Windows 8

LMN8R · 2013-10-18T20:01:10.000Z

rei:

I do miss the ability to make a disk image that they took out from 8 that was present in 7.

It’s still there but hidden in 8.1.

Search for File History
Open the Desktop version
look in the lower-left corner - System Image Backup

Kool_Moe_Dee · 2013-10-18T21:09:49.000Z

rei:

Pretty stupid of Microsoft not to release an update for the Windows Phone 8 Remote Desktop when shiny new versions are out for iOS and Android.

How often do you use remote desktop on your phone?

rei · 2013-10-18T22:47:59.000Z

I use TeamViewer on my iPhone and iPad all the time. It’s a platform parity thing. It’s important that Windows Phone receives support equal or better to competitors. Look at how well BB10/RIM is doing. Not developing for your own platform sends a message about how unimportant they think it is. Their mishandling of mobiles with WinCE->WinPhone7->WinPhone8 just keeps continuing.

Editer · 2013-10-19T12:38:41.000Z

Huh. I’ve been using a variety of different Remote Desktop apps on iPhone/iPad for years, never knew MS had released their own. Wonder how long that’s been available?

Kool Moe Dee, not often, but it’s super-handy if I need to look up info that’s not “in the cloud” or do something like hit a full browser when a site cripples itself for mobile browsers.

RickH · 2013-10-19T13:16:09.000Z

Kool Moe Dee:

How often do you use remote desktop on your phone?

At least once a week, far more on my ipad. But Splashtop, not RD.

rei · 2013-10-19T23:03:43.000Z

Here’s a question: How do you add a desktop app to the “startup” group without the start menu/button?

Equisilus · 2013-10-20T04:47:53.000Z

rei:

Here’s a question: How do you add a desktop app to the “startup” group without the start menu/button?

Windows Key-R
Enter: shell:startup
Add shortcuts to apps/programs as needed (copy, paste shortcut)

Hope it helps.

TimElhajj · 2013-10-20T07:38:04.000Z

Gus_Smedstad:

I just closed Civilization and they popped up again. I think they’re not closing properly, so they’re always running, and when I open the desktop again for some reason (restore from Sleep, close a game) they’re trying to take over the screen.

Equisilus:

Windows Key-R
Enter: shell:startup
Add shortcuts to apps/programs as needed (copy, paste shortcut)

Hope it helps.

Pretty neat. I didn’t know this trick.

Someone should tell Gus, who has some stuff starting each time his pc starts/wakes.

EDIT: Ah, wait. That’s this thread. :)

habibi · 2013-10-20T08:15:53.000Z

Vesper:

Reminder of an issue I ran into when RTM came out: Asus USB 3 drivers get replaced by some Microsoft default ones that caused me issues. Specifically, my Line 6 GX guitar interface wouldn’t work with them. I found some ASMedia drivers from the ASUS site to replace them and all was fine. (They were old too - October 2012 I believe).

My Logitech game controller (wireless) is not running anymore. Is this the reason then??

Vesper · 2013-10-20T08:32:31.000Z

Certainly could be, if it’s attached to an ASUS USB3 port.

Don_Quixote · 2013-10-20T09:43:09.000Z

Updated my Clover Trail tablet/convertible (Asus ViboTab tf810c) the other day, and the graphics driver Windows Update installs is faulty (I’ve found a couple threads complaining about the issue around the 'net, so I know it isn’t just me). Essentially, it crashes every time the tablet goes to sleep, and needs to reload whenever you wake it up. So hitting the power button, the screen wakes up in 5-7 seconds instead of the instant-on it should be. It also occasionally resets the resolution to 1024x768. Not the end of the world, but a little annoying.

Other than that, everything else is mostly ok. I still miss the segmented search (yeah, I know, you don’t have to say it), but being able to split the screen for apps to variable widths is nice, the redesign to the metro start screen (variable sizes for tiles, more tiles, etc.) is all great, the whole system seems speedier, takes up less space, etc.

rei · 2013-10-20T13:11:49.000Z

The latest Intel HD graphics driver is faulty in Win 8.1 currently. I’ve had to disable it in the UEFI so Windows doesn’t keep trying to autoinstall the newest/faulty driver. Usually, it can coexist with discrete graphics cards in order to do multimonitor.

Here’s what I do to ensure a clean Win8.x/Win7.x install this past weekend:

wipe the drive partitions completely
install windows
update latest nic driver from realtek or intel or broadcom (doesn’t require a reboot) then install latest intel chipset inf updater, reboot (in Win7 there’s another step 3.5 of installing Renesas USB3 or Intel USB3 drivers and rebooting followed by bluetooth drivers if it’s an ASUS “Deluxe” mobo)
install intel MEI/AMT driver, install intel RST, reboot
install ASUS amda00 (pc-probe or something) driver, install intel video driver, reboot
install intel smart connect driver, reboot (looks like this is useless on a desktop so i’ll likely disable it from bios and uninstall the driver)
install realtek hd audio drivers, reboot
install ATI/NVIDIA drivers, reboot

…install ASUS AI Charger (reboot) and ASUS AI Suite III (reboot)

rei · 2013-10-20T13:20:20.000Z

TimElhajj:

Pretty neat. I didn’t know this trick.

Someone should tell Gus, who has some stuff starting each time his pc starts/wakes.

EDIT: Ah, wait. That’s this thread. :)

thanks. discoverability on this kind of sucks for those used to the presence of the start menu. i ended up using voidtools’ everything to find out where the “all users” StartUp folder was located:

"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp"

rei · 2013-10-20T13:23:04.000Z

I see the icon for Internet Shortcuts (.URL) is still broken ever since Windows Vista. Install a third-party browser and it goes to a blank/default icon.

Aleck · 2013-10-20T16:05:06.000Z

Helped a friend with a Windows 8.1 upgrade issue this afternoon. He runs a primary drive (SSD) and then a data drive, which is actually a pair of disks operating in a RAID configuration. All was working well before upgrade to 8.1, but upon upgrading the RAID array was lost. RAID showed up fine in BIOS, but when using the storage manager in WIndows 8.1 it returned a CRC error.

Loading the Intel RST software showed that one drive in the RAID array was working fine (attached to the SATA 0 port) while the other (attached to the SATA 1) was showing up as defective. Based on what I read some other folks encountering, I moved the “defective” disk to a different SATA port, and, lo and behold, everything was/is fine. I’m not sure if this is a weird driver issue, or a problem with the RAID software, or what, but I thought I’d mention it here just in case anyone else runs into this issue.

Gendal · 2013-10-20T16:06:38.000Z

How the fudge did I never know about shell:whatever.

Starlight · 2013-10-20T16:40:37.000Z

Yea, if you have mirrored hard disks, it’s safer to de-mirror before doing a major upgrade.

habibi · 2013-10-21T08:38:38.000Z

Wow… I can’t believe how clueless MS is. After upgrading Win 8.1, I am getting tutorial help in the form of “Switching between applications - swipe in from the edge to go back to the last app you were using”. Er… how am I going to do this with a mouse???

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LMN8R · 2013-10-21T09:55:47.000Z

That’s only supposed to show up if you have a touch screen. Have you ever attached any sort of touch digitizer or anything like that?

Either way, you can hopefully make it go away if you use the upper-left corner and then drag the mouse down to show the app switcher.

habibi · 2013-10-21T17:40:49.000Z

Yes I used to have a touch screen monitor to experiment with Win 8 when it was first launched. It’s those infra red sensor type not capacitive. At the edge of the screen there is a bump where the screen case is higher to facilitate the sensors. So even with the screen I can’t swipe in from the edge. Which was the reason I returned the monitor. Maybe the drivers got screwed up and remained tricking Win 8.1 into thinking I have a touch screen.