Windows 8 Developer Preview

I don't have nView...I think its only for Quadro....I have Geforce GTS250, and cannot find a download for nView, but maybe I haven't been looking hard enough.
 
Installed it, went past wireless settings then wants me to login. However option to create a new user was not shown during install

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I installed win8 on vmware8 but it runs slow. Does anyone have any settings to improve performance?
 
Linoman said:
Installed it, went past wireless settings then wants me to login. However option to create a new user was not shown during install
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Does it show a username when it requires you to log in? Did you use your Live ID during the install? If so, use your Live ID login...
 
If you skip the Live ID login, it then gives you your user setup screen... use Local Account.

EDIT: Select “I don’t want to log in with a Windows Live ID” to get to the Local Account options.
 
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OK, I realise this is just the "Developer Preview", effectively "alpha" software, but, sheesh! It's awful!

What were MS thinking? Did they call in the guys who did Vista and say "Hey, remember how we had a decent OS in xp and you guys gave us vista? Well, we have a decent OS called Windows 7, it's selling well and people like it. But we're MS, and we like to be hoist with our own petard now and again, so won't you guys put your thinking caps on, and see how you can ballsup 7 for us?"

"Yeah, OK. Check this @#$%! We've slapped a touchscreen thingy on top of the Win 7 GUI. It comes up when you click on start. It looks cool. It runs on top of windows 7. We're calling it windows 8. What do you think? We threw it together last night. Let us know."

I really hope this is not what Windows 8 is going to look like. I hate it.
 
I get where you're coming from, but I wouldn't go as far as to call it awful.

I am fully with you on the UI looking like they pasted Metro on top of W7, I think they should really work on that that integrate it a bit more. My first reaction was also that I want my start menu back, but after working with Metro for a while I quite like the live tiles and the metro apps, especially for quick browsing/game playing. I do think that they should include a turn of feature for Metro where business is concerned (as was suggested by Elimentals would be done...), cause I can see no use for Metro in productivity....

Vista was awful due to poor compatibility and it being a resource hog. Not particularly due to the UI. This is the other way round, since resource usage based Win 8 trumps 7. Compatibility is another issue to still be explored, but as far as I can tell, almost every app will work if you run it in compatibility mode.

Try the Merto UI disable registry edit posted earlier...maybe you'll hate it less when it looks like Win 7 but uses less resources and boots faster....
 
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I get where you're coming from, but I wouldn't go as far as to call it awful.

I am fully with you on the UI looking like they pasted Metro on top of W7, I think they should really work on that that integrate it a bit more. My first reaction was also that I want my start menu back, but after working with Metro for a while I quite like the live tiles and the metro apps, especially for quick browsing/game playing. I do think that they should include a turn of feature for Metro where business is concerned (as was suggested by Elimentals would be done...), cause I can see no use for Metro in productivity....

Vista was awful due to poor compatibility and it being a resource hog. Not particularly due to the UI. This is the other way round, since resource usage based Win 8 trumps 7. Compatibility is another issue to still be explored, but as far as I can tell, almost every app will work if you run it in compatibility mode.

Try the Merto UI disable registry edit posted earlier...maybe you'll hate it less when it looks like Win 7 but uses less resources and boots faster....
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Agreed 100%

Remember this is not a release for everyman to say aaah this is Windows 8. The main reason for this release is that us developers can start getting applications ready for the New Metro release so when it hits the shelves next year you dont see an Empty App Store.

Thats why its called DEVELOPER PREVIEW, not Release candidate or even Beta.... because its for erm Developers to get a hang of the new API's
 
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... "Yeah, OK. Check this @#$%! We've slapped a touchscreen thingy on top of the Win 7 GUI. It comes up when you click on start. It looks cool. It runs on top of windows 7. We're calling it windows 8. What do you think? We threw it together last night. Let us know."...
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It's not slapped on top of the Win7 GUI, it's in the basic plumbing.
And you're right - this is early code (or at least this build is - you can be certain the various developer groups are quite a bit further along, though the consolidated builds have not been released outside MSFT).
 
I'm busy installing Ubuntu now anyway. It's only my netbook after all. I was tired of win 7 on it after all, and I'm no dev.

I look forward to a more polished Windows 8...
 
Heheheh...

I am using this Win8 :love: DP now as my main os on my laptop in daily use... all day. It takes everything in its stride. I have adjusted quite nicely to the Metro UI. I find myself flicking my mouse to the left on the Windows 7 machines... and wondering why the desktop has not flicked to the tiles :) . It would be better if the unpin options for the tiles could be accessed from a right click on the tiles... rather than the bottom band.

It is a preview release but it is very resource friendly, very snappy, very stable. The new file copy / move is a win. Battery life suffers a little... but probably due to this being pre-beta.

With every new windows release, there have been howls of protest with the re-designed StartMenu... Win3.1 to Win95... Win95 to XP... XP to Vista / 7... and now Win 8... give it a chance and work with it, not fight it, it really is quite functional.

I am very impressed. I want a tablet now. :D

EDIT: Only hassles so far have been with online radio streaming programs and little utilities like Direct Folders etc, these just do not work... I guess hamstrung by new APIs until they are updated.
 
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Does it show a username when it requires you to log in? Did you use your Live ID during the install? If so, use your Live ID login...
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kilobits said:
If you skip the Live ID login, it then gives you your user setup screen... use Local Account.

EDIT: Select “I don’t want to log in with a Windows Live ID” to get to the Local Account options.
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I got neither of these two screens:cry: going to reinstall it from scratch
 
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Sorry - fixed. F5...

First time I've tried using image tags...:o
 
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