When Windows 8 Developer Preview came out, I downloaded and installed them on a spare PC to check them out. Appart from getting a genral feel of the new Metro UI and fooling around, there was not much else to do, so I quickly set that PC aside and went back to my everyday life.
A few days ago though, Consuper Preview came out. Big news, right? So naturally, I downloaded the iso from here, brought back that spare PC and installed. I was expecting to see some changes and changes I did see.
First of all, it looks more like an operating system compared to DP (oh come on, I can’t be the only one who smiled right now) which looked like a demo of an OS. Web Store is now functional, with a good deal of apps to try out, but most importantly you now have solitaire available! That’s right. You don’t have proper Windows, unless you can play a game of solitaire.
I do not plan to go into much detail about Windows 8 themselves. Over the last few days, there has been a ton of reviews, presentations and posts about them, so whatever it might have been that I wanted to say, it has probably already been said. However, one thing that stuck into my mind the first time (with Developer Preview) and did not change, was that Windows 8 would be great for a tablet, or something with a touch screen in general, but I don’t think I could get used to this style of working on a daily basis.
Anyway, I have a couple of tips for you, hoping to save you some time and frustration.
1) Install Microsoft Dot Net 3.5 (or 2.0)
One of the first things I had to do, was to install Mouse Without Borders, a nice little program straight out of the Microsoft Garage, that allows you to control many PCs with the same keyboard/mouse. Unfortunatelly, MWB requires DotNet 2.0, while Windows 8 come with version 4.0. For some reason, unknown to me and although there was nothing wrong with my internet connection, I could not seem to be able to download DotNet. Searching for a solution, I came across this post. What worked, was not the procedure describesd in the post, but what a comenter suggested. Open an elevated command prompt and type:
dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /all /source:YourWindowsCDPath\sources\sxs. HTH
You are good to go.
2) Activate Windows
Make sure your date and time are set correctly, otherwise you will never activate your copy. Simple, but I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what was going on, before I thought of checking the time.
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HEY BRO PLEASE HELP I AM TRYING TO INSTALL DOT NET I HAVE TRIED FROM INTERNET UPDATE AND MANUALLY TOO BUT ALL IS WASTE OF HOURS AND HOURS OF TIME MY CMD KNOWLEDGE IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH BUT I TRIED TO USE CD C;\ and get to the root but i think iam wrong on that one please tell us about elevated cmmand promote
help!!!!!!!!! help!!!!!!!!! help!!!!!!!!! help!!!!!!!!!
Ok, relax, no need for caps. To run the command prompt with administrator rights (elevated) right click on it and choose “Run as administrator”.
Then copy and paste the command I supply above. Be sure to put the correct drive letter for your CD Drive.
hmmmm
looks like the problem was only space between the hth extingtion
thanks but does it hangs in with 66%
When I did it, it also stayed at 66% for a great amount of time. And after that it finished normally.
BRO i right clicked on the run command, cant see “run as administrator” option.. help me .. also confused whether to add space before .hth extension
Have a look at this link. It will sort things out http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/783-elevated-command-prompt.html
As for the space I run the command as it is (ie with a space).
Hope I helped 🙂
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