For those that are still not sure about Windows 8
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I'm excited that apparently 8's Startup Repair will adjust to new hardware. Yesterday when I imaged 8 from my desktop to a partition on my travel laptop, it didn't require the normal Acronis Universal Restore or Paragon Adaptive Restore to be run on it to remove drivers, SID, HID. Startup Repair made the adjustments itself, something never done by WinRE before.
However adding Win8 using EasyBCD will install the 7-style Dual Boot Menu and changed the 8 Fish loading screen to Vista uglomation. Had to move Active flag/System boot files to 8, then edit bcd and run full bootrec commands to get the Win8-style start animation and Dual Boot menu. It was a learning experience documented at Win8 forums.
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Rich, you are on the wrong tab. Go to the 'Acceleration' (last) tab.
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Can't, it's greyed out, not selectable.
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Can't, it's greyed out, not selectable.
Do you have something running in vBox whilst you are looking ??
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I just installed the 64 Bit version, once I figure out how to navigate around it will be a better experience. No start button for starters, but I`ll figure it out. Is there any way to show the desktop all the time ?
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Is there any way to show the desktop all the time
Short answer is no. And you need the start menu at times like you need it in Win7 too.
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No, nothing else running in Vbox.
This has to be a limitation between Windows 8 and Vbox. I've read a few threads on WIn 8 in Vbox and all say to turn on Virtualization, so that has to be the problem. I'll post in the Vbox forum and see what they say.
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That's cool enough I may have to install VirtualBox again just to try it out.
I'm very disappointed with XP Mode, it takes forever to boot, so maybe XP and Win 8 under VirtualBox is the way to go.
Hi there
XP MODE could have been OK -- but really for the people who actually NEED to continue to use XP a "proper" XP VM installation is the only way or even a dedicated older XP machine.
The idea was fine but the implementation was abominable.
W8 on the two FREE Virtual platforms - VBOX or VMWARE VMPLAYER works absolutely fine (and fast too).
Current releases of both softwares (VMWARE and ORACLE's VBOX ) have fixed outstanding problems AFAIK.
Cheers
jimbo
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I will probably not be getting Win8 until I get a computer with a touchscreen. Which means I'll probably be on Windows 7 for another good while.
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