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Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)
tomos:
^ that sounds good :up:
Note: for anyone with OEM Windows 8, it will not work:
Spock
November 15, 2013
It needs to be a purchased version of 8.0, not one preinstalled with a bought pc or laptop. Most keys from a preinstallation won’t be accepted. I have a bought acer laptop and the key the system shows doesn’t work./quote]
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4wd:
Note: for anyone with OEM Windows 8, it will not work:-tomos (November 23, 2013, 03:10 PM)
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Thanks, I probably should of made it clearer when I said "valid purchased license key".
As an aside, I haven't played with it much yet but 8.1 definitely feels nippier than 8.0, (eg. Task Manager in <2 seconds as opposed to previous 20 seconds on first open).
tomos:
Thanks, I probably should of made it clearer when I said "valid purchased license key".
-4wd (November 23, 2013, 05:21 PM)
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lol, I was aiming that post at people like me -
read your post; read the article; it was only when I got to the comments that I started wondering... and read the comment I quoted in my post.
Guess I should read slower, but life's too short sometimes.
4wd:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/make-your-windows-881-computer-act-new-refresh-feature.htm
Make Your Windows 8/8.1 Computer Act Like New with the Refresh Feature.
Accessing the Refresh feature was described in a previous article, but here I will give some details of how to create a custom Refresh.-gizmo's freeware
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-Curt (November 22, 2013, 04:14 PM)
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As a matter of interest, has anyone got this to work?
If I try it, it always bombs out at 27% with:
The recovery image cannot be written.
Error Code - 0x80070001
Which in the context of creating a recovery image seems to be something to do with symbolic links, of which Win 8.1 has more than a few.
BTW, RecImgManager for those that don't like the CLI.
MilesAhead:
RecImgManager looks interesting. btw are you using it or doing it the old fashioned way?
I searched 8 forums and only got one hit on that error code. It didn't seem helpful.
Brink has a tutorial for doing custom image refreshes:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/3610-refresh-windows-8-create-use-custom-recovery-image.html
Not sure if it's helpful in your case though.
Edit: if that custom image program works that could be ideal for me. I take it I could store the image on the source partition?
that would be cool since lugging around externals is weight prohibitive(if that is a word.)
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