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How to Turn a Windows 8 PC Into a Chromebook

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 <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you prefer Google Chrome to Microsoft’s Windows 8 apps? Well, you’re in luck, even if you have a Windows 8 PC. You can swap the entire “Modern” environment for the Chrome OS desktop, hiding the Windows 8 interface entirely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can also use the Chrome desktop as just another app on Windows 8, swapping back and forth between other Windows 8 apps and the traditional desktop. That’s more practical, but where’s the fun in that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Chrome desktop is now available in the stable version of Chrome, so you don’t have to seek out anything special — just install Google Chrome. This still requires a full Windows 8 PC, not a Windows RT device like a Surface RT or Surface 2 — you can’t install Chrome on Windows RT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> If Chrome is set as your default browser, you can make it appear in Windows 8 mode by opening its menu and selecting Relaunch Chrome in Windows 8 mode. In the latest version of Chrome, this now gives you a full Chrome OS-style desktop environment where you can run Chrome browser windows and use Chrome apps from the Chrome web store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Note: Google Chrome’s “Windows 8 mode” does not currently work on devices with high-DPI displays, such as Microsoft’s Surface Pro. It also requires hardware graphics acceleration. If your PC isn’t supported, this option won’t be available in the menu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Chrome OS-style desktop functions as a Windows 8 app, so you can switch between it and other apps normally. You can even snap them — so you could have a Windows 8 app, Chrome desktop, and the traditional Windows desktop appear side-by-side with the snap feature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This is more practical, but the environment you’re using is still Windows 8! There’s a way to hide most of the Windows 8 interface entirely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Microsoft allows us to lock a Windows user account to only have access to a specific app, and the Chrome OS desktop is just a Chrome Windows 8 app. This means we can use the Windows 8.1 Assigned Access feature to lock a user account to the Chrome desktop. When the user logs in from the welcome screen, they’ll see the Chrome desktop. They won’t be able to switch to other Windows 8-style apps, use the Windwos desktop, access the charms, or do anything else — they might as well be using a Chromebook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To do this, you’ll need to go through the Assigned Access setup process.  You’ll probably want to create a separate Chrome OS user account, then log in as that account. While logged in as the other user account, be sure to make Chrome the account’s default web browser. If you don’t, Chrome won’t be available as an option on the Assigned Access screen.</span></div>
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 <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Afterwards, you can log back in as your main user account and r</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">estrict the secondary user account to the Chrome app from the Assigned Access screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you log in as the “Chrome” user account, you’ll only be able to use the Chrome desktop. You won’t see the Start screen, charms, or other parts of the Windows 8 interface. Microsoft’s “kiosk mode” is perfect for hiding most of Windows 8.</span></div>
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 <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like on Chrome OS itself, the Chrome desktop can’t run Windows desktop apps or Windows 8 apps. All you have are Chrome browser windows, web apps that run in normal Chrome browser windows, and Chrome apps from the Chrome web store. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Only Pepper API plug-ins — like Chrome’s included Flash player, PDF viewer, and native client — will function in Windows 8 mode. You won’t be able to use Java or Silverlight in this environment, just as you can’t in the Windows 8-style version of Internet Explorer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Unfortunately, it currently doesn’t appear possible to leave this environment without rebooting the computer. To leave Assigned Access mode, you have to press the Windows key five times quickly, but Chrome intercepts the Windows key to open the Chrome app launcher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This can give you a taste on what it’s actually like to use Chrome OS, although part of the appeal of a Chromebook is that it’s simpler — you won’t have to install any Windows security updates on a Chromebook. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Is this practical? Not necessarily. But it’s an interesting trick that Microsoft can’t be too happy about. Thank You!!!</span></div>
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How to Turn a Windows 8 PC Into a Chromebook

How to Turn a Windows 8 PC Into a Chromebook Follow The Step Do you prefer Google Chrome to Microsoft’s Windows 8 apps? Well, you’re in luck, even if you have a Windows 8 PC. You can swap the entire “Modern” environment for the Chrome OS desktop, hiding the Windows 8 interface entirely. You can al…

Jan 27, 2014

How to Download Windows 8.1 and Create a Bootable DVD / USB Drive (Legally)

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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the years, readers have written in asking how to download Windows and make a bootable install disk, and we’ve always had to tell them that there isn’t a great way to do that. Microsoft has finally fixed this problem in Windows 8.x, and here is how to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Once you launch the executable, it is going to ask you for a product key. You do have one of those, right? I mean, we’re not helping anybody pirate a copy of Windows, after all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Once you plug in the product key, it’ll show you the version of Windows that your product key is good for. Proceed to the next step.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> You might notice that the background on our screenshots changed to blue. That’s because the awful default background for Windows 8.1 was getting on our nerves, and we just couldn’t take it anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The setup program will download your copy of Windows 8 or 8.1, depending on which one you chose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now that you’re all done, you might notice that there is a new folder called ESD in the root of your drive, and it is taking up 3 GB of space. You can remove this, but once you do, the installer will get weird and stop working.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So you can delete it if you want, but just know that the installer won’t work, and won’t re-download for some reason. We’ll look into it, but it’s not the most important thing.</span></div>
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How to Download Windows 8.1 and Create a Bootable DVD / USB Drive (Legally)

How to Download Windows 8.1 and Create a Bootable DVD / USB Drive (Legally) Over the years, readers have written in asking how to download Windows and make a bootable install disk, and we’ve always had to tell them that there isn’t a great way to do that. Microsoft has finally fixed this problem in…

Jan 26, 2014

4 Hidden Tricks of Window Management on the Windows Desktop

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 Windows has quite a few features for automatically arranging windows, placing them side by side or tiling them on your screen. These features are a bit hidden, so you may not have noticed them.</div>
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 Aero Snap is extremely useful. It was introduced with Windows 7, but it’s also available on Windows 8. Microsoft says they got rid of Aero in Windows 8, but Snap is one of the Aero features still available on Windows 8.</div>
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 The Snap feature makes a window take up half of your screen, making it easy to arrange two windows side by side without manually resizing and moving them around. To use Aero Snap, hold the Windows key and press the left or right arrow keys. The current window will be resized and placed at the left or right side of the screen.</div>
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 You can also click a window title bar, hold down the mouse button, and drag the window’s title bar to the left or right edge of the screen. You’ll see a preview of the shape the window will become. Drop the window on the edge of the screen and it will be automatically resized to take up the appropriate side of the screen.</div>
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 You can maximize a window by dragging and dropping its title bar, too. Just drag and drop it to the top edge of the screen. . You’ll see a preview of the shape the window will become. Release your mouse button and the window will take up the entire screen. When you grab the title bar with your mouse and drag it away from the top of the screen, the window will be restored to its previous size.</div>
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 Right-click the taskbar and you’ll see three window management options — Cascade windows, Show windows stacked, and Show windows side by side. You’ll also see an “Undo” option if you right-click the taskbar after clicking one of these options.</div>
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 The Cascade windows option will arrange your open windows in a “cascade,” allowing you to see all their title bars at once. This option isn’t the most practical.</div>
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 The Show windows stacked option is a bit more interesting, as it allows you to arrange your windows stacked vertically on top of each other. This probably isn’t ideal for typical wide-screen displays, but it could be useful in some situations.</div>
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 The Show windows side by side option is even more interesting, as it allows you to have Windows automatically arrange your open windows side-by-side with each other. It’s like Aero Snap, but it allows you to have three or more windows automatically arranged so they’re side by side — useful for multitasking on large, wide screen monitors.</div>
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 You can also open the Task Manager from the taskbar’s right-click menu or press Ctrl+Shift+Escape to open it with a keyboard shortcut. The Task Manager has some integrated window management options, among its many other hidden features.</div>
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Note: Microsoft introduced a new Task Manager in Windows 8, and it doesn’t appear to have the window list pane or any window management features anymore. You can’t use the below tricks on Windows 8 — Microsoft probably removed them because they were used so rarely.</div>
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 Click the Windows menu in the Task Manager and you can select Tile Horizontally or Tile Vertically. Interestingly, these options seem to arrange windows in a different way than the task bar options do, tiling them both horizontally and vertically in a way that allows as many windows as possible to appear on your screen at a time.</div>
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 The Applications tab displays a list of all your open application windows, and it allows you to perform some more advanced tricks. Selecting multiple windows here allows you to arrange only specific windows automatically.</div>
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 For example, let’s say we wanted to make three specific windows appear side-by-side. First, we’d select three windows by holding the Ctrl key and clicking each window’s name. Next, we’d right-click a selected window and select the Tile Vertically option. Windows will automatically arrange the three windows side-by-side.</div>
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Some of these features are more useful than others. The Snap feature is crucial for multitasking with multiple desktop applications at a time. The Tile features aren’t used as frequently, but they could be very useful if you have a large monitor and need to arrange many windows on the screen so that they’re all visible at the same time.</div>
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