Microsoft Windows 8 Release Preview

Park@82 said:
I downloaded from the link I posted earlier with Free Download Manager.
I can confirm the following:

MD5 Checksum: 5901DB43F3B3FA155D65F523F76D5D88
SHA-1 Checksum: D76AD96773615E8C504F63564AF749469CFCCD57
Generated by MD5 & SHA-1 Checksum Utility @ http://raylin.wordpress.com/downloads/md5-sha-1-checksum-utility

If you are using the same link and you are getting different results, your download must be broken.
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Thanks I will try downloading it with FDM and report back.
bekdik said:
Try disabling Incognito or try another browser.
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I will download it with IE and report back.

Thanks :)
 
Thanks so much for your help bekdik and Park@82. Your advice worked and I downloaded it with FDM and the link Park@ posted. The hashes match up now. Thank you guys, sincerely :)
 
I'm posting this from Windows 8 using IE :sick: hahahaha

I had an issue that it didn't pick up the correct drive/partition, but I resolved it by booting from the flash drive, removing other drives and then just switching the boot to Hard Drive when the flash did it's work.

Now it's time to play :p I hate the colours already, ewww hahahah
 
Tera in future if you get something like that try the torrent trick to fix the hash instead of re-downloading the whole thing. Some torrent apps can figure out which parts of messed up and just download those. Of course you need a torrent that matches 100% though for that.

I also had to unplug drives while installing.

I rate someone must hack together a proper start menu, open source & then Win 8 will rule.
 
HavocXphere said:
Tera in future if you get something like that try the torrent trick to fix the hash instead of re-downloading the whole thing. Some torrent apps can figure out which parts of messed up and just download those. Of course you need a torrent that matches 100% though for that.

I also had to unplug drives while installing.

I rate someone must hack together a proper start menu, open source & then Win 8 will rule.
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Erm done already

http://lee-soft.com/vistart/ With Skin a or Skin b or Skin c

Or use

http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
 
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Elimentals said:
Erm done already

http://lee-soft.com/vistart/ With Skin a or Skin b or Skin c

Or use

http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
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Well I just tried the stardock one....not for me tbh. You know when you resize a browser window to 1/4 of the screen size & then you can't see sht anymore...thats what this does. Makes it smaller without fixing the underlying problem (big spaced out buttons for touch screens) so you end up scrolling *within* the start menu. Also...runs as a service (:confused:) and doesn't uninstall correctly.

Maybe with a couple more months of development...
 
Installed Windows 8 late last week. For a desktop I don't see the point of Metro. Touch device yes. Each time I login I want to go to desktop because I hibernate my machine between office and home so I already have my apps open. There really needs to be an option to take you directly to desktop. As for the switch between windows key search in Win 7 and 8 it's feeling about the same for me, but the transision between desktop and merto just feels unnessacry. The task manager and explorer improvements are great.

On the minus I've already hit a few gotchas which might see me going back to Windows 7
1) VMWare vSphere Client - Console access. I'm getting: "The VMRC console has disconnected...attempting to reconnect" when trying to open a console, seems a lot of people are having this problem with no fix from VMWare yet. I need this to work, so bit of a show stopper.
2) Auto Proxy settings. I'm having problems in both Chrome and FireFox with Auto Proxy detect. If I have auto proxy set and I hibernate my machine at home, bring it to the office, revive it I just cannot get FireFox or Chrome to access the internet via the proxy at work. IE is happy. Only thing that fixes it in Chrome is to turn auto proxy off (it uses the IE settings) and then go back in and turn it on again. FireFox I've solved it with FoxyProxy.
3) System Fonts. Some fonts look a bit off, VMWare vSphere Client is an example. I don't know if MS have changed some of the defaults or done away with some? I've also noticed it in one or two websites.

I'd actually be happy with the explorer and task manager improvements slapped on top of Windows 7. So far nothing else is really adding value to my life.
 
cerebus said:
I see they're crippling WMC in Win8 :/

Big minus for me.
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Me too.

But apparently it does come in an add-on Pro Pack at $15. You can download it now for free for RP. Here's how.

The big news no-one is talking about (yet) is there's no native support for DVD playback in Win8. Paul Thurrott has something to say about this on his Supersite. The real reason apparently is the DVD owners wanted over $2 per Windows licence for this in Win8, irrespective of whether PCs included a DVD drive or not, and Microsoft basically told them to take a hike.
 
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I really like Windows 8 so far. I have it installed on my netbook and even though I had to fiddle around to get it to run metro apps natively because my screen resolution was too low I still think it is a nicer experience than Windows 7. I think in order to get the most out of the new UI you need multitouch or touch screen however. I think a lot of the new computers set to debut 8 will sport either multitouch trackpads or multitouch mouses like Apple have currently. That and the integration of apps will ultimately make or break 8.
 
I reverted back to Windows 7 mainly because I can't watch movies on 8 without it stuttering or lagging. I've installed Windows 7 Codec pack on it, but it doesn't seem to utilize it.

Is there a fix for this? :)
 
teraside said:
I reverted back to Windows 7 mainly because I can't watch movies on 8 without it stuttering or lagging. I've installed Windows 7 Codec pack on it, but it doesn't seem to utilize it.

Is there a fix for this? :)
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VLC not working?
 
EDIT : Nevermind, found out how to solve the problem.
 
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teraside said:
I reverted back to Windows 7 mainly because I can't watch movies on 8 without it stuttering or lagging. I've installed Windows 7 Codec pack on it, but it doesn't seem to utilize it.

Is there a fix for this? :)
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Graphics drivers perhaps? VLC is working perfectly for me. It's actually a good app to test with because it doesn't rely on system codecs.
 
morkhans said:
Graphics drivers perhaps? VLC is working perfectly for me. It's actually a good app to test with because it doesn't rely on system codecs.
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I'm using a system based driver. I've got a AMD HD4650 and the Windows 7 drivers don't work, so I'm not sure where to get 8 drivers?
Arthur said:
Try GOMplayer. Highly rated by those in the know. One of the few to play broken files.
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I've used Gom for many years now and I've got it installed on 8, but I did have a few issues with it. It wants to download too many codecs for simple AVI files for some reason.
 
So I stopped using Windows 8 at the office. Not because I did not like the UI or anything. None of that bothered me. What got me was the lack of functionality for my daily needs. Ill wait for a more polished product.
 
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