Once a week we round up and share excellent reader tips with you. This week we’re looking at removing the restriction on Windows 8’s “Secure Boot”, an open source solution for launching apps from Windows Media Center, and a simple trick to speed up Windows installati***.

删除windows 8“安全引导”功能以方便双引导

读者Scoobford发来了他在Windows8上摆脱安全引导功能的窍门。他写道：

1. Install Windows 8

2. Install Ubuntu(in my example) via Wubi(may work with grub too, don’t know) 3. INstall EasyBCD inside windows 8, select Ubuntu as default OS. 4. Reboot. The fancy OS selection is gone, but you can use Ubuntu now as well—once you finish installing by booting into Ubuntu.

There’s a more detailed guide on my blog here.

感谢你在史酷福的来信！虽然这一解决方法确实使使用Linux和其他“未经批准”的操作系统进行双引导变得更容易，但它确实删除了Windows8中实现的安全引导系统的恶意软件保护元素。

从windows media center启动任何应用程序或网站

Chris写了一篇关于从window**ediacenter内部启动应用程序的开源解决方案的文章。他写道：

I wrote a little utility (open source) that launches web apps or any program for media center; you can find it here. TheDigitalLifestyle wrote up a detailed review of it here if anyone wants a closer look (screenshot from the DL write up).

它看起来很容易配置克里斯，干得好。

加快windows安装过程

Rishi写了以下关于加速Windows安装的提示：

In order to accelerate installation, one can open up Task Manager by Shift+F10 while the installation is running. This will launch a command prompt where you can type “taskmgr” to launch the Task Manager. Here you can give a high priority to the installation process. This c***iderably reduces the installation time.

聪明的把戏，瑞希。即使这个技巧没有从根本上增加安装时间，在Windows安装过程中访问命令提示符和/或任务管理器仍然是非常方便的方法。谢谢！

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