Dead Prince
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possible to adjust the size of the snapped window?
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Windows 8 / RT |OT|
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Turn it on in settings.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
No, and that's by design. Snapped views are only available on Widescreen monitors and they're a fixed width regardless of your overall resolution, so the programs are developed assuming a fixed width.
Everything transferred over from my Windows 7 bootcamp install, which worked without issue. When I try to update the drivers from within Windows 8, I get nowhere.
Should I re-download the drivers on my Mac partition, put them on a thumb drive and install them in Windows 8?
The_Inquisitor
Member
Doing a backup to my NAS and downloading my free copy from dreamspark right now. Anything else I should worry about?
Frustrated_me
Member
Ok guys I'm running Windows RTM, where can I purchase a CD key online to activate this thing? On MS's website the only options I see are upgrades, my install was a fresh install.
What do I do?
What do I do?
yggdrasill
Member
Pirated copies will upgrade without issues.
It should be fine.
One thing that Annoyed me was wanting to upgrade from Windows 7 32 bit, too 64 bit Windows 8.
The only way I know of is running it from a bootable USB Stick.
But I'm just using 32 bit win 8 now...
yn-neko hates a cat
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I guess I'll have to put some feelers out on Ebay
Has anyone had any luck installing anything older than the latest adobe creative suite?
Another installer was blocking it tis all. Sorry for the trouble
bloodydrake
Cool Smoke Luke
atm I've found that Hauppauge HDPVR and Colossus tv cards aren't working in MediaCenter 8.
I can get them to work in windows8 using showbiz app so its not a hardware driver issue but a mediacenter driver app issue.
I've emailed Hauppauge about potential beta drives but if theres no answer I might have to roll my HTPC back to windows 7 for the next while.
Anyone else use the HDPVR or Colossus had any success scanning for channels under windows 8?
I can get them to work in windows8 using showbiz app so its not a hardware driver issue but a mediacenter driver app issue.
I've emailed Hauppauge about potential beta drives but if theres no answer I might have to roll my HTPC back to windows 7 for the next while.
Anyone else use the HDPVR or Colossus had any success scanning for channels under windows 8?
Nice! I think I managed to do that once by accident but didn't know how.
Oh my, and there's always that way too. Didn't realise you could do that
Windows Key + X then P is the quickest
goldsoundz
Member
What's the best smooth scrolling extension for Chrome? The smooth scroll driver for my mouse doesn't install in Windows 8.
GoldenEye 007
Member
CS4 is a no-go! I can't afford to buy a new copy of creative suite ;_;
I guess I'll have to put some feelers out on Ebay
Has anyone had any luck installing anything older than the latest adobe creative suite?
If I don't go out drinking heavily tonight after work, I'll try it. I also still run CS4.
yn-neko hates a cat
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It was user error but you raise a good point!
Can Windows 8 handle Drunk Computing? Has anyone benchmarked this?
endresults
Member
So when I open apps and they end up in the left pane, should I close them at some point, or is the performance hit negligible? I'm running through the left pane with a buzzsaw after three or four apps are open.
they suspend after a short time, no need to close them.
If you look at the task manager you'll see they are using memory but taking 0% CPU usage. No need to go closing things unless you need to do something extremely memory sensitive I guess. I'm not sure how aggressive the OS is about killing things.
The_Inquisitor
Member
Heh I haven't done a system backup in 2 months. Only 30% on my backup.
Too bad it doesn't matter. I don't have a flash drive or a DVD burner at the moment somehow. Going to have to wait after my college football game to upgrade it seems.
Too bad it doesn't matter. I don't have a flash drive or a DVD burner at the moment somehow.
Going to have to wait after my college football game to upgrade it seems.thanks, not sure how I missed the massive "turn on notifier option".
Just realized it doesn't use the gmail filters and archiving, I'm sure Google will put out a dedicated app soon
The Elite
BOSS
Anyone figure out how to force small icons to become bigger icons? I want my Chrome Metro icon to be a rectangle rather than a square, and it's bugging my OCD
Why are your Chrome and Origin icons so much better than mine?
Damon Bennet
Member
just out of interest:
If I buy a non-stylus tablet and buy a shitty capacitive pen - is there a manual switch or somnething in one note so i could still do basic handwriting or circling stuff?
If I buy a non-stylus tablet and buy a shitty capacitive pen - is there a manual switch or somnething in one note so i could still do basic handwriting or circling stuff?
When you first 'close' them, they get suspended in memory and don't use any CPU or disk. After overall RAM usage is high enough the memory used by suspended apps is dumped into a swap file on the hard disk. Case in point, Video app using 1.3MB of RAM:
Sorry if its already been answered, but what does the five upgrade licenses per customer bit mean? I'm guessing installs, so if I were to upgrade from win 8 rc now and then do a clean install later, that would be two licenses gone, right? Does that $60 version also have that proviso?
I'm sure this has been asked multiple times by now but how do you put headers on your start page (groupings)
edit: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/name-group-of-tiles-on-windows-8-start-screen/
edit: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/name-group-of-tiles-on-windows-8-start-screen/
yn-neko hates a cat
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I was having a hard time updating most of the apps that came installed on metro last night but I just went into the store a few minutes ago and they all (about 11 of them) went through smoothly.
Could it be they were getting slammed yesterday?
Could it be they were getting slammed yesterday?
yn-neko hates a cat
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Doesn't hurt. I put all my drivers on a USB and it saved my ass because I had one RAID driver for my SSD that was necessary for the installer to see the drive I would eventually install Windows on.
I had no problems detecting my AHCI drives though but better safe than sorry right?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
The "over 9000" thing is a bit weird--the article says the US store only has 5000 apps. For what locale are the other 4000? And especially since the US store seems to contain quite a lot of Chinese apps, I'm guessing the actual number of US-english apps are quite a bit lower. I'm sure every company similarly lies, but the figure just seems starkly incorrect in this case
MS's argument is that no one uses it and they need to pay upfront licensing fees for various patent things, so it's better to save the cost in the OS and pass it on directly to the people who need it.
MS's argument is that no one uses it and they need to pay upfront licensing fees for various patent things, so it's better to save the cost in the OS and pass it on directly to the people who need it.
derExperte
Member
Because it includes DVD playback which costs MS money for licenses. And considering the very low price for upgrades I think it was a good idea to leave it out. Also if you have Pro you can get it for free right now.
yn-neko hates a cat
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LOL... the improvement is a cheaper windows upgrade. There's heavy licensing associated with MediaCenter MS decided to pass on to only does who want it. I'll get it since there's a free offer going on for Win8 pro users but I've always been a MPC guy even if MediaCenter is the superior product.
yn-neko hates a cat
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I LOL'ed!
That couldn't have been more perfect
The "over 9000" thing is a bit weird--the article says the US store only has 5000 apps. For what locale are the other 4000? And especially since the US store seems to contain quite a lot of Chinese apps, I'm guessing the actual number of US-english apps are quite a bit lower. I'm sure every company similarly lies, but the figure just seems starkly incorrect in this case
It isn't from the company. Microsoft hasn't really said anything regarding app count
http://www.winappupdate.com/ runs metrics once a day
I have 3000 points on my Xbox. Why can't I use them everywhere, from Windows 8 to Windows Phone 8 to the Xbox? MS half baked vision of unifying their service is getting on my nerve.
And you really can't expect everyone to have a goddamn Visa. Like, I am not gonna tell my mom to get a Credit Card to buy fucking Angry Birds.
THINK OF THE MOMS.
MikeE21286
Member
just downloaded this. Sight unseen basically.
Very different....not sure if like or not yet.
As an existing Windows 7 user, it seems to be a lot of work to integrate yourself into the Windows 8 "experience". Not sure if the payoff is worth it.
Very different....not sure if like or not yet.
As an existing Windows 7 user, it seems to be a lot of work to integrate yourself into the Windows 8 "experience". Not sure if the payoff is worth it.
I am using gmail as well. I am not sure what features exactly you mention to confirm if you lose them. Out of the box however the calendar and email app work with gmail. The messaging item seems to want to your your windows ID, but I am not an expert.
I have a bunch of points too. It doesn't bother me because they have always been Xbox Live Points and were pretty much useless everywhere else. They will continue to work on Xbox for the sake of people that already have them, but they are moving away from that too.
I guess I see a problem for kids, but most people (i'm thinking US-centric here) should have something (credit card or debit card) with a Mastercard or Visa logo on it nowadays. And when that doesn't work, PayPal does.
Seems a bit short-sighted on MS's part to leave out the use of their own point cards. Hopefully it's something they'll include down the track.
It does feel a bit heavy-handed to begin with but once you get used to all the differences/hotkeys, it becomes second nature. Anything in particular you're struggling with?
It does feel a bit heavy-handed to begin with but once you get used to all the differences/hotkeys, it becomes second nature. Anything in particular you're struggling with?