Recent content by fdlchris

Windows 8 does not see the wireless network. Switch to Ubuntu and it sees it no problem. Also, using Windows 7, I can see the network.

I'm using my Windows 8 ASUS EEE PC to try and connect to a wireless network. It's not available in the list. I use my phone (Windows Mobile 6.5) and see on other people's laptops (XP, Vista, 7) that it's available and those devices can see the network and connect without problem. I've tried...

No dice. There were no checkboxes ticked in Proxy Settings except the 'Autodetect all proxy settings' checkbox. Un-ticked, ok'ed, rebooted and still won't load. No 3rd party firewall ever installed. It's strange because some of the apps like Sport and News update their preview tile on the...

Since the other day, my Metro apps have just stopped working. Apps like News, Sport and Weather don't finish loading. I see the the loading circle just keeps going round, but nothing happens. When I launch the e-mail app, the tile icon comes to the screen for a second then it just closes and...

I tried to run the IE Metro app on my EEE PC, which has a desktop resolution of 1024x600. It won't run because it says the desktop resolution is too small. I can't increase the resolution any more via the graphics driver options. However, the rest of Windows 8 works fine on this machine. Is...

Hi there, I installed the Windows 8 CP and configured my installation with an initial LIVE ID (user@hotmail.com) user (user-A). Later, I added a second user to the system, which was also a LIVE ID user (user-B). When I login as user-B, the Internet Explorer Metro app is not available within...