It's Windows 8.1 Day!

[Sheridan]

Me too - I was hoping it would sort out the mess of errors that Windows 8 is, but the irony that 8.1 is almost impossible to get hold of is not lost on me!

[Sheridan]

oooh I got to 15% there!

[gmonks]

I think we need to start a petition to get a proper MS Start Menu Button and Menu back. Perhaps that'll be Windows 8 v8.2?

 

I use Classic Start. You can configure it to look identical to the Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 start menu.

[Bromcom_John]

If you've relocated your users directories to a secondary partition then the upgrade won't even work

So sucks to be a home user with a primary "but smaller" SSD drive it seems.

[LosOjos]

If you've relocated your users directories to a secondary partition then the upgrade won't even work

So sucks to be a home user with a primary "but smaller" SSD drive it seems.

 

That's ridiculous! I pointed all my libraries at a secondary partition but never got round to sorting out symlinks - feel lucky I didn't now!

[bwestlake]

you can change the start menu button apparently!

[bucnblv1t]

Still nothing in VLSC. Contacted VLSC support and they stated it is a known issue that some subscribers are not able to view let alone download the 8.1 files. I've had the KMS and MAK keys for over a month now. 1-6 business day turnaround.

[rinzwind]

Supposedly 8.1 adds some manageability for RT tablets... i'm gonna find out.

[teejay]

If you have a Technet subscription as part of your VLSC it's available in the subscriber downloads there, including the Enterprise version and downloads at a good speed

[Arthur]

MDT 2013 is now available!

[SYNACK]

Just installed it from the store on my table, the update should be called Windows Infinity point one as it took hours to download and longer to install on my poor atom tablet. On the plus side IE11 seems to handle vbulitins dodgy js much better in metro mode.

 

Enter even works now.

 

It also puts a WiFi strength meter on the logon screen, have only been messing with it for about 15 min so I'm sure there is more. I wouldn't mind some better feedback from the store app, a percentage of the download that was complete instead of a nondescript progress bar would be quite an upgrade.

 

I am hoping the management has improved a bunch, looking forward to the start screen being customisable with an xml and GPO, hopefully the store apps are a bit more management friendly too.

[caffrey]

Managed to download it fine this morning, still took a while

RSAT out too

Download Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8.1 from Official Microsoft Download Centre

[sted]

Just installed it from the store on my table, the update should be called Windows Infinity point one as it took hours to download and longer to install on my poor atom tablet. On the plus side IE11 seems to handle vbulitins dodgy js much better in metro mode.

 

Enter even works now.

 

It also puts a WiFi strength meter on the logon screen, have only been messing with it for about 15 min so I'm sure there is more. I wouldn't mind some better feedback from the store app, a percentage of the download that was complete instead of a nondescript progress bar would be quite an upgrade.

 

I am hoping the management has improved a bunch, looking forward to the start screen being customisable with an xml and GPO, hopefully the store apps are a bit more management friendly too.

 

ive found metro ie11 worse than 10 crashes often and google searches are rendered unusable only wants to use the first inch of the screen so you spend all day scrollong down

[SYNACK]

Bloody Intel still can't write a driver to save their worthless little lives, I get a two second wait as the filthy Intel driver crashes then recovers on resume from standby. The mail and calendar apps are better, battery life is worse.

[SYNACK]

ive found metro ie11 worse than 10 crashes often and google searches are rendered unusable only wants to use the first inch of the screen so you spend all day scrollong down

 

Google search seems to work alright for me, I usually use bing anyway but just tried it and seemed to work fine, haven't had 11 crash on me yet with many tabs open but it is still early.

[sted]

Google search seems to work alright for me, I usually use bing anyway but just tried it and seemed to work fine, haven't had 11 crash on me yet with many tabs open but it is still early.

 

just checked my laptops fine that i dont use metro ie just the tablet where i do

[SYNACK]

Ah, the drop kicks can't even support their own hardware, worked on 8, not 8.1

 

 

I'd report it, if I knew where to.

[AngryTechnician]

just checked my laptops fine that i dont use metro ie just the tablet where i do

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Same problem on my Surface, except it was doing the same thing in Desktop IE as well as Metro. There is a quick fix though. Open desktop IE and go to Settings > Compatibility View settings, and untick Use Microsoft compatibility lists. Looks like Microsoft have added it to their compatibility view list for some reason, and once on there, you can't turn it off (even using the F12 dev tools) without opting out of their lists entirely.

[sted]

Same problem on my Surface, except it was doing the same thing in Desktop IE as well as Metro. There is a quick fix though. Open desktop IE and go to Settings > Compatibility View settings, and untick Use Microsoft compatibility lists. Looks like Microsoft have added it to their compatibility view list for some reason, and once on there, you can't turn it off (even using the F12 dev tools) without opting out of their lists entirely.

 

aye found it wonder if its a ploy to force you to bing lol. never tried desktop ie i use firefox

[Dos_Box]

Just finished my laptop. Had big problems with it's dual Intel/Nvidia setup that involved me having to strip out all the drivers after the 8.1 upgrade and install them from scratch - in the right order (Intel then Nvidia before you ask).

Also got hit by the blurry text bug - [Fix] Bold, Blurry or Hard to Read Font Problem in Windows 8.1 - AskVG

Still, all done now. Until the next glitch!

Edited October 19, 2013 by Dos_Box

[GREED]

A far cry from the ease of the office machine Chris?

[Dos_Box]

Indeed, the office was plain sailing compared to this!

[Arthur]

Windows RT 8.1 update temporarily pulled due to a “situation” « Ars Technica

 

The problem appears to be that the update is damaging certain boot data, causing affected machines to blue screen on startup. The issue is recoverable if you've created a recovery USB key (or have access to a machine that can create one), but Microsoft currently appears to have no easy way to create a suitable USB key from non-ARM machines.

[SYNACK]

ive found metro ie11 worse than 10 crashes often and google searches are rendered unusable only wants to use the first inch of the screen so you spend all day scrollong down

 

Epic ie11 is massively unstable with Skydrive office web apps, do they have a QA team or just let the programmers push it out into the wild when they are board of messing with it. Hint, don't use the spellcheck on the word webapp without saving first.

[sted]

Epic ie11 is massively unstable with Skydrive office web apps, do they have a QA team or just let the programmers push it out into the wild when they are board of messing with it. Hint, don't use the spellcheck on the word webapp without saving first.

 

i suspect were the qa team why test it when your paying customers can