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Still the same as Win 8.1. Except the stub from Windows 10 takes you to a web page https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/917607, which may or may not open the installer.

I had similar errors on my laptop with Windows 8.1 x64 pro attempting to download 8.1 x86 pro. I thought it may have been because there was not enough contiguous free space on the diskwhere Windows 8 is installed, having freed up about 9 GB to allow for the download after I realised I had less...

I've been using Windows 8.1 x64 on this machine since it was released as an upgrade to Windows 8. It's a full retail license as far as the EULA and Software licensing is concerned. I believe that the license can be transferred to another machine, and that the license is either for 32- or 64-bit...

Yea, thanks for the rep. There's a fair bit of information out there on WES2009, WES7, and WE8x, on MSDN, Technet and specialist sites. MDL has a dedicated Embedded subforum. I can point to this specific help for AMD graphics: AMD® WES7 Support Packages, and the site is all about Embedded...

If you were a games developer who wanted to produce a line of arcade machines running your games, which happened to run under Windows, a Windows Embedded platform would be an ideal gaming machine for you. You'd make money, Microsoft would make money... If you wanted to explore the possibility...

The power management features of a system need the correct Chipset drivers. Just to make sure, go here: Acer | Download for your Windows 8.1 64-bit drivers for your Acer Aspire XC-603 motherboard - they seem to be very recent: Chipset Intel Chipset Driver 9.4.4.1006 42.7 MB 2014/10/02...

According to the instructions and license terms here, the Modern IE VMs work for 90, and not 30 days: https://modernievirt.blob.core.windows.net/vhd/virtualmachine_instructions_2014-01-21.pdf

You can download 90-day VirtualBox VM versions of XP - clean and legit - from here: https://www.modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools#downloads

You can use the Office programs free online thru OneDrive - except for Access - just click the Create button, and Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint are available. If you are one of the 80% of people who use less than 20% of the Microsoft Office features, then this should be fine for you.

I've been dual booting both 7 and 8x for years, and both have been reinstalled as upgrade in-place repairs, and as far as 8 is, concerned, upgraded several times. I have always preferred the text mode, legacy boot menus, not least because they do not warm reboot when an OS which is not windows...

It's just putting off the eventual reality - Microsoft has disowned its most historically successful OffSpring, and continues to slowly strangle XP. Still, over one fifth of PC users hang on to it... My advice is to cut the ties now if you want to run XP, dump MSE, Defender, Windows Updates...

How long does it take to upload 2GB at 18Mb/s, which is about the max rate my BT FTC broadband can manage?

I applied the install.wim (from a Windows 8.1 update 1 ISO d/l from the net, burned to an USB, as per the excellent tutorial http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2227-create-bootable-usb-dvd-windows-8-iso.html) to my failed windows 8.1 boot volume using Dism from a windows 8 usb stick. The...

Thanks Shawn, I have been perusing the TechNet Dism pages and will be trying some of the offline repair techniques outlined there, and I will of course report back with any findings. One thing I intend to do, sounds a bit crazy, but I have had some success with it before* - is to apply the...

Apologies for not reading all 13 pages, so this may have been asked before. Is it possible to run Dism to fix possible component store issues offline? I have a non-working Windows 8.1 MCE (update 1) which was fine until I accidentally destroyed the partitions while investigating some old Acer...