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[jasqid]

I'll trying uninstalling apps and see. I also love the fact that the AMazon Kindle app was on the main "Apps for Windows 8" spotlight and when I clicked on it to install it told me "this app is no longer available".

LOL. Thanks for advertising it to me....

[grayscale]

^I've been stuck for days now with that annoying 'invisible' update. That's my punishment for not lurking on the forums for days now
The Kindle app is the culprit on my system too

[Detection]

rfirth, on 01 July 2012 - 21:55, said:

Mine has been stuck like that for a couple days now.

Turned my laptop on lastnight and the 1 update available was there again and was still there when I turned it off, so no mine's not gone either

jasqid, on 02 July 2012 - 12:34, said:

I'll trying uninstalling apps and see. I also love the fact that the AMazon Kindle app was on the main "Apps for Windows 8" spotlight and when I clicked on it to install it told me "this app is no longer available".

LOL. Thanks for advertising it to me....

MS/Devs will be making changes to the apps and the store over the next few weeks so I would imagine it will be a little flaky at least until we have RTM

[0nyX]

Detection, on 03 July 2012 - 00:26, said:

MS/Devs will be making changes to the apps and the store over the next few weeks so I would imagine it will be a little flaky at least until we have RTM

Link ?

[rfirth]

jasqid, on 02 July 2012 - 12:34, said:

I'll trying uninstalling apps and see. I also love the fact that the AMazon Kindle app was on the main "Apps for Windows 8" spotlight and when I clicked on it to install it told me "this app is no longer available".

LOL. Thanks for advertising it to me....

Same thing with the Accuweather app... it's gone now. It's advertised on the main page in the News & Weather section...

[Detection]

0nyX, on 03 July 2012 - 04:27, said:

Link ?

Link to what?

Windows 8 is almost done so its common sense that they will be finalising things

[Zlip792]

nvidia released unified beta driver with support of windows 8 alongwith windows 7 and vista.
Give it a try: http://www.neowin.ne...are-beta-30479/

[grayscale]

Are you guys experiencing random BSODs as well? (at least once a day?)
(service exception, watchdog, and kernel exception)?

[HawkMan]

no, bsods are generally indicative of hardware malfunction.

[grayscale]

HawkMan, on 09 July 2012 - 05:26, said:

no, bsods are generally indicative of hardware malfunction.

so unsupported drivers can be the reason?

[GP007]

grayscale, on 09 July 2012 - 10:30, said:

so unsupported drivers can be the reason?

I'd say yeah, driver error would do it or hardware itself locked up. Like a HDD crapping out and locking up would do it or a video cards GPU giving out. Typically though with Windows new WDDM 1.x model at least if the graphics drivers do crash then they'll restart so as long as the hardware itself isn't the problem you'll just see the screen flicker (maybe drop out of Aero into basic) and then come back up after the driver restarts. More and more parts of Windows are now driven by hardware acceleration and stuff so any funky graphics drivers will probably give you these problems. Best to update to the newest drivers you can find and see if it changes.

[grayscale]

GP007, on 09 July 2012 - 10:37, said:

I'd say yeah, driver error would do it or hardware itself locked up. Like a HDD crapping out and locking up would do it or a video cards GPU giving out. Typically though with Windows new WDDM 1.x model at least if the graphics drivers do crash then they'll restart so as long as the hardware itself isn't the problem you'll just see the screen flicker (maybe drop out of Aero into basic) and then come back up after the driver restarts. More and more parts of Windows are now driven by hardware acceleration and stuff so any funky graphics drivers will probably give you these problems. Best to update to the newest drivers you can find and see if it changes.

I don't have those problems when using Windows 7 so I guess I'll just dual boot but I'll try updating the drivers or maybe just use the ones provided by Win8 by default. Thanks, btw

[Arkanius]

I hate the fact that the Maps application manages to give me 0 results for EVERYTHING I search
How is this possible? Did Microsoft even remember there is a world beside the U.S?

[HawkMan]

grayscale, on 09 July 2012 - 10:30, said:

so unsupported drivers can be the reason?

Can be, but more and more unlikely as MS is splitting the OS kernel up to prevent drivers from crashing the OS and moving drivers out of kernel and into user space. the biggest culprit, the VGA driver can rarely cause a BSOD anymore.

[GreyWolf]

Arkanius, on 09 July 2012 - 11:12, said:

I hate the fact that the Maps application manages to give me 0 results for EVERYTHING I search
How is this possible? Did Microsoft even remember there is a world beside the U.S?

What are you searching for? I just Win-Q'ed Jakarta, Timbuktu and Picadilly Circus and it zoomed right to them.

Bing Maps seems to accept quite a few qualifiers. (i.e.: "Odessa Europe", "Avon UK")