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Windows 8 / RT |OT|
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From an app on the windows 8 and windows phone store called love wallpaper hd.
It's Chinese but navigation is quite easy.
electristan
Member
Meanwhile in Holland
ah well might be just us so, that sucks. I'll be sticking to mostly good old desktop apps then.
I'm having an issue in Media Center that I can't figure out.
I reinstalled Windows 8 and now my recorded TV shows won't play. It says "Video Error." I can watch live TV just fine, but even new recordings won't play.
When I change the target hard drive that the DVR uses and Media Center will play back and record just fine.
I don't know what is going on. The files show up fine and even have proper thumb nails in Media Center. Something is going on with it, as I am able to copy the recordings (requires Administrator permission) and the copied recording will play just fine.
I tried using 'take ownership', but that hasn't fixed the issue.
Anyone have any idea how I can reclaim these files?
I reinstalled Windows 8 and now my recorded TV shows won't play. It says "Video Error." I can watch live TV just fine, but even new recordings won't play.
When I change the target hard drive that the DVR uses and Media Center will play back and record just fine.
I don't know what is going on. The files show up fine and even have proper thumb nails in Media Center. Something is going on with it, as I am able to copy the recordings (requires Administrator permission) and the copied recording will play just fine.
I tried using 'take ownership', but that hasn't fixed the issue.
Anyone have any idea how I can reclaim these files?
yn-neko hates a cat
Banned
YOu're going to get something extra special from Santa this year buddy... you've been taking your lickings on just about every thread on GAF you've been on
Was it a driver issue or it just didn't support it?
So Plex just released their browser based media center thing for viewing content from your media server. It uses flash but with the workaround to add sites to the white list, RT owners can now watch their videos from their Plex server through the browser. Works very smoothly and their new media server release looks to have massively reduced CPU usage on the server. One thing that might be a pain in the ass with this though is the fact that the IP address already changed on me once, so it might be a matter of updating that whitelist everytime you want to watch something.
On the Surface?
After you take ownership, you'll still need to change the security of the files and give yourself full access permissions to them.
Yep
Nice, time to look into that.
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Deleted member 1235
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reading the complaints of shutdown/reboots in win 8.... how many clicks is it and how many clicks is it on win 7?
because I count 3 clicks for each. However I'm at work and we have policies that change the shutdown button.
I mean, you go bottom right, settings, power. it's quick enough to power off (or you can just actually push the power button)
for those that don't like it or it isn't fast enough, make a shortcut on your desktop to the command shutdown /r 0 (for restart) shutdown /s 0 (for shutdown) then pin those 2 shortcuts to start, change the icon to look all power button like, then you have one click shutdown/restart.
because I count 3 clicks for each. However I'm at work and we have policies that change the shutdown button.
I mean, you go bottom right, settings, power. it's quick enough to power off (or you can just actually push the power button)
for those that don't like it or it isn't fast enough, make a shortcut on your desktop to the command shutdown /r 0 (for restart) shutdown /s 0 (for shutdown) then pin those 2 shortcuts to start, change the icon to look all power button like, then you have one click shutdown/restart.
Is there any way to do a clean install with the $40 upgrade without a licensed version of windows already installed? Loke maybe from the evaluation version? I see in the op and articles the official answer is no, I but I also see it being mentioned you can in various places, so I just wanted to check.
If it's the retail upgrade disc then yes, it can do a clean install.
http://winsupersite.com/article/windows8/clean-install-windows-8-upgrade-media-144648
Yeah, use the Enterprise Evaluation edition. That's what I did.
LukasTaves
Member
Microsoft decided to become a philanthropic institution and now is giving away free windows 8 copies to everyone:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/21/3674706/windows-8-activation-key-pirates
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/21/3674706/windows-8-activation-key-pirates
I am really not surprised. I doubt it was an accident. I've said it before, MS would be willing to give Windows 8 for free if they could but they don't want to seem desperate.
1.Open C:\Users\[USER_NAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IECompatData\iecompatdata.xml in your favorite XML editor
2.Scroll through the document until you find the <Flash> </Flash> tags
3.Place <domain>YOURDESIREDDOMAIN.COM</domain> anywhere between the Flash tags (e.g. simply match the formatting of the other websites)
4.Save and delete your browsing history
5.Enjoy
Treefingers
Member
either really desperate or really incompetent. tough call.
Awesome, thanks!
Lol, oops.
The Media Centre Keys are one use only anyway, re-install Windows and you need a new key.
Thanks, that did it.
Great. Now pirates get Windows 8 while my incompetent university still hasn't managed to make Windows 8 available...
I still don't want it.
Anton Sugar
Member
Is there seriously no way to keep the Music app playing in the background when you switch to a different app? Well, it plays, but is extremely quiet. So annoying.
We get it.
We get it.
This may not be the best place to ask, but does anyone know how to get Windows to treat a 3.5mm combined headphone/mic jack as, well, a mic jack? I need to record from the headphone output of my 3DS, but whenever I plug the male-male cable into my laptop's headphone/mic jack it just treats it as plugging in headphones and I get nowhere.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
It's always worked fine for me but wasn't this fixed in an update recently?
Anton Sugar
Member
Pretty sure it worked fine for me in the RP, but it quiets almost to a hush now :-\
It's you. I'm getting 10551 on my Surface.
Have you tried turning off "make it easier to find apps in my preferred language" under settings > preference in the Store app?
Would you just gtfo?
Over 10k in the US store
Does that mean they're expecting another ~90,000 apps to be added in the next two months to reach their 100k goal? Or does that number not include some apps?
brianmcdoogle
Member
Any Black Friday sales for an OEM version I can install brand new on a machine? Can,t be the upgrade version, must be full OEM install.
You can fresh install with the upgrade disc though.
brianmcdoogle
Member
Well, what I did was this:
Bought this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008H3SW4I/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Boot it up via bios
Deleted my C (Windows 7 partition) and installed Windows 8. Just like the OEM version of Windows 7.
Only difference from OEM is that it asks you for the key during setup.
YOu're going to get something extra special from Santa this year buddy... you've been taking your lickings on just about every thread on GAF you've been on
Was it a driver issue or it just didn't support it?
No clue. I downloaded the PDF from my Gmail to my desktop. Opened it, and it threw it in the Windows 8 PDF reader. I don't see the option anywhere to print. Is this usual?
use the device button (right bar) to print stuff within metro applications.
Treefingers
Member
You get an iso of the installer that you can burn/copy to USB just like any previous Windows installer.
mhh i have 11800 in germany, wierd that us has less aps right now.
At the moment there are around 400-600new apps per day. Maybe they can get 30-50k till the end of the year
Steelyuhas
Member
Nah, U.S. is 13,222 right now.