Windows 8 Is Now Available (OFFICIAL WINDOWS 8 THREAD)

[ExodusNirvana]

shyt is still fukked up on my HP Mini 311

Guess I'll make a partition on the big rig and do it some justice

 

[Q2EEzY]

Just installed it on work pc, used a vista driver for the old ass Geforce FX5200

 

[qwerty_jones]

Just installed it on work pc, used a vista driver for the old ass Geforce FX5200

Nvidia has Win8 beta drivers check that out. The problem with Win8 right now is no official drivers are going to come out until late Sept/Oct

 

[acri1]

Its probably because your in VMware which doesn't do you justice if you want the full experience slap it on your main PC and get used to it.

A lot of people complain "oh its designed for touch" blah blah blah but really Mouse + Keyboard work amazing its faster and easier to navigate from finding your apps to launching your apps. You just need to take the time to get used to the OS.

Drivers aren't ready yet but I'm using a full copy with no legit drivers and Win8 Enterprise RTM is working great on my XPS 13 can't wait for official drivers!

Eh, maybe you're right.

I turned off 3D graphics acceleration and that fixed my issues with the mouse being jumpy/unstable. I'm actually on Win8 right now, and it's ok, but I find myself just hanging out on the desktop most of the time. Could be because I'm not using most of the apps anyway, but I guess it might grow on me.

 

[newarkhiphop]

@ 5 sec start up time

 

[newarkhiphop]

the touchpad/mouse issues goes away eventually

am still having keyboard issues

 

[daze23]

meh, I had the beta for win 7 and it kinda sucks when it's over cause you gotta clean install your OS whether you down or upgrade. plus I game a lot, and don't want compatibility/driver issues

 

[beenz]

Man I got this shyt last weekend. And realized wasnt gonna keep this forever since U can't really activate. So I went back to windows 7. I uses windows 8 for a while, but I really couldn't get intO the new start menu. I found it really annoying.

 

[Ricky Church]

weird

 

[qwerty_jones]

Eh, maybe you're right.

I turned off 3D graphics acceleration and that fixed my issues with the mouse being jumpy/unstable. I'm actually on Win8 right now, and it's ok, but I find myself just hanging out on the desktop most of the time. Could be because I'm not using most of the apps anyway, but I guess it might grow on me.

I stay on desktop most of the time myself. I use apps to SNAP so apps like Tweetro, Weather, People, Mail, Calendar are useful for when I'm on desktop.

Other news apps are useful when I'm on Metro I use them to glance at news etc I don't go into them I use them for notifications.

 

[qwerty_jones]

Another quick tip.

If you pin a IE10 Metro website like The-Coli.

You can also use Metro UI to search for that website

So for example I have The-Coli pinned to my Metro Start Screen if I type in the keywords "Coli" it automatically finds the pinned shortcut all I have to do is press enter to open it up.

 

[Golayitdown]

at how opposite my installation experience was on my big rig. Graphics card driver installed but wouldnt launch ... Ps3 Media server couldnt ve installed as a service... Got 2 blue screens of death (much nicer btw)..... Luckily i didnt wipe my Win 7 partition ..
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[Golayitdown]

When on the desktop, right clicking in the bottom left corner brings up a menu of a bunch of commonly used shortcuts. Much better than switching back and forth to metro.

 

[teacher]

Does this bring anything new to the the table that vista can't do? Interface i could give a fukk about cuz I'm fine with vista's....

fast boot ups are nice but I generally leave my computer on months at a time...

 

[Golayitdown]

Does this bring anything new to the the table that vista can't do? Interface i could give a fukk about cuz I'm fine with vista's....

fast boot ups are nice but I generally leave my computer on months at a time...

What do you do on your box? A jump to 8 may be a turn off if you don't do much, especially with the different metro interface. At least upgrade to 7. The optimizations over Vista are worth it.