Windows 8 who's buying/upgrading

cu3ed said:
Okay I have a problem here I have a about 15gb free and its saying it needs at least 20GB space, ive removed a few things but only have the 15GB the rest seems to be taken up by my Current Win7 install..anythign I can do about that?
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Got steam or other large software you can remove temporarily. I had in the end 23gb free before install, after install I now have a little under 16Gb allthough been through the App Store and installed a fair bit.

Purchased my first app, food network.

Found
BBC News
netflix
Evernote
Splashtop
Kindle
Calculator

So I think that most of my majour apps sorted.

Ohh need to go look for tripIT and a imageshack uploaded, and an image resizer.
That's pretty much all my apps sorted.
 
satchef1 said:
The £24.99 copy is upgrade, right? I need to keep my Windows 7 Retail disks if I buy it? Only asking because they're worth a few bob - would rather sell them than leave them on a shelf gathering dust.
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Yes it's an upgrade and no you can't sell it, it's an UPGRADE its kind of in the name, that's why it's cheap.


ic1male said:
ISO because then you can use the Windows USB tool to make a USB drive from the ISO.
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Took me just under 5mins.
 
No nothing like that, its an 80GB Intel ssd, removed CS6 and what programmes I have on teh drive, its seems windows is sucking up most of it.

Ive got 16.3 now, is their any of the MS Updates I can remove to free the space?
 
Can any remeber or find the commands for windows 8 reset. I'm sure you could do a few command lines to set the image to what the system is now. So rather than putting fresh windows on. If I install all my software, do the command line. Reset would then take me back to that.
 
ic1male said:
I don't think the BBC News is the real thing. It's some knockoff which just grabs data from the news site.
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Yep. Keep a careful eye on the publisher name. There is a lot of junk in the store. There is a Flickr app too that isn't official either and just looks like a quick grab for money. I'm surprised a lot haven't been pulled.
 
satchef1 said:
The £24.99 copy is upgrade, right? I need to keep my Windows 7 Retail disks if I buy it? Only asking because they're worth a few bob - would rather sell them than leave them on a shelf gathering dust.
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I was thinking the same, you could probably get £40 for a proper full Win 7 boxed copy and then buy the full Win 8 for £50, therefore only £10 to upgrade. I didn't bother though because I'm impatient. :D
 
cu3ed said:
No nothing like that, its an 80GB Intel ssd, removed CS6 and what programmes I have on teh drive, its seems windows is sucking up most of it.

Ive got 16.3 now, is their any of the MS Updates I can remove to free the space?
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System restore points?
 
Glaucus said:
Can any remeber or find the commands for windows 8 reset. I'm sure you could do a few command lines to set the image to what the system is now. So rather than putting fresh windows on. If I install all my software, do the command line. Reset would then take me back to that.
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Refreshing your PC to a state you define, including desktop apps

We know that many of you like to first configure your PC just the way you like it, by installing favorite desktop apps or removing apps that came with the PC, and then create an image of the hard drive before you start using the PC. This way, when you need to start over, you can just restore the image and you won’t have to reinstall the apps from scratch.

With this in mind, we’ve made it possible for you to establish your own baseline image via a command-line tool (recimg.exe). So when you get a Windows 8 PC, you will be able to do the following:

Go through the Windows first-run experience to configure basic settings.
Install your favorite desktop apps (or uninstall things you don’t want).
Configure the machine exactly as you would like it.
Use recimg.exe to capture and set your custom image of the system.

After you’ve created the custom image, whenever you refresh your PC, not only will you be able to keep your personal data, settings, and Metro style apps, but you can restore all the desktop apps in your custom image as well. And if you buy a PC that already comes with a recovery image on a hidden partition, you’ll be able to use the tool to switch from using the hidden partition to instead use the custom image you’ve created.

If you’d like to try this out now, a preview version of this tool is included in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. You can try it out by typing the following in a command prompt window running as administrator:

mkdir C:\RefreshImage

recimg -CreateImage C:\RefreshImage
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Are there really no gadgets in the final release version?

I like my desktop clock and currency gadgets! Is there any where else I can get them or copy them from Vista or Windows 7?
 
Tbh same as Rp, and I thought that was great, I just get to see stor now and the big one I want to use is xbox movies/music, but haven't tried that yet.


machare said:
Are there really no gadgets in the final release version?

I like my desktop clock and currency gadgets! Is there any where else I can get them or copy them from Vista or Windows 7?
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Use live tiles, that's what's replaced them.

Thanks guys will give it a try, still need to install a few things.
And sort metro out, test the apps and delete loads.
 
On the upgrade assistant checkout there's a box which you can tick, WIndows Dvd.

Does this mean I will get windows 8 pro upgrade on disc as well ?


Or is it worth just getting the Boxed version ?
 
Bugger got up to 17.4, but now im thinking of going back ( if I can) and doing a clean install.

So cancelled the update assitant but it doesnt start over, its you back to teh point of getting a few things ready and I cant seem to choose to go right back a select that I wasnt a clean install, any ideas?
 
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