I run Hyper-V on my Windows 8.1. Today I wanted to create a virtual machine running Windows 8 x86 edition (32 bit) in it. But I was getting this error
No Operating System was Loaded.Press a key to retry the boot sequence…
I tried everything known to me to get past this screen without any luck. Finally, a colleague of mine suggested me to create Generation 1 virtual machine and it worked 
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Lesson learned, Generation 2 virtual machines work only for x64 editions (64 bit) of Windows.
Ever wondered how to update all the fields in a Word document in one go? If the document is small and the number of fields are only a handful you can easily right click each field and select Update field. To achieve the same thing at large scale what you need to do is simply select all (Ctrl + A) in the document and click F9. All field information including table of contents would updated.
Do you think that your data is safe when not connected to the Internet? Not really, read this one
In Office 365, if you delete a user from the admin center it would go to the deleted users container. This deleted user would need another 30 days to be completely purged. There are situations where you need purging immediately. The following PowerShell command will help you achieve this.
Remove-MsolUser –UserPrincipalName <account id> –RemoveFromRecycleBin
Wondering how to take screenshots on your Windows Phone? It’s simple, just hold the power and Windows buttons together. The current screen would be captured and stored an album called Screenshots.
Note: This feature did not work on my Windows Phone 7
One of my gripes about Outlook is that it does not show the folder location of a mail in search results. Under normal view conditions it is not important as we are already looking at a mail from a specific folder. But when all mailbox items are searched the folder information becomes important. Here is what you need to display the folder location of a particular mail item.
In the VIEW tab click on Add Columns
In Select available columns from: drop down menu select All Post fields and under Available columns select In Folder
Click on the Add -> button in the middle and click OK. You are done!
I know, this could be a trivial task for a seasoned IT Professional. However, with the introduction of Hyper-V on Windows 8 there are more people using the built-in virtualization solution and they would find such simple tips useful.
Here is the thing. We all create virtual hard disks (VHD or VHDX) for a specific size. At a later stage this size may become insufficient for our needs. But this is not a big deal as we can easily expand its size as long as it not being used by a running virtual machine. Adding some screen shots showing the simple steps required to achieve this.
In the Hyper-V Manager under Actions pane click Edit Disk
The wizard should drive you through the necessary steps. Here is the screen that lets you select the Expand option
Please note that you can do other things such as Compact and Convert as well using the same wizard.
In the next page you will get the option to mention the new size of the disk
Use of ‘right’ font gives a refreshing feel when working on documents. What is right is a very personal thing. Here is a Microsoft KB article on how to change the default settings in various editions of Microsoft Word.
I found it odd when Skype wasn’t detecting built-in camera of my ThinkPad W530. I’ve done everything I’m aware of to troubleshoot and even reinstalled the driver but still no luck. Next day, while playing around with the new apps found on the Windows 8 Start screen I noticed that there is a new app “Settings” tile from lenovo. Inside that I found two settings for camera, “private” and “normal” were two options. “private” was the default setting and it disabled the camera completely from all application, be it Skype or Lync. I just flipped the setting and camera is back.
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