How to enter BIOS on Windows 8 PC (Die UEFI, Die!)

Old PC users like to control things - one of them is the way and order their operating system loads. That's why you might be terrified to know, that Windows 8 + UEFI compatible motherboard or laptop, equals zaro control of BIOS.
 The reason for that is that UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) connects your UEFI compatible OS (windows 8) with BIOS on a very low level, which allows you to control BIOS directly from your OS.

So, you (for some reason) hate that UEFI thing and want to do whatever you like with your laptop or desktop PC.
If you cannot enter bios on a windows 8 factory installed PC or notebook, follow these steps:

1. Enter Windows 8, start typing BIOS and the search field will appear. Select Settings below, type bios in the search field, click on the only option available (advanced startup options).

2.Select General, scroll down to the bottom and select Advanced startup-> Restart now

3. Then select Troubleshoot, then Advanced Firmware settings ->Restart

4.After that you can see the lovely "press some key to configure BIOS". In bios, find and disable UEFI (switch to legacy) boot.

Good luck!

Samsung notebook hotkeys not working

Samsung Notebooks

This is a one of those common annoying problems, caused by lazy support sites. After reinstalling Samsung laptop, the brightness +/-, wireless on/of switch, etc. are not working. You start wondering if there is a driver for that on Samsung's support website. Well there might be, but it's not where it is supposed to be.

 So just follow this link and download Samsung Easy Display Manager driver for Windows 7. It works for both 32 and 64-bit Windows and it is free.
Then just decompress and install the driver and after the first reboot you'll have those shiny OSD menus and more important - working hotkeys!

P.S. This driver is tested on Win7 64 & 32-bit, Samsung laptop model: NP300e5z.