Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Add a "Tile" to Windows 8 Server


To add a program to the "Start" List


Hit Windows key



Right click on the background and and hit All Apps







Select the program “App” you want, in this case Command Prompt and “Pin to Start”






Now Command Prompt is available in the “Start Menu”




 And I can drag it to the location I want!



















Woooooo Hoooo




Batch file open with


I broke this before a few years ago and well it appeared again as one of the lads at the www.minasi.com forum posted about the same issue and how to fix it.


When I broke it, I was doing god knows what and had a backup, but was curious. Its simple to fix and shows us a bit more about windows and file associations.


First off, my best advice, if you did this on a production machine and do not remember how, rebuild it. If its a hurry try this.


From a command prompt type the following;
assoc .bat 
This should give the following output


.bat=batfile 


If not in the command window to restore the default file type association type


assoc .bat=batfile


Easy peasy

Win8 Funny - to be explored or answered


Demo MS Machine






Ram indicates 0GB, yet





Indicates 2GB of RAM.

Hummm, time to install a guest to my own machine.