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NdMk2o1o · Sep 16, 2011

Managed to install in virtual box first try :toast:

Couple of things:
I have enabled 2d/3d acceleration and it is laggy, mouse movements, in general etc.
Also not getting any network connection, I think this is due to the actual VM settings so if someone can tell me how to share my local connection this would be much appreciated :respect:

cheesy999 · Sep 16, 2011

NdMk2o1o said:
Managed to install in virtual box first try

Couple of things:
I have enabled 2d/3d acceleration and it is laggy, mouse movements, in general etc.
Also not getting any network connection, I think this is due to the actual VM settings so if someone can tell me how to share my local connection this would be much appreciated

change your network adapter to bridged mode, it's in the settings, i'd show it to you but i'm away from virtualbox at the moment

NdMk2o1o · Sep 16, 2011

cheesy999 said:
change your network adapter to bridged mode, it's in the settings, i'd show it to you but i'm away from virtualbox at the moment

That's cool I know how to do that

will give it another whirl, any input on the mouse/display lag?

cheesy999 · Sep 16, 2011

NdMk2o1o said:
That's cool I know how to do that will give it another whirl, any input on the mouse/display lag?

only way to cure that is by installing guest additions but since they don't work on 8 that's permanent so long as your using virtual box

H82LUZ73 · Sep 16, 2011

anyone have the high brightness in games...My 4870`s in crossfire work just been playing with the ACC adjusting my brightness to -50 seems about what win7 is at 0.Hope that helps some of you out with the brightness bug.

gbird · Sep 16, 2011

GodfreyOuwens said:
found a fix for my problem and most likely others also having trouble with the take ownership etc:

- open 'properties' on the highest level folder you want to change attributes
- click 'security' tab
- click 'advanced'
- click 'change permissions'
- click 'add'
- enter 'Everyone' in the 'enter the object name to select' dialog box
- click 'check names'
- click OK
- click 'full control' in the 'allow' column
- click OK
- click the box (turn on) 'replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object'
- click OK
- confirm any 'are you sure' type messages that pop up along the way

Thank you alot !!! It worked. Got off most of the watermark in Windows 8 Dev Preview. Just a little bit is still left to the far right corner but i can live with that until the beta drops, maybe next year.

stinger608 · Sep 17, 2011

there ya go, already 7 updates today LOL. At least M$ is staying on top of it LOL

eidairaman1 · Sep 17, 2011

reminds me too much of the XB interface, but then it feels like we are goin backwards with interface, it reminds me of Win 3.1

stinger608 · Sep 17, 2011

eidairaman1 said:
reminds me too much of the XB interface, but then it feels like we are goin backwards with interface, it reminds me of Win 3.1

I agree. It kind of does remind me of 3.11 for work groups. Of course that old OS was pretty awesome in its day :laugh:

H82LUZ73 · Sep 17, 2011

well I figured out how to get rid of that god awful green metro, Go control panel and select high contrast, It gives you black background but sure is better then green.....Also you can unpin most them so called apps, say copper and tube rider lol to have some that you want and to get admin tools to show select setting the preferences and turn on show tools in metro, This Windows has a memory checker built in ,Ran 2 passes and no errors.

cheesy999 · Sep 17, 2011

H82LUZ73 said:
well I figured out how to get rid of that god awful green metro, Go control panel and select high contrast, It gives you black background but sure is better then green.....Also you can unpin most them so called apps, say copper and tube rider lol to have some that you want and to get admin tools to show select setting the preferences and turn on show tools in metro, This Windows has a memory checker built in ,Ran 2 passes and no errors.

i like that colour green...

stinger608 · Sep 17, 2011

Not to mention that when high contrast is turned on it changes everything. wow, I sure hope the final version allows for changing background and such.

stinger608 · Sep 18, 2011

Hmm, I don't know if anyone else has encountered this problem or not; windows 8 does not see my optical DVD burner? Even in the devise manager it is not listed. I don't know what to think about that.

Mussels · Sep 18, 2011

stinger608 said:
Hmm, I don't know if anyone else has encountered this problem or not; windows 8 does not see my optical DVD burner? Even in the devise manager it is not listed. I don't know what to think about that.

what controller is it on? if you threw it on a secondary RAID/SATA controller, it may not have drivers installd.

stinger608 · Sep 18, 2011

Mussels said:
what controller is it on? if you threw it on a secondary RAID/SATA controller, it may not have drivers installd.

Well hell, I had not thought of that I guess. I know in Windows 7 I did not have to install any drivers for the DVD drive. Hmm, will try the ATI chipset drivers I guess.

Hmmm, loading the chipset drivers did nothing. and once I started doing some research online it would seem that Microsoft will be doing away with DVD support? I suppose that means that a person will have to have an external DVD drive in order for it to work? Is that what I am gathering here:

http://www.windows8news.com/2011/08/06/windows-8-ditch-dvd-support/

Drone · Sep 18, 2011

it would seem that Microsoft will be doing away with DVD support?

hm maybe that's why we can mount isos in W8 ...

edit: dvd, cd drives work fine

H82LUZ73 · Sep 18, 2011

stinger608 said:
Well hell, I had not thought of that I guess. I know in Windows 7 I did not have to install any drivers for the DVD drive. Hmm, will try the ATI chipset drivers I guess.

Hmmm, loading the chipset drivers did nothing. and once I started doing some research online it would seem that Microsoft will be doing away with DVD support? I suppose that means that a person will have to have an external DVD drive in order for it to work? Is that what I am gathering here:

http://www.windows8news.com/2011/08/06/windows-8-ditch-dvd-support/

UH so explain how my Win8 installed off a dvd burner and it reads it ?????It is connected with ide and the 200gig Hard drive has the sata adapter and that has to be plugged into the sata ports that support IDE drive(yes sata dvd/blu-ray drives too) that would be the (ASUS example) the 2 top red ports while the black ones are true sata.read your manual for the BIOS it should say what ports support ide .

Drone · Sep 18, 2011

Just realized they separated regional and language settings in control panel. Very nice.

cheesy999 · Sep 18, 2011

H82LUZ73 said:
UH so explain how my Win8 installed off a dvd burner and it reads it ?????It is connected with ide and the 200gig Hard drive has the sata adapter and that has to be plugged into the sata ports that support IDE drive(yes sata dvd/blu-ray drives too) that would be the (ASUS example) the 2 top red ports while the black ones are true sata.read your manual for the BIOS it should say what ports support ide .

My DVD drive also works so it's definitively not Microsoft doing away with dvd drives or anything

IDE as well if it matters

Derek12 · Sep 18, 2011

I notice that using olde 16 bit apps makes the system extremely slow and using very high % CPU :eek:

I waited until the CPU usage was low then run the 16 bit app GWBASIC with some old original IBM PC BAS programs lol

(the CPU graph shows 100% at the end because I can't wait more, because the system almost hangs)

even sometimes the task manager reported 106% CPU usage LOL

stinger608 · Sep 18, 2011

Hmm, installed chipset drivers, SATA drivers, and even RAID drivers, and it still does not see my DVD drive. I am not sure what to think on that one LOL. I have an external usb DVD ROM and it of course sees it just fine.

I seen the posts that are stating it is seeing the IDE drives, however are you SATA DVD users having any issues or is it seeing all of yours as well?

stinger608 · Sep 18, 2011

well while I was looking for a solution to my optical disk issue I ran across the Windows 8 forums. Naturally I joined LOL.

Now, for anyone that wants to have a similar "start" type menu to navigate to your desired program or folder there is a way to accomplish this :rockout:

It is not included in Windows 8 however there is a tutorial on the Windows 8 forum to create this on the task bar. I tried it and it works great!

Create a Start Menu Toolbar on the Desktop Taskbar in Windows 8

BumbleBee · Sep 18, 2011

if this video was posted already I apologize in advance

rfowler30 · Sep 18, 2011

anyone notice speed improvements in games, hdds, ssds?????????

Athlon2K15 · Sep 19, 2011

Install takes a little longer than 7,no issues though rig is in my specs, and it actually seems quite snappy!!

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