Windows 8 Consumer Preview Thread

Stoner81 · 29 Feb 2012 at 14:54

Downloading each one at 1MB/s thanks to a download manager

(IDM rocks!).

Stoner81.

Subliminal Aura · 29 Feb 2012 at 14:55

You the man Bledd - Keep the 1st updated

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Feb 2012 at 14:57

Subliminal Aura said:
You the man Bledd - Keep the 1st updated

I posted the links 1 second quicker than bledd so I win.

MR.B · 29 Feb 2012 at 14:59

Why close my Windows 8 thread?? :confused:

I put a lot of effort in to the first post listing all the new features within Win 8 and now all the people rushing to download the BETA/Consumer Preview wont see any of this. It was the only place on these forums where you could see all the big Win 8 features in a single post. Theres already enough incorrect comments going around regarding Win 8.

Nice one.

There should be two threads. One for the Consumer Preview and one for Win 8 news and features.

Glaucus · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:00

Download failed

, started again now at 5MB/s 10mins if it doesn't grind to a halt/fail.

Admiral Huddy · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:01

Great thanks mate.. I don't suppose you know if a dual boot Win 7/ 8 config is possible. Can't see why not but wondered if it gave the options during install.

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:01

MR.B said:
There should be two threads. One for the Consumer Preview and one for Win 8 news and features.

I agree.

bledd · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:01

MR.B

I'll get your thread renamed and the madness of today cut out from it

MR.B · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:02

bledd. said:
MR.B

I'll get your thread renamed and the madness of today cut out from it

Cheers Bledd!

paradisiac · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:03

Admiral Huddy said:
Great thanks mate.. I don't suppose you know if a dual boot Win 7/ 8 config is possible. Can't see why not but wondered if it gave the options during install.

yes its possible to dual boot 7 and 8

marc2003 said:
if you want to dual boot, run setup.exe from the \sources folder. make sure your spare drive/partition is already formatted as ntfs and has a drive letter attched to it and then choose it during setup. job done.

Subliminal Aura · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:03

mrbell1984 said:
I posted the links 1 second quicker than bledd so I win.

Nope, you've yet to complete installation

Gimpymoo said:
These downloads are QUICK.

Kudos to Microsoft. I can only imagine the load the servers are under at the moment.

Static traffic doesn't cause load especially if the ISOs are held in physical memory.

BTW Lets simmer down on the excitement and just post relevant information or queries from now on

EDDS · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:04

marc2003 said:
if you want to dual boot, run setup.exe from the \sources folder. make sure your spare drive/partition is already formatted as ntfs and has a drive letter attched to it and then choose it during setup. job done.

Ah very helpful, thanks for the tip.

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:04

Subliminal Aura said:
Nope, you've yet to install

It's done.

sehcure · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:06

Any massive difference from dev preview or..

Glaucus · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:07

sehcure said:
Any massive difference from dev preview or..

Over 100,000 changes

Got the refresh options now, app store. Office by the looks of it.

And appears to be loads of apps on app store. Going by what's been showen on blogs from the conference.

paradisiac · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:09

ok, so it it me, or rather than this being a thread about windows 8 consumer preview, its just people posting their download speeds :confused:

is there any way this can move back to the topic in hand. how is the consumer preview? what have people noticed is different compaired to dev preview (if they have tried it) and also, any first opinions from people. no one really care who has cable, who has broadband, who has dialup, we just really want to know about windows 8 CP, or is that just me?!?

imb4tman · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:09

2 mins to go for the download. Then about 20 mins to create and check the disc. Should hopefully have it all up and running to have a play with this evening.

sehcure · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:09

paradisiac said:
ok, so it it me, or rather than this being a thread about windows 8 consumer preview, its just people posting their download speeds is there any way this can move back to the topic in hand. how is the consumer preview? what have people noticed is different compaired to dev preview (if they have tried it) and also, any first opinions from people. no one really care who has cable, who has broadband, who has dialup, we just really want to know about windows 8 CP, or is that just me?!?

I just asked that like 2 posts up :rolleyes:

Cosimo · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:12

A look at what we have:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/29/microsoft-windows-8-consumer-preview-detailed-impressions/

robinbredin · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:14

Im have problems getting the 32bit version loaded into oracle virtualbox, and getting this error,