TIM and Tim’s Top Tips by Tim Lambie & Tim Jones
When setting up a new computer with Windows 8, the vast majority of our users should avoid creating a Microsoft account. It is only really useful if you want to synchronise your emails and calendar etc with a smart phone or similar. So, instead of creating a Microsoft account, choose a Local Account and continue setting up from there. You can always create the Microsoft Account later; particularly if you want to transfer your Skype account to the new computer. In fact, before you can use the Skype account you will HAVE to create an MS account and you will then be invited to use your Skype a/c which will then be merged. I don’t want to bang on about W8 too much, but just discovered that they have removed the standard games from the new Operating System. You can only get them it seems by copying them across from your old PC. Utter madness from Microsoft. There are games on the W8 system, but they are integrated with xbox and are very different to what you might have liked or are used to. Don’t worry, follow the instructions here :
http://www.howtogeek.com/122145/what-happened-to-solitaire-and-minesweeper-in-windows- 8/ or call us and we will come and do it for you. The advent of Office 2013 means Microsoft is now going to remove the multiple user licences from their Conventional Office packages. Office 2013 is now on sale but you can only buy a 1 user version for the packages that we all currently know of. There is a multiple user version though, called Office 365, this is intended for households where there are several computers, but it seems to be Cloud based using a Microsoft account and Skydrive - oh and you have to pay £80 for it every year!!!! All tied in of course to Windows 8. My advice is that you invest in the 3 user version of the Office 2010 product that suits you NOW. Office 2010 will remain a valid suite of programs for years to come and you will undoubtedly save some money by doing so. We sell Office - just ask! Here’s something that you will find useful for any Windows based computer. The new system has a very convoluted method to allow you to shutdown the PC which some you may not have even found yet! To create a simple shortcut to go on your taskbar, right click on the desktop and choose “new”, “shortcut”, then type in the box “shutdown.exe -s -t 00”, but without the quotes. Click” finish”; now right click on the new shortcut on your desktop called “shutdown” , select “properties” and on the properties page, click “change icon” and choose a suitable symbol, now choose “run, minimised”, then close the window. You will now have a good looking shortcut that if you right click, you can “pin to the taskbar” or “pin to start” and VOILA!
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