Sorry I'm pandering, but for personal lols.

I thought I read Nov 3rd. May be wrong.

Is this worth having or not then, I've just ran the checks and everything is fine (just had to update a security dongle) and now the buy it now screen is sat waiting...

Just downloading it now...

Hi, wasn't sure where to ask this but are any of you exceptionally good with Word? I've got a long document i've been writing which i would like to tidy up a bit. Mainly in terms of adjusting the borders. If you think you could help please let me know.

Not sure if we have a Surface thread but:

Seems Eurogamer don't like it

I have Windows 8 on my work PC now and I can't see what the worry is regarding the Start button, there is still one there if you want to search for stuff but I must say that overall I am liking it.

I do however have one small problem, on the main screen (where my app/icons are) if I click on Mail it sort of zooms into the screen and then simply returns to my app screen? Any ideas/solutions greatly appreciated...

Mod74 wrote:

That sounds like an app crash. Music would do that to me on the Consumer Preview. Have you updated all the apps? Go into the store and there's an update count top right.

I haven't updated anything (because I only bought and downloaded it yesterday I figured everything would be installed up-to-date) but it turns out all the apps are doing it? There is a 15 in the corner of the Store app but even clicking that gives me the same problem, the app 'zooms' into the screen and then I'm back on the start screen?

I really want this to get working properly so I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to carry on helping until the issue is resolved!

I've seen on the 'net that apparently the apps (are these the 'metro apps'?) won't work if there is an admin account on the PC, mine does have an admin account (not used by anybody at all but just there from the initial installation when I built the PC) but I don't have a clue how to disable it?

They are the Metro apps yes. I've not head of this admin problem though.

Also, bring up the Charm bar (on the right hand of the screen (or WIN+C)) select Settings, and then Change PC Settings. Then go down to Windows Update at the bottom and see if there are any updates there.

You'll find the user accounts in the same area so that might be where you disable the Admin account if it comes to that.

I've disabled Admin (using cmd) and still the same problem, no metro apps are working but all my software apps (Composer, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc) launch fine.

gggrrrrr

Moto70 wrote:

I've disabled Admin (using cmd) and still the same problem, no metro apps are working but all my software apps (Composer, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc) launch fine. gggrrrrr

Have you managed to run all updates? If so then I'm a bit stuck. I'll do some searches.

You are running on a screen with a resolution 1366x768 or above aren't you? I assume you are but thought I'd check.

It was Avast, I disabled it for 10 minutes and all the apps launch and work fine now.

Not really sure what to do as I like having Avast running...

Windows 8 install diary - day 5

Received no contact from MS as promised. Chased them up and spoke to another "Answer Tech". After about 20 minutes of him checking into my case and coming back with  questions I'd already answered last time, he then spends about another 10-15 minutes consulting with a "troubleshooting expert" in another department. 

The advice I received was to contact Apple support for all bootcamp related issues. Now there's a couple of things here. First of all, I thought they'd pull this trick at some point which is why I let them know straight away that I was running the thing on a bootcamp partition. If they didn't support it, they could have told me straight away. Instead I've spent a couple of hours in total just to get to the stage I could have got to within 30 seconds. 

Secondly, its an entirely windows related issue. The upgrade process happens within windows. It's a windows error message on a windows process. I'm not exactly sure how Apple are supposed to troubleshoot that. 

And they've done very little investigation into this really. They have no idea whether its mac related or not. 

No Windows 8 for me by the look of it.

So...

I love Windows 8.

The installation process was horrible, but that was all down to trying to install the Korean version without anywhere near the language ability to read the text. Once I had muddled my way through, however, downloading, installing, and setting the UK English language pack to the default was a very easy process.

I've spent a little bit of time fiddling with my Start screen and installing new apps/browsers. The trackpad certainly isn't an ideal way to navigate the system, but I think my issues are more down to the new system itself rather than the interface.

Lovely stuff.

The whole process would have been absolutely faultless had it not been for Avast stopping the apps from launching, I was surprised at just how easy the install was for me.

Having spent just a single day with it I honestly cannot see why anybody is complaining, it makes you suddenly realise that on the 'net there are always people who will moan.

I can definitely see myself moving ever closer to getting a Windows 8 equipped Surface.