Category: Windows 8

Windows 8 has a feature called Family Safety using which you can restrict the standard users from certain activities like browsing a set of websites, using computer in specific hours, playing games etc. The Family Safety feature is specially designed to prevent the young children from accessing inappropriate websites and wasting time playing games on the computer. If you are an administrator of a Windows 8 computer, then you can setup Family Safety for any standard user on your PC.

Windows 8 has some altogether new features which were not present in the older versions of Windows. For example, you can create a user account linked to your Microsoft account (for example, hotmail, msn, live, skydrive accounts etc.). But if you use a Microsoft account to sign in to Windows, then it means that Microsoft is going to monitor your account login and logouts among other things. If you have a desktop PC running Windows 8, then you should create a local user account instead.

Windows 8 offers much more flexibility when it come to creation of user accounts. You can use your Microsoft account email address for the user account or just create a local user account, but in any case you would have to select a user name. If you pick a user name for your user account in Windows 8 but later think that you should have chosen a different username, then do not worry – Windows 8 allows you to change your user account name easily.

Windows 8 has a new option for signing in to your user account – called PIN which is a four digit code that you have to enter on the Windows logon screen. This PIN code is a great way to logon to your account on touchscreen devices because it does not require you to click on any OK button or press the enter key. You just tap on the numbers in your PIN code and you are logged in. However using a PIN code as a sign in option can be risky because it can be easily guessed.

Using a password for your user account in Windows is a safety measure to keep unwanted people from accessing your computer, files and documents. But if you have a touchscreen device then entering the password again and again can be a painful experience. Fortunately, Windows 8 has a new feature called PIN which is similar to the password but easier to use. The PIN is a four digit number which you set and use instead of the password.

Although having a password set for your user account keeps your account and related files safe from the eyes of other users, but if you are the only user of your Windows 8 PC then why go through the hassle of entering username and password everytime you power on your computer. You can just remove the user password from your Windows account and it would make Windows login automatically without asking for a user password.

Sometimes a program just does not respond no matter how long you wait and makes the whole system sluggish. This is when you need to kill or terminate that program. In Windows 8, you can do it easily using the Task Manager utility. Using the Task Manager utility, we can terminate all kinds of processes, apps, services and more.

When you install and run Windows 8 for the first time, you are given an option to create a user account and choose the username and password. But if you forget to set a password for your user account, then you can do it later very easily. Windows 8 allows you to create a password for your user account through the PC settings.

In Windows 8, you can create picture password for your account. The picture password is a set of gestures made over a picture. You have to make the same set of gestures in the same order to login to Windows. Because there are millions of possible gestures in different locations of the image, the picture password is very much stronger than the normal text password. The picture password feature is specially designed for touchscreen computers.

Windows 8 allows you to create picture password for your account, which is nothing but a set of gestures made over a picture. You have to make the same set of gestures in the same order to login to Windows. But if you have forgotten your picture password, or just do not want to use the picture password any longer than you can remove it from your account.