Enable Location Services in Windows 8

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Video: Enable Location Services in Windows 8

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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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