Pricing and Packaging for Windows 8.1 at The Microsoft Blog
As far as I can tell, no change from Windows 8.
Packaging isn’t so gawd awful ugly.
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Windows 8.1 RTM And SSDs
If you are running Windows 8.1 RTM on an SSD I need your help.
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Guide To Windows 8.1 System Image Backup
Guide To Windows 8.1 System Image Backup
This article covers:
1 – Introduction
– What is a System Image
– The Great Windows System Image Program Hunt of 2013
2 – Launching System Image Backup From Command Line
3 – Create A Shortcut To System Image Backup
4 – Creating A System Image
5 – Running System Image Backup From Command Line
6 – Scheduling A System Image Backup
7 – Create a Recovery Drive
8 – How To Restore a Windows System Image
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Windows 8.1 RTM Released On TechNet and MSDN
The news has spread at warp speed today!
Download Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM Today
For those wondering, the SHA1 hash is exactly the same as WZT version that was released last week.
Props to those guys!
My Thoughts On Windows 8.1 RTM
*Note – This is an opinion piece, not a review. And a short one at that.
I put a poll up last week to see what the regulars who stop by here think. Here are the results (as of this writing):
What is your opinion of Win 8.1 RTM?
No Windows 8 for me. (42%)
Waiting for Oct. 18th. (30%)
Meh. (11%)
It sucks. (9%)
It Rocks. (8%)
(Yes, I am aware this is an unscientific poll.)
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Windows 8.1 And WEI?
So I saw the following story at Neowin and I found it both amusing and informative. [Read more…] about Windows 8.1 And WEI?
My Notes On The Windows 8.1 Preview
I’ve done two installs of the Windows 8.1 Preview and have just begun playing with it.
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Windows 8.1 Preview Available
Windows 8.1 Preview page has more info, download links, and f.a.q.
Product guide (PDF)
Tweaking Windows 10 – Version 21H2
***December 24th, 2021
There are no significant changes from 20H2 (Windows 10 October 2020 Update), to 21H1 (Windows May 2021 Update), to 21H2 (Windows 10 November 2021 Update)
This guide will remain unchanged until 22H1.
The only reasons I’ve put this guide here is to avoid confusion and because…Google…
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O&O ShutUp10 1.8.1420
***edit 1150hrs
Despite the changelog saying this issue is fixed it is in fact not. See pic below.
1.8.1420 – released March 30, 2021
FIX: Disable telemetry
FIX: Disable automatic driver updates through Windows Update
Available in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Chinese (simplified)
Download | Changelog | Home Page
*edit 0915hrs
Here are the registry changes O&O Shutup10 version 1.8.1420 made when turning on “Disable Telemetry”
Changed from 0x00000001 = Enabled/Normal to 0x00000000 = Disabled/Ignore
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WMI\Autologger\AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener]
“Start”=dword:00000000
Changed from 0x00000002 = Automatic to 0x00000004 = Disabled
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\DiagTrack]
“Start”=dword:00000004
Changed from 0x00000003 = Manual to 0x00000004 = Disabled
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\dmwappushservice]
“Start”=dword:00000004
***edit 1150hrs
See: https://www.tweakhound.com/2021/03/18/oo-shutup10-issue/
Just like before the the dmwappushservice gets rest a while after reboot.