Windows 8 - Pureinfotech https://pureinfotech.com/tag/windows-8/ Pureinfotech is the best site to get Windows help – featuring friendly how-to guides on Windows 10, Windows 11, Xbox, and other things tech, news, deals, reviews, and more. Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:14:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/pureinfotech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pure-logo-v45.png?fit=32%2C32&quality=78&strip=all&ssl=1 Windows 8 - Pureinfotech https://pureinfotech.com/tag/windows-8/ 32 32 15090528 How to use Robocopy to recover and skip corrupted files from failing hard drive on Windows https://pureinfotech.com/robocopy-recover-and-skip-files-with-errors-from-bad-hard-drive-in-windows/ https://pureinfotech.com/robocopy-recover-and-skip-files-with-errors-from-bad-hard-drive-in-windows/#comments Mon, 12 Aug 2024 11:00:48 +0000 http://pureinfotech.com/?p=53914 If you have a failing hard drive, don't just "copy and paste" files, instead use this Robocopy to transfer files quickly while skipping those corrupted ones.

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]]> 113161 Microsoft discontinues ‘Windows Media Player’ feature on Windows 7 https://pureinfotech.com/windows-media-player-metadata-service-discontinued/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:44:27 +0000 https://pureinfotech.com/?p=107617 Microsoft is retiring an essential feature from Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center on older version of the OS.

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]]> 107617 Microsoft Store soon to shut down on Windows 8 https://pureinfotech.com/microsoft-store-app-soon-shut-down-windows-8/ Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:46:48 +0000 https://pureinfotech.com/?p=102432 The Microsoft Store for PCs and phones running Windows 8.x will start shutting down starting October 2018.

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]]> 102432 Microsoft no longer sales Windows 7/8.1 to PC makers https://pureinfotech.com/microsoft-no-longer-sales-windows-7-81-pc-makers/ Wed, 02 Nov 2016 11:46:09 +0000 http://pureinfotech.com/?p=76449 It's time to let go and let the new replace the old.

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]]> 76449 Windows 7/8.1 get update to remove Windows 10 upgrade nagging app https://pureinfotech.com/kb3184143-removes-get-windows-10-app/ Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:08:17 +0000 http://pureinfotech.com/?p=75205 Microsoft finally puts to an end to the "Get Windows 10" (GWX) app on Windows 7/8.1 PCs with update KB3184143, which you can download here.

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]]> 75205 Windows 8 support ends on January 12, time to upgrade to Windows 8.1 https://pureinfotech.com/windows-8-support-ends-january-12-upgrade-windows-81/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:06:45 +0000 http://pureinfotech.com/?p=68052 Time to upgrade. After two years, Microsoft retires the original release of Windows 8. Now it’s the time to move to Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.

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