News/Discussions: Windows 8.1 RTM Build 6.3.9600.16384

Yeah...superficial knowledge is a fine thing, all the more when the wrong half is promoted with that passion .

 

Windows 8.1 is the same as 8, same updates, etc.

Linux has tons of MB of updates WEEKLY... then?

 

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@s1ave77 your post was hazardous, it made me almost fell off my chair

 

It will also be sold as a stand alone OS, only free to current Win8 retail users or those who buy win8 or win8 on a machine will get free upgrade.

 

new facts from the history of leaks Windows 8.1 RTM -WZOR

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new facts from the history of leaks Windows 8.1 RTM

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Ummm how many QFE's are we talking because in its current condition Windows 8.1 is almost entirely broken. I made a list

-Recycling bin hang
-Critical Licensing / Activation bug for registry
-Critical Licensing bug for license files
-Desktop themes bug
-Memory anti maleware (uses 200 MB of RAM)
-start screen issue on first search (partial crash)
-Metro search crash with white screen (crashes windows)
-Access violation to the Computer OS with crash
-Windows CPU core issues

The list goes on some of these are critical as well. I wonder how many MS will fix in a month and these are the ones from the Virtual Machine as PMR didn't give me a full list lol.

I won't split split hairs in this case Windows 8.1 is DOA atm as Windows 8 is more stable then 8.1.

Also Chris123NT there are features missing from the RTM that I saw when I was looking at the licensing files when they were updates. I feel we will see some new Windows RT features on Windows 8.1 on release in October.

 

hmmm didn't have those issues so far - maybe the VM is your problem
better test it on bare metal.

 

me too working like a charm as main os

 

Perhaps the issue is that you have to find the bugs in order to replicate them (dry voice).

heh

 

here I can confirm kind of little buggy behaviour on VM but also have no more issues on the real machine

 

officially yes but you can continue receiving fixes beyond that date by custom made update requests

 

In Store when searching app by the search bar, you don't always find it in the results, like in windows 8.

 

I've none of your problems on a real PC (did not tested in a VM).

 

How do I prevent external hard drives from sleeping in windows 8.1? I have disabled it in power options, but it didn't do anything.

 

Windows 8.1 rtm has one major bug for me which is making me stay permanently on windows 8. Whenever i go to boot up windows 8.1 the computer switches itself off a few seconds after the blue windows logo appears. I also had the same problem with the preview . Theyve had since the preview to fix this bug and still haven't solved it. Im really disappointed unless someone here knows how to fix it?

 

I've been fighting with this since Win8 preview. All of me ext-Drives sleep more than me. it is an Annoyance

 

Is it not possible to mount the install.wim, insert the gVLK key for pro, unmount the install.wim.
Rebuild the install.wim with index1 only to give you a PRO VL disc without the core version. Then make an EI.cfg which you place in the sources folder.

Code:

[EditionID]
Professional

[Channel]
Volume

[VL]
1

And finally rebuild the .ISO. Wouldn't that give you a 100 % VL version of PRO or am I wrong?