Enable Location Services in Windows 8

Edited by Lukward Thomason, Crystal, Eng

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    The first thing that we need to do is right-click on the lower left corner of the screen, then click "Control Panel"
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    When the Control Panel window opens, we need to click "Hardware and Sound"
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    In this menu, we need to click "Location Settings"
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    Now we simply have to check "Turn on the Windows Location platform"
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    Click "Apply"
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    Please note: To apply this, we need to be either signed in as an administrator, or know the administrator password.
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    Once we've checked it and applied it, we can close the Control Panel window
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    This concludes the tutorial on how to enable location services on a Windows 8 computer
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Recent edits by: Crystal, Lukward Thomason

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