After a certain Windows 8.1 update, icons and text disappear from Outlook and Lync 2013 tiles. All you can see are two blank blue tiles. Let me show you how to bring back icons and text.
The blurry, transparent background in Notification Center, Control Center, Spotlight and other more options menus on iOS 7 device can make reading experience rather unpleasant.
If you need, besides major accounts, an extra account with limited access to data, you can add Windows 8 Guest account. The process is almost the same as in Windows 7.
Some installations or settings changes require you to restart your computer. In most cases you don't need to actually reboot it, you only need to restart the explorer.exe process.
If you leave your computer running on a 24/7 basis you might be interested in determining the amount of uptime that has accumulated since the last reboot.