Best Windows 8 Tutorials
FEATURED: Fixing Windows 8 Installation Problems: Recap May 18-19
Alright, so I dabbled a little with Windows 8 and tried to mess up the installation on purpose to show you some common installation problems, here’s a quick recap that will help you to get started
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The metro desktop in Windows 8 has like 3 rows, but if you have a higher resolution you might want to change that to 2 or 4 rows. Here’s how.
The new Aero theme has a beautiful translucent glass design along with subtle window animations and new window colors. To enable aero in Windows 8 follow the steps provided in this tutorial
If you have a lot of user tiles on your metro desktop, you might want to change some of the Metro tile icons. Here’s how it works and how you can customize the metro icons.
If you are wondering how you can change the text “Start” on the Windows 8 Metro desktop, you can modify the file TwinUI.DLL.MUI and change the text there. All you need is a good Resource editor.
With this tutorial you will learn how to replace explorer.exe in Windows 8 and switch it with a new one. This can also be applied to Windows 7 and is a simple registry tweak.
Before you are able to do a right click on Windows 8, you should enable it. Follow the steps provided in this tutorial to enable the right click on windows 8 tablets.
You may have added user accounts via Control Panel but with this tutorial you will learn how to add or remove user accounts in Windows 8 via command prompt
In this 4th customization tutorial, we are showing you how to change sounds in Windows 8.

Sometimes you might not see icons like Computer, Recycle bin on your desktop. In that case, you may want to add new desktop icons.
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You may want to change the color appearance in the new metro based Windows 8. To adjust the color, follow this 3rd customization guide.

In this category you will find all tutorials dedicated to Windows 8 users, if you want to know how to do things in Windows 8 you’ll find it here.





