Windows 8 General Discussion

Discussion in 'Windows 8' started by Spider-Vice, Aug 16, 2011.

  1. Nawzil

    Nawzil MDL Guru

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    And why are you asking me this?
     
  2. free1975yuly

    free1975yuly MDL Expert

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    Better is for me to keep quiet...here.
     
  3. langer hans

    langer hans MDL Novice

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    Hey, just a quick question: Does Windows 8 boot from a GPT formatted drive?
     
  4. .NetRolller 3D

    .NetRolller 3D MDL Novice

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    If your machine supports EFI booting, then 64-bit Windows 8 should work.
     
  5. Zukariji

    Zukariji MDL Member

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    Ugh.
    I like Windows 8's metro interface, but getting around it can be a nightmare. Does anyone have like, the keyboard shortcuts to do things?
    Like is there a way to show all open apps within metro and switch by clicking? What keyboard shortcut goes back and forth through metro apps (like swiping does, but being able to go to previous apps too?), just in general, does anyone know good shortcuts for the system? Because right now it's bleghy.
     
  6. free1975yuly

    free1975yuly MDL Expert

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    For me download is not complete but as I used Mac in PC will be a biiig challenge to discover what is with that Windows:D
     
  7. Windows4live

    Windows4live MDL Addicted

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    Which setting for WDP in VirtualBox?
     
  8. Espionage724

    Espionage724 MDL Expert

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    EFI confirmed working here :)

    Also, can anyone help with installing Windows Imaging Component? I need it for some program, and when I try to manually install WIC, it tells me it can't find update.inf
     
  9. Asparte

    Asparte MDL Novice

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    In Oracle Vbox choose windows 7 64 bits. It's working for me.
     
  10. badaric

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    #411 badaric, Sep 14, 2011
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    Hi:biggrin: Adobe flash player is not working on the metro ie :confused: why? :confused: ....How to close metro apps??
     
  11. Espionage724

    Espionage724 MDL Expert

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    Also as another question/feedback... wouldn't metro be cooler with the Xbox Kinect? :p
     
  12. free1975yuly

    free1975yuly MDL Expert

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    My cpu does not support virtualization ,so i cannot install W8 8102 in VM or Virtualbox?:confused:
     
  13. Pikey

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    Seems to be taking a long time to install here (32bit).

    Stuck on the green screen after setting up user account for some time ... might be time to try again!!
     
  14. tic

    tic MDL Member

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    dual boot is even better than win7 so why wont you try?
     
  15. 3ricky114

    3ricky114 MDL Senior Member

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    Is it possible to change the start menu background?
     
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  16. MuffloN

    MuffloN MDL Novice

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    Is it only me or is Skype not working at all on this build? I've gone through several versions, both beta and 5.3 and they always crash on startup, I've also killed the microsoft network debugger virtual NIC, but nothing works.

    also: GIVE ME BACK MY OLD START MENU

    I could live with Metro if only I didn't have to f**king click with my mouse for "settings" when searching for example uninstall or disk management, but now I've gotta f**king add a mouseclick GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
     
  17. Yanze

    Yanze MDL Novice

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    Fahrenheit vs Celsius

    Is it possible to change the degrees in the weather tile from Fahrenheit to Celsius?
     
  18. naseap

    naseap MDL Senior Member

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    With the weather app screen open place the mouse in the lower left corner and choose settings, from there go to weather preferences. I can't seem to get my weather for my location, I enabled the location setting but it is still stuck on Cali.
     
  19. Pikey

    Pikey MDL Junior Member

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    You should have a scroll bar along the bottom of the screen .. a mouse-over thing!