Windows 8 RTM bugs/issues/questions and findings

I noticed my system would just become totally unresponsive (programs wouldn't do anything, but mouse worked) randomly while I was in the process of setting up a fresh install. The HDD light would be solid too during the time.

One of these things seemed to of fixed it though:

- Install SATA, NB, USB Filter, Display, HDMI, and IDE driver from AMD 9.00 unofficial beta
- Disable HPET (disabled ACPI SRAT setting in BIOS)
- Disabled unnecessary NTFS things in fsutil (8dot3, encryption, etc)
- Disabled DEP (AlwaysOff from bcedit)

 

New Finding:

This is something i found while trying to take a system image backup using the Windows 7 File Recovery Tool in Control Panel of Win 8 Ent N x64 RTM. When one tries to create a system image , then an error pops up that there is insufficient space on your drive for the system image. This error is linked to the size of the System Drive (the extra drive other than C: Drive seen in Computer->Manage->Disk Management). Basically the System Drive should have atleast 50 MB free out of 100MB for successful creation of the system image in Win 8. But my System Drive showed some 30% of the drive free...so i googled and found the solution as follows (this also used to happen in Win 7):

1- Start>Run>diskmgmt.msc

2- Right click on the System Reserved volume ( or partition ) and give it a letter ( I've used the letter Z )

3- Start>Run>cmd

4- Fsutil usn queryjournal Z:

5- fsutil usn deletejournal /N /D Z:

6- Create the System Image Backup again

7- Repeat the steps 1 and 2 and REMOVE the letter from the System Reserved.

This deletes the content related to USN Journal from your system drive and gives an additional 30-40 MB space free.
I dont know what the USN Journal content is (might be related to the journalling file system or something like that)

But the above procedure does solve the problem of taking the system backup.

Hope this helps someone.....

 

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After install of 8 RTM 64 bit I end up with a black screen, it seems the system is running but no visuals. The monitor stays on
nvidia 550ti, fx-6100, 12 gb ddr3
Any ideas?

 

I'm faced with a ridiculous issue whereas Microsoft force disables both the Intel X79 Chipset USB-drivers as well as the ASMedia USB3.0 drivers resulting in me not having any USB-device working at all on my system and there seems to be no way to override this stupid behaviour. Their reasoning is that there is some sort of known issues with these drivers so Microsoft has disabled them.............

 

Installing Intel chipset driver solved that for me.

 

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I normally shut down a pc. Then after new start computer turns off during boot in windows 8, then i turn it again on and load windows normally.
UPDATE : After turning off hybrid boot everything boot normally.

 

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Activated but tiles not working for me. Don't display any info. Even the Bing tile doesn't work. Tried locations settings etc..nothing works.

 

Hmm.. Before I installed the latest GeForce drivers for Windows 8 my dual-monitor setup was configured so my right screen act as the primary screen, so both metro and games launched at my right screen being a 120Hz monitor this was exactly what I wanted, at the same time my left screen acted as the "focus" screen having all desktop shortcuts etc on it.

But now after rebooting with the GeForce drivers installed every desktop icon and everything is on the right screen instead, and when I try to manually set my left monitor as focus monitor it becomes the primary as well which I do not want. Does anyone have any idea how to separate the focus monitor from the primary one?

 

this isnt really a bug just an anoyance for me does anyone know how to enable thumbnail generation for mpg videos i get thumbnail generation on all videos apart from mpg. i did solve this with the release preview by using the media centre key

i hope there is a way round without getting media centre as i have no other use for it

 

@Lip

K-Lite codec pack will do the thumbnail generation for all forms of video file
If running a 64 bit system install both the 32 and 64 versions

Personally i use XBMC for a media center software - far better than anything Microsoft provides
i dont have Microsoft Media Center installed

below shows thumbnail of mkv file
ht=tp://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8067/thumbnailoi.jpg remove = for link

 

thanks for the info doggod i tried K-lite codec pack installed both 32 & 64 versions still know thumbnail preview for mpeg vids just the normal media player classic logo

edit got it to work. well there's no need for me to get media center when its available

thanks doggod

 

The live tiles sometimes doesn't work or work properly.

 

A special warning to all. Absolutely do not attempt to install the Asus AI Charger software that is designed make your usb ports charge devices such as ipods, ipads or cell phones faster. To be more specific, do not attempt to install the Windows 7 version of this. Windows 8 will boot, and it will work completely fine, but you'll be totally unable to even use your usb mouse and keyboard. It's even impossible for you to at the bootloader menu to get into safe mode and somehow try to fix the problem. Unless you somehow have a touchscreen device, you'll have no choice at all but to reinstall the OS from scratch. I had to find this out the hard way. Usually installing incompatible software doesn't carry a consequence as big as this one, but in this case it did. So, don't do it. You have been warned

 

Uh oh, that sounds scary. Does anyone know if the Gigabyte ON/OFF Charge drivers does this too?