Windows 8 Enterprise N RTM findings; what's working and what's not...

Discussion in 'Windows 8' started by xscess, Aug 3, 2012.

  1. joenamond

    joenamond MDL Junior Member

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    Can anyone help me find windows 8 drivers for an asus x53e laptop.
    Need the audio driver (because my audio sounds really bad at the moment) , the intel drivers and the touchpad driver. I can only find windows 7 versions on the offficial asus site.

    How about all those asus software utilities. Were can I find windows 8 versions of them?
     
  2. FiB3R_OPTiC

    FiB3R_OPTiC MDL Member

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    #62 FiB3R_OPTiC, Aug 3, 2012
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    Did you try any of the windows 7 versions ? win7 drivers work fine with me in win8 or did you try checking compatibility center for windows 8 to see if youre device is supported ?
     
  3. joenamond

    joenamond MDL Junior Member

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    #63 joenamond, Aug 3, 2012
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    No, I assumed they didn't work. But if you say they work, I'll try install them. thanks

    edit: the windows 7 touch pad driver worked so I assume the others will work too :)
     
  4. Andrea Borman

    Andrea Borman MDL Member

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    Are you sure about that?

    Because I read on the web that Microsoft are trying to stop start button and Windows 7 start menu hacks.

    And so I am worried that Classic Shell,Vi Start,Start Menu 7 and other software. That brings back both the start button and Windows 7 start menu won't work in the final version of Windows 8.

    But you said that it does. So that is a good sign. Andrea Borman.
     
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  5. Myrrh

    Myrrh MDL Expert

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    #65 Myrrh, Aug 3, 2012
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    ok, just like previous builds, Windows Update won't talk to my WSUS 3.2 running on 2008R2. So WSUS and probably a lot of other server side stuff will get an update soon. WSUS does have "Windows 8" and "Windows Server 2012" in the products list but I guess that isn't enough.

    It installed just fine as a virtual machine on my Hyper-V 2008R2 without crashing the host, so that's a good thing. :)

    Edit: I bit the bullet and built a Server 2012 running WSUS, Win8 and everything else update from it just fine.
     
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  6. Muerto

    Muerto MDL Debugger

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    Burning the ISO now :D

    Will report if anything decent strikes my eye.
     
  7. remzicavdar

    remzicavdar MDL Novice

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    I was installing this baby in VMware Workstation 8.0.4 and it stuck at 75% getting device ready!!:mad::mad:
     
  8. remzicavdar

    remzicavdar MDL Novice

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    First, sorry for the double post.:eek::(
    Second, how do you manage to install it in VMware Workstation 8.0.4?:confused:

    My problem: everyting went well ecept after install success, reboot getting Device ready and it stuck at 75%:mad:
     
  9. Jessica Alba

    Jessica Alba MDL Expert

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    classic shell works flawlessly on rtm
     
  10. sauronxxx

    sauronxxx MDL Member

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    #70 sauronxxx, Aug 3, 2012
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    can you explain a bit more?
    so you have the startmenu.. like in win7?

    or is it a third party startmenu?
    i found that they all lack some features. with some you can´t even move entrys, sort and organize your startmenu.

    can you boot directly to desktop and not into that metro crap?
    i tried with the consumer preview but the trick that worked with the older developer preview did not work anymore.
     
  11. xscess

    xscess MDL Senior Member

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    As mentioned in my original post, VMware workstation 8.0.4 is installed on Windows 7 and I installed Win 8 Enterprise N under a virtual machine.

    Now if you installing under a VM, just kill/poweroff the VM and start again.
     
  12. MrMagic

    MrMagic MDL Guru

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  13. Midowz

    Midowz MDL Novice

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    Even though you can't change the wallpaper or any other personal setting, it did re-sync my wallpaper and color preferences from what I had in the Customer Preview. :confused:
     
  14. greyaburton

    greyaburton MDL Addicted

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    do you mean the desktop wallpaper cause the desktop changer is working on mine?
     
  15. dummekuehe

    dummekuehe MDL Senior Member

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    yes he is sure
    so am i
    are you sure you don't wanna try knitting?
     
  16. dummekuehe

    dummekuehe MDL Senior Member

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    classic shell is the closest you can get to the original
    unless you wanna try transplant older explorer.exe to win8 and use it as shell
    there is a thread here in the forum
     
  17. dummekuehe

    dummekuehe MDL Senior Member

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    he's obviously talking about the metro crap's colors and background
     
  18. xscess

    xscess MDL Senior Member

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    Tried to find when Windows gonna starts showing "Windows needs to be activated" or similar message but couldn't. More info in the first post.