I will not be purchasing or loading Windows 8 in any way. I agree with McRip-a total and complete disaster. If M$ pursues this type of OS I'll be going to Linux or Mac when Windows 7 is no longer supported.
Hi, Is there a place to get all the Office 2010 Post SP1 hotfixes (X86 & X64) in one link. It is a pain to download everything one after another. Thanks in advance.
I tried to recreate the problem with no avail. It worked every time and on two different systems! Common scenario: - freshly installed system, no updates, no drivers - a non-system drive to install the updates off of. First one had spaces in the folder name, second one didn't In both scenario's, the installer loaded like it should before UAC was disabled (asking for administrator privileges) and ran after right clicking on it and select 'run as administrator'. Then, in both cases, just set EnableLUA to 0, nothing else, and it worked like it should. It also worked when right clicking and selecting 'run as administrator' even with EnableLUA disabled. These two systems are in addition to my own system which has the same behaviour (in that it works!). After everything was installed and set up, in all cases the installer still works like it should. I therefore cannot reproduce the issue that a couple of people are having. It may be due to the actions of another program, or be due to the ISO used for installation (shouldn't matter, right? in terms of language used). Setting it up as an exe creates it's own problems. If extracts in to the current folder, there is an issue that it may not work for some people with EnableLUA enabled. Having it extract to the temp folder also creates the issue that the installer is now expecting the files to be in the temp folder, although I didn't look into that aspect too much. In other words, packaging as an exe creates another set of issues. I would still like to figure out why for some people it doesn't work like it should, it sounds like a system configuration error. And now for something completely different Have you noticed that the Windows Setup dialogue window has a nice patterned border and colouring, with the nice window option boxes at the top right hand corner? not the crappy ones they went with for the final of Windows 8. Seems someone at Microsoft forgot to crapify the Windows setup, it actually looks better than the final install! I mean for the booting from a USB/DVD, not when installing from Windows.
Good afternoon Burf! I just read your post, and thought I'd spin up a new VM of Win8 Pro, to find out what's going on here... Now I must first admit that I'm not using an original MS Win8 RTM image, however I'm using that as a base, and have simply just integrated all the current KB's to it. No other tweaks, software or addons, so all settings are MS default OOTB. Now I created a new disk in the VM, so that I could re-create the conditions on my machine, of having the hotfixes and your script residing on a different disk. After trying your script, I can confirm that you are right, it runs perfectly on the new VM, but not on my real system (if the script is run from another disk). The interesting thing is, I really can't explain what has happened to my system, as I'm not one to just mess with things, and also do not have a large amount of software installed on it. I know the only things I've done is to go to the control panel and disable UAC, and then finally to run McRips .reg file to totally disable UAC. Out of curiosity, I have repeated my way of disabling UAC on my real system, and found that it works as intended. So I really can't explain what has happened on my system. I think I will re-image it next weekend, as there is obviously something not quite right with it. Thanks to everyone that has tried to help out, especially you Burf, and McRip.
No worries, and thanks for reporting back about it! Windows 8 is still new and has many bugs in it. Think of how many updates were for Windows 7 before SP1, then SP1, and how many updates since . By bugs I don't mean the new UI and visual defecation of Windows 8, that's 'by design'. Maybe Microsoft employees have been watching too much '30 Rock' where Jack is trying to tank NBC
I think MS has no idea how to come up with a "new" OS anymore. We haven't seen a truly new OS since Vista, released nearly 6 years ago. Win7 was a fantastic service pack to Vista which made for a pretty good OS. But I think MS have jumped the shark with Vista SP3. which is really what Windows 8 is. They have totally panicked over the success of the iPad, and want to join the "me too" list. To be honest, it really shows in Win8 because so many of the annoying little bugs that were part of Vista, are still apparent in Windows 8, like the icon right click bug for instance. I'm really starting to doubt that MS has any clue about what to do with Windows 9. Will it be Vista SP4? I really hope not, because if it was not for being able to disable most of the annoying crap thats been tacked on top of the OS, I would honestly stick to Windows 7. When I look at what Windows 8 really is, it just seems like a re-vamped explorer, a better driver database, and Metro bolted on the top for giving the feeling that this is a new OS. That seems to be about it for the differences between Win7 and Win8. (if you discount IE10 & Direct-X 11.1) But anyway, rant over, and I will shut up and let this thread go back to being about Windows Hotfixes!
Komm, with the last KUC, I have these two hotfix "added" but KB2695321-v2: versions of files on my PC are more recent than this KB (superseded I think) KB2604521-v2: superseded too, I think Thanks
2695321 contains windows-i..ast-failover-regkey not superseded set registry value (also for x86 => not server only) 2604521 windows-kernel32.resources not superseded installed on my PC's (I don't know whey this is not installed on some PC's; maybe you look at the manifests to find out)
Ok for KB2695321-v2 but for KB2604521-v2, windows-kernel32.resources (KernelBase.dll.mui) dates from 10/01/2012 on my PC (Winsxs) and it's 09/07/2011 with this hotfix (and other files are not updates) Thanks