BrokenSymmetry
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Yes, exactly what I have. Yesterday Google Search worked fine on Windows 8.1 (although in an "old" layout, with the search tools on the right), but today the layout is completely messed up.
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Windows 8.1 |OT| There's your start button
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Yes, exactly what I have. Yesterday Google Search worked fine on Windows 8.1 (although in an "old" layout, with the search tools on the right), but today the layout is completely messed up.
Da DreadLord
Member
i wish they'd sell it for cheap again.. would totally buy an upgrade for my laptop too
Damon Bennet
Member
No.
But something else: so I can't snap three apps on my surface, because the screen is to small? Disappointing! Or is there a fix for tha
The Cowboy
Member
This is happening to me as well now. It was fine last night and yet today all of a sudden both the modern UI version and desktop version are doing this with goggle.
Kinky John
Member
Leaving a UI element in place but changing what is does is annoying. If I right-click on the Start screen and hit that 'Customise' button just one more time.......I swear I'll.......
The Cowboy
Member
Fixed the google display issue, it seems MS messed up on their end and did something with their compatibility view list option (the MS side one).
Go into tools (the cog icon) and select "compatibility view settings", then untick the "use Microsoft compatibility list".
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You can still add your own if you need to, but MS seems to have added google wrong on their list.
Go into tools (the cog icon) and select "compatibility view settings", then untick the "use Microsoft compatibility list".
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You can still add your own if you need to, but MS seems to have added google wrong on their list.
brotkasten
Member
lol.....computer problems are serious business.
I don't really see why I'd need to reinstall all drivers, but it is what it is
Damon Bennet
Member
Damn, you can only snap three apps on surface pro if you set the image scaling to "smaller". I'd really love to be able to snap three apps with the normal scaling :/
sooperkool
Member
Install failed. I am sad
Chaplain
Member
Well, my brother had an error where there was a watermark on 8.1 which said this:
It took awhile to fix because we had tried a million and one different solutions because Microsoft has no solutions up on the website other than to call the OEM and get them to deal with it. The solution ended up being telling bios to revert to default.
I got the same error and have noticed that my PC is a lot slower now with 8.1 (about 8 seconds slower).
Does anyone know how to uninstall 8.1? My PC came with WIndows 8 installed on it, so I do not have a disc.
Just go t my new PC using windows 8 /8.1 for the first time. I really like, however their is so much missed potential. Right now it feels like two seperate OS's as opposed to one cohesive OS. Right now I have it booted into desktop with classic shell installed. Feel right at home. Keep in mind my last OS was windows XP.
BIG PROBLEM. I can't activate windows 8.1. This is off a retail copy of 8.1. It says windows can't active right now, error code Error code: 0x8000FFFF catastrophic failure.
I have run chkdsk on my ssd and hd are fine. Whats going on here.
BIG PROBLEM. I can't activate windows 8.1. This is off a retail copy of 8.1. It says windows can't active right now, error code Error code: 0x8000FFFF catastrophic failure.
I have run chkdsk on my ssd and hd are fine. Whats going on here.
Dang, some of these issues you guys are having are pretty bad. After a few early bumps, my installation went quite well. From some reports the upgrade from 8->8.1 has been rougher than a 7->8 install... weird.
I've held off upgrading to Win 8 until this point release and I was almost dreading it, but I honestly really like it. The Start Screen is just a (IMO better designed) analogue to OS X's Launch Control although getting it to feel right for me with all the shortcuts I need in the right places and start menu folders is a little traumatic and it I'm missing how you get it to 'rebuild' the start menu programs list to reflect the changes without rebooting, but in general I really like this.
The only bummer is about 50% of my steam library is botched - the games either don't see the local files or they try to launch and report a 'missing executable' error, so I bit the bullet and wiped everything and began with a fresh install of Steam - I'm now in the painful process of redownloading all of my games but it looks to have worked - DXHR was the first one I grabbed back overnight and the issue has gone.
The only bummer is about 50% of my steam library is botched - the games either don't see the local files or they try to launch and report a 'missing executable' error, so I bit the bullet and wiped everything and began with a fresh install of Steam - I'm now in the painful process of redownloading all of my games but it looks to have worked - DXHR was the first one I grabbed back overnight and the issue has gone.
Since no one responded, I think I figured it the changes:
1. Microsoft reduced the size of "Larger" DPI along with the feature to increase the size of live tiles to "Larger" size.
2. When you select "Larger" in charms>Change PC Settings>PC & Devices>Display, the list item selection masks that and you only see "smaller" as on option to change to.
So the fix for HTPCs is to make all stuff Larger sized icons. Seems to work reasonably well.
I really like the changes to Windows 8.1, but it seems Microsoft's software development is transitioning from monolithic waterfall delivery to something between Agile and continuous deployment. So 98% of stuff works when upgrading, but a 2% doesn't. Things I noticed that were broken:
1. Some Logitech driver broke.
2. AMD GPU driver disabled GPU scaling on my monitors for some reason. on one monitor that results in 1 inch padding around all edges.
3. AMD GPU somehow grabbed control as the primary audio.
I disabled #1 because I'm not using that mouse anymore. #2/3 I updated drivers for my GPU. I didn't expect that level of kernel changes but it's good that AMD had drivers available for 8.1 day 1 for both 6000 and 5000 HD series.
CrazedProfessional
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CrazedProfessional
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The update sets desktop items to 150% by default for some reason, change it back via control panel.
Future PhaZe
Member
wont install properly for me...gets stuck at preparing pc settings at 86% and jams up
will try again in later
will try again in later
the opposite is true. unless you can't get over the slight visual difference there is no reason to stay on win7
antiquegamer
Member
My son was complaining about the same thing, so I told him did you check the display setting....so I am going to ask you the same, did you first check display setting before you attempt to reverse to Windows 8. I am pretty sure it's easier to just adjust setting.
Certinty
Member
Ah, didn't really check any of this. Will do now and hopefully it will solve all my issues.
Thanks guys.
Lasthope106
Member
This is by far the most troublesome upgrade I had to do. Not even Windows XP to SP2 was this bad.
antiquegamer
Member
If you have Logitech or Steelseries drivers, uninstall them and that might fix the problem.
The Cowboy
Member
Yeah, I really hope they update it to include the old messenger app chatting. It seems so silly to remove it and replace it with the Skype app BUT not include the chat system it had.
I actually used the messenger app often to chat with my family, it put everything in 1 area across the different chat platforms.
Okay this is driving me nuts. I am pretty sure disabling spellcheck and autocorrection worked before 8.1
Disabling it has no effect, it's still there. I don't want to switch keyboard langauge everytime I write something in german or english, just let me write how I want. I added multiple keyboard languages and it still does not work. Anyway, the main problem is that the option has no effect, is this a known bug?
edit: apparently it was also a problem in Win 8 ... wtf. How does that go through?
Disabling it has no effect, it's still there. I don't want to switch keyboard langauge everytime I write something in german or english, just let me write how I want. I added multiple keyboard languages and it still does not work. Anyway, the main problem is that the option has no effect, is this a known bug?
edit: apparently it was also a problem in Win 8 ... wtf. How does that go through?
Is this only in IE? In Windows 7 at least IE10 has it's own version of autocorrect and I can't find anywhere to turn it off.
All NUI apps, I can't tweet or post on facebook without correcting every second word, it's obnoxious.
BrokenSymmetry
Member
No, Start8 works fine on Windows 8.1 .
Steelyuhas
Member
It's really fast.
FYI, for those attempting to upgrade a RT device (myself included), MS has pulled the RT8.1 update in order to fix something.
Hopefully that at least explains why I can't get the update to show up and it will work after they put it up again.
Jzero
Member
There was never a compatibility problem that was any different from Windows 7 (for me at least)
longdi
Banned
IE11 has amazing scrolling perf i give you that.
Anyway, ms is really really wanting everyone to sign up for a microsoft account. lots of 8.1 apps wont work proper if you dont sign in and now my skydrive is worthless. i rather stick with a local account because making a ms account means i have to sign in every-time i boot up my pc. lame.
anyone know how to disable/hide the new start button from the taskbar? ms allows us to boot direct to desktop, but sneakily left that worthless start button which i have accidentally hit and bounced to metro screen...
i think ms handling of win8 is as stubborn as their xbone pre-180...
Anyway, ms is really really wanting everyone to sign up for a microsoft account. lots of 8.1 apps wont work proper if you dont sign in and now my skydrive is worthless. i rather stick with a local account because making a ms account means i have to sign in every-time i boot up my pc. lame.
anyone know how to disable/hide the new start button from the taskbar? ms allows us to boot direct to desktop, but sneakily left that worthless start button which i have accidentally hit and bounced to metro screen...
i think ms handling of win8 is as stubborn as their xbone pre-180...
longdi
Banned
Well, my brother had an error where there was a watermark on 8.1 which said this:
It took awhile to fix because we had tried a million and one different solutions because Microsoft has no solutions up on the website other than to call the OEM and get them to deal with it. The solution ended up being telling bios to revert to default.
you need to turn on secure boot in your bios which should be called something "windows 8 boot option".
but some videocard may not have GOP bios or the install was not properly done in uefi mode, and so you cant do anything to remove that text for now.
Signing isn't a hassle when you set up a pin. And you can make it so it doesn't require a password even with a ms account.
Steelyuhas
Member
Yeah that's what I've done.
Isn't there some super buried option to disable password sign in even if you are using a MS account?
Disabling it worked fine for me. But they definitely changed it for 8.1, in Win8 there was no autocorrect when typing with a hardware keyboard, only with the on-screen one.
Did you uncheck "Autocorrect misspelled words" in "Change PC settings" -> "PC and devices" -> Typing?