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Full Bio. Posted in Hardware 2. When you install Windows 8. But its always a good idea back up your personal files before updating your Surface. Connect to the Internet. You'll need to be online to download and install Windows 8. Plug in Surface. Your Surface needs to have at least a 35 percent charge to download and install the update. Its also important to keep your Surface plugged in to ensure that it doesn't go to sleep during the update. When Windows Update notifies you that Windows 8.
For more info, see Install Surface and Windows updates. After installing Windows 8. Once you do this, the Windows 8 Start screen will no longer appear. If you want to go back to using the Start screen again, just turn the Start menu option off. Note: If your Surface has more than one user account on it, you'll need to change this setting for each account.
If you don't see the Desktop tile, swipe up from the middle of the screen to get to Apps view, and then select Desktop. On the Start menu tab, select the Use the Start menu instead of the Start screen check box.
Select OK , and in the message that appears, select Sign out and change Start. When you sign in again, you'll see the Desktop instead of the regular Start screen. To open the Start menu, select the Start button in the lower-left corner of the screen. If you prefer use the Start screen instead of the Start menu, you can leave the update installed on your Surface and simply turn off the Start menu option.
Follow the steps in Turn on the Start menu above, and clear the Use the Start menu instead of the Start screen check box. When you sign in again, the Start screen will be back. I'm sure they'll be installing W8 onto the PCs at work soon enough. It'd be a good idea to get the hang of it early on.
Once again another great tutorial, thanks Leeky. Here is a few simple steps for people who want to restore and bring back their Linux to boot menu, which consists of : Boot Linux Chroot into installed Linux Reinstalling GRUB Warning : Long post, close current tab immediately if you need your eyes!
Warning : I don't take any responsibility for damages done to your PC and data, so use it your own risk and follow steps carefully Warning : Linux commands are case sensitive, so check that your CapsLock is off before continuing and exactly type the given commands. Chroot into installed Linux a. Ubuntu LiveCD users only Open a terminal b. Thanks Siavash, and Dawn for the positive comments.
Thank you also for the addition of your post Siavash, it will no doubt prove handy for those trying W8 and losing the existing bootloader for Linux.
Haha, if only it had arrived before I wiped my HDD. Siavash said:. Sorry about that, may be this comes handy next time installing Windows 8 Final version. I thought this question belongs in its own thread but it's related so thought I'd also post a link and ask here. Anyone have any info? The installation went without a hitch. I did a "Custom Install".
I was a little worried at first because on reboot the machine skipped the usual black and white text-mode boot choice screen and, instead, went directly into the Windows 8 startup screen. However, all was good. I selected it and rebooted. It booted into XP. It's now time to start playing with Windows 8 and delete the partition when all done!
Thanks for the feedback LookinAround, and for the praise, which is always greatly received as these guides do take some work to write. Windows 8 appears to be friendlier than previous editions when it comes to multi-booting. The OS runs flawlessly on my testing laptop, but it really didn't turn out a very good experience when I ran it on the main PC. Obviously its still in testing and shouldn't be used on crucially important scenarios, but I remain disappointed with how it handles and corrupts my RAID.
I also continued to experience problems with shutting down in the new release as well. Maybe it's just my hardware configurations age, I dunno, but it runs much better on the laptop than it does my PC. Marnomancer said:. That's probably due to the default hibernation, I guess. You have any theory? Haha, mine is usually off anyway. What I was saying is It uses hibernation mode to decrease startup times. MS claims a fast boot time, right? Maybe it's that? It maybe using that method, causing it to take more time to write the state to disk during shutdown.
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