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It will be interesting to see if the EU does anything about MS selling windows 10 in Europe after all they forced MS to produce a version of windows that didn't include media player.

try this command from an administrator command prompt: powercfg -requestsoverride DRIVER srvnet System

After you do a boot up check the event viewer for any errors during the boot process. This is the best way to track down what the problem is.

Mine is exactly the same. Good to know mine is normal. Thanks guys cheers

I have Windows 8 Professional installed on my laptop. The drive is formatted GPT. I checked using the Disk Management utility in windows today and found my Recovery partition was 300MB in size. This Recovery partition is created by windows 8 during installation. What I want to know is...

Does the windows NT install disk have a driver?

I quite like Win 8 with Start8. Only drawback is no XP Mode

Clean install

the reason is simple, that is exactly what 8.1 is: windows 8 with with the "new" start button and all the fixes in one pack with maybe a bit of optimizing to make it a bit zippier.

well for me it would have to be OS/2 and DOS. Both absolutely rock solid and always worked.

Why bother using a utility to set the size when Windows itself does a great job of letting you set the size. Just go to Control Panel > System and Security > System. Click on "System Protection" on the left side of the window. Scroll down to your C drive and click on it and then click on...

Recommendations from experienced users AFAIK. I've used SSDs for some years now and always disable system restore. I much prefer to use either Ghost or True Image to create a full disk image.

Not Microsoft as far as I know but just check out the forums of most SSD makes and do some reading. Most recommend that System Restore be disabled.

If you have an SSD then it is highly recommended that you disable it.

Well I'm with the minority. I say if you want to go back to win 7 then do it. I went from win 7 to win 8 (clean install) and I actually like the win 8 setup with start8 installed however I am fast running out of excuses why not to also revert back to win 7. Devices than ran perfectly in win 7...

It certainly does

I followed the steps as set out by Betanews and that worked fine. I now have an ISO ready to burn on a DVD. cheers

Strange. I followed those instructions but when I click on Install windows 8.1 all I get is another 4.7MB exe file, no ISO.

I was under the impression that if you completely cleaned the drive you intend to install win 8 to, so that it shows as a new unused drive and the BIOS was set to UEFI then the windows 8 install would automatically format the OS drive as a GPT drive. That's what I did with my win 8 install but...

What webpage are you downloading from? Could you post the link please?

Is it possible to do a clean install of windows 8.1 with media center that way?

Has anyone tried the old fashioned clean install via upgrade? ie. From within an existing win 8 install and using a win 8.1 iso burned to dvd (or mounted in win 8) run setup.exe and choose clean install. I wonder if that will accept a win 8 key to install and activate? BTW I really don't...

from what I read you need a win 8.1 key to activate a clean install of win 8.1. A win 8 key won't work. Does seem odd as it is a free service pack for win 8 so one would think a win 8 should work but it doesn't :(

Not really. One way you have to use a key that is "floating" around the net (highly questionable) and the other uses a legal key. I prefer the latter.

I prefer to do it the correct way by using the 8.1 RTM iso from Microsoft (currently available on both MSDN and Technet) as well as a legitimate 8.1 key.

As I understand it, you can't do a clean install of 8.1 and use the 8.0 key. You need an 8.1 key

Go into control panel and then power options and change plan settings, then change advanced settings. scroll down to the USB setting and set the USB selective suspend setting to Disabled. Click apply. See if that helps.

If it's old games then stick with XP 32bit. You will have fewer worries. Disregard what you have read about Windows NT, NT did not support games at all. Some really old games use 16bit installers which will not run in X64. XP x86 all the way

I have an Alienware M18xR2 with Windows 8. Power Profile is set to Balanced. I've changed the "Multimedia -> when sharing video" settings to "Prevent idling to sleep" but it doesn't work. After 30 minutes my laptop goes to sleep and the other users of my LAN get disconnected. I want my...

Download this file http://www.mediafire.com/?736373d4uv2hg26 It's an rar archive and contains 2 registry hacks to fix your problem. One is InstallTakeOwnership.reg and the other is RemoveTakeOwnership.reg The first file will install a new tab in windows explorer called "Take Ownership". It...

The M18x has the capacity to handle an mSATA card plus 2 x 9mm HDD/SSD and 1 x 7mm HDD/SSD. I don't think the M17x has that capacity.

+1 Alienware if you have the spare cash.

By hybrid drive do you mean that your laptop came with a big HDD with the OS on it and a small SSD or mSATA as caching drive? If that's the case then your BIOS would have been set to SATA type of RAID. Now you have installed an SSD drive with OS on it, did you change the SATA type in BIOS to...

i also bought Start8 and love it.

Short lived. Gone again today :(

Well I tried new cables but no change. as an experiment I disabled 'hot plug' for that SATA port and so far so good. Burner has worked every time i have booted up. Just hope it lasts.

Thanks for the advice. I will change the cable and report back. Does seem strange that the cable and original dvd writer would both work perfectly on this board for 18 months then suddenly the cable becomes faulty. Anyway will try a new cable. cheers

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3R-B3 motherboard. I have the U1e bios. I have an SSD and a 2GB WD SATA 3 HD on the4 2 x Intel SATA 3 Controllers and 1 x 1.5GB WD SATA 2 HD plus 1 x LG Blu-Ray writer and a new Pioneer DVR-220L DVD writer on the other 3 SATA 2 controller. The remaining SATA slot is...

samsung 830 pro

I get this problem with IE on windows 8. Firefox on the same computer has no problems with IPv6. In my case the problem in windows 8 is obviously IE not windows 8.