Okay, I'm using windows 8 release preview x64 on my gateway desktop, and I need some help with a couple things.
First of all, metro apps will not load. I have tried several tweaks around xda and other sites and cannot get anything more than the app preview screen coming up for just a second, then closing. I have an ATI Radeon 5450HD graphics card, running proper amd catalyst drivers for windows 8, and all settings are correct.
Second, has anyone been able to get dfs tool working on windows 8? I've tried installing it in compatibility mode for windows XP, Vista, and 7, all with no luck.
Any help with either issue would be greatly appreciated... And sorry this isn't in a Q&A section, but I couldn't find Q&A forum for windows 8. TIA...
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I have my Win 8 running in a VMware virtual machine. I noticed that Metro apps will timeout loading if it is taking too long.
The app eventually loads but does so minimized. Check your left side to see if it is running.
If you are seeing a lot of your apps doing this, you may need to upgrade your computer to something faster.
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willgill said:
I have my Win 8 running in a VMware virtual machine. I noticed that Metro apps will timeout loading if it is taking too long.
The app eventually loads but does so minimized. Check your left side to see if it is running.
If you are seeing a lot of your apps doing this, you may need to upgrade your computer to something faster.
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Upgrade to something faster? I'm running an I3 as it is...
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powduh09 said:
Upgrade to something faster? I'm running an I3 as it is...
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relax it's just release candidate...u cant expect each program to function.
wait till oct 26.
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relax it's just release candidate...u cant expect each program to function.
wait till oct 26.
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I understand that... But not a single one of the metro apps will start. They just bring up an app preview screen, then it drops to the background, and the app never actually opens.
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I'd just reinstall. You have something wrong. Did it ever work? Maybe go back to a better point in time with System Restore.
You are logged in with a Live account, right? You can't load Metro apps with a local account (to my knowledge). You have to log on with a Live account.
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willgill said:
I'd just reinstall. You have something wrong. Did it ever work? Maybe go back to a better point in time with System Restore.
You are logged in with a Live account, right? You can't load Metro apps with a local account (to my knowledge). You have to log on with a Live account.
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It's a fresh install, I've tried on two different machines, neither of which have ever had metro apps work... And yes, I'm using a live account...
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Timeout
Yes, every metro app has 15 seconds to load, if it doesn't, them it will end.
i think you should reinstall the graphic driver and try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708349
Also did the metro apps work before or they have never worked
buggatti said:
i think you should reinstall the graphic driver and try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708349
Also did the metro apps work before or they have never worked
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Theyve never worked, even on my laptop, which has Intel integrated graphics. But, I've not tried the guide you linked... I'll try that and report back sometime today...
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powduh09 said:
Theyve never worked, even on my laptop, which has Intel integrated graphics. But, I've not tried the guide you linked... I'll try that and report back sometime today...
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The guide is for and graphics only.... go to Intel driver utility And install the latest driver then try.... I had the same problem it has something to do with hardware acceleration.
buggatti said:
The guide is for and graphics only.... go to Intel driver utility And install the latest driver then try.... I had the same problem it has something to do with hardware acceleration.
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I'm asking for amd, my Intel works fine now
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Windows 8 didn't run properly on my laptop too, had some papercuts as well. The specification requirements for Windows 8 are equal to those of Windows 7. If you can run Windows 7, you can run Windows 8. So, it's all just a bit of patience before RTM and the final release become available.
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Windows 8 didn't run properly on my laptop too, had some papercuts as well. The specification requirements for Windows 8 are equal to those of Windows 7. If you can run Windows 7, you can run Windows 8. So, it's all just a bit of patience before RTM and the final release become available.
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I know this. Guess I'm just going to revert to windows 7 until rtm
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My netbook Specification:
-Intel Atom Inside N455 @1.66GHz
-2GB Ram
-32-bit
-Windows 7 Home Premium
(Originally Windows 7 Starter)
-No Touch Screen
My question is, can Windows 8 run on my netbook? Please answer.
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My netbook Specification:
-Intel Atom Inside N455 @1.66GHz
-2GB Ram
-32-bit
-Windows 7 Home Premium
(Originally Windows 7 Starter)
-No Touch Screen
My question is, can Windows 8 run on my netbook? Please answer.
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Yes it will run but it won't do the a few things do to resolution. Also verify their are drivers for windows 8 for all components.
ROCOAFZ said:
Yes it will run but it won't do the a few things do to resolution. Also verify their are drivers for windows 8 for all components.
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If there is no drivers available for my netbook for Windows 8, can I try installing drivers for Windows 7? Sorry for noob question. I am new to this
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LeParkour012 said:
If there is no drivers available for my netbook for Windows 8, can I try installing drivers for Windows 7? Sorry for noob question. I am new to this
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yes you can try, ive had issues with Audio drivers, but everything else ive been able to get working out of the box or used Win 7 drivers.
dazza9075 said:
yes you can try, ive had issues with Audio drivers, but everything else ive been able to get working out of the box or used Win 7 drivers.
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Thank you
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I tried to install the Samsung drivers under windows 8 without success. I ended up installing it on a virtual windowsXP machine running under VirtualBox on the win8 machine and it works fine.
I put the phone in download mode and fired up Odin and it recognize the phone.
been on 8 primarily since the dev preview, never had issues. I use the google USB drivers since I'm on ics.
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That's because Windows 8 sucks!
sageDieu said:
been on 8 primarily since the dev preview, never had issues. I use the google USB drivers since I'm on ics.
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That's interesting. Where did you get the drivers?
electric bill said:
That's interesting. Where did you get the drivers?
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in the android sdk, it's called google USB tools I believe
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mustbepbs said:
That's because Windows 8 sucks!
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I've been using it for about 4 months, I beg to differ... name 1 reason
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I'm still on Windows XP haha, I meant to upgrade to Win 7 but never did since I can't afford to upgrade my motherboard/cpu/ram/etc. Windows 8 looks promising... but I don't really know how I feel about it looking/feeling like a mobile platform rather than a more 'traditional' desktop feel. Do they let you change it to look like traditional Windows or not?
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I'm still on Windows XP haha, I meant to upgrade to Win 7 but never did since I can't afford to upgrade my motherboard/cpu/ram/etc. Windows 8 looks promising... but I don't really know how I feel about it looking/feeling like a mobile platform rather than a more 'traditional' desktop feel. Do they let you change it to look like traditional Windows or not?
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yes it has both, you can default it back to the classic windows style desktop.
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sageDieu said:
in the android sdk, it's called google USB tools I believe
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I tried to install the sdk but it's complaining that it can't find java.exe or the java sdk even though it's installed and jave.exe is right where it says it can't find it. Did you run into anything like that?
EDIT: never mind. I was installing the 64 bit version. the sdk wants to see the 32 bit version.
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in the android sdk, it's called google USB tools I believe
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OK, got the sdk installed and now adb works but but the phone still does not show up in odin. Any ideas why?
electric bill said:
OK, got the sdk installed and now adb works but but the phone still does not show up in odin. Any ideas why?
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not sure.. it should be using the same drivers. make sure you have those along with the Samsung ones, and I think I have the nexus cm7 drivers installed from somewhere.
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did you try running Odin in compatibility mode? if not try, 7 or vista
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I am currently running win 8 cp and love it. The most prevalent and annoying bug is where you cannot log in after sleeping and have to restart the computer. I am a college student and am at home for the summer where I barely touch my computer (maybe once a week). My question is whether it is worth it to install rp and spend all that time backing up and restoring my data and reinstalling my apps. I will be getting windows 8 for free on release day so no worries there. I just don't want to waste my time on changing stuff from basically September to release date when I will be doing it again.
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Started my backup to my Ubuntu partition last night then immediately restarted and installed this morning I must say though, Release Preview IS worth it.
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I am currently running win 8 cp and love it. The most prevalent and annoying bug is where you cannot log in after sleeping and have to restart the computer. I am a college student and am at home for the summer where I barely touch my computer (maybe once a week). My question is whether it is worth it to install rp and spend all that time backing up and restoring my data and reinstalling my apps. I will be getting windows 8 for free on release day so no worries there. I just don't want to waste my time on changing stuff from basically September to release date when I will be doing it again.
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The release preview is a giant bug fix comparing cp and it is really worth to upgrade, I highly recommend that you do the upgrade.
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lovenokia said:
The release preview is a giant bug fix comparing cp and it is really worth to upgrade, I highly recommend that you do the upgrade.
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Once again I won't be using the computer much at all until September, so is it worth formatting my hdd just for a month or 2 of usage?
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Why would you format?
Just install over RP.
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Why would you format?
Just install over RP.
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I am on cp right now. Microsoft says you can't upgrade cp to rp and you have to scrap all your stuff.
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JihadSquad said:
I am on cp right now. Microsoft says you can't upgrade cp to rp and you have to scrap all your stuff.
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meh, how hard is it to backup/migrate data/apps/settings?
For me I just backup my browser/mail reader with Mozbackup, copy settinsg files from my apps in appdata folders/user profiles etc when needing to do a clean install.
Doesnt take long and you have a fresh new install to work with.
The installer moves the old user profiles to C:\Windows.old
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ShadowEO said:
The installer moves the old user profiles to C:\Windows.old
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Yes it does but user is talking about apps/app settings/registry.
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Yes it does but user is talking about apps/app settings/registry.
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App settings are stored in C:\Windows.old\Users\username\AppData. Though I don't advise moving it all back (Go through it and move individual ones back). As for registry, open regedit before you install and export any keys relevant to your apps, they might not work correctly after though.
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I was intending to buy this device for JB, and because it's cool, but I was wondering, do you guys think there's any chance of installing WP8 into this device?
It would be nice.
not a chance whatsoever
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Not going to happen.
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Nope.
markiemice said:
I was intending to buy this device for JB, and because it's cool, but I was wondering, do you guys think there's any chance of installing WP8 into this device?
It would be nice.
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Lol didn't mean to thank you, twas a accident.
But anyways, Widows 8 for ARM uses a module called a Trusted Platform Module. Afaik, it is a hardware chip that basically locks the device to Widows 8. That is on top of the signed images and secure boot type of stuff.
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Nuh uh, nevarrr!!
Also, it would NOT be nice.
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Oh god why would you want to run such a horrid, closed, OS on such a beautiful device. Might as well ask for ios while you're at it
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Shano56 said:
Oh god why would you want to run such a horrid, closed, OS on such a beautiful device. Might as well ask for ios while you're at it
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we might be able to run windows 8 given that the surface also uses tegra 3, so there could be a possibilty there, just saying, but windows is a pretty good os not that bad like you think, actually not bad at all.
Shano56 said:
Oh god why would you want to run such a horrid, closed, OS on such a beautiful device. Might as well ask for ios while you're at it
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Can we put iOS on while we're at it
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P06o said:
Can we put iOS on while we're at it
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Sure while your at it port symbian.
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Interesting thing though. The new Microsoft surface tablets use the exact same processor ours do. But, no not gonna happen unless we reach an HTC HD2 level of compatibility
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lovenokia said:
we might be able to run windows 8 given that the surface also uses tegra 3, so there could be a possibilty there, just saying, but windows is a pretty good os not that bad like you think, actually not bad at all.
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Did nobody read what I wrote? This is not an issue of drivers/compatible hardware/supported hardware or anything like that.
This is an issue of Microsoft locking Windows 8 for ARM to certain tablets using secure boot implemented in the UEFI. They are also using TPMs to lock the tablets to Windows 8.
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/
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You don't want a windows 8 device. I have the HTC Titan and I've tried to live with a really limited app selection but it just doesn't work. There isn't even an official Pandora app, and a lot of others are glitchy as hell. The os is pretty bad ass but with JB being as smooth as it is wp7 loses a lot of appeal. My NGex arrives tomorrow.
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Did nobody read what I wrote? This is not an issue of drivers/compatible hardware/supported hardware or anything like that.
This is an issue of Microsoft locking Windows 8 for ARM to certain tablets using secure boot implemented in the UEFI. They are also using TPMs to lock the tablets to Windows 8.
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/
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Actually what your talking about locks windows to the surface tablet, not the other way around. You can easily emulate an insecure UEFI instance, after all that's how hackintoshes work
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So, in retrospect, it could be possible to port Windows 8 RT to android devices?
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You don't want a windows 8 device. I have the HTC Titan and I've tried to live with a really limited app selection but it just doesn't work. There isn't even an official Pandora app, and a lot of others are glitchy as hell. The os is pretty bad ass but with JB being as smooth as it is wp7 loses a lot of appeal. My NGex arrives tomorrow.
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Actually, I do want a Windows 8 device. I'm using a WP7.5 HD2 now. It's not as bad as you say, and as I don't use Pandora, it's not an issue for me. Also, most of the apps I use are not glitchy at all. What are you using?
I'm also not crazy about having that many apps on my device, so I'm totally fine with it. WP7 is a wonderful OS, please don't put it down just because you prefer something else.
I installed Windows 8 yesterday and it was running fine. All of a sudden about an hour ago it froze but I could still move the mouse. I couldn't click on anything though and had to manually restart. Now I can't open any metro apps without it freezing every time, it takes longer than usual to reboot after manually shutting it down, and my documents, music, etc. Folders are gone. If I can even get to the desktop it'll freeze two minutes later. It is literally unusable. I'm pissed off because this is supposed to be final software from Microsoft and it's worse than Alpha software. How can it be released like this. I've read of other people having the same problems but none of the fixes work for us.
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I installed Windows 8 yesterday and it was running fine. All of a sudden about an hour ago it froze but I could still move the mouse. I couldn't click on anything though and had to manually restart. Now I can't open any metro apps without it freezing every time, it takes longer than usual to reboot after manually shutting it down, and my documents, music, etc. Folders are gone. If I can even get to the desktop it'll freeze two minutes later. It is literally unusable. I'm pissed off because this is supposed to be final software from Microsoft and it's worse than Alpha software. How can it be released like this. I've read of other people having the same problems but none of the fixes work for us.
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I've not had that problem, did you do a clean upgrade e.g keep nothing, keep personal files or keep everything?
Roland
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Rolandh said:
I've not had that problem, did you do a clean upgrade e.g keep nothing, keep personal files or keep everything?
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Yea, I installed it on a fresh partition dual booting with Windows 7. I did a Google search of the problem and it seems those who have it can't fix it. I had to wipe the partition and install it again. So far so good.
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Yea, I installed it on a fresh partition dual booting with Windows 7. I did a Google search of the problem and it seems those who have it can't fix it. I had to wipe the partition and install it again. So far so good.
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You know come to think about it.... I had the same thing happen to me about 2 hours after I did a clean install from the rtm
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You know come to think about it.... I had the same thing happen to me about 2 hours after I did a clean install from the rtm
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I tried everything to fix it but nothing worked. It's not like I did anything to make it happen either. It just did all of a sudden out of no where. I think it's maybe a driver problem but Toshiba, for me, hasn't made all their drivers Windows 8 compatible. When I go into control panel and hardware and devices it shows a yellow triangle with an exclamation point. When I got to troubleshoot it it can't find the driver. I manually installed the drivers from Toshiba's site the first time because the sound was crackling but when I had to reinstall I just installed what Windows Update suggested.
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