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Hi, my live tiles do not work. the ones that show some information (e.g. weather), show the information but when I click on them or when I click on other Microsoft tile such as music, maps, photos etc, the icon plays the animation to go to full screen and then simply disappears and I see the Metro interface. this happens both with local account or microsoft account. I have created another profile and they do work with this profile, nevertheless I need them working in my profile. Can you pls help me? thanks View the full article
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Is there any known intent to support modern-ui apps such as Xbox Music in the Volume Mixer (or adding a modern-ui specific volume mixer)? This lack of independent volume control for the Xbox Music app has resulted in my resorting to the Zune software for accessing my Xbox Music Pass content on Windows 8. View the full article
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Hello, I have started using windows 8 RC enterprise and all is working well until i get to outlook 2010. i am running an exchange 2003 server offsite. When i setup outlook to connect to the exchange server all is well until it tries to sync. The authentication works fine but it will sit and try to sync for 10 or so minutes and then disconnect and reconnect immediately. I have 5 other windows 7 machines with outlook 2010 that work fine. Another possibly related problem is that the OWA will not load. I can log in but all I end up with is empty frames. i have tried resetting IE 10 to defaults and made sure windows is up to date. On the outlook 2010 side of things i have …
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Hi, Im running Windows 8 Pro from a Technet subscription, it works "fine" when using a local account but if I use my domain joined account everything in the start menu is gone except for IE, File Explorer, Desktop and the Store The store will try to open but it will close right away, also none of my network drives show ( the network drives are mapped via login script) When I go into manage to try to add my domain account to the administrators group all of the account that our GPO adds show with an interrogation sign and when I click add the only location showed is the local machine not my DC Any help with this???? View the full article
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Does Windows7 and windows8 support Storport ETW trace? I follow the link http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2010/04/22/etw-storport.aspx but it does not work. please MSFT help on this. View the full article
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Hi I'm running a fresh install of windows 8 (x86) and I'm trying to install the RSAT but after the install RSAT doesn't appear in "Turn Windows features on or off" and doesn't show as installed in "Uninstall or change a program" or "Uninstall an update" The install looks like it’s working fine until I press "Ï accept" and the install finishes in about 3 seconds. I have tried extracting and installing it manually through CMD but still im having no luck. (pkgmgr /ip /m:Windows6.2-KB2693643-x86.xml) Any help would be appreciated. View the full article
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Hello, when i try to install free apps from windows store, it shows "installing..." for long time, after that it says, "Your purchased could not be completed, something happened and purchased can't be completed" Now, how can i use apps?? View the full article
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Hello I'm having this issue with windows 8 pro taskbar and I had it on the release preview I move the cursor away from the taskbar When I point at an icon there "Pinned shortcuts" but the taskbar doesn't recognize that I moved the cursor out of there instead it just shows me The info or the name of the pinned item The problem gets fixed sometimes and sometimes starts again.. Cheers! View the full article
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Can't remember when it started, but it's getting really annoying recently. Info from event viewer shows that the crash always happens in one of the following 4 DLLs:ntdll.dll, combase.dll, RPCRT4.dll, KERNELBASE.dll. Error off-sets are often different between crashes(even when crashing in the same DLL file), but the error codes are always the same: 0xc00000fd (which means stack overflow I guess?) So-far I've tried the following fixes to no avail： Reboot into safe-mode. Run SFC /SCANNOW Use ShellExView to disable any 3rd party shell extensions Turning off Windows Defender(MS Security Essential) and Windows Firewall I've gathered some error off-sets from …
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hi, i just recently clean installed windows 8 pro and tried to install a game which because of compatibilty issues and anti-piracy security issues crashed the system, so i had to clean install windows 8. im now recieving an error message in iobit disk doctor that errors are found, and after running chdsk i am informed my volume bitmap is not correct, i have windows 7 and manufacturers disks backup, but i preffer windows 8. if there is any advice or help you could possibly share i would be greatful, thanks. jamie hadaway View the full article
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One of my Word documents I uploaded to SkyDrive seems to have been corrupted. When trying to open it in Word, the system erroneously tries to invoke "Rights Management". The doc is not worth protecting, in fact I don't use this feature at all. What causes this, and how can I retrieve the doc? PS: I continued to follow the wizard and ultimately the Rights Management part failed with a "AD RMS data didn't match the expected format" message. But as I said above, the real problem is that "Right Management" gets invoked at all. ChrisB View the full article
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Hi All, Does anybody know where are the Windows 8 Pro Start-up and Shutdown Sounds? Is there is anyway to enable them? I am using MS Windows 8 Pro x64 Thanks. Best regards, A AECode View the full article
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OK I've gotten myself into a bit of trouble. I did my second Win 8 upgrade tonight, paying $40 for a 2nd upgrade key. Everything went great and then I remembered I could install Windows Media Center for free until January. I already had a key from my first upgrade and stupid me, figured "since they give these things away maybe I can just reuse this key." So I entered the key and Windows accepted it and did the upgrade, but of course when the system rebooted I had an activation error since the key was being used elsewhere (my other machine). OK, so I grabbed the key from my Win 8 upgrade receipt but that's no longer valid because it's a Win 8 Pro key and I now have Win…
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Hi, How does this command: manage-bde.exe -tpm -TakeOwnership SomePassword looks like in Windows 8 (e.g. using powershell, since the "TakeOwnership" parameter is obsolete) ? regards, Martin View the full article
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I'm trying to play vídeos on my Windows 8 and all I can see is a black screen and I can only hear the sound. This happens everywhere. Youtube, video apps, media player. I can't understand why. I've installed already the K-Lite Codec pack and I've upgraded my AMD video card. But still no luck. Only sound , no video. Also, if it helps, I have a Vaio J Series (all-in-one) also know as VPCJ215FB. Could you please help me? Thanks in advance View the full article
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Issue: Explorer.exe crashes and restarts every 1-2 minutes. It doesn't matter if I'm in the start screen or in the desktop. Applications that depend on the explorer crash or hang as well. Background: Machine was upgraded from Windows 7 to the RTM build of Windows 8. This problem did not show up immediately, after a day it happened once and I rebooted which seemed to help. Now the problem shows up immediately after rebooting. Steps: 1. Ran "sfc /scannow". It completed successfully and fixed a few corruption issues. 2. Booted into Safe Mode and the problem still exists. 3. Ran windbg.exe, attached to explorer.exe process to capture crash information. Machine Informati…
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Hey all, The RuntimeBroker.exe process is new for Windows 8 that is a "middleman" type process for new Win8 type apps. I read somewhere that it should be a very small footprint. Looking at my Win8 Pro system (RTM code) my RuntimeBroker.exe is taking > 500MB of Memory, and I have seen it larger than this. Is this a problem? What are you all seeing? Thanks! View the full article
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I've heard rumors that the Surface RT sales numbers have been incredibly low. The 32GB model, for example, has sold less than 50,000 units online and half that in the the stores. Microsoft didn't think they'd sell - so they only manufactured a small amounts - and this is why they "sold out". The 64GB version has only sold about 100,000 units total. A friend who is an MS employee at one store (name withheld to save his job) mentioned that the return rate is very high - about 20% (1 in 5 sales come back). This would coincide with Ballmer refusing to state any sales numbers: http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-ballmer-not-ready-to-reveal-windows-8-surface-sa…
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I just downloaded and upgraded Windows 8. From the start screen, none of the metro apps will launch. They act as if they are beginning to launch, but they return me back to the start screen. What may be wrong? View the full article
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I put Windows 8 on my daughters old laptop over the weekend. She mainly just browses the internet with it so of course the first thing that comes up is why isn't there a shortcut/tile to run the Desktop IE10 on the start screen? (The Metro version of IE10 is simply not acceptable to use.) I know you can just go over to the Desktop Interface to run IE10, but since Metro is the new Start Menu, doesn't it makes sense that you have the ability to add a tile/shortcut for "any" application to the only Start Menu included in Windows 8? I don't believe it's possible to do this, but I mentioned to her that I would check and if not, we'll just install Firefox…
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When I attempt to "Restart" Windows 8 from the charm bar, the system stays forever on the blue "Restarting" screen and never actually restarts. There is no problem if I use "Shut down". Any idea what may be causing this? Thanks. View the full article
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Hello, I have the following problem: I have connected my domain account with a live id. I have no problem signing in into the xbox app, but it is impossible to sign in to the music app. I am using Windows 8 Enterprise x64 and made an upgrade from windows 7 enterprise. The error message is: 0xc00d11cd (0x82bc0008) Any ideas for a solution here? Cause i would love to hear music at work ) Thanks Wolfgang View the full article
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First off sorry for not putting a comment here originally the comment box doesnt rendered properly in Safari, just comes up with a progress bar...anyway at another PC Now with IE 8 Ok following are the steps I took to setup Win 8 Pro RTM Created Windows 8 Pro RTM USB Boot image Disks Disk 0 SATA (Data drive docs and files)- 2 TB Seagate Disk 1 SATA (OS, Apps, Software Installs) - 2 TB Seagate Disk 2 OCZ Agility3 (Games) - 128 GB SSD Disabled disk 0 and 2 to insure win 8 system partition created on Disk 1 - previously issue with Win 7 Installed OS - Everything booted up fine Re-Enabled Disk 0 and Disk 2 - Everything fine Installed VS2008 + SP, VS 2010 + S…
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I'm trying to create a Windows 8 snapshot using: C:Windowssystem32>recimg /createimage C:Refresh Source OS location: C: Recovery image path: C:RefreshCustomRefresh.wim Creating recovery image. Press [ESC] to cancel. Initializing 100% Creating snapshot 100% Writting image (this may take a while) 8% The recovery image cannot be written. Error Code - 0x80070006 I've got a C: with over 40GB of free space left on it, and I've also tried saving to the second D: partition on which I have >10GB of space with the same result (I'm preety sure that I don't need much more since the Windows installation for which I'm trying to create the recovery image f…
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I just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8 and none of the tiles except Maps works. They just seem to load for EVER, leaving me in front of a blue screen. I tried everything: changing the screen resolution, creating another user account, running all sorts of tests, multiple restarts, turning off my antivirus, deleting the ole key etc. It looks like a lot of other people have the same problem yet there has been no solution. Microsoft should never release something not functioning! View the full article
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