[DISCUSSION] Windows 8 Consumer Preview Build 8250

Discussion in 'Windows 8' started by Windows4live, Feb 18, 2012.

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  1. X-CLUSIVE

    X-CLUSIVE MDL Novice

    May 5, 2010
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    Hi ! Windows 8 consumer preview default services registry can someone give me? Of course, something that actually default, untouched system for?
     
  2. maciek7

    maciek7 MDL Novice

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    Hey guys
    I love the WCP I think it's fast stable and nice looking!
    I like the Apps, thou they are in beta stage - but the idea is promising(games like cut the rope, mail, skydrive, reader)
    I must say when i first installed developer preview in october 2011 i didn't like metro - like a lot of people nowadays- but I changed my point of view.
    You can't go forward with comparing everything to windows xp or windows 7!

    What are your impressions?
     
  3. joostiphone

    joostiphone MDL Novice

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    I also thought it was very user friendly, but now im using it as my main system. It just works great imo.
     
  4. X-CLUSIVE

    X-CLUSIVE MDL Novice

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    ???? ...............
     
  5. paul3200

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    has anybody else extracted install.wim to a VHD to only have it say 'winload.exe' Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file


    i tried it on my netbook only to find out i didnt have good enough resolution so tried it on my PC (new and the same VHD) and got the winload error

    how can i try to fix this?
     
  6. Trancemaster

    Trancemaster MDL Novice

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    I hope that MS wiil put some options in final product such as option to choose between metro and classic look.
    It will be great to see options during install:
    -use metro UI
    -use classic UI
    -mixed (for easy switching by default-putting cursor bottom left to show metro ui like it´s now)
    Leave Start button and menu which can be enabled in control panel or in add/remove Windows features.
    It´s to complicated even to shut down the computer.
     
  7. james112

    james112 MDL Novice

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    Hi everyone! been using CP since Wednesday as my main OS and... after trying hard to get used to Metro I actually like it quite a bit! The only things I'm not liking is the fact you have to go through a million menus to shut the thing down :wallbash: but I'm finding the start screen works well if you are willing to set it up of course although I agree that MS should give I.T Admins the option to get that Start menu back for people who want it!!
     
  8. sansibart

    sansibart MDL Novice

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    #470 sansibart, Mar 4, 2012
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    I agree. When you click on the profile icon in the upper right corner, you have the option to sign out. I don't understand why they did not add "shutdown" as an option.

    Another option could be this: frogboy.joeuser.com/article/418946/Windows_8_Start_button_returns
     
  9. chrisys32

    chrisys32 MDL Novice

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    for me win8 has potential but for now still too unfinished. i'll wait for RC, now i'm going back to 7
     
  10. itsmartain

    itsmartain MDL Junior Member

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    I am having problems with using the defragment tool, when I went to defrag my hard drive, it would not recognise it.
     
  11. mnibilly

    mnibilly MDL Novice

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    #473 mnibilly, Mar 4, 2012
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    Which is faster, XP、W7、W8;
    It's my habit.
    The start button won't back, I will back!
     
  12. naseap

    naseap MDL Senior Member

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    How is shutting down the pc complicated. Mouse to right corner, settings, power- shut down. If that is complicated then maybe you should not be using a pc. This has to be the most over dramatized aspect of Win8. Can we please stop with this nonsense.
     
  13. FaiKee

    FaiKee Misinformation spreader

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    LOL, the simplest and fastest way to shutdown is to press the machine's on/off switch once and let the OS handle the rest. :rofl6:
     
  14. TechDudeGeorge

    TechDudeGeorge MDL Member

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    Where can we find the .dll files of the new metro like computer icon that Canouna had when he showed off 8220?
     
  15. Jachra

    Jachra MDL Member

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    For the average Joe or Jane, you know the normal user, they way they have to shutdown a Windows 8 system is way to complicated. Microsoft should remove the option to power off from the settings menu in the Charm-bar and place it one level up.
     
  16. _spinner_

    _spinner_ MDL Addicted

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    i do not think 'bout it :rofl6:
    c'mon it's clear as crystal, but u have to configure it first......(mine default is hibernate...)
    and seems that if you shutdown with the hardware button, the OS is doing the standard shutdown, not the fastboot one :confused:

    Simply and clear is that MS had put the shutdown not easy to find, because 8 id designed for tablets and slates that have that button very easy to handle....

    8 very very buggy designed not for notebooks and desktops :rofl6:
     
  17. PGHammer

    PGHammer MDL Senior Member

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    You can have a local account and a Live ID for the Store and other Microsoft services - it was, in fact, the default with 7 and earlier. (The Consumer Preview still allows this.) The fun enjoying the Consumer Preview continues - so far, not a single incompatible application that I actually need except one - Amazon Kindle e-reader software for Windows will not import unencrypted MOBI-format e-books when installed on a clean WCP setup; oddly enough, when installed in Windows 7, which is then upgraded to the WCP, such an import works fine. (Workaround - Install Calibre e-library software for Windows.) Other non-Metro software (including games) works just fine - if not better than Windows 7. I still have exactly zero reason to re-hire Windows 7 as main or host OS - therefore, Windows 7 remains demoted to pancake-with-syrup duty in VMs.