I can't even enter one. It just says my login is incorrect.
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I can't even enter one. It just says my login is incorrect.
Toying with the same idea but from Vista 64bit to Windows 8.
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most fucking disjointed release ever. why in the fuck would they do that? That's dumber than making it almost impossible to even find where to by a non upgrade version.
You enter the code in place of your password. Go to your google account-security-2 step edit- manage app codes and then create a new one and enter it into your password field.
I have 2 step auth on my gmail and its connected to W8.
Jzero
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It's a preview, they're not going to give you access to everything. There would no point in buying it if you could get everything for free in the preview.
Disjointed? Its a damn beta version, what do you expect? And where to buy a non-upgrade? Its in the OP.
Found another way to get back to start if you have a trackpad with Win 8 drivers.
Swipe in from the right, but instead of 'flicking', hold your finger down and release it. You can also move your finger up/down to scroll through the charm bar options.
The problem I've found with this is that it activates the charms bar if you swipe from the left to switch apps directly afterwards.
Swipe in from the right, but instead of 'flicking', hold your finger down and release it. You can also move your finger up/down to scroll through the charm bar options.
The problem I've found with this is that it activates the charms bar if you swipe from the left to switch apps directly afterwards.
So...my friend bought the upgrade retail package and according to him, there is a serial number with the 2 discs. He used said serial number to upgrade his Windows 7 PC without entering the old Windows 7 serial at all during the upgrade process.
And there was also a fresh install option too. This is really confusing. Can anyone confirm if I can use the upgrade discs to fresh install/reformat my desktop PC without entering my old Windows 7 serial number and instead use the provided Windows 8 key?
And there was also a fresh install option too. This is really confusing. Can anyone confirm if I can use the upgrade discs to fresh install/reformat my desktop PC without entering my old Windows 7 serial number and instead use the provided Windows 8 key?
Yeah, conveniently left out that minor detail for pages on end.
bloodforge
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Anyone else have the video, music and photo apps stop playing/opening files? They were all working earlier, now when I try to open a media file I get "can't play - error 0xc00d11d2". The photo app just crashes back to the start menu.
If you press the 'zoom out' button at the bottom right it gives you small thumbnails of all the pages. Better than nothing I guess.
Oh my god, thank you so much, it's working!
Heavy's Sandvich
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Re-installed everything, removed my keyboard and it's running brilliantly.
Purchased and installed the final version of Windows 8 Pro yesterday with the cheap upgrade deal.
It certainly took a good few hours to become used to it, but now I can do anything I could do on Windows 7, just took a little while to understand the shortcuts etc. I mean, I was like "How the hell do I get to Control Panel from the Desktop!?". Only to realise it's as quick as press the windows key, typing "Control Panel" et voila. Ridiculously quick.
Anyway, the positives. This thing is soooo damn quick. I'm running it on a Samsung 830 SSD and it's lightning fast. Boots much quicker than W7 did on a clean install too. I mean, it's almost instant.
The Metro interface you're initially greeted with is superb IMO. Especially as both myself and the gf share the PC. It means we can both log in as ourselves and see our own personalised screen, with it automatically logging in to our mail services, having our own personal internet history etc. I know there was an element of this with previous Windows but it's done so much more gracefully on W8.
My gf also loves the built in app store. Again, it makes things so easy and she can have her own personal set of apps and it won't interfere with anything I do. She's already downloaded and installed tons of the free games, the cookbook, etc.
When I first booted my PC this morning I found myself clicking on the Bing News app, which was a much better experience than my usual booting Chrome and going on the BBC web-site. There's just something about the speed and convenience and beautiful full screen layout. And when I want to do my music production or word processing, it'll go straight in to Desktop mode without any fuss.
I really don't get the hate for Windows 8. Yes, it takes some time to get used to, especially being a techie who's been with Windows since 3.1. But the pay-off is worth it IMO. Each to their own, I guess.
A lot of feedback has complained of Windows 8 not knowing whether it wants to be a mobile or desktop OS. For me, it's the best of both worlds. When I just want to turn my PC on and quickly check the internet, news, weather or play some casual games, it's right there and instant with the Metro interface. When I want to do anything more, it instantly changes in to Desktop mode. Perfect.
It certainly took a good few hours to become used to it, but now I can do anything I could do on Windows 7, just took a little while to understand the shortcuts etc. I mean, I was like "How the hell do I get to Control Panel from the Desktop!?". Only to realise it's as quick as press the windows key, typing "Control Panel" et voila. Ridiculously quick.
Anyway, the positives. This thing is soooo damn quick. I'm running it on a Samsung 830 SSD and it's lightning fast. Boots much quicker than W7 did on a clean install too. I mean, it's almost instant.
The Metro interface you're initially greeted with is superb IMO. Especially as both myself and the gf share the PC. It means we can both log in as ourselves and see our own personalised screen, with it automatically logging in to our mail services, having our own personal internet history etc. I know there was an element of this with previous Windows but it's done so much more gracefully on W8.
My gf also loves the built in app store. Again, it makes things so easy and she can have her own personal set of apps and it won't interfere with anything I do. She's already downloaded and installed tons of the free games, the cookbook, etc.
When I first booted my PC this morning I found myself clicking on the Bing News app, which was a much better experience than my usual booting Chrome and going on the BBC web-site. There's just something about the speed and convenience and beautiful full screen layout. And when I want to do my music production or word processing, it'll go straight in to Desktop mode without any fuss.
I really don't get the hate for Windows 8. Yes, it takes some time to get used to, especially being a techie who's been with Windows since 3.1. But the pay-off is worth it IMO. Each to their own, I guess.
A lot of feedback has complained of Windows 8 not knowing whether it wants to be a mobile or desktop OS. For me, it's the best of both worlds. When I just want to turn my PC on and quickly check the internet, news, weather or play some casual games, it's right there and instant with the Metro interface. When I want to do anything more, it instantly changes in to Desktop mode. Perfect.
How is pressing the window key on your keyboard and then typing "control panel" better than clicking Start -> Control Panel?
I didn't say it's any better, but it's every bit as fast if not faster. Unless you're a slow typist. But I don't go in to Control Panel every day so not sure how it's an issue either way - and if it was I'd just create a shortcut on the desktop or in Metro.
Oh my, and there's always that way too. Didn't realise you could do that
Still think it's quicker to Windows Key + Type though.Pin control panel to the taskbar or start screen if your time is that precious.
MS made keyboard relevant again!
Honestly, I'd love for a a settings app that can create control panel shortcuts on the start menu.
So I read earlier today that there's a Giant Bomb app for Windows 8. I then spent no less than 30 minutes trying to find it using the built-in store feature and search. Why doesn't it show in the store? Why do I have to use my browser to google it to find it? What am I missing here?
What? I just tried this myself. Click on "App Store" and type "Giant Bomb" and it appears immediately on the right (under "Recommended"), just click it and install it. Took me 5 seconds.
EDIT: In UK on retail.
Go to store
Bring up the charms bar, hit search
"Giantbomb"
And done
Not sure what kind of difficulties you were having
Well, nothing shows up when I do that. In Finland btw. Maybe our store is just even more useless than I thought it'd be. At least I can install the app when I first google it but that kind of defeats the purpose of having these search features built-in if you can't rely on them.
It's probably just not available on your store, so the search feature is working fine. The biggest question is why it's not on your store. Might be worth asking the Giant Bomb guys.
I started searching for other apps people have mentioned here and other forums and literally the only one the search found in my store was Skype. This is so useless. How do I get access to a proper store like the US one? I already have all my language settings except keyboard in US (which btw. messes the UI nicely, some parts of it are in English, some in Finnish.)
infinityBCRT
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Heres a pro-tip for closing Modern apps. Theres at least 3 ways to do it (without going into task manager):
- swipe from the top left of the screen downwards to pop up the list of apps and then middle click on the app you want to close (or you could right click and then click close on the menu that pops up)
- swipe from the top left of the screen downwards to pop up the list of apps then drag the app tile to the middle of the bottom of the screen
- when an app is active, you can put your mouse cursor at the top of the screen and a hand icon should appear. you can click and drag your mouse to the bottom and it should close the app
- swipe from the top left of the screen downwards to pop up the list of apps and then middle click on the app you want to close (or you could right click and then click close on the menu that pops up)
- swipe from the top left of the screen downwards to pop up the list of apps then drag the app tile to the middle of the bottom of the screen
- when an app is active, you can put your mouse cursor at the top of the screen and a hand icon should appear. you can click and drag your mouse to the bottom and it should close the app
infinityBCRT
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Check your store options and see if its limited to only apps in your native language. If it is turn that option off. I was able to find the Giant Bomb app by searching "giant bomb" (I'm in Canada).
For some apps it's probably because the developers haven't had access to Windows RT devices and thus couldn't really optimize performance (yet). I've read that some developers have only released their apps for Windows 8 for now (i.e. not RT), so that they don't get bad reviews on the store, when it's being run on a system they couldn't test for.
I tried that previously but actually I finally found a proper fix. The language settings went even deeper than I thought and I found couple of more things I could change into proper English. A reboot later and the store is full of apps, literally. Some of the Metro UI text is still in Finnish though which is a bit weird, but I can live with that.
infinityBCRT
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I'm on an SSD so load times are almost non existent.
eso76
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Sorry I'm sure this has been answered before, but just to clarify further:
I qualify for the cheap upgrade to 8 pro (14 ) but if I understand this correctly, the upgrade is in fact a standalone full installer ? Meaning if I have to reformat I can then boot directly from the upgrade disc and do a fresh install without having to reinstall 7 first ?
I qualify for the cheap upgrade to 8 pro (14 ) but if I understand this correctly, the upgrade is in fact a standalone full installer ? Meaning if I have to reformat I can then boot directly from the upgrade disc and do a fresh install without having to reinstall 7 first ?
Sorry I'm sure this has been answered before, but just to clarify further:
I qualify for the cheap upgrade to 8 pro (14 €
Yep, that's right. The Upgrade Assistant will allow you to make a bootable USB or ISO. Then you can format your drive and do a clean install, even if there's no Windows pre-installed on that drive.
They already know you're upgrading because you need to run the Upgrade Assiatant from an activated copy of Windows XP/Vista/7 to create the installation media and get a key in the first place.
I should imagine it'll be the same as it all links back to your same Microsoft account.
I am hoping that it gives me the Points option since my Microsoft Account (Xbox) is linked and all.
Yeah, WP7 fucked us royally in the payment area. No gift cards, No Paypal, no nothing.
So I posted about this laptop yesterday.
http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail.jsp?skuId=6941745&pid=1218816106471&ev=prodView
A few guys helped me with it. It's 100.00 off at Costco so I'm considering it. Question is, is there a better laptop in its class for around the same price? I love the touch screen so I'd want that too. Is having an i5 instead of an i7 a major downside? I know the resolution and weight are downsides. How about Acers reputation, what's that like? Sorry for all the questions, I haven't used a PC in almost 12 years.
Troll had posted some benchmarks of a PC with the same graphics card but an i7, would the benchmarks for this be significantly different because of that?
http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail.jsp?skuId=6941745&pid=1218816106471&ev=prodView
A few guys helped me with it. It's 100.00 off at Costco so I'm considering it. Question is, is there a better laptop in its class for around the same price? I love the touch screen so I'd want that too. Is having an i5 instead of an i7 a major downside? I know the resolution and weight are downsides. How about Acers reputation, what's that like? Sorry for all the questions, I haven't used a PC in almost 12 years.
Troll had posted some benchmarks of a PC with the same graphics card but an i7, would the benchmarks for this be significantly different because of that?
It's not that it's an "issue" per se...it's just that what you described is objectively worse than your previous operating system, and yet in your post you seem to be delighted about the fact that it wasn't as bad as you expected it to be. Just an interesting way to look at your purchase I guess.
No, just an interesting way of you reading my post.
I'm delighted at all the things that Windows 8 does well, which matches what I want from my PC. I don't spend all day every day in the Control Panel. That's not what I want from a PC. And regardless, as someone has described above, there's another quick way of getting to the Control Panel, you just click right mouse button in the bottom left hand corner and it's there on the list.
It's interesting that you focus on that single sentence in my entire post about Windows 8, whilst ignoring all the positives I mentioned.
Yes, I got it for free and the license key came through today. It's here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/feature-packs
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/clean-install-windows-8-upgrade-media-144648
So...it works? You can buy the upgrade and clean install it on any machine? WTF
Why did we need that OEM/System Builder version then?
So...it works? You can buy the upgrade and clean install it on any machine? WTF
Why did we need that OEM/System Builder version then?