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Hi There, I've installed the RSAT for Windows 8 but having installed them they don't appear to be installed. They don't appear under Turn Features On or Off either... I've reinstalled them on numerous occasions with no joy... I did previously try and install the RC version but that failed. Any ideas? View the full article
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Simple question: windows 8 behind tmg proxy - cannot install any apps from marketplace. Get this err
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Very simple scenario: corporate network, TMG 2010 used as PROXY to browse Internet. WPAD is used (i.e. auto-configuration is in place). Everything by the book and works as charm for many years with no issues or glitches. Installed Windows 8 Professional, fully activated, but cannot access Internet from any METRO-UI application. Marketplace APP is opening but cannot install anything - see screenshot below. Checked TMG (first thing) for any blocked destinations - no issue, all green. Even allowed ALL traffic from Windows 8 computer to Internet - still no luck. Checked Internet, and apparently LOTS of people have the same issue. Tried all possible solutions (netsh proxy, …
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Just downloaded the RTM x64 and installed......Nothing !!!! Checked, Rechecked, reinstalled.....Nada !!!! Nothing in "Turn on Windows features"......... Certainly not rocket science to install !!! RBR Released Before Ready? RF View the full article
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My recently installed Windows 8 RTM freezes several times a day. The monitor goes black, so I cannot really tell if it freezes, however there is nothing I could do to wake it up again (except hard reset). The last two events in the event log are ESENT messages: ESENT 103: msiexec (2820) Instance: The database engine stopped the instance (0). Dirty Shutdown: 0 ESENT 327: msiexec (2820) Instance: The database engine detached a database (1, C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsAppRepositoryPackageRepository.edb). (Time=0 seconds) I know these events happen all the time, however these are the last two before the restart and I cannot find any crash dumps or other information. Furt…
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Hello, Please feel free to move to a more appropriate forum. Seems like most members congrigate here. I installed Window 8 a few weeks ago to integrate with my Touch ELO in my Kitchen. Everything works, except that even after calibration after calibration, the scroll bar at the bottom is not tall enough to pick up my finger. I know some will say the ELO sucks, but I have a sunk investment in it and would love to get it to work. Video = http://youtu.be/00XLmX3Isvk I have done a few regedits to increase the scroll heigth and width, but those settings seem to only apply to applications, not the tablet frontend. So I need help on two fronts. 1) Does anyone kn…
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Windows Store and Windows Update Fail With Error 0x8024401c On a PC Under Corporate Proxy With Direc
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Hello, I am having problems installing Windows apps from Windows Store on a workstation computer that is a Windows 8 client joined to Active Directory domain with WSUS and Proxy configured. Using proxy is disabled on this workstation and running NetSh returns: C:Windowssystem32>netsh winhttp show proxy Current WinHTTP proxy settings: Direct access (no proxy server). WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service (WinHttpAutoProxySvc) is stopped and set to Disabled on this workstation to prevent from using proxy. Windows Update retrieves updates directly from Microsoft web service without contacting local corporate Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) ser…
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Win8 Cannot change Lock Screen picture to non-built-in pic. Tells me I'm not activated when I am.
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I cannot change the Windows 8 Lock Screen picture to my own choice that is not a built in windows option. If i try to do it from the side bar, change PC settings, personalize section I get the error message "Lock Screen Error" then below that "Setting the lock screen failed. Please try again". All I can do is click OK. If I go into the built in "Photos" app, find a photo of my own, right click and on the bottom left click on "set as" and then select "lock screen" I get the following error. "Can't set this photo as the lock screen." "You need to activate Wi…
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Hi How do I properly close the Desktop app? Thanks Bye Balubeto View the full article
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So I have Windows 8 RTM. All the metro UI apps work fine until I join the domain. I checked related topics and they say registry settings in Group Policy but we don't have any of those such settings. It seems that dllhost.exe is locking these log files and then causes the Metro UI app like Store to hang. Upon killing the COM Surrogate process everything works fine. So why is this COM Surrogate using the same files? taskhostex (4088) WebCacheLocal: An attempt to open the file "C:UserschriseAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsWebCacheV01.log" for read only access failed with system error 32 (0x00000020): "The process cannot access the file because it i…
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So I have configured my Windows 8 Pro RTM (TechNet) to connect to our Exchange server. However it enforces the policies, which is fine, but the screen timeout is set at 1 minute. This is very annoying. Is there anyway to change this setting? This is not the server limit, a phone on the same server is at 5 minutes, and can be changed to e.g. 30. Is it possible to configure this on Windows 8 anywhere? Doesn't seem possible in e.g. the screensaver or power options. View the full article
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I recently installed Windows 8 and on thing which I always do on my Windows environment is to change the background color of the windows to a light gray. However I cant figure out how to do this on Windows 8, can someone point me in the right direction please. View the full article
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I'm hearing different stories about how Storage Spaces works, and I'm having a hard time deciding whether or not I should use it. Some people are saying that View the full article
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I just upgraded my win7 Pro x64 desktop to Win8 Pro x64. Upgrade was surprisingly smooth. Now it would be nice to see some of the new features actually work!! I try to double click or use disk image tools to mount ANY iso file (local or on network), and all I get is a messagebox .. Title: Couldn't Mount File Message: You don't have permission to mount the file Buttons: OK I am the domain admin and local admin for the machine. I tried running Explorer.exe as Administrator. No difference. That's a handy feature? Help? Other handy feature so far today is trying to connect the (%!#@# metro) Mail app to my Exchange 2003 account. Not possible apparently. Works in Out…
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I am using Release Preview but someone in another forum has confirmed that they see the same problem even in the RTM. I have a Storage Space consisting of 3 drives with parity. When I try to play back the DVD rip (.IFO from folder structure) in WMP it just shows a blank screen. If I copy the exact same files from the Storage Space to the boot drive it plays fine so the rip doesn't seem to be corrupt or anything like that. At first I was trying to play over the network on a Windows 7 PC so I thought the share was messed up but I get the same results when I try to play back locally in Windows 8. Also, an MKV file of the same movie in the same Storage Space location pla…
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the default keyboard in windows 8 is an interesting beast. im surprised at the lack of shortcuts like touch hold numbers and special character access, and yet there are many other features such as emoticons and cool things like touch hold the .com to get a bunch of others like .org and .com.(region code) which are great... im surprised at the lack of text suggestions as you type, as existed in windows 7 and the lack of ability to fallback to alpha from numeric in anyway like after a space... also surprised, mildly, at the lack of anyway to get to fn keys - unless you go, settings, standard leyboard layout and the appearance in setting of corrections and the like but…
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Hello, Sometimes I control my Win8 box from RDP and when I have finished, I want to put the computer to sleep. I have seen no way to do it : I can only log off. The only workaround I saw was to create a console application (.NET) that calls the api to puts the computer to sleep (the rundLL32 method didn't work as the computer was going to hybernate mode). Is there another way to do it without creating a program? Thank you Marc View the full article
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Hi Been testing out Windows 8 RTM within our environment - and I've come across a frustrating problem I can't create a Microsoft account for a specific e-mail address in Windows 8. If I try create the account in Windows 8 - it takes me all the way through the steps, including captcha verification but then tells me that the e-mail address is already a Microsoft Account. If I try reset the password I'm told the e-mail address is not a Microsoft account. I've searched everywhere and so far the only answer I've found is that support for Microsoft Accounts is provided through the Microsoft Answers forum - which is completely unacceptable - MS requires us to use MS account…
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Unfortunately, IE 10 always crashes if I try to print (Ctrl + P or Menu -> Print). I see few users complaining on different forums but no fix. Is there any fix? Good luck ! Shaba View the full article
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I upgraded a system from Microsoft Windows 7 Professional x64 to Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64. The Windows 7 system was using Backup and Restore. The system has two users. User A used the Control Panel to disabled the Backup and Restore schedule and to enable File History. The Control Panel for User B reports that File History is off. Is it necessary to enable File History as each User individually? How are common files from Public, which may appear in the Libraries of multiple Users or in none of the user Libraries handled? View the full article
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SIMPLE QUESTION: REMOTE DESKTOPS MMC CLIENT IS MISSING IN RSAT TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 8. ANY IDEA IF IT W
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Here is the scenario. Deployed Windows 8 Professional, 64 bit. Yes, RTM. Yes, build 9200. Yes this is available since August 16. Yes Windows is activated. Works great! Now obviously I need RSAT tools to manage all aspects of infrastructure - AD, DHCP, DNS, CA, etc. So I need RSAT tools. Checked Internet and quickly found that RSAT is not RTM yet - Preview can be installed using some workaround described here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprogeneral/thread/6d8745e0-c4c1-463a-b4bb-09f6c9c22527 Ok, no problem. Used this workaround, 5 minutes and RSAT is installed and working. But cannot find one component: Remote Desktops. Not Remote Desktop Connec…
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title says about everything.. im looking for a way to put a customised tattoos as backgound for windows 8 ui been all over the group policy, nothings there.. any ideas? View the full article
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When opening multiple page PDF's in the new Windows 8 PDF Reader, it doesn't show all pages of the PDF. All pages are shown when opening the PDF in other PDF Browsers. I have experienced this with multiple PDF's created with different methods. For example, I just used MS Word to create a 4 page PDF. When opening the PDF with Reader, the top page is page 2, then second page is page 3, the third page is page 4, and the fourth page is page 4 repeated. If I change from continuous mode to 2 page mode, the first page shows page 3 and 4 side by side, and the next page shows page 4 twice side by side. View the full article
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My issues is sound. It works great on the desktop. Steam/Origin Games, Firefox, Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, etc., all have sound. The system as a whole has sound too. For example I'll get the little tone when an app has finished, installing or when Windows logs on. When I use a Metro style app like: Video, Music, Pinball FX 2, Solitaire Collection, MS Mahjong, Bubble Star ...no sound! I uninstall the sound driver (Realtek 2.70 for Windows 8),reinstall it, does not work I'm running Windows 8Enterpise eval for 90 days Any thoughts on whats going? View the full article
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Hi All, I just can't disable "Use Win XP style scaling" (under Control PanelAppearance and PersonalizationDisplayCustom sizing options). I uncheck the box, but when I open the window, it is still checked. All my applications looks blurred... Win8ENTEval, Nvidia GeForce 330M, medium DPI (125%). All worked fine on Win8RC. br bala View the full article
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My keyboard layout is Dvorak. There is only one user on my computer. It works fine in Windows 8. But it does not activate until after I sign in to Windows. For the login screen, I have to type my password in QWERTY. Is there any way to have Windows 8 change the keyboard layout to Dvorak before login? View the full article
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