I burned the .ISO using ImgBurn then set up the CP with it's own separate hard drive making it the first SATA drive on my board. After that just hit enter to boot from the DVD drive. Or you could create a separate partition and install it from the DVD drive after you burn it. I'm not so sure that it will install from the desktop.
After installing the consumer preview, I'm trying to delete the windows.old folder, but it's giving me a lot of access denied & permission errors. Has anyone else tried deleting the windows.old folder?
I haven't yet but search for TakeOwnership batch file. Worked for Win 7, you may have to use that to be able to delete it.
why do i need to hold a mouse button and slide a slider bar to find my apps? (after clicking the all apps button) to find my software?
I find it very buggy some of the apps do not work, it seems to stall/freeze have to reboot, some programs will not load. I am going to uninstall.
I tried also deleting windows.old folder to no avail, even did the security route which didn't work. Went over to Windows 7, yeah right! not a chance. The only way that I could get rid of the windows old folder was to boot into ubuntu and delete them in there. What kind of OS doesn't let you delete your own files.
I don't for one. I'm running this on a traditional *desktop computer* - no touch anywhere. The biggest gripe (so far) about the Consumer Preview *still* isn't the applications - included or legacy, or even the drivers (or lack thereof) with the majority of the detractors; in case you haven't realized that, those are the two largest issues with a new OS (at any stage, including RTM). If all you can complain about is the UI (notice that, in most cases, the applications themselves (especially the majority of applications and games from the XP/Vista/7 eras) still work as well as they do in 7) that maybe the OS - or even the UI - isn't the issue in reality?
I thought we were told metro apps would kind of not close but not consume memory either once the user moves to adifferent task. But I find in the task manager all of them are still around eating memory long after I have, well, moved on from them.
Install CP on PC, gettting used to finding things on here. Metro UI is getting used too, however since the days of 7955, 7989, WDP, and now WCP. It is now recognizing my second floppy drive. The OS is recognzing my DVD/RW but not the CD/RW. However if I go inside the case and switch the Sata cables around. It will not recognzine the CD\RW but not the DVD\RW. Is there any way I can solve this.
really disappointed with the CP build..nothing exciting in it..lot of bugs in it....going back to my Win7
You have to understand how Microsoft thinks: 1. They think they are smarter than anybody else and all the rest of us are too dumb to be allowed full access to all of the features. 2. They like to change things for the sake of keeping their customers off balance and not necessarily to make things work better. 3. They like to keep some of the information secret from us so you need to find and buy a book called "Windows 8 Secrets" to figure out how to make Windows 8 work properly.
Guys, that coral screen at the start- I had to cntrl-alt-del on it to get to the password box. is that normal?
You have to click and drag the bottom of the splash screen upwards. It works for touch devices but is really stupid to force it on keyboard and mouse users.
The Messenger app is pretty great for Windows Live Messenger... For Facebook chat? It's nigh useless.
windows hot keys I find are very useful. Win + W, Win + F. Easier way to access apps, etc. Btw, I noticed that NVidia has drivers for the win8cp