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Windows 8 / RT |OT|
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LukasTaves
Member
I'm getting many errors with SkyDrive. The first time I tried I was able to open a mkv video that was in my SkyDrive to stream as it plays in mobile.hd, but only worked for a few seconds, and SkyDrive crashed afterwards.
Now it won't stream at all and if I try to open with a desktop player it gives me an error saying the video could not be copied.
Edit: also, from the preview articles, i should be able to snap two different tabs on ie11, but I couldn't do that yet...
Now it won't stream at all and if I try to open with a desktop player it gives me an error saying the video could not be copied.
Edit: also, from the preview articles, i should be able to snap two different tabs on ie11, but I couldn't do that yet...
I assume that the photo app will get a live tile again soon? It's odd that both Skydrive and Photos lost their live tile.
Works for me on my RT.
Works for me on my RT.
Did you use some unofficial steps involving DISM?
LukasTaves
Member
It's working now if I try to play from the skydrive app, from the desktop I still get errors (but worked once before).
Ms needs to remove the 2gb file size from skydrive now *.*
Edit, now it's working everywhere! Weird , but I'm not complaining
SkyDrive and Photos went through some major re-architecting to enable a much broader feature set, so that's why you'll see some features currently missing as they get re-enabled in the future.
Note: I'm not sure if integration with Facebook/etc. will be coming back to the Photos app. That particular feature may have been removed for other reasons.
Note: I'm not sure if integration with Facebook/etc. will be coming back to the Photos app. That particular feature may have been removed for other reasons.
LukasTaves
Member
Skydrive is using 100% of the cpu and HDD, I've never seen my surface so hot and so loud XD It's also obliterating my battery life XD
Don't know why everyone here is rushing out to try out beta software when you can virtualize it.
LukasTaves
Member
Geeks will be geeks I guess...
I'm loving it so far, even with the issues its visible how it's an improvement from W8 vanilla... If anything goes terrible wrong I can also always restore
LukasTaves
Member
Office 2013, even though they are still desktop apps has new metro tiles... How's this possible?
magic
Nope. All by the book. I do have a USA surface Pro in the UK. Its working fine for now.
brotkasten
Member
Tiles now pick the background color for desktop apps the same way the taskbar picks the color for active applications, by picking the major color of the icon.
MrGreencastle
Member
Installing now on a Surface RT. Make sure to set aside around 2 hours or so. I'll post some impressions on the improvements and how the RT's hardware handles them.
After using it on an RT for a while, I've found things to be generally quite faster. Especially IE. Animations are smoother, pages seem to load faster, etc.
Multi-window stuff works nicely too. I expected that to bog down RT but it doesn't at all.
LukasTaves
Member
Speaking of IE, it really needs an option to show the mobile version of the website when docked...
Anything less than that 2/3rds view and it gets way too small XD
Edit:
Anything less than that 2/3rds view and it gets way too small XD
Edit:
Ow, that's cool!
SUPARSTARX
Member
How is the start menu implemented for 8.1?
LukasTaves
Member
It's not. You have options to open either the start screen or the all apps view (which now has more organizational options as well, and can expose desktop apps first).
José Mourinho
cocknose
So is there a way to get 8.1 on UK machines?
Steelyuhas
Member
Installation is done.
Good shit so far, Messaging app is gone, which is not surprising considering the last couple times that grouped Calender, Mail, People, and Messaging app was updated, Messaging didn't get touched.
Good shit so far, Messaging app is gone, which is not surprising considering the last couple times that grouped Calender, Mail, People, and Messaging app was updated, Messaging didn't get touched.
LukasTaves
Member
Ow shit, I didn't even noticed it was gone XD
That's why I'm not receiving facebook chat notifications, lol.
Edit: Now that the skydrive app finished downloading the stubs crashes have stopped, cpu and hdd usage went to zero and streaming videos are working flawlessly!
It's weird that it only streams through metro apps, with a try to open the video in a desktop player it first downloads the file... Hopefully Ms will have apis for desktop apps to benefit from streaming too.
Working fine here.
Steelyuhas
Member
Yeah my computer was grinding hard at first, and I realized that SkyDrive was using the disk up almost completely. Once it was done doing its thing, smooth sailing.
MrGreencastle
Member
Working really nicely so far. LOVE the new Xbox Music app, although it'll take some getting used to, I can tell it's instantly better. I can't figure out how to have to IE tabs side by side. I did find something nice, though: Settings charm on Start screen > Tiles > Show more tiles
This makes RT have 4 rows, rather than 3, without the need for the hack that makes the keyboard small. Still exploring, but the performance seems much better.
EDIT: figured out the IE thing. tap and hold a tab and tap open in new window.
This makes RT have 4 rows, rather than 3, without the need for the hack that makes the keyboard small. Still exploring, but the performance seems much better.
EDIT: figured out the IE thing. tap and hold a tab and tap open in new window.
To use multiple windows with modern IE, just right-click/tap-and-hold a link or an auto-complete entries and use "open in new window"
I don't know if this is the right thread to ask such question, but since I did it to upgrade to 8.1 today I'll put it here.
Basically I tried to make a recovery partition, as recommended by Microsoft before upgrading. I tried to make the partition in my 1.5TB external HDD, on a 32GB empty partition. Now everything got deleted, and the recovery partition is what's left. ALL of my backups are gone...
I thought having separate partitions protects each other if one of them gets affected.
I tried to look for solutions, and right now I'm running TestDisk hoping to recover all my data. Can anyone give help/advice? Thanks in advance.
Basically I tried to make a recovery partition, as recommended by Microsoft before upgrading. I tried to make the partition in my 1.5TB external HDD, on a 32GB empty partition. Now everything got deleted, and the recovery partition is what's left. ALL of my backups are gone...
I thought having separate partitions protects each other if one of them gets affected.
I tried to look for solutions, and right now I'm running TestDisk hoping to recover all my data. Can anyone give help/advice? Thanks in advance.
skype
Rand0m TAG
Member
Anyone else have trouble installing?
ran into error. Said it can't install. Stopped at 28%
ran into error. Said it can't install. Stopped at 28%
Steelyuhas
Member
Whoa, snap two apps next to each other and then click another one from the task switcher. It will pop down and do this little effect where it wobbles to each side a bit and clicking on one of the sides snaps it to that side. Pretty intuitive.
killer rin
Member
If I install the 8.1 Preview, will I have to reinstall my desktop apps again come final release?
José Mourinho
cocknose
Hmm, myself and others have had issue with it.
Steelyuhas
Member
Yes you will.
killer rin
Member
Well, guess I'll be staying away from it on my desktop then. Maybe just put it on my Twist.
Seriously? Does that connect to all the other messaging services?
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?
I don't know if this is the right thread to ask such question, but since I did it to upgrade to 8.1 today I'll put it here.
Basically I tried to make a recovery partition, as recommended by Microsoft before upgrading. I tried to make the partition in my 1.5TB external HDD, on a 32GB empty partition. Now everything got deleted, and the recovery partition is what's left. ALL of my backups are gone...
I thought having separate partitions protects each other if one of them gets affected.
I tried to look for solutions, and right now I'm running TestDisk hoping to recover all my data. Can anyone give help/advice? Thanks in advance.
Well if you didn't write anything else to the drive there is good chance you can get your data back. You'll need some recovery software to do it. I haven't looked at any recently but I had good success with a program called Stellar Phoenix in the past.
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?
Yes, I was able to update. In Toronto.
Skype and msn messanger have merged. Don't think it has Facebook chat though.
That's terrible. So I'm supposed to keep the facebook website always open or download the facebook app even if there is one (probably crappy) on my Surface RT?
Steelyuhas
Member
An official FB app is coming, not that that fixes the immediate issue.
Edit was a bit late, next page.
RT will always be a second class citizen in the Windows ecosystem. The developers were probably like who cares about them since there's not many of your kind around.
Yeah yeah, Razdek, we all know what you think.
Microsoft employees have Surface RTs too, so what's the deal?