http://windows8forums.com/ Microsoft Windows 8 is currently in development. Use this forum to discuss this groundbreaking operating system, alpha, beta, and pre-release builds. en Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:29:46 GMT vBulletin 60 http://windows8forums.com/images/misc/rss.png http://windows8forums.com/ http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-discussion/2957-just-fun.html Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:10:24 GMT We've touched on the topic about the speed of Win-8 compared to XP and Win-7, but tonight I decided to do something about that.

I moved Windows 8 from an old 80 gig Sata II drive to a new Seagate SATA III (6GBM) drive on a SATA III controller card. Windows XP would not run on the SATA III controller cards(2) that I tried it on, but Win-8 runs on it even without any special drivers. So finally I've found a way to use my new SATA III drive to its fullest capability.

Now, to the speed test. The following Registry Script when run from my desktop, measures the time it takes the PC to do a shutdown and reboot. The reboot time on my XP drive was 108 seconds, while the reboot time on my Windows 8, SATA III drive is only 79 sec's.
Here's the code for the RebootTimer.reg program.

Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next
Dim Wsh, Time1, Time2, Result, PathFile, MsgResult, MsgA, AppName, KeyA, KeyB, TimeDiff
MsgA = "Please close all running applications and click on OK."
KeyA = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RestartTime\"
KeyB = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run\RestartTime"
AppName = "ReBoot-Time"
Set Wsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
PathFile = """" & WScript.ScriptFullName & """"
Result = wsh.RegRead(KeyA & "Times")
if Result = "" then
MsgResult = Msgbox (MsgA, vbOKCancel, AppName)
If MsgResult = vbcancel then WScript.Quit
Wsh.RegWrite KeyA & "Times", left(Time,8), "REG_SZ"
Wsh.RegWrite KeyB, PathFile, "REG_SZ"
Wsh.Run "cmd /c Shutdown -r -t 00", false, 0
else
Wsh.RegDelete KeyA & "Times"
Wsh.RegDelete KeyA
Wsh.RegDelete KeyB
TimeDiff = DateDiff("s",Result,left(Time,8))
MsgBox "Your computer reboots in " & TimeDiff & " seconds", VbInformation, AppName
end if
wscript.Quit


Copy and paste the code above into a new Notepad document and save with "RebootTimer.reg".

Then run the script and post your results.

Have fun!
:cool: ]]> Windows 8 Discussion DrWho http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-discussion/2957-just-fun.html http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-discussion/2927-i-like-idea-its-about-time-something-like.html Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:17:21 GMT Hi

I've often wondered why Windows didn't have a utility like this.
It didn't seem like a big jump to have Windows really able to repair itself and get back to a clean installation on it's own.

How to Use Refresh and Reset in Windows 8 to Easily Reinstall Your PC - How-To Geek

The logical option is to have a folder with all the installation files for apps you want to keep so they can be quickly reinstalled without searching all over the house for the disks, after you refresh.

You could have everything is back up and running in a matter of hours.

I have a folder like this named My Software, I have most of my installation files in it, along with the registration numbers etc, to that I can just copy and paste them in when I'm installing.

My Adobe stuff I still install from disks, but pretty much everything else is in there.

Sounds like a really great idea to me, I remember when I used to re-install Windows every 6 months just to get things cleaned up, it's too much of a hassle now, it takes days to get everything back and running again, with all my preferences restored.

But is would get rid of those annoying problems that you just can't seem to clean up, now if you could just do the same thing when your computer won't boot that would be a real plus.

Or maybe manufacturers could start giving people a real Widows disk again.
Anyway there's no reason anymore with hard drives being so big, (my first computer had a 40 megabyte hard drive, now I have 2,000,000 not counting another 2,000,000 on external drives) that all the Windows install data can't be part of the Windows files.

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I still don't have Windows 8 installed, I have tried several times but always end up with a black screen with an active cursor, or I believe it does install but wont start any video, and I haven't been able to figure out how to force it to do so.

I haven't tried again since my big wipe out where I overwrote my Windows 7 install by accident, curses on whoever told me it would ask me where to install if I started the installation from within Window! Only kidding, I did a lot of cursing but not the voodoo kind.

It seemed logical, but be warned it doesn't.

I may give it another try From the Bootable Disk this week, I've never run into this before I've run every kind of beta imaginable and never had a problem installing any of them.

If I don't get it done now I will definitely get it done when the beta comes out.

Mike ]]> Windows 8 Discussion MikeHawthorne http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-discussion/2927-i-like-idea-its-about-time-something-like.html http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-discussion/2737-danger-will-roninson-danger.html Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:22:26 GMT I wanted to start this thread to warn people about things that have come up during my time testing Windows 8. The largest things that I was hoping to... I wanted to start this thread to warn people about things that have come up during my time testing Windows 8. The largest things that I was hoping to put out is the stuff that is a major break down, and could cause your system to have to be cold shutdown. That was the major idea I had, but please add anything you might think is relevant.

Using Fallout 3 retail, everything was running even better than on any other Windows. The wall paintings didn't shutter and there were no signs of lag or lockup. Then the system froze, like Fallout 3 is prone to do. I thought it was no big deal, until I tried to get out of the game and into the task manager to kill the process. The ctrl-alt-delete started the security window, but under the Fallout 3 window. I was able to get my curser out of the game and to the right monitor, though was unable to start the task manager, from the context menu on the task bar. For some reason it wouldn't start at all. I finally had to put my system in hibernate and bring it out, that was a 10 minute long process, and then it would let me get to the security window to start the task manager. It was purely by accident that I put it in hibernate. I forgot that I set up my power button to start that, when pressed. Either way, that could cause some issues in the future for someone. I wanted to give a heads up on that. ]]> Windows 8 Discussion NaiyaShamiso http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-discussion/2737-danger-will-roninson-danger.html http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-discussion/2723-building-windows-8-blog-detailing-some-upcoming-changes.html Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:13:54 GMT The latest Building Windows 8 Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/11/reflecting-on-your-comments-on-the-start-screen.aspx)details some... The latest Building Windows 8 Blog details some upcoming changes to the customization of the Win 8 Metro Screen. Worth reading. MS is listening to users comments. ]]> Windows 8 Discussion Ted Myers http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-discussion/2723-building-windows-8-blog-detailing-some-upcoming-changes.html