i need to know how to use the raspberry pi with my laptop that has windows 8.1

Hi Navneet,

If you've not started it up yet, then look for a getting started guide, before you think about connecting it to a laptop. There is 1-page quick start guide on the raspberrypi.org site.

After you've followed that guide, then you need to consider that there are some standards that allow computers (regardless of Windows, Linux, Laptop, RPI, etc) to communicate with each other, when they are part of a network.

So, your question really can be broken down into

(a) how to get the RPI onto the network

and

(b) what software to use to communicate between the two devices

For (a), if you have wireless access to the network, then a wireless dongle can be plugged into the RPI (same as any computing device). If you have a switch or a home router/switch with many ports, then you can use an Ethernet cable. Some set-up is needed for wireless (and you may have a more difficult journey if you don't purchase a Wi-Pi version [it already has the correct drivers in the software image on the RPI; other dongles won't]), and you should look for a guide (plenty on the Internet).

For (b), investigate software called PuTTY, which uses a standard called SSH.

I don't know if recent distributions of Raspbian etc are preconfigured with working SSH, though I would suggest that you way want to hook up a monitor and keyboard/mouse if you haven't already. It will give a good insight into what's going on in there.

i dont want to waste my cash on wipi ll u tell me the steps to connect it with my comp with ethernet

You can just plug it in - and play! (it's in the getting started guide for the raspberry pi - can be googled!)

I would strongly suggest you look at The specified item was not found..

There are links to videos on the homepage that may help you.

I'd forgotten about that video series, but I remember it now. It really is very good.

Enable SSH, connect to the Pi with Putty from your Win 8 machine. Then Log in and

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install tightvncserver

tightvncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768  [or whatever your resolution is or want.]

Then load tightvnc client on your windows machine

connect to 192,168.22.200:1   [or whatever the pi ip is]

this should get you started, have fun!!!

Hi Navneet,

I hope by this time your issue was resolved. This is for anyone else getting stuck with this issue.

I had windows 8.1 on my laptop and then upgraded to windows 10. I bought my raspberry pi 2 starter kit last week and was trying to get it connected directly to the laptop.

Here are a few points from the experience :

NOOBS is not the way to go. I formatted the preinstalled SD card and installed Raspbian OS.

Your Raspberry Pi will not have the IP you write into the cmdline.txt

I ended up searching the Raspberry Pi IP using AngryIPScanner.

These links might help:

https://pihw.wordpress.com/guides/direct-network-connection/super-easy-direct-network-connection/

https://anwaarullah.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/direct-access-raspberry-pi-shell-and-desktop/

I followed Anwaarullah's blog and Vojtech's comment in that is what really helped.