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Showing posts with label Windows 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows 8. Show all posts
2012-10-29
Windows 8 Pro: worse than Windows 8 Enterprise eval and RC? -Updated
Update: The screen driver came back after 24 hours, the audio driver is still crashing my system. CXT - Network - HDAUDIO Soft Data Fax Modem with SmartCP. Even after the manual removal and reading the machines crashes. Also the SD card slot driver is not installed.
At least for my old Acer the new Windows 8 Pro installation does not really work smooth, every time the notebook goes to sleep it crashes in the aftermath; has to do with the audio chip.
And the graphics card and flash driver are not loaded. With the Windows 8 Enterprise eval and RC all of this were non issues. All worked flawless.
At least for my old Acer the new Windows 8 Pro installation does not really work smooth, every time the notebook goes to sleep it crashes in the aftermath; has to do with the audio chip.
And the graphics card and flash driver are not loaded. With the Windows 8 Enterprise eval and RC all of this were non issues. All worked flawless.
2012-10-26
Windows 8 Pro: run upgrade assistant in Windows 7 compatibility mode
Short: You Windows 8 some version and want to run Windows 8 Upgrade web download, save assistant and set it to Windows 7 compatibility before starting the assistant.
Most of my machines at home run Mac OS X, but I have a quite an old ACER laptop here that I keep in some corner until there's time to test another version of windows. Recently I've been running Windows 8 in different flavors, last one was Windows 8 Enterprise eval.
So today came the offer to upgrade from XP, Vista, Windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro and I chose to do so, since the price seems fair (download price that is). Even though I could not install it up to 5 times as with Mac OS X.
But I could not purchase it, since the upgrade assistant always wanted to make me believe that I cannot buy this in my country/region.
But sometimes the easiest things don't come easily to mind such as saving the assistant and configuring it under the properties to run in windows 7 compatibility mode. And voila, it goes through.
At last I could spend some money on Microsoft products that I have avoided for the last 5 years, but to be fair, my daily work is spent on a company laptop running windows 7 with all of office, i.e. I earn my money working on Windows and I spend the rest of my available time on Mac.
I wish myself a happy installation. Also hope to spend some time with the Office 2013 preview. The only thing missing will be the pen input, but the best in my opinion was/is MotionComputing, but I just could not afford it.
Most of my machines at home run Mac OS X, but I have a quite an old ACER laptop here that I keep in some corner until there's time to test another version of windows. Recently I've been running Windows 8 in different flavors, last one was Windows 8 Enterprise eval.
So today came the offer to upgrade from XP, Vista, Windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro and I chose to do so, since the price seems fair (download price that is). Even though I could not install it up to 5 times as with Mac OS X.
But I could not purchase it, since the upgrade assistant always wanted to make me believe that I cannot buy this in my country/region.
But sometimes the easiest things don't come easily to mind such as saving the assistant and configuring it under the properties to run in windows 7 compatibility mode. And voila, it goes through.
At last I could spend some money on Microsoft products that I have avoided for the last 5 years, but to be fair, my daily work is spent on a company laptop running windows 7 with all of office, i.e. I earn my money working on Windows and I spend the rest of my available time on Mac.
I wish myself a happy installation. Also hope to spend some time with the Office 2013 preview. The only thing missing will be the pen input, but the best in my opinion was/is MotionComputing, but I just could not afford it.
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