That's correct. Since the ISO is a non-compressed file, it will work on the fly. I was just worried that opening the ISO with 7zip will require the WIM to be extracted to a temporary location first before you can open it, like with g/bzipped tarballs, but that's not the case, my mistake. Plus, this will work also on Windows 7 which cannot mount ISOs natively.
No. Drivestore folders always only contain exactly 1 Inf. Nvidia, Realtek and other Drivers have multiple Inf files for different OEMs, series and so on but use (nearly) all the same files that are in the downloaded driverpackage. Simplefied: nearly every inf needs all files that are contained in the driverpackage. If you import the extracted folder with dism or dpinst or something else which doesn't look for matching hardware on the system all inf files (that are in the downloaded drivers folder) gets imported to the system. this is by design as you can have one master image for multiple platforms / machines. Also providing drivers gets a lot easier for manfactures. The downside in result of this behavior is that big drivers e.g. realtek / nvidia gets imported with every inf and related source files (declared in the inf). But as this files are common used by the other inf files and Driverstore doesn't allow more than 1 inf as a Driver(package) it imports all related files again and again to the inf. With about 50 infs and a driver which is 300mb... this takes 15gb. But only one Inf matches YOUR machine. - So the best is to know you're matching inf and delete all other infs before you import the driver. Therefore its recommended to install the drivers by setup as the install routines looks normaly for matching devices. Or refresh over device manager as this methode looks for matching devices. I personaly recommend to install all drivers somehow you want... you won't will use this image. you only use it to gather and extract all drivers for the real / clean installation. I extract them with a combination of tools and some manual work. Unfortunatly I tested a lot of tools and really NONE worked completley fine with every driver. DoubleDriver has the best result but also has bugs on some drivers. With Win8.1 dism can export drivers, BUT it will export all (none-inbox) drivers, also the drivers you didn't want to export (as they are not used by your machine)
Just my 2 cent having just installed tech preview yes its great to have a traditional start menu but a lot of ppl have already got used to the metro start page to me it seems like a bit of a step backwards to remove it yes bring back a traditional start menu but keep the metro option after forcing it on us in all win 8 builds
sevenacids: you made no mistake at all- your way works great also. I was just showing the user that there was a different way (without needing to mount) to get the file he wanted. After my post, I wondered if only the latest ver of 7-zip (9.34) could do that. It gets confusing since there are 5 different versions of 7-zip available.
My 2 cents on your 2 cents: Right-click taskbar -> properties -> start menu > 1st option disabled = start screen back
I use 9.25 alpha since it released, never updated to later versions and it's works great with iso and wim
This probably already have been noted but the icons on the desktop are now much closer one to each other.
Well, not a mistake but your solution is easier indeed. I'm still using the 9.20 version (x64) and can confirm you can do it.
How can I increase the number of start menu rows/items? Can't seem to change that, but I've seen screenshots with bigger start menus. Thanks
Change tiles sizes, drag them to right or left you can customize the tiles section similary like the Start screen
installed it ,restarted after completing all the steps ,and bios got failed ,hdd got damaged ,dont know the reason bcoz of os or hdd
one is for sure: OS does not kill mechanical parts in your PC if used properly. You faced a dramatic coincidence loosing either your PS, HDD or mainboard
Does anyone know how to stop the bleeping Start menu squares from rearranging automatically? I only have "medium" size blocks there that I want to fit in a single column. Unfortunately they rearrange automatically to always go into two columns. In other words, I'm trying to get the right half of the menu to be less wide while still using at least some medium squares.
Unfortunately, no. The tile grid is designed to behave like that. Technically, it's only one column in relation to the large one, so two medium sized tiles share the space per row.