Windows 8.1 RTM on Surface Pro
Today I installed Windows 8.1 RTM on my Surface Pro, and so far I’m pretty happy. I decided to list what I believe to be some pros and cons to consider when updating your Windows 8 system: Pros: Mail app has improved significantly. Ability to easily select more than one message by either long-pressing or right-clicking, or by checking the checkboxes next to each item. Also appearance is closer to Outlook.com’s look and feel. Setup prompted me to either keep…
Surface RT Metro apps won’t launch
Just the other day I applied the most recent mandatory firmware update to my Surface RT, and let it restart. I thought nothing of it until this morning when I tried launching my usual morning apps (Bible, check metrics on my apps, etc), and they wouldn’t launch. The only apps that would launch were Desktop, IE and my app I developed that’s already in the store. My initial thought was to run Refresh, but it wouldn’t launch since it’s part…
Windows 8 Enterprise error code: 0x800F0906 “Windows couldn’t connect to the Internet to download necessary files”
I fought with this one for nearly 8 hours today, attempting to install SSMS from SQL 2012. This requires that the .Net Framework 3.5 and 2.0 be activated in Windows Features. Sure, there’s a checkbox that you “should” be able to check and everything works fine. Well, not for me. I check it, click OK, it tells me it needs to download files from Windows Update, I say OK, and it throws this error. Basic troubleshooting courtesy of Google says…
Creating a VHD for multi-boot in Windows 7
Been doing this so much lately with all of the flavors of Windows 8, I figured I’d write this down for my own benefit, but also for anyone who’s interested in doing the same. Create a new VHD Go to Start, right-click on Computer and choose Manage Under Storage in the left pane, single-click Disk Management In the Actions pane on the right, click More Actions, then choose Create VHD Specify the location you want to store your VHD file (ex:…
Windows 8 Developer Preview
Following the //build/ conference in Anaheim, I downloaded a copy of Windows 8 developer preview (32 bit) to put on my Dell Mini 12, 1 GHz Atom processor, 1GB RAM, 40GB SSD drive. A little history…I ended up having to put Windows 7 starter edition on it because it was running so horribly. It came with Windows XP SP3, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate and it killed the performance. I later changed it to Windows 7 Starter, and performance improved…