Getting my Win8 today!

Non-Technical Threads Chatting over the Back Fence
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Maybe Windows 9 will charge you for an update to get a start menu.

I’m sure it will show up in the Windows Store in a few weeks.
It’s like the old car sales game, “Oh you want keys with that?”.
Shouldn’t come as much surprise what with the carnival games they
play with Xbox. You know, sell credits in dollar increments and
sell things at 99 cents. : )

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I’m not sure there will be a windows9… android is set to be the[color=blue]
dominant OS by 2016, maybe it will be sooner now ;)[/color]

Yah right.

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Hey Joseph Marton,
[color=blue]

Don’t forget your free Windows 8 Media Center Pack add-on.[/color]

Got it…all it did was add media center which I didn’t use on Win 7.
:-\

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Kim - 11/5/2012 1:41:20 PM

44

[color=blue]

Got it…all it did was add media center which I didn’t use on Win 7.[/color]

Xactly.

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But hey…it was free for a limited time, so I had to, right?

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Kim - 11/6/2012 10:05:57 AM

46

Oh…one unexpected problem. The mute and volume keys on my keyboard
didn’t work. (all the other buttons did) I had to fix it by doing this:

  1. Run services.msc
  2. Look for the “Human Interface Device Access” service. On my PC this
    was not running and configured to be Manual started.
  3. I right clicked it, selected properties, changed the startup type to
    “Automatic” and started the service. After that the keyboard audio
    buttons worked.

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Kim - 11/6/2012 12:44:15 PM

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kgroneman wrote:
[color=blue]

Oh…one unexpected problem. The mute and volume keys on my keyboard
didn’t work. (all the other buttons did) I had to fix it by doing
this:

  1. Run services.msc
  2. Look for the “Human Interface Device Access” service. On my PC this
    was not running and configured to be Manual started.
  3. I right clicked it, selected properties, changed the startup type
    to “Automatic” and started the service. After that the keyboard audio
    buttons worked.[/color]

After I installed VMware Player, allowed it to change a keyboard
setting, then had my computer go to sleep, my keyboard suddenly no
longer worked in Windows 8. Mouse was fine but no keyboard. Tried
bypassing the KVM, no change. Tried a wired USB keyboard, no luck.
Tried PS/2. Still nothing. Thank goodness for LogMeIn. I remoted
into my machine, removed all the keyboard stuff out of Device Manager,
and had it redetect. Then stuff started working again.

Now I’m scared to run VMware Player again.

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Does this washcloth smell like chloroform?

48

I guess there are a few glitches by having generic drivers that are
supposed to cover everything.

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Kim - 11/7/2012 10:30:14 AM

49

LOL! I got an email from MS today to tell me how to customize Win8.
It included this paragraph:
[color=blue]

Windows comes with apps for Mail, Messaging, Calendar, People, and
all the things that you need most. Sign in with your Microsoft
account, connect it to your social networks, and watch the apps come
to life.[/color]

Those were the first apps I deleted! :slight_smile:

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Kim - 11/7/2012 1:17:22 PM

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Those were the first apps I deleted! :slight_smile:

LOL.