25. Also, if TLS doesn’t work, we were able to successfully use Auto. 
    
12. Click OK. Select Next in the appearing window and then select Finish

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Transfer contacts from Sifymail

1. Sign in to Sifymail.
2. Click Mail at the top-left corner of your Sifymail page, and then choose Contacts.



3. From the More drop-down menu, select Export....



4. Choose whether to export all contacts or only one group
5. To transfer contacts to Outlook use the Outlook CSV format.
6. Click Export.
7. Choose Save to Disk and then click OK.
8. Select a location to save your file, and click OK.
Now open your Outlook 2007.

9. Click File. Under file, select Import and Export.

1. When the Import and Export Wizard opens select “Import from another program or file”then hit Next.


2. Next select Comma Separated Values (DOS) and click Next.


3. Browse for the Excel CSV file and choose options about duplicate entries and continue by clicking Next.


4. Here you will want to select the appropriate folder or location you want to keep the information hit Next.


5. The next screen basically verifies what we just did and also offers the option to change the destination or Map Custom Fields. Hit Finish.

 

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To back-up Chat logs

• Go to Labels under settings.

• Now among the list of System labels, search for Chats. Now select Show under show in label list and then select Show in IMAP.

• Now you will be able to download your chat logs in your Outlook 2010 alongside your mails.

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To transfer Calendar

1. Log in to Sifymail first and then without signing out, paste the link https://www.google.com/calendar/render in the same browser.
2. In the calendar list on the left side of the page, move your mouse over the calendar you'd like to export from.
3. You'll see a drop-down arrow appear next to the calendar name. Click the drop-down arrow and select Calendar settings. (Alternatively, click the drop-down arrow next to My calendars and select Settings, then click the appropriate calendar from the list.)



4. Click the ICAL button in the 'Private Address' section at the bottom of the page.
5. Copy the calendar address that you get now and paste it to your clipboard.
Note: If you receive a 'Feed Processing Error' message when exporting events, please make sure you're using your calendar's private iCalendar address ('Private Address'). You can only use your calendar's public iCalendar address ('Calendar Address') to export events when your calendar is publicly shared.

Now open Outlook and go to Tools \ Account Settings.



6. In Account Settings choose the Internet Calendars tab, click on New… and Paste the URL you just copied from Google into the location and click Add.



7. You then get to the subscriptions screen. Give the calendar a name and description and click OK.


8. You can now see the calendar in the list in the Outlook sidebar panel.

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To transfer system labels (flag, Star labels, etc.)

First, we need to enable IMAP in the Sifymail settings.

• Sign in to Sifymail.
• Click the  gear in the top right.
• Select Settings.

• Select POP/IMAP Download
• Select Enable IMAP.
• Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

Note: This setting is not available while using the basic HTML view of Sifymail. To enable IMAP, use the standard view instead.
Now go to Labels under settings. 

Now among the list of System labels, search for Starred and Important. Select Show under show in label list and then select Show in IMAP for both Starred and Important.

Now you will see your labels in your desired desktop client using IMAP.

Installing .Net 3.5 Fails on Windows 8 With 0x800F0906 Error

Windows 8 and it required .NET 3.5.  I tried to install it (both download and from Programs and Features) and the installer tried to download the code.  The download would fail with a 0x800F0906 error:

Windows couldn’t connect to the Internet to download necessary files. Make sure that you’re connected to the Internet, and click Retry to try again.

Some googling ensued and I found a fix.  Pop in the installation media for Windows 8 and run DISM from an elevated (admin) command prompt.  E: was the path to my Windows 8 installation USB.





Not exactly user friendly!  The Live Essentials 2012 install worked fine after that.
It appears that this is caused by the machine being policy configured to use WSUS or similar with the download of .NET 3.5 not being available.

Creating Windows UEFI Boot-Stick in Windows

Preparing the USB Stick

In order to use DiskPart, open the command prompt as an administrator and then follow these instructions:

1. Enter the following command in the CMD window:
   • diskpart
2. With this command you can display the list of drives.
   • list disk
3. Now, identify your USB stick and enter the following command as a number (instead of "#"):
   • select disk # example
4. You can delete all existing partitions from the USB stick with this command:
   • clean
5. With this chain of command, a new partition is created, then selected, activated and then formatted to FAT32. A drive is subsequently assigned when the procedure is completed:
   • create partition primary
   • select partition 1
   • active
   • format quick fs=fat32
   • assign
6. Now you can exit Diskpart:
   • exit

Copying Windows installation files onto the USB stick

Next, Windows installation files need to be copied to the USB stick.

Here is an example of how you can copy the files via Windows Command Prompt from the mounted ISO file or from the inserted Windows DVD to the USB stick:

• Drive D: for the mounted Windows ISO File / Windows DVD
• Drive F: for the USB stick
  • xcopy d:\* f:\ /s /e

The USB stick is now ready for the "normal" BIOS-based Windows installation. The necessary steps for UEFI-based installations are listed below.

Preparing the USB Stick for UEFI

Check if the file 'BOOTX64.EFI' via the path \EFI\BOOT\ is available on the stick.

If this is not the case, you can copy the file to the stick by using one of the two methods below:

• If access to the stick is via a UEFI-enabled computer with a Windows 7 (or higher) x64, the Bootloader can simply be copied and renamed to the stick. You can do this on the system partition under: C:\Windows\Boot\EFI for the file 'bootmgfw.efiand copy it to the stick in the \EFI\BOOT\ folder and rename this file BOOTX64.EFI.
• The file bootmgfw.efi can also be extracted from a Windows 7 (or higher) x64 - DVD. It is located in the 2.7 GByte large archive Install.wim in the subdirectory \sources. The archive can be extracted with an archiving program. This file is located in the subdirectory "1" of the archive at 1\Windows\Boot\EFI\.

Aspire E1-510 Laptop on Windwos 7 Install

It works with update/change in BIOS

1. Download the file E1-510BIOS.Zip from the below FTP site

  

2. Make the pen drive ready by formatting with Fat-32 file system

3. Extract the file E1-510BIOS.zip to the USB pen drive, which will create a bootable pendrive.

4. Connect the pen drive to E1-510 notebook where the BIOS have to be updated.

5. Ensure that the notebook is plugged with the AC adapter and the battery is also having the charge of 40%.

6. Press F12 and power on the notebook to select the Boot option.

7. Select USB Boot and press enter, Notebook will boot from the USB Pen drive with the command prompt window.

8. Type C:\ which will be the root of the Thumb drive.

9. Type Z5WE3207W.exe which will start updating the BIOS.

10. Follow the steps displayed in the screen.

11. After completing the BIOS update the Notebook will take 1 minute to power on.

12. Press F2 and get into the BIOS setup.

13. In the BOOT Menu there will be the option for UEFI / Legacy mode

14. To load Windows 7 change to legacy mode.

“SecureBoot isn’t Configured Correctly” Watermark Showing on Windows 8.1 Desktop

Today we are going to address one of the most annoying and frequently faced problems ofWindows 8.1 operating system. There are many people who installed or upgraded to recently released Windows 8.1 OS and started facing a weird issue.

Suddenly a watermark "SecureBoot isn't configured correctly" starts showing on their Desktop. This text message is shown in lower-right corner of Desktop as shown in following screenshot:

Windows 8.1 Pro
SecureBoot isn't configured correctly
Build 9600

Users have no idea why this watermark appears on Windows 8.1 Desktop? There is no way or option available in Windows 8.1 Settings to remove this watermark from Desktop.

Actually "Secure Boot" is a new security feature of Windows 8.1 which helps users in increasing the security of their computer system. It automatically prevents unauthorized software from running in Windows. But this feature can only be used if your computer BIOS supports it. If you see "SecureBoot isn't configured correctly" watermark on Desktop, it means this feature has been disabled from BIOS settings.

But sometimes the watermark doesn't go away even if you correct the settings in BIOS or your BIOS doesn't support this feature at all.

Microsoft has acknowledged this issue and released a hotfix "KB2902864" to solve this problem. Once you install this hotfix, it'll remove the annoying watermark from Windows 8.1 Desktop.

Windows 8.1 users who are having "SecureBoot isn't configured correctly" watermark on Desktop, can download this hotfix using following links:

• Download Link for Windows 8.1 (32-bit or x86)
• Download Link for Windows 8.1 (64-bit or x64)
• Download Link for Windows Server 2012 R2

Install the hotfix and restart your system. After reboot the annoying watermark will disappear forever.

How to Install WhatsApp on Nokia X, XL, X+ (“devive does not support”. Error)

Nokia X series smartphone don’t come with pre installed WhatsApp

Due to non presence of Google Play Store you will not able to install apps that are only available on it . Instead you got nokia store , But not many apps such as WhatsApp are available on Nokia X Store . But we found out an easy way to install WhatsApp on Nokia X devices.

Steps To Install WhatsApp :

• First Search an App Named “1MobileMarket” From Nokia Store
• Install That App And After Installing Run It
• Search for “WhatsApp” In 1MobileStore
• Go To settings > security > disable > Unknown source … and then install from 1MOBILE APP STORE …and use freely
•  First Link Must be official WhatsApp from WhatsApp Inc. Make sure you install the Official WhatsApp
• Install It and Run
• Now Enter And Verify your number .
• Congratulations Your WhatsApp is Running Now On Your Nokia X Smartphones

WhatsApp open & Show this message “device does not support”. 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/0pyfiwghiv0gp77/WhatsAppPLUSv5.77D-211238.apk use this to install whatsapp plus