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My lappy has the i3 intel HD graphics and seems to work perfectly with the W8 built in drivers. There is no sign on the intel website about Windows 8 though :/

To be honest, hadnt thought of that, but again, if its a new user who doesnt know they are there as the metro tiles are missing, how would they be expected to find them?

Installed Windows 8 Pro 64bit on my non-touch screen laptop at home thanks to MSDN I must say I actually like it, there is a couple of grumbles but i was expecting that but surprisingly not that many. There is alot to get used to and im already finding little "features" that I like/don't like such as this little list. I like using Google Chrome, which installs fine on Windows 8 but runs 2 different programs depending on if you launch it from desktop or "Modern UI". If you use a web browser in the "modern UI" interface, you have no clock for reference, not that its much of a problem, but I am surprised at how often I look in the corner to see what the time really is. This is not a problem in Desktop mode as you have the task bar at the bottom of the screen. Oh and Internet Explorer is still clunky and slow! so i certainly wont be using that for my main browser. Simple programs like paint, calc, notepad and so on are seemingly missing, but "Win Key + R" and typing the names like mspaint.exe and up it loads. There is alot missing from the main user interface that we all use and unless we know the keyboard shortcuts or commands to load them, then the normal user woundnt even know they existed in Windows 8. One thing i did notice, is the Windows games like minesweeper has new features one of which is like a story mode type thing, albeit not working yet and is shown as coming soon. I know this isnt a big thing but I like minesweeper and find myself looking daily to see if its gone live yet! Printers, well it picked up my Epson wireless printer all by itself, installed itself and just worked, quietly impressed! As for the "Modern UI" well is basically the "Start Menu", i found that out just poking around and it even says Start in the top left corner. Also to be noted is the inclusion of Hyper-V for the 64bit versions of Pro and Enterprise. I had to have a play with this as my littlen enjoys playing "Roblox" at weekends and I often need to get access to certain windows apps, so I put XP Pro into Hyper-V and remote into it via my Android tablet, couldnt believe how easy it was with only a slight performance loss on the host machine. The "App Store" is pretty empty at the moment, there are a couple of grabs just for the hell of it, hoping for more soon... Well, at the moment, there not much more i can add, still looking and thought I would share my experience, which I feel was very positive and not what I was expecting.

Ive only had issues where the laptops wireless cards drivers were not in the WDs package and the laptop picked the driver via WindowsUpdate. Possibly the case?

Only thing i can advise is to restore a previous backup version of the database and see how it goes from there.

I have a 37" Samsung TV and just plug a 1TB External HHD into the side of it, the built in software in the TV plays everything including MKV files

Always found the Tampax Challenge. Take 2 tampax's and put them both in your mount (one in each cheek) and try to down a pint... Looser forfeits or even use this as a forfeit? Good laugh though

Hi Adam, I shifted our menu down by editing the HTML code in the template.... Tools --- Template Manager --- Select template your using --- Edit HTML Find the bit like below... Add the extra on each line for every drop you need to push the menu down by. ~I have BOLDED the part that i had to add. <?php if ($this->countModules('topmenu')): ?>

What do you base this on? All my main server data drives are Western Digital Black drives, running RAID 5 without any issues or failures. They have been in use for the last 2 years now without a hiccup, so from my point of view, i would never use any other manufacturer.

In the word of Mrs Brown (From Mrs Browns Boys) - "That's Nice"

We use phone, email, SMS, Facebook, Twitter and our school website.... All seem to work quite well and rarely get complaints that parents dont know whats going on...

oh dear really does sum it up...

Found this post ActiveSlate and Activhub compatibility. - ActivPeripherals - Forums - PrometheanPlanet It would appear the hub is not compatible with your slate...

Sorry, didnt notice the model number, we have some ActivSlate50's here and use the ActivPen 4. Did find a short post on prometheans site, Re: activslate will not register (not showing pin prompt) - ActivPeripherals - Forums - PrometheanPlanet

Stupid question, you are using the slates pen, and not the whiteboards pen as they are different....

Took this pic of my other halfs phone, was a bit bored that night

Our netbooks here we very similar, Samsung NB30's. Had major trouble getting logon times down so gave up with logging them onto the domain. They now all have local group policy settings, and children log on with limited accounts. On this occasion every child in the year group has their own netbook so individual user names and passwords that match the domain usernames and passwords were set up and each netbook labelled individually. Logon scripts and group policy setup shares, printer, default homepages, remove access to windows damaging places such a command prompts, control panel etc. For the odd half dozen here and there, all the netbooks have identical pupil login names and passwords that again match the domain details, same group policy settings, share, printers etc. Because the local username and passwords match the domain username and passwords match, we do not get authentication problems, and the netbooks logon within a minute usually after the first ever logon. This system has been in place for well over 6 months now, no problems, everything works fine and the teachers are very happy at not waste half the ICT lessons on logging on.

had same problem with the same printers.... Got so fed up trying so many things, i built a 2003 32bit virtual server, joined it to the domain and used it as a 32 bit printer server. No more problems

make sure they havent got custom DNS and IP address settings on the laptop, make sure its getting an IP address from the DHCP server, check to make sure the date and time is correct...

When i did drive, i had a Vectra Sri, i saved around 5 quid every 150 miles.. Travelling to my inlaws in London, the run costs about 20 quid in normal pertol, about 15 ish quid on super. The main difference in older engines, not sure if it makes a difference in modern engines is that the petrol ignites and pushes the pistons down and round, as opposed to normal petrol when it essentially slaps the top of the piston. Another noticeable thing was when i had to do the head gasket on the car, the bottom end was nearly all shiny silver, on cars ran on normal petrol, the bottom end would be black! so engine wise, it is way better and saved me a fortune not having to clean up the bottom end of the engine. Ultimately, its the owners choice, the difference in petrol price was marginal compare to the overall running of the car, and if i decide to drive again instead of cycling, i shall be uses super again. Oh, and Tesco super is nowhere near as good as BP/Shell, my vectra used to jump around like a b*tch when on tesco super, but did hear that there super is normal fuel with chemical enhancements to make it a higher ron, and if you use BP Ultimate you can join the Ultimate club and collect double if not 4x nectar points when an offer is on.

No issues here, although we dont use intouch

We have Movie Maker 2.6 running across all 280 windows 7 laptops here. Installed perfectly fine, didnt need to change anything, although 2.6 is for XP.

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Done

I had PC's refusing to update because the date and time was wrong? Worth a check