My HowTo describes how it is possible to install Windows 8 from an USB flash drive. I bought the Samsung Serie 9 900XC-A07 notebook and I want to install Windows 8 to get rid of all the programs Samsung preinstalled on the Ultrabook. Like all Ultrabooks the Samsung 900XC has no DVD or optical drive.

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I bought the Asus N76VJ notebook and now I have a problem with the touchpad and the cursor. The cursor is haywire and drives me crazy. It is almost impossible to move the cursor to a certain button to start for example the browser. It is also almost impossible to select a part of text

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In my article How to pick out the Windows 8 Product Key I explained how to pick out your Windows 8 serial number from the BIOS of an ASUS N76VJ Notebook. But it is still open how I can install Windows 8 on a new hard drive although no Windows 8 DVD is shipped with

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I bought a ASUS N76VJ Notebook with Windows 8 64 Bit. After I got the Notebook I searched for the Windows 8 Serial sticker on the back of the Notebook. But I had to determine that there was no Microsoft certified sticker on the back. Also no Windows 8 DVD was enclosed in the Asus

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On my search for a little travel notebook I found the Lenovo X121e. It is the ideal notebook for my road trips. The last few years I traveled with my Acer Aspire One D250 which I bought on my road trip 2009 from New York to Denver and back. But the Acer is now an

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I had to buy a new computer mouse as my old one gave up. So I decided to buy the wireless Logitech Performance Mouse MX and I will share my experience with the mouse. Precision The Logitech Performance Mouse MX has a Darkfield Laser so that the mouse should work on a lot surfaces. I tested

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With the “Free YouTube to MP3 Converter” it is possible to download the audio track of your favorite YouTube videos. This YouTube converter extracts the audio stream form a single or a liste of YouTube videos. Just copy and paste the youTube link into the Free YouTube to MP3 Converter window. Afterwards you can configure the format and quality and start the

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A good formatting of the dissertation, Bachelor and Master’s thesis is the basis to write a successful thesis. To avoid a lot of trouble with formatting at the end of the thesis you should think about doing some basic adjustments in Word at the beginning. As I already coached a lot of students during their

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Before you start writing the thesis a few settings should be made: First of all the thesis should be divided into different sections. The first page usually differs a lot from the other pages. Moreover you probably might have a different numbering in different sections (depending on the requirements of your university). Therefore different sections

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After defining the sections you can start to create a first draft of the table of contents. I recommend to use  the “Quick styles” in word that you can find in the section “Home”. Therewith you can  define headlines and an automatic table of contents can be created. Definition of „Quick styles“ Quick styles are

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