I love the ie on the Dev preview, is there any way to get it on windows 7
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I think no, because they signed all files in Windows8.
If you modify IE10 to run on Win7 the signature-check will fail.
Is there a way to un-sign it? I know you can disable signature checks in win7
What you mean is the signature-check of drivers.
In Windows8 most applications checks it's own signature and will not start if there is a mismatch.
But even if you manage to circumvent this check you have to port IE10 to Windows7. Simple applications like mspaint or calculator are easy.
But IE is integrated in the OS and calls to internal windows-function.
And I think IE10 will call many functions (maybe for the ne MetroUI-mode) which doesn't exist in Windows7.
You would have to debug this and port all the needed functions.
That's a very hard project. Rafael did it in the Vista-times so he was able to run the Vista-Games and the Sidebar on Windows-XP. But it took a long time until it worked perfectly.
I can only advise to wait for an official release of IE10 and/or Windows8.
Wow! that's a long explanation
You're right. I understand now thanks
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Hello XDA members!
I installed the leaked WinPho 8 SDK, and (as OndraSter said in an another topic) the ROM images are VHD files.
Currently, I can only open and mount Flash.vhd. The other 3 is not valid VHD.
I have found lots of REG files inside this and will try to unlock, but there is a tons of reg.
Found changes from 7.5:
There will be new ring- and alert tones
Power Point Presentations can be view in Portrait mode
Windows Live renamed to Microsoft account in account manager
If you set password you:
dont get a new "window" to set the password, just expand screen downwards
you can show the typed caracters
Charging while turned off?
I found some interesting files in boot partition:
battery_100.bmpx
battery_255.bmpx
battery_500.bmpx
battery_755.bmpx
battery_1000.bmpx
battery_charge_normall.bmpx
battery_errorr.bmpx
battery_inside_empty.bmpx
battery_plug_100.bmpx
battery_plug_255.bmpx
battery_plug_500.bmpx
battery_plug_755.bmpx
battery_plug_1000.bmpx
ffuloader.bmpx
mobilestartup.exe
pluggedin_battery_loww.bmpx
resetphone.bmpx
resetphone.exe
unplugged_battery_loww.bmpx
I live in a strong suspicion that new Windows Phone 8 devices can be charge without booting complete OS (becouse of EFI, maybe).
I cannot open bmpx files, becouse I could not find any program to do this.
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Found an interesting video in emulator.
I have no idea what is this.
balcsida said:
Found an interesting video in emulator.
I have no idea what is this.
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hmm maybe we can use bing vision on videos
james1123 said:
hmm maybe we can use bing vision on videos
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Yes, it is
bing -> vision -> ... menu -> test settings
balcsida said:
I found some interesting files in boot partition:
battery_100.bmpx
battery_255.bmpx
battery_500.bmpx
battery_755.bmpx
battery_1000.bmpx
battery_charge_normall.bmpx
battery_errorr.bmpx
battery_inside_empty.bmpx
battery_plug_100.bmpx
battery_plug_255.bmpx
battery_plug_500.bmpx
battery_plug_755.bmpx
battery_plug_1000.bmpx
ffuloader.bmpx
mobilestartup.exe
pluggedin_battery_loww.bmpx
resetphone.bmpx
resetphone.exe
unplugged_battery_loww.bmpx
I live in a strong suspicion that new Windows Phone 8 devices can be charge without booting complete OS (becouse of EFI, maybe).
I cannot open bmpx files, becouse I could not find any program to do this.
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These are just icon files :good:
balcsida said:
Hello XDA members!
Currently, I can only open and mount Flash.vhd. The other 3 is not valid VHD.
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They are actually valid, those are differencing disks images and Flash.vhd is a parent for them.
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Hello XDA members!
After a second, turning into 1024x768x32 resolution, and after another few seconds, it restarts
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What's your host OS? It works fine with Hyper-V on Windows 8 RP x64
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Hi using Windows 7 for host and runs vhd-s in virtual pc 2007.
I confirm all vhd works.
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Hi using Windows 7 for host and runs vhd-s in virtual pc 2007.
I confirm all vhd works.
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Can you share how exactly you did the setup
Sorry for that trouble. I can confirm ONLY that vhd-s are okay. So I can mount it. But I don't think they are usable with virtual pc
Finally, I can start the emulator (do not ask how )
I will modify the first post to tell the (maybe little) differences between 7.5 and 8.
Good Topic
I hope the experts can find more changes and inform us the new changes coming with Windows Phone 8. I doubt there will be anything substantial to inform by Microsoft, although I am expecting some surprises.
You can run flash.vhd in VirtualBox, by setting the guest OS to Windows 7 and upping the graphics memory and enabling 3d + 2d graphics acceleration.
ie shortcut sync
any sign of sync of ie bookmarks to Skydrive to then syc with desktop; also sync of recent web history?
I have the Thinkpad X61 tablet. I was running Windows 7 with it. Awesome experience. Just upgraded to Windows 8 (chose to keep all my files, programs, and settings), and now Inkseine does not work. When I try to start it, I get an error pop-up (Inkseine has stopped working). I tried re-installing, still no luck even with .Net 3.5 enabled (as required by the software). So how come this program works in W7 but not W8? All my other stylus programs (OneNote, Windows Journal) are working though. Is MS just banishing this awesome program? I can't find an equivalent replacement.
Try running the app in Compatibility Mode. Right-click either the EXE or the shortcut (in Start or taskbar or desktop or anywhere), select Properties, and go to Compatibility. Enable the Compatibility Mode option for either Win7 or before (if the app say it works on XP, you might try that, for example). Then try running it again.
Also, do some searching online; other people may have had the same or similar problem and found a way around it, or the developer might even have a patch for it. Win8 is supposed to be fully binary compatible with Win7 programs, but these things are never perfect.
It would help if you could get the error message, exception info, or stack trace. However, unless you know how to use a Windows debugger, hat probably won't happen.
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Try running the app in Compatibility Mode. Right-click either the EXE or the shortcut (in Start or taskbar or desktop or anywhere), select Properties, and go to Compatibility. Enable the Compatibility Mode option for either Win7 or before (if the app say it works on XP, you might try that, for example). Then try running it again.
Also, do some searching online; other people may have had the same or similar problem and found a way around it, or the developer might even have a patch for it. Win8 is supposed to be fully binary compatible with Win7 programs, but these things are never perfect.
It would help if you could get the error message, exception info, or stack trace. However, unless you know how to use a Windows debugger, hat probably won't happen.
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Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, no compatibility mode is able to make the program run. I used to have Visual Studio 2010 with all the debugging software but since I am not really a programmer I got rid of it. So sadly, I can't figure out what's wrong. I managed to get to the event logger but there was nothing there about inkseine.
I sent a message to the Inkseine team at Microsoft and got a response saying that the program is working on their end. So maybe I just got a corrupted upgrade from Win7 to Win8? My computer runs like butter though, so I am not eager to change anything right now. I am slowly learning to do my scribbling with Journal, but the experience will definitely never be the same (except I am liking the small memory usage of Journal. Inkseine uses A LOT of memory and creates huge files too)
I know a few people have made threads like this before, but those were all before Windows 8 was released in its final version. Now that Windows 8 has been out for a while, how do you think it compares to Debian? The gestures and apps are cool ideas, but I don't think they were implemented as well as they could have been on the OS when it came to non-touchscreen devices. Apps are a good idea, but I spend almost no time on the start screen apart from checking mail and breezing past it on my way to search for something.
Drivers have been a nightmare for some users, me included, as a few random automatic updates (now turned off on my PC) rendered my wifi unusable without a complete reinstallation of all the Toshiba drivers. I haven't had any problems with things such as mouse drivers, but I've heard of others who had to get them from another computer and install them via a flash drive.
Graphics are superb on Win8, much better in my opinion than Debian's, but when it comes down to it, they just aren't that big of a factor when choosing an operating system. Debian, on the other hand, lacks fancy graphics while it has a much more ("power user", I guess) friendly way of dealing with files and customization when installing packages. Windows does have options while installing programs, but they are limited to what the installer offers to let you do.
As far as ubiquity, Windows wins hands down. With a Windows system, you will almost never be stuck with a file format that nobody around you can open, and Microsoft Office is just as widespread on school and work computers as it is on home computers. Debian, meanwhile, comes with OpenOffice, or you can install OpenOffice's newer branch, LibreOffice. Both use the .odf format, which is readable in Microsoft Word, but some formatting options and graphics don't translate nicely into Word format. Fortunately, they also include the .doc and .docx formats, though they restrict you somewhat on what your document can have in it (same translation issues). Back to ubiquity, programs are nearly always easier to install on Windows, and plugins such as Flash and Java require much less experience and work on many more browsers when installing than on Debian.
For customization, I like Debian better because packages can install either programs or give you new system changes, such as new window managers and graphics options. In Windows, you either have to change group policy settings, or edit the registry, both time consuming, inefficient, and risky tasks (not so risky for group policy, but whatever). Programs such as Wine (actually, just wine, AFAIK) can safely add a different file system type into Debian, while you have to use the much less well known program Cygwin to have a Linux-esque environment on Windows.
I could go on and on about information that's readily available on google, but I need to know, do you like Debian or Windows better? I've been running Debian on Virtualbox for a while now, and I like it, but the whole thing about it not being as widespread and well-supported (yes, I know it has a support community behind it, but you can google literally just about any problem for Windows) is what's holding me back. I've done a dual-boot arrangement in the past, but that doesn't work because I allot half my hard drive space to both OS's, then end up using only one. So I want to have only one OS installed. I don't use Microsoft Office anyway (LibreOffice all the way! ), but getting used to using pretty much ALL open source alternatives to common Windows programs will take more than the month of sporadic testing on a VM that I've done with it.
Is it worth the switch? Or is Windows 8 too good to give up?
Hello,
I have been searching high and low for a way to force my shiny new HTC 8x to accept a 512-bit Self-Signed Certificate. Our work email server is Lotus/IBM Domino. We have an EAS server (Notes Traveler) set up for our portable devices. MIcrosoft is the only OS that forces 1024-bit or greater certs. As a result, I cannot connect ot our EAS server.
More info can be found at support.microsoft.com/kb/2661254?wa=wsignin1.0
Through all the research I have been doing, I think it is possible to do this, since you can make it work with WIndows 8 by doing one of two things:
1.Add following in the registry:
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\OID\EncodingType 0\CertDllCreateCertificateChainEngine\Config" /v minRSAPubKeyBitLength /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000200 /f
2. use the built-in certutil to modify the registry:
certutil -setreg chain\minRSAPubKeyBitLength 512
Any thoughts on how I can do this with Windows Phone 8? I am in the process of developer-unlocking my device. I just need to wait for the SDK to finish installing into my VM.
As far as I know, there's no way to edit the registry with developer unlock.
You need more elevated privileges (Interop Unlock) and, at this moment, there's no way to obtain that on Windows Phone 8.
I know this isn't the response you are looking for, but recommend to your company to update their SSL certificate to 1024 or 2048 bits. The reason your phone won't support the 512 bit certificate is simply because it is not secure, which Microsoft finally stopped allowing last year..
Since your company is using a self-signed certificate, it should only take them a few minutes to create and install a new one that modern operating systems would support.
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I know this isn't the response you are looking for, but recommend to your company to update their SSL certificate to 1024 or 2048 bits. The reason your phone won't support the 512 bit certificate is simply because it is not secure, which Microsoft finally stopped allowing last year..
Since your company is using a self-signed certificate, it should only take them a few minutes to create and install a new one that modern operating systems would support.
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My IT department was surprisingly open to this, once they realized all the Windows PCs couldn't log into the web interface anymore. It might take a couple of weeks/months of planning to put it into their maintenance cycle, though. Oh the joys of working for a large corporation!
Something else I discovered earlier:
In order to write Windows Phone apps, you need the Windows Phone 8 SDK. To Install the Windows Phone 8 SDK, you need Windows 8. When I have time to set up another DEV box with Windows 8 on it, I might revisit this.
Any thoughts on how the OEM apps always seem to get "enhanced" access? (The HTC Carrier Settings tool, for example). I haven't used Windows Phone since 6.0. Back then, we could do ANYTHING! lol
I didn't even notice the Win8 requirement for the SDK, since I was anxious to upgrade to Win8 once it came out. Hmm. But, I think you could use the older 7.x SDK on older versions of Windows, if you want to get used to dev for Windows Phone (as WP7 Apps should still work on WP8).
About why the OEM can do special things to the device, I think it's a simple matter of, they have the OS code, so they can modify it or access things we can't.
OEM Apps are given additional permissions. They request these using some entries in the App-manifest but even if we were able to set these the system would reject their deployment unless they had a proper certificate. It has been that way on WP7 as well.
As for developing on Win7 and deploying to a WP8 device: it won't work. You can run WP7 Apps on WP8 devices but the deployment tools of the WP7 SDK can't handle WP8 devices. So to deploy anything onto a WP8 device you need the WP8 SDK which in turn requires Windows 8 Pro.
Hi... I'm from the Windows RT jailbreaking world and don't have a Windows Phone, so please excuse my ignorance.
I have an exploit in Microsoft's Secure Boot code that works on all architectures. I suspect that the same bug works on Windows Phone 8. However, it requires writing to privileged areas of the system. This is easy in desktop Windows and in Windows RT, but I have no idea of its feasibility on Windows Phone 8.
Doss anyone here have insight into this? =^_^=
My RT jailbreak proof (8.1, so not the existing one):
https://mobile.twitter.com/Myriachan/statuses/365350790803619840
Myriachan said:
Hi... I'm from the Windows RT jailbreaking world and don't have a Windows Phone, so please excuse my ignorance.
I have an exploit in Microsoft's Secure Boot code that works on all architectures. I suspect that the same bug works on Windows Phone 8. However, it requires writing to privileged areas of the system. This is easy in desktop Windows and in Windows RT, but I have no idea of its feasibility on Windows Phone 8.
Doss anyone here have insight into this? =^_^=
My RT jailbreak proof (8.1, so not the existing one):
https://mobile.twitter.com/Myriachan/statuses/365350790803619840
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Unfortunately WP8 is locked down tight and no one can write to the OS partition as far as I know.
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Unfortunately WP8 is locked down tight and no one can write to the OS partition as far as I know.
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So to pull it off, you'd need an NT kernel privilege escalation exploit that could be done from a low box token in the WP8 sandbox...yuck. Possible, though. Such an exploit would obviate my exploit, though, because then you could make a side loaded app that jailbreaks the phone when you run it.
As I understand, some registry values can currently be modified via this app. Can't help much more unfortunately.
some of the registry can be accessed, but not all. snickler, gooddaytodie and others are trying to find a way to write to registry. theres a thread on here that talks about the progress.
In particular, we have read-only access to most of the registry, but not much (if any) in the way of write access, beyond what a handful of built in and OEM apps can do (OEM apps can have extra permissions; some store settings in the registry and/or change system configurations, but I haven't yet found a way to get arbitrary access).
Great work on that RT exploit, though. It actually may be useful on the phone even if we do find an arbitrary app EoP exploit - it could make it a lot easier to do certain things - but the most likely EoP is actually us finding a way to abuse an OEM (or built-in) app to change the registry and/or file system. If we can find that, a way to then run arbitrary code with full permissions would be a really useful thing to use such a hack for...