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Control Music Playback Use the hardware volume key while the music app is playing in the background.

Use the settings charm to open the settings panel (six-pack), select Screen and click the rotating screen.

Don't want to sync certain settings across machines? Bring up the Settings Charm, Change PC Settings and select Sync your settings

When in the store app, search for "*" and order by newest.

Swipe from the top, and select Your Apps, the default sort is by apps that aren't installed

On the Start screen, swipe up and select "All Apps"

Need to start an elevated program? Select the program, swipe up, and select "Run As Administrator" For Keyboard only users, type the name of the program you want to run on the start screen, then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter

Show estimated data usage for WiFi networks. To enable it: In the network selection dialog, press and hold or right click on the network and s elect "Show estimated data usage" The estimated data usage will be shown when you open the network...

Find out your Mobile Broadband Hardware information Settings, Change PC Settings, Wireless, Click on the Text for your Mobile Broadband Carrier

Want to see application history for all process and not just Metro style ones? In Task Manager Detail view, select App history, Options, Show history for all processes Voilà!

Can't see your Xbox or Play To device on the network? Sharing may not be enabled on that network. To change it: In the network selection dialog, press and hold or right click on the network and select Turn Sharing On of Off And select "Yes, turn...

If you need a more full featured touch keyboard, you can enable this keyboard By selecting this option in Change PC Settings

Using a mobile hotspot and want to save bandwidth? In the network selection dialog, press and hold or right click on the network and select Set as Metered Connection. Setting this option will tell Windows to treat the wifi connection like a mobile...

Welcome to Microsoft #Surface. Coming Soon. www.Surface.com

I am currently the test lead for Peer to Peer Networking Network Diagnostics Mobile Broadband Activation and Provisioning Network Location Awareness -Network Connectivity Status Indicator-Network List Manager Windows Connection Manager...

From the article: Bechtel put Vista’s IPv6 stack on trial - Network World One benefit of Vista’s IPv6 implementation for Bechtel is the Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP), a Microsoft -developed and patented technology that enables host computers to...

From the article: tumbl.us killed the blog star - a tumblelog via modblog.bmezine.com Why would someone do this ?

About 2 years ago, a small story out of the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge caused a bit of a frenzy in the press and with the creator of Bittorrent Brad Cohen Today after several years of development and testing, you can use "Avalanche" now called...

Pau Thurrott and Leo Laporte are doing another live chat on talkshoe on 7/27 at 4pm Eastern Time Join Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott for the live interactive edition of Windows Weekly. From the TWiT Netcast Network. TalkShoe - Talkcast - Windows Weekly...

Interesting ad promotion on Xbox Live this week. From the article: Xbox Live tries ads with McDonald's, New Line partnership - 6/22/2007 - Video Business Microsoft Xbox Live is partnering with McDonald's and New Line Home Entertainment to offer its first...

From the article: Business & Technology | Microsoft parking structure will hold 5,000 vehicles | Seattle Times Newspaper Microsoft is digging for a solution to the parking crunch on its growing Redmond campus. The software giant is excavating a giant...

Mark Russinovich writes about a class of security bugs that many applications (including lots of 3rd party "security" solutions) suffer from. Squatting Attacks are enabled when improper security permissions are applied to files and synchronization objects...

Mmm..Geek rap. Originally seen at: GeekLimit