Windows 8 is the codename for Microsoft next version of the Windows operating system. During the //build/ conference in September 2011, Microsoft released a developer preview version of windows-8 to let developers come up to speed with the new Metro UI look and design philosophy (previously seen in ...
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Triple boot with windows 8, windows 7 and ubuntu
I tried to install windows 8 to an new hdd, but after installation i cant boot it with grub.I configured grub with sudo update-grub, it added the Windows 8 to the menu (which is instaled to sdb) but ...
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how do I change the resolution on my windows 8 laptop?
I had the windows 8 consumer preview from when it came out until the new windows 8 Release preview came out a few days ago. I recently updated my computer and I noticed that my resolution went back ...
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Windows 8: Never Combine, Hide Labels
Like This question, but for Windows 8. The old registry hack doesn't work anymore.
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How to disable the start screen on Windows 8 Release Preview?
The old advice to set the REG_DWORD value named RPEnabled (some sources claim it's RPEnable) under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer to 0 doesn't work anymore since ...
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What could be causing problems on pinging Windows 8 machines?
Here at my job I have 5 machines with Windows 8 Consumer Preview installed on it. Today I was testing the network conectivity and any of the 5 machines answered to a ICMP ping request(but from another ...
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How to log out of Metro Messaging app?
At some point my Metro Messaging app in Windows 8 got logged into my MSN account. Now it occasionally intercepts my MSN messenger messages from my desktop MSN client. Anyway of logging it out without ...
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How to make a dial up connection disconnect automatically after downloading + uploading 90 MB data in Windows?
I am using a modem (ZTE USB Modem FFF1) to connect to internet and I want it to disconnect automatically after completing 90 MB (Downloaded data + Uploaded Data). Can anyone suggest how can I do this. ...
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Windows 8 Release Preview expiration date
What is an expiration date for the license of Windows 8 Release Preview ?
Details:
This is later beta than old Customer Technical Preview
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso
There is no ...
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Access Windows 7 files from Windows 8?
I just installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview on a second partition on my main disk.
Now, When I try to navigate to "Win7-Partition:\Users\MyName\" from the Windows 8 side, the operation never ...
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VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED when trying to create a windows 8 image in Virtualbox
I'm trying to create a Virtualbox image of windows 8 consumer preview. I tried this tutorial: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-install-windows-8-on-virtualbox/
I did exactly what was ...
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview - Full Core CPU Utilization by system process
I have a Lenovo X220 laptop on which I've installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Sometimes though it'll get stuck using 100% of a CPU core though in the SYSTEM process, and there's nothing I can do to ...
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How to enable Windows 8 File History for all files?
Windows 2008 and Windows 7 had Previous Versions feature which consisted in keeping the previous versions of files and allowed the user to restore them or copy the previous versions to a different ...
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Installing Windows 8 on SSD
I'm trying to install Windows 8 (CP) on a 2nd SSD that I have (the 1st SSD has Windows 7). I boot into the installation from a usb stick, select the SSD, and launch the installation. When the computer ...
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Is the Acer Aspire Z5771 Windows 8 compatible?
I'm looking at the Acer Aspire Z5771 as a possible desktop system to develop Windows 8 Metro applications on. Since it has a multi-touch screen, how compatible is it with Windows 8?
What things ...
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Win 8 Metro apps crashing fix [closed]
Here: Windows 8 Metro App's "Can't Open" it was said to restore registry values. How do you go about doing that?
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How to disable auto display lock in Windows 8 Consumer Preview?
I have looked all over for this one, and have only found answers for Windows 7 or people don't understand the problem. I have already disabled the screen saver and locking in power options How to ...
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Windows 8 64bit on Virtualbox installation freezes, throws error [closed]
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Which virtual machine software is preferable for running Windows 8 Developer Preview?
I am having troubles with installing Windows 8 on Virtualbox - I installed it once, ...
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Can't Windows 8 Consumer Preview be installed in some other drive than C?
I have downloaded Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO file and burnt it into a DVD. First thing the DVD doesn't boot and also when I try to run the setup from the DVD it asks me to clean up space in my C ...
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Activate windows on a network with authentication
I have installed a windows 8 consumer preview on my PC.
But there is a network with authentication required. When I try to activate windows, it doesn't ask me for credentials, and it shows an ...
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What the difference between Windows 8 and Windows 7? [closed]
I want to know what is the difference between Windows 8 and Windows 7.
Both in terms of the system or the other things.
Does Windows 8 have any advantages?
I hope for your answer :)
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Verifying DMI Pool Data after installing windows 8
I have installed the windows 8 customer preview and now when I boot it says verifying DMI pool data, i left my computer on overnight and it still says it
How do I fix this?
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Windows 8 beta: Is it possible to open metro apps on a second display?
It seems like when opening the metro version of IE from the start screen, it will only open on the main display. Afterwards, I don't know how to move it to the second display, since Win-LeftArrow and ...
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Can't get the keyboard layout switching button to show
I used to have a button with which I could switch the on screen keyboard to standard qwerty, reduced qwerty (no numbers), split thumb layout and handwriting recognition.
The button is still there, ...
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How to transfer files from Windows to Ubuntu on disk
Ok, so I have a PC running Windows 8 that I recently decided to try the new reset option on. Mid way through the reset, the computer shut itself down and now when it opens, it shows an error message ...
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What causes Windows 8 Consumer Preview to lock-up / freeze / hang in Oracle VM VirtualBox?
I've installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview to a virtual machine using Oracle VM VirtualBox (4.1.14). It works well except for occasional temporary lock-up / freeze / hang interruptions.
It will freeze ...
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Windows 8 Preview SHA 1 Sum
Okay, so I downloaded Windows 8 Preview twice, once from my Bulgarian computer and once from my American NAS becasue the SHA1 Sum didn't match for the Bulgarian download. I redownloaded it twice from ...
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How to fix my GPT and MBR (hybrid)?
I was trying to create a triple boot (Ubuntu, OS X and Windows), so I used VirtualBox to install Windows 8 (Consumer Preview) to a real (FAT at the time) partition, so it wouldn't have access to my ...
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What does the “Themes” service do in Windows 8?
I stopped the "Themes" service in Windows 8, but didn't notice anything.
What does it do?
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Hyper-V vs. Windows Virtual PC
When trying out the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I installed Hyper-V.
It looked like just another Windows Virtual PC.
Could someone explain how it is different? Is there a performance difference? Any ...
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Windows 8: Remove Album Art from Music App
OK, this is a serious stretch I know. I'm asking about beta software on a beta operating system, which is pretty much impossible to Google for. Here goes.
I installed iTunes on my Windows 8 machine ...
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Windows 8 geolocation change at the OS level
My default Windows 8 geolocation is set to Chicago, IL. Not 'cause I want it to be, but because my wireless broadband provider is providing an IP address that is based out of Chicago, IL. With the ...
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How to mount a folder on one drive as a folder on a different drive?
I've mounted a drive as a folder, mapped a folder as a drive, and mapped one fold on one drive to a different folder on the same drive, but I have not been able to get a folder on one drive to map to ...
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Why some keystrokes are ignored?
I have a recent issue with a keyboard/mouse combo. Some keystrokes and mouse down/mouse up events are ignored; in other words, if I type: "Hello World", I may find myself with "Hllo World". Sometimes ...
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How to set the Screen Saver Grace Period for Windows 8?
I manually added the ScreenSaverGracePeriod (REG_DWORD) value in seconds to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon registry key and it didn't enable the screen ...
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview doesn't boot off a DVD of GParted
I have a Windows 8 Consumer Preview installation on my desktop computer. It's been running pretty well, except for a few issues that are not related by a long shot.
Until now. I wanted to install ...
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Unable to paste passwords into Metro application password field
I am running Windows 8 Consumer Preview under VMWare Fusion Technology Preview and am unable to paste passwords into Mail Metro application password field. Also saw similar behavior in other metro ...
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How can I enable touch input without having a touch device present?
I'm trying to find a way to enable touch style input in Windows 8. Specifically, I want to have the touch friendly user interface.
I'm looking at doing an experiment where I use a Wiimote for input, ...
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Edirol UA-25 driver on Windows 8 Preview
I've installed Windows 8 developer preview on a laptop and everything is working apart from my external sound card.
The sound card in question is this one, and I've tried downloading and installing ...
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How do I install Windows 8 (from an ISO) using Q (qemu)?
I have downloaded an ISO image of Windows 8 from Microsoft Dreamspark and I am on a 27" iMac without administrative privileges. I would like to install and run Windows. The only way I found to do so ...
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Dualbooting, partitions or virtualization?
Hi,
I am trying to have Windows 8 and Fedora 17 in a dual boot setup on my laptop.
At first I installed Windows 8, gave it first 40GBs of the drive to play with ( windows installer cut off first ...
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Connection management WPA2 hotspot in Win 8 CP
I have a question featuring the by microsoft proudly presented connection manager.
I only just discovered that all possibilities to manage saved internet connections have been removed, and the ...
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How do I add a shortcut to a website to the windows 8 start menu?
There's a couple of things that bother me in Windows 8 and one of them is that I don't seem to figure out how to add a shortcut to a specific website to the start menu. Is this possible at all?
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Windows 8 installation, missing drivers
I would like to install Windows 8 on a PC without DVD or CD rom, so I made a bootable stick. The Windows 8 Customer Preview was downloaded from the Microsoft's site. When the install starts, after ...
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Windows 8 Taskmanager and Explorer in Windows 7
I switched my main-OS to Windows 8 a few weeks ago but had to switch back to Windows 7 due to several bugs. What I really miss is the new taskmanager and the improved copy/paste dialog from ...
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Why does my wireless network card need to be reset everytime I start or wake my machine?
Every time I start my notebook, it fails to connect to any wireless access points. I can still view available wireless networks and attempt to connect to them - but it always fails.
The only thing ...
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How to run a batch file as administrator on windows 8 on start up?
This one did not work:
runas /user:administrator C:\data\mybatchfile.bat
This one did not work as well:
runas /user:user\ administrator C:\data\mybatchfile.bat
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What is the IE10 'dominant color' picker based on?
I'm a web developer and I've just finished making a webapp that works almost flawlessly on all major browsers - except IE. IE has one teensy flaw: in IE10 Metro, when I pin the site to the start ...
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When launching PhraseExpress it can't find a procedure?
When I launch PhraseExpress I get an error The specified procedure could not be found with Test as the title of that error dialog. The same happens with the USB edition...
This sounds like a quite ...
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Change windows 7 as the primary bootloader
Uh, I'll first tell you the history of OS Changes that have ever occurred to my computer :
First I installed Windows 7 on a partition (333 GB).
Next after Windows 8 Consumer Preview was released, I ...
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Multitouch WPF on Windows7/8 on OSX doesn't work?
Can I use Microsoft WPF(4) for multitouch when running Windows through Parallels on an OSX machine?
When I run Windows8 on my Mac the multitouch with touchpad works.
But if I program my own WPF ...
