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#946 jasqid

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 12:34

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....


#947 grayscale

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 23:54

^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 :laugh:
The Kindle app is the culprit on my system too :D

#948 Detection

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 00:26

View Postrfirth, 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

View Postjasqid, 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

#949 0nyX

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 04:27

View PostDetection, 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 ?

#950 rfirth

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 09:39

View Postjasqid, 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...

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 11:39

View Post0nyX, 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

#952 Zlip792

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 14:46

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/

#953 grayscale

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 02:09

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

#954 HawkMan

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 05:26

no, bsods are generally indicative of hardware malfunction.

#955 grayscale

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 10:30

View PostHawkMan, on 09 July 2012 - 05:26, said:

no, bsods are generally indicative of hardware malfunction.

so unsupported drivers can be the reason?

#956 GP007

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 10:37

View Postgrayscale, 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.

#957 grayscale

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 10:52

View PostGP007, 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 :)

#958 Arkanius

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 11:12

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?

#959 HawkMan

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 12:06

View Postgrayscale, 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.

#960 GreyWolf

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 15:10

View PostArkanius, 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")