Windows 8

Yea. I might stop looking for a solution because it's a pretty old game and I'm probably the only one playing it on Windows 8 right now but it sucks that I have absolutely no options to capture correct screenshots of it...

edit: Okay the problem is pretty isolated on Dead Space 1 so I'll just give up.

 

@ Wanny - I took a screenshot from Dead Space using Afterburner and it looked exactly like it did in the game.

Spoiler

 

enough is enough. iam having lock ups in my laptop. especially while installing something. just was installing DESURA. the rror code was which was also BLUE SCREEN situation:

POOL HEAD something..god damn what was it

edit: bad_pool_header

what is it?

 

Oh well thanks Darren! It may be 310.33 problem then...

 

Can someone do me a favour please and upload their "C:\Users\<Name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IECompatData\iecompatdata.xml” please as mine has been overwritten by the IE9 one imported from Windows 7. As such it means that the compatibility list for Flash sites are not there and they are needed in order to run Flash in the Start screen apps, e.g. YouTube and so on.

Thanks.

 

Ok im at win8 atm
http://www.mediafire.com/file/u44103cu9bs1llx/iecompatdata.xml



edit:
lol well now you have 2

 

here's mine
http://www.uploadmb.com/dw.php?id=1351904351

 

Battlefield 3 runs great in Windows 8.

 

Yeah. And with many more games as well. I'm quite happy with the smooth transition from 7 to 8. I really don't want to go back to 7 anymore. And with 8, the bloody Winkey is useful for once.

 

Man i dont know what i did to my laptop which came with W8 itself.. since 2 days it keeps giving me BSOD. and that BAD_POOL_HEADER error.

i leave laptop on and when i come it restarted itself and error message on the screen. man wtf is going on. how can i fix my system pls?

goddamn upgraded W/ to W8 system works good but this laptop is not..damn.

 

Go to change PC settings - General. There you can repair (refresh), reinstall (remove) or check advanced start-up.

 

Thanks for the uploads, F1refly and -Tj-.

I believe I do have the correct one even though it mentions 'ie9' in the file as I found that if I deleted that then checked the 'Download compatibility list' in IE10 that it downloads the exact same file.

Do YouTube videos play for you in the Modern UI IE10 because they're just blank black screens for me. They play fine in the desktop IE10 though.

*EDIT*
Seems F1refly's iecompdata.xml is much larger than the one I have: 329 KB vs. 49 KB. I've renamed mine and copied his to the same folder but YouTube still doesn't play videos in the Modern UI IE10.

*EDIT 2*
This website explains how to add Flash support for websites in Modern UI IE10: http://www.howtogeek.com/127787/how-to-use-flash-on-any-website-in-modern-internet-explorer-10/

*EDIT 3*
OK, Flash is working in Modern UI IE10 now, once I signed into my YouTube account. Thanks again for the iecompatdata.xml file.

 

Thank u man.

 

yeah I never had any troubles, but glad you got it working.

 

Win 8 Shortcuts....

Win+C : Opens Charms Bar
Win+D : Show Desktop
Win+E : Opens Windows Explorer
Win+F : Opens File Search App
Win+H : Opens Share charm
Win+I : Opens Settings charm
Win+K : Opens Connect charm
Win+L : Lock computer
Win+O : Locks device orientation
Win+Q : Opens Search pane
Win+R : Opens Run
Win+V : Cycles through toasts
Win+Shift+V : Cycles through toasts in reverse order
Win+W : Opens Settings Search app
Win+Y : Temporarily peek at the desktop
Win+Z : Opens App Bar
Win+Tab : Cycles through Metro Applications
Win+Ctrl+Tab : Cycles through Metro Applications in Snap
Win+Shift+Ctrl+Tab : Cycles through Metro Applications in Snap (Backwards)
Win+. : Moves the Snap view to the right
Win+Shift+. : Moves the Snap view to the left
Win+Spacebar : Switch input language and keyboard layout
Win+Enter : Launches Narrator
Home : Jumps to the first Tile
End : Jumps to the last Tile
PgUp : Moves Startscreen to the left
PgDown : Moves Startscreen to the right
Ctrl+Scrollwheel : Semantic Zoom


In explorer windows:
ALT + A : Open Easy access
ALT + CO : Copy selected items
ALT + CP : Copy Path of the selected item
ALT + CF : Copy to folder, using the drop-down menu
ALT + D : Delete selected items
ALT + E : Edit selected item
ALT + H : Show History of the document revisions
ALT + M : Move files to location using the drop-down menu
ALT + N : Create New Folder
ALT + PS : Paste Shortcut in the location
ALT + PR : Open Properties box
ALT + PE : Open new document, choose from drop-down menu
ALT + SA : Select All items
ALT + SN : Select None
ALT + SI : Invert Selection
ALT + R : Rename selected items
ALT + T : Cut selected items.
ALT + V : Paste copied items
ALT + W : Create New Item

 

Just curious Big, which anti-virus are you using?

 

Add Win+X: Opens Power User Menu (I find very useful).

 

@ dabrooks - You don't need to press Windows + X to get that menu, just right-click in the bottom right corner. With this and Windows + Q, it pretty much feels like I have the old Start menu back.

 

I have few questions concerning Win 8.

Can you get quick access to network monitoring, if you remember XP, latter in VIsta nd Windows 7, they did removed that option, I'm not sure if there is a workaround, i think there is none, but in XP, you could monitor your network activity simply by watching in right lower corner, in Vista/7 that was removed, but i can assume you can do it with Gadgets (i don't use them, and will not even if you can) ? Sure, you cna always do that by 3rd party program, or task manager for that matter, but MS never counted on that average user will use that, or go trough hustle of keeping task manager open etc.

Now in Win 8, when you use "Metro" (or whatever is called), can you see network activity without going to desktop, or adding 3rd party applications, or getting extra clicks.

Also, can someone explain a bit, how, and why, Win 8 is "cloud" oriented OS ? TBH, i don't even know for sure what cloud means, and what are benefits of it. All i know, is that "cloud" allows some sort of computing and storage trough internet, and clouds can be dark sometimes...

I'm really concerned about privacy in new Windows, and the way all things are going, that is basically why i ask.

 

@tweakpower : In the Task Manager you can view sent and received in real time on whatever network device you are using.

About the cloud storage, I'm not really sure myself, you can sign into Windows 8 using a hotmail / windows live / outlook account.. and somehow it saves your settings for something? I'm not sure. I chose to use a local account that is not tied to my e-mail.

Maybe someone else can explain.