Recent content by pingram3541

I have a retail version of win8 pro. All updates have been applied. I have a 128g SSD and several SATA3 hard drives in my system. Often I'll be working on my PC and a program like photoshop or thunderbird or even explorer become unresponsive and greys out and sometimes if I wait long enough...

It doesn't ask me to login at any prompt when booting off the dvd. I does state that a couple files are in use and I didn't write them down but it had something to do with touch ui probably to support touch enabled devices in the absence of a keyboard but really shouldn't that be in the core...

Yep, booted from the same disc I installed from and chose repair your computer and then troubleshoot, advanced options and then command prompt. I initially tried to make symlinks but then tried junctions as well. I think I'd be satisfied if I could figure out how to get the program file...

That's not hopeful for windows 8 if that's true because I've junctioned both program folders on win7 Ult 64bit for years without issue. I've successfully junctioned the following folders (in Win7 and Win8 CP and RP): c:\Users c:\ProgramData c:\Program Files c:\Program Files (x86)...

I've used that program before (also with my win7/64)...it's basically a gui for the mklink cli and it works very well. Unfortunately it doesn't appear it is an option if I can't boot into a mode in which the folders I want to move, or copy, delete and link are in use. I know the issue with the...

That doesn't actually solve anything. That's like throwing in the towel. I was hoping to get some responses from some tweaker geeks that like taking on a challenge. This is a real problem and it appears MS has completely missed the boat. Again, I don't want to move just the folders within...

Ok, so the title sounds pretty negative so I'll give a few props first. I built my own win8 pro machine and the install (clean) went pretty flawless and fairly quick, granted the install media was dvd which was much slower than usb which I had used for the "previews". (I am surprised the boxed...