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First time installing windows 8 on my laptop. Is there no way of installing icons made by myself on the metro start menu. When i pin a app on say angry birds it installs a little ugly icon.
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I think we are stuck with whatever the system puts up as an ico. I suppose one could change the icon via the .exe properties but that sounds hard work.
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Just took me 30 secs to change the metro icon for google chrome, couldnt be simpler 
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Just took me 30 secs to change the metro icon for google chrome, couldnt be simpler
I mean when you set a game or app on metro start menu it give you the little blue see through on with the little icon.
Just took me 30 secs to change the metro icon for google chrome, couldnt be simpler
How'd you do it then mate?
Fed up of seeing that Firefox icon when the rest of it has a full blown image.
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When the app store really gets started in August. I think they are opening it up to developers who can charge fro their apps and that ought to see a big increase in usable apps for tablets. Mind, it may take until launch before everything is out.
For the PC, of course, the desktop will juts stay the same and there is not likely to be anything interesting on this front.
There isn't anything to worry about if you understand the difference between a simple, mirrored and parity space. Personally I'm going to be using a mirrored space + external backup.
The Surface has my attention and I'll probably end up buying one, but beyond that I've not seen anything special. I think only a Lumia/Nokia tablet running WinRT would make me reconsider.
It might take a few hardware iterations to work out how best to compliment Windows 8.
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Not in that respect. But what has me worried is the unrecoverable BSODs caused by the storage spaces driver when it detects a drive that has been part of a failed storage space connected to the machine.
For example:
Added 8x1.5 TB drives to a Highpoint controller.
Created a storage space using the drives.
During the creation process some of the drives (Samsung) timed out.
Storage space creation failed
Added the Samsung drives to another controller (no time out issues)
Continuous BSODs until those drives were physically removed and Diskpart cleaned (no way to do this from PowerShell SS commands, Safe Mode, SS Control Panel etc). Basically had to be done outside of the OS.
Clearly the drive/controller incompatibility is not an MS issue, but how it handles drives from a failed storage space is. Simply put it shouldn't BSOD and allow you to manually clean/attempt recovery of the SS on the drives once the OS is booted.
This doesn't fill me with confidence that SS is robust when dealing with failed/failing drives, or drives that have not been prepped before being moved to another machine.
I really want some bench markets on the new atom chips and some battery and weight info for the i3 ones. It would be great to be able to play some games on a tablet. It won't have the controls to play FPS, but should be doable for other types of games.
@ChileanLlama Is RAID disabled on that controller card?
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theheyes, yes just passing the disks through. It works absolutely fine with 2TB Samsung F4's and WD 1.5 TB's, just not the Samsung 1.5TB drives. Definitely a drive/controller/driver issue there, that side of it I can live with.
More concerned with how the MS Storage Space driver falls over at the first hint of a drive that had failed previously with no option for recovery. My expectation would be to see the disks as "failed" in the Control panel with an option to "clean" them for reuse.
What I saw in Diskpart was that the disks had obviously had some Storage Space information written to them before they timed out, as they were listing the storage space size>physical capacity, and until they were cleaned of all information would cause the crash.
Now my own circumstances may be fairly unique leading up to the failure will be relatively unique, however disk failure itself isn't so what would happen then? Say if a drive timed out, dropped from the storage space, but presented itself back to the OS on the next boot?
More concerned with how the MS Storage Space driver falls over at the first hint of a drive that had failed previously with no option for recovery. My expectation would be to see the disks as "failed" in the Control panel with an option to "clean" them for reuse.
What I saw in Diskpart was that the disks had obviously had some Storage Space information written to them before they timed out, as they were listing the storage space size>physical capacity, and until they were cleaned of all information would cause the crash.
Now my own circumstances may be fairly unique leading up to the failure will be relatively unique, however disk failure itself isn't so what would happen then? Say if a drive timed out, dropped from the storage space, but presented itself back to the OS on the next boot?
Absolutely not, give up on that idea. All though 3rd party software is already available.
Yeah, I know what you're saying. Did you make a note of the blue screen info? Failing to handle a "bad" disk is a pretty big problem so hopefully Microsoft are aware, even if it is a rare set of circumstances.
Pfft, pretty poor there won't even be an option.
Shame as I really like some of the new features.
I was thinking the other day about the potential of an ARM-based touch screen ultrabook. Since WinRT is pretty locked down by its very nature and you could pack a relatively big battery inside an ultrabook, it might possibly be a very attractive combination for education or road warrior. A (largely) full fat OS with Office, manageable, resilient to malware, secure (bitlocker), plus insane battery life with the ability to output to an external monitor or projector. It could be a real winner.