[DISCUSSION] Windows 8.1 Preview

Discussion in 'Windows 8' started by Tito, Jun 3, 2013.

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  1. nechrist

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    And how it runs?
     
  2. s1ave77

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    Can´t find any difference to Win 8 (assuming a fresh install, no upgrade).
     
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  3. nechrist

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    I did a fresh install too. Well, who knows...
     
  4. s1ave77

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    Anything noticeable in device manager?
     
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  5. nechrist

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    Seems not. I should try the 32bit version instead the 64bit one then...
     
  6. s1ave77

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    :hmm: running x64 here likewise.
     
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  7. EFA11

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    AMD A10 5700 using 1 core / 2gb Ram and seems to be fine as far as the system itself goes, its smooth in VM.

    File transfer does have some odd behavior. First time I copied from a shared folder to the VM and it froze the VM for about 30 seconds while "calculating" the transfer. It would speed up and then drop to 350kb/sec then speed up again. Finally it just stopped transferring at 80%. I ran windows update and updated 8.1, rebooted and tried again. It was faster this time, but still froze for a few seconds, but it did complete the transfer this time. I also did a transfer with homegroup, and that too had some trouble moving the data.

    Short of the data transfer from host to guest, the guest system itself is running as smoothly as the host with low cpu utilization and expected ram consumption.
     
  8. Espionage724

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    SHA1: d8076e029292fbc933792d215793045031255ff6
     
  9. reticule

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    Could one of you be kind enough to post the W8.1 Nvidia driver that's only seen for download if you're running Windows 8.1 Release Preview. It's version 326.01 WHQL .
    A bunch of us on guru3d, overclock dot net would appreciate it! Sorry to hijack the thread for a second!
     
  10. KR11Z4D3R

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    It seems everybody's been taken for a ride again with all this 8.1 hoopla.
    Why the need to reinstall apps after upgrade??? What kind of
    schmucks they think we are. Come on now! Enough is enough??!@#
     
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  12. s1ave77

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    Same applied to Win 8 Preview/Eval likewise...so what :eek:.
     
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    First big bug I found. I can't pin to start any exe from Explorer. I need to copy path of the file and paste it in the Search Charm. :p
     
  14. s1ave77

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    Upgrade or clean install? Have no problems doing this :hmm:.
     
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  15. free1975yuly

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    Better is clean install because you can add more registry garbage from previous Windows installation,garbage who can remain in the new OS installed,aka Windows 8.1
     
  16. FaiKee

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    Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro Release Preview is also available in Connect. :D
     
  17. jygoro

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    Upgrade from the Store. I'm gonna try clean install next.
     
  18. binded

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    #879 binded, Jun 27, 2013
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    i been trying to get my vmware 2 cores, 4 gigs, 60gigs hd, windows 8 pro x64 to update from the store i never get the update goto store dialog at all
    i have full updated system all updates
    signed in with a ms account
    installed the store update from ms site
    uninstalled the update reinstalled 5 times
    reboots 10 times i never get the update to windows 8.1 preview dialogs
    i have seen that there was alot of other people that seemed to have the same problems, and then theres others that have had none

    every thing seems to fail short of trying to refresh the system and trying again but it was a clean install of win8 to start with

    can any one of the people that didnt have any problems maybe set what there setups where config'ed too
    and what you did if any thing special
    such as system updates that you did or didnt install
    did you activate your windows or didnt
     
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