2013-01-11 01:53:28
Since I have been in the position where installing unsigned drivers was needed and now I find that Windows 8 makes this even harder :( the below link is to remember me how.
2012-12-20 03:49:42
Ok I upgraded my wife's laptop with Windows 8, mostly the upgrade was uneventful.
I personally found the lack of a start menu on the desktop to be annoying, my wife hated it with a passion and made several comment about how bad it was (won’t go into details).
Ignoring the start menu item things were ok, took a bit to find some of the items I needed. I tried it on a table before the laptop and swiping in from the side was ok but on the laptop moving mouse from edge to edge was very slow. Example was the PC setting, you have to go to the top right corner and then to the bottom right corning. On a touchpad this is a major pain.
So we moved past those issues and started doing the zillion updates. Does not matter how old Windows is there is always a zillion updates. The first few batches went ok but that last too got stuck. So first choice after the normal repair was to try MS Fix It, which failed. Then I move to the install as stand alone, again it failed. The problem is now when it rebooted the system when into “Automatically repairing” which failed. Then it when to “Diagnosing PC” which went on for 2 hours so I killed it and started it again. I tried shift-F8 but no luck. The second time it rebooted the system managed to get though repairing and diagnosing but then went back to repairing so after 40 minutes I gave up.
So then the 4 hour MS chat which basically boiled down to making a CD (made a flash drive first but laptop would not boot). The system is now refreshing...
Please oh please MS tell me why you hate feedback so much. The biggest annoyance so far about this is there is NO feedback at all. I mean come on I don’t know if the computer is dead, stuck, or just really slow. I for one do not consider a spiny thing to be feedback. The “Refresh your PC <spiny thing> please wait” for hours is beyond annoying, really who in their right mind would thing this was useful.
Oh well at this point I won’t be upgrading any more computer so Windows 8, I may purchase one someday but it will be a while until they have worked out all the bugs and I will buy a start menu.
So far very unhappy camper...
2011-12-17 04:31:11
Ok if you need to force a your computer to find a secific computer and the DNS does not want to resolve the name you can add the value to the hosts record in the system32/etc directory. I normally run notepad in admin mode to save getting the no permission error.
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Add this line until the rest of DNS records are updated, hate 1and1 today!
38.113.1.225 www.theheartlinknetwork.com
