Microsoft Edge and Google

One of the selling feature of Windows 10 is its brand new browser Edge. Most review said it is fast, so I give it a spin myself. After a brief moment with it, I almost wrote it off as I couldn't seem to change its default search result provider from Bing to Google. With the old IE, the method was obvious. You click on the option for showing you a list of providers and pick from it; With Edge, you click "Add New", nothing happens. As it turns out, the "Add New" option only comes to live if you are on the search engine page as seen below.

I may be wrong, but this works for me.

ATi X300 Driver for Windows 8.1

I had to dig out my old ATi X300 card when the graphics card cooling fan on one of my desktop failed.  X300 is very old.  It was released in 2004.  It is always a challenge to get graphics this age to work in modem Windows.  To my surprise, it is actually easy.  Windows 8.1 seems to accept and use its dated Vista 64bit driver happily (http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=Legacy1&os=Windows%20Vista%20-%2064).

Instead of using the installer to install the driver, you run the installer to extract the files, but stop run after the extraction.  You then install the driver manually by asking Windows to look for drivers in the folder when you extract your drivers files.  Windows should pick up the driver, and install it.

Further details can be found at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?s=f5175aaa350a453115ae1aef89d529f1&t=1536711

Update 2016-08-25: It works on Windows 10 too.  However, it needs to be install under safe mode!