Windows 8 who's buying/upgrading

Logsi · 3 Jan 2013 at 18:49

Ended up buying and installing.

Was seamless up until a lot of things just stopped working once it had finished installing. Had to faff around with trackpad, Bluetooth keyboard, laptops keyboard, changing the UI to how I like it through regedit once again. Got it to work now and getting my head round some of the decisions, which at this moment in time, I think are stupid. I can't see myself spending much time in metro other than typing to start applications much like I did before in 7. Also, why would they not allow you to change the Metro background? Decor8 changed this...

The charms bar is utterly stupid and the hot corners are terribly finicky. It doesn't feel cohesive at this point in time.

Now I shall stay in the desktop and feel smug at my under the hood improvements.

theheyes · 3 Jan 2013 at 19:01

Is this on the MBP?

Sin_Chase · 3 Jan 2013 at 19:09

theheyes said:
Is this on the MBP?

The what?

theheyes · 3 Jan 2013 at 19:10

The MacBook Pro in Logsi's sig.

Logsi · 3 Jan 2013 at 21:51

Yeah, the MBP.

Hudzy · 4 Jan 2013 at 00:08

I'll ask this here instead of making a thread.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/feature-packs

Has anyone else had trouble getting the Media Center upgrade from here? I've tried several times today, but all it says is:

"We couldn't process your order."

I thought this was available until the 31st?

MeatLoaf · 4 Jan 2013 at 00:44

Mine seemed to go through ok last night but ive not had my key yet

V F · 4 Jan 2013 at 01:07

MeatLoaf said:
Mine seemed to go through ok last night but ive not had my key yet

It'll arrive. I had to wait over 4 days for mine.

gareth170 · 4 Jan 2013 at 09:20

Hudzy said:
I'll ask this here instead of making a thread.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/feature-packs

Has anyone else had trouble getting the Media Center upgrade from here? I've tried several times today, but all it says is:

"We couldn't process your order."

I thought this was available until the 31st?

have you already had one Media Center key? because it's one key per email address.

Hudzy · 4 Jan 2013 at 10:35

Haven't had any keys yet, just the Windows one itself.

It's still not working today, and I've tried several email addresses

shamus21 · 4 Jan 2013 at 13:38

Just a quick question before I do a roll back or a new install.

Upgraded to win 8 no problems with install, activated ok , received my media player key installed no problem ,key activated ok. Plugged in my usb tv stick . Installed working no problems and then window 8 flags me to activate again, try to activate but all it keeps saying is, can’t activate at this time.
Had this problem since last weekend everything still works ok , nothing blocked. Screen keeps popping up telling me to activate which I do but same message which is driving me mad. Any help would be appreciated.

MeatLoaf · 4 Jan 2013 at 15:07

Well after trying It on my spare SSD and checking my programs work ive blitzed my Win 7 install and put Win 8 on my M4.

Steam works ok as do my games ( well apart from bioshock 2 ) but everytime it boots it complains about steam needing to install something or other running in admin mode. But if I press cancel it runs perfectly fine :confused:

When I restart ill write the message down

But yeah, so far the best £25 ive spent this year

gareth170 · 4 Jan 2013 at 18:10

shamus21 said:
Just a quick question before I do a roll back or a new install.

Upgraded to win 8 no problems with install, activated ok , received my media player key installed no problem ,key activated ok. Plugged in my usb tv stick . Installed working no problems and then window 8 flags me to activate again, try to activate but all it keeps saying is, can’t activate at this time.
Had this problem since last weekend everything still works ok , nothing blocked. Screen keeps popping up telling me to activate which I do but same message which is driving me mad. Any help would be appreciated.

u may need to phone activate has your usb tv stick may have triggered windows thinking you've changed some hardware.

theheyes · 4 Jan 2013 at 18:18

Logsi said:
Yeah, the MBP.

How does it scale on such a high resolution display if you don't mind me asking? Does it look alright?

theheyes · 4 Jan 2013 at 18:32

Windows 8 who's buying/upgrading? The US Department of Defence apparently...

http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-just-scored-huge-win-174258770.html

SamG · 4 Jan 2013 at 20:47

Anyone have a link to where I can re-download Windows 8 from?

Here it is:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only

Logsi · 4 Jan 2013 at 21:28

theheyes said:
How does it scale on such a high resolution display if you don't mind me asking? Does it look alright?

Ahhh, i'm afraid I have the normal MacBook Pro without the retina as I needed two hard drives and the upgradability.

scaramanga182 · 5 Jan 2013 at 11:04

Just a quick question. Wanting to upgrade my 7 Pro x64 installation but it's complaining that I don't have enough free space to do the download and doesn't seem to offer an option to change the download location to a drive with space. If I download on my 7 Home x32 machine will I still be able to get the x64 version?

theheyes · 5 Jan 2013 at 11:10

Logsi said:
Ahhh, i'm afraid I have the normal MacBook Pro without the retina as I needed two hard drives and the upgradability.

Sorry that was my fault - I misread the U for an R in your sig

G-MAN2004 · 5 Jan 2013 at 11:47

If I download Win 8, will it install straight over Win 7 and allow me to keep everything as it is? Or will it wipe everything, meaning I'll have to back up to another HDD first? I'm a bit of a noob, sorry.