Windows 8 Consumer Preview Thread

[doodah]

Noob question. You can't set up a partition from some free space right? You have to do it when you first format/partition the drive?

 

[Number_25]

Wow, what an OS this is going to be.

 

[paradisiac]

Noob question. You can't set up a partition from some free space right? You have to do it when you first format/partition the drive?

if its windows 7 you can shrink your drive and make a partition, cant remember if this was available in xp, but probs is in vista too.

right click computer
manage
disk management
right click partition
shrink

 

[Glaucus]

All apps will be free with cosumer preview.


It wont format my USB pen.

 

[doodah]

if its windows 7 you can shrink your drive and make a partition, cant remember if this was available in xp, but probs is in vista too.

right click computer
manage
disk management
right click partition
shrink

Wow - had no idea this feature existed. Thanks

 

[Deleted member 77746]

lol @ the fish startup logo it's 2D. WTF.

 

[paradisiac]

can anyone confirm if the iphone works with the consumer preview?

 

[Glaucus]

Wow 86" gorilla glass screen/tablet thing. With pen, looks awesome.

 

[TallPaul_S]

Wow - had no idea this feature existed. Thanks

Nor me, very useful. Just tested on my old drive and you can go back too, i.e. revert to how it was before

Am gonna install W8 onto my old drive but it was playing up a small amount before, so will create another partition for it on my main drive if it continues playing up.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

can anyone confirm if the iphone works with the consumer preview?

What part do you want me to test?

EDIT: Everything works on a MBA smoothly! It's very nice indeed.

 

[paradisiac]

What part do you want me to test?

in the developer preview it wouldnt get recognised as there was no drivers. so itunes wouldnt sync without a lot of hassel

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I am doing pictures for you guys over on my twitter section so please take a look, update throughout the day.

http://twitter.com/#!/mrbell1984

 

[Abooie]

As a Zune Pass holder and Xbox Live player.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Apps
Things to Try

When you sign in to the app, make sure that the country on your computer is set properly and your account is created for the right country.
To change your country, search for "change the country or region setting at http://support.microsoft.com/.
If your account doesn't match the country that your computer is set to, you'll need to create a new account.


What's Going On?

Account/Location Mismatch — C00D1353

Typically, this error occurs for one of the following reasons:

You're trying to sign in to the app in countries or regions where the service is unavailable; or
The computer that you're trying to sign in on is in a different Windows region than where your account is based.


More information

The apps affected by this issue include Xbox Companion, Xbox LIVE Games, Music, and Video. Note that the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Apps are only available in the following locations:

United states
Japan
Germany
France

 

[maxilive]

Just set the OS location to US or does that "fix" not work anymore? I used to do that to get the Zune software working on Windows 7

 

[Deleted member 77746]

in the developer preview it wouldnt get recognised as there was no drivers. so itunes wouldnt sync without a lot of hassel

Testing that for you now

 

[marc2003]

start screen:

app store:

windows media centre - looks like the old one

 

[paradisiac]

Testing that for you now

cheers

 

[reflux]

You know, I hate to moan... but after trying it out several times... how is this any better on a PC than Windows 7?

Seems to me like they're forcing one paradigm onto multiple platforms and I really don't think it works.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

It seems very smooth on my mba very slicker than windows 7.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

cheers

Yep, working fine Very fast driver install. Infact I don't see it installing it just works OOTB!