Win 8.1 question

So far stable and fast, like I said previously the two start buttons seems overkill but the other day I using my buddies Yoga and it kind of made sense since when using it like a laptop you use the start on the task bar and when using it like a tablet you use the start button in the side bar. Kind gave a more natural feel I guess.

AlienMenace I am sorry to hear about your friend, best wishes.

I know that is one thing that got fixed right away in Windows 8 was the activation. On Windows 7 when I do a install it does not always go through and I have to call the activation number which is a pain in the neck with all the steps on numbers. Every time I have installed Windows 8 it tells me right away if the serial was accepted or not.
 
So far I'm enjoying it too. It seems to boot faster than 8 and I like the lock screen slideshows. ;)

Will upgrade my Mum's PC soon. She is currently on 8 Pro.
 
spirit said:
So far I'm enjoying it too. It seems to boot faster than 8 and I like the lock screen slideshows. ;)

Will upgrade my Mum's PC soon. She is currently on 8 Pro.
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I just upgraded my Vaio, the only problem I ran into was I had to go to Sony website and download a update manager that updated the drivers for my hardware cause nothing worked upon first install.
 
My biggest problem was the Catalyst Control Centre. After upgrading, it didn't work. I did a search for new drivers through Device Manager, it downloaded some new drivers and then it worked again. :)
 
spirit said:
My biggest problem was the Catalyst Control Centre. After upgrading, it didn't work. I did a search for new drivers through Device Manager, it downloaded some new drivers and then it worked again. :)
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It makes me wonder how much they changed under the hood, not a big deal but I have never had drivers stop working whenever I have upgraded my computer, not even when I upgraded from Windows 7 to 8 which I read there where huge changes under the hood for Windows 8.
 
DMGrier said:
It makes me wonder how much they changed under the hood, not a big deal but I have never had drivers stop working whenever I have upgraded my computer, not even when I upgraded from Windows 7 to 8 which I read there where huge changes under the hood for Windows 8.
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Must've been quite a big change because I have Enterprise and it needed to be re-activated after the upgrade was complete. I have Pro on my other PC and that didn't need to be re-activated, but with Pro you could update via the Store whereas with Enterprise I had to download the entire 8.1 Enterprise ISO from TechNet, burn the ISO to a DVD and run the setup from inside of 8.
 
AlienMenace said:
I got this off of Cnet.com how you can get the ISO of Windows 8.1.
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39...nload-the-official-microsoft-windows-8.1-iso/
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The problem with this,You cant install Windows 8.1 using a Windows 8 product key..so if you create your own Windows 8.1 disk using the ISO with the hopes to just clean install and use the 8.1 disk with the 8 key in the future it wont work.

You have to install windows 8,Then upgrade to 8.1...rather stupid really but this is Microsoft were talking about.
 
Shane said:
The problem with this,You cant install Windows 8.1 using a Windows 8 product key..so if you create your own Windows 8.1 disk using the ISO with the hopes to just clean install and use the 8.1 disk with the 8 key in the future it wont work.

You have to install windows 8,Then upgrade to 8.1...rather stupid really but this is Microsoft were talking about.
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The idea of putting this out here is by pass the Store's download all the time. Not to do a clean install. Of course you have to reload Windows 8 first, but I really don't want to sit through internet downloads.
 
I unfortunately had to uninstall Windows 8.1, my wireless card stopped working which just cannot happen with me being a college student.

There is a way to get the serial of Windows 8 if it comes pre-installed on a machine. Is this topic allowed to be discussed on the forums? I couldn't imagine it being illegal since technically since we paid for a copy of Windows 8.
 
You know what happened with my windows 8.1?
I upgraded it 2 weeks ago and everything went pretty well. Today, while logging in my account there was this massage about windows updates and it told me to restart the computer for the updates to take effect. [I don't remember enabling automatic updates, nonetheless the laptop restarted itself because the battery dropped.]. After the restart, it's been 5 hours and the laptop is not allowing me to enter Windows but there's this message saying "Getting windows ready. Don't turn off your computer".

What the hell is going on? I turned it off and turned it back on again now and the message is still there. I can't even get in safe mode.
It didn't take me this long even when I upgraded it from 8 to 8.1.
 
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It's been more than 15 hours now. Nothing has changed!
It turned it off and on several times but the problem persists!

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Hold down shift while hard restarting it. This will start it in safe mode. Then conduct a repair or system restore.
 
Okedokey said:
Count yourself lucky. I shelled out 150 bucks and the fn thing wont even download.
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That sucks, I have been enjoying the performance but Windows 8.1 does not like my wifi card. I updated the driver but when I first boot up it will not find my network name, I have to manually type in the network name and password, then it will show with limited connection which then I must remove and reconnect to be able to hop online.

Windows 8.1 better UI, better performance, and better security but from my issue and what I am reading online a little everyone seems to be feeling this release to be a little more buggy then the launch of Windows 8, not Vista bad but still not as good a Windows 7 and 8.
 
DMGrier said:
That sucks, I have been enjoying the performance but Windows 8.1 does not like my wifi card. I updated the driver but when I first boot up it will not find my network name, I have to manually type in the network name and password, then it will show with limited connection which then I must remove and reconnect to be able to hop online.

Windows 8.1 better UI, better performance, and better security but from my issue and what I am reading online a little everyone seems to be feeling this release to be a little more buggy then the launch of Windows 8, not Vista bad but still not as good a Windows 7 and 8.
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I believe I am having the same problem.

When I boot the computer I noticed it doesn't detect the network (this is also happening while I have the RJ45 connected) which is strange.

I have to give it a few minutes. I was just thinking last night that I should go to device mangager and see if I can update the WIFI card, but again..

I am connected with cable : \

Strange
 
Junglist0682 said:
I believe I am having the same problem.

When I boot the computer I noticed it doesn't detect the network (this is also happening while I have the RJ45 connected) which is strange.

I have to give it a few minutes. I was just thinking last night that I should go to device mangager and see if I can update the WIFI card, but again..

I am connected with cable : \

Strange
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Same problem, when my computer does not display my network name my Ethernet does not work either. What is weird is it will show every other network connection within range but mine and I know mine is working since I have other devices running on the wireless network with no problems.

I remember when 8.1 hit the consumer preview Microsoft said that they where fixing wireless drivers and how they worked with Windows 8, they changed something and I know I am not the only one having problems.
 
DMGrier said:
Same problem, when my computer does not display my network name my Ethernet does not work either. What is weird is it will show every other network connection within range but mine and I know mine is working since I have other devices running on the wireless network with no problems.

I remember when 8.1 hit the consumer preview Microsoft said that they where fixing wireless drivers and how they worked with Windows 8, they changed something and I know I am not the only one having problems.
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No, this is a very common problem.
 
I've not had any problems so far apart from the Catalyst drivers but I just reinstalled them. The other machines which I have upgraded to 8.1 haven't had any problems for the most part, but on one of the PCs, I cannot browse into the router via IE11 and 8.1, or NAS drives. It worked fine with IE10 and Windows 8 though.

Not got any PCs running 8.1 which are connected via Wi-Fi, so I can't say anything about that.

8.1 hasn't been the easiest upgrade ever though, going by the number of problems people are reporting. I have also noticed in my Windows Update there's been quite a few updates for 8.1 already.
 
Update:
Last night, after 2 days, I was able to get into Windows! I got rid of the "Getting Windows ready" message but it wanted me to activate Windows. It took me to the PC setting which didn't load so I had to turn off the computer and turn it back on. This time I got the message "Please wait" without entering Windows. I waited for 2 hours then I turned it off again. This time when I turned it back on it sent me to the old message "Getting windows ready. Don't turn off the computer".

F*cking hell! I'll take it to the repair guy so that he can re-format it and leave it working with W.8. I won't go to Windows 8.1 for a while.!
 
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