A quick and dirty start menu for those that miss it - which requires no third party software:
1. Right click on the Task Bar
2. Select Toolbar > New Toolbar
3. Enter the following path "C:\Users\Andy\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu" (obviously replace Andy with your own username )
You should end up with a Start Menu tool bar. Just click the right chevron. Note it doesn't show everything. But you can drag things into it.
4. Repeat again with "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu" (To keep it simple just do this one instead of the one above!)
Only annoying thing i've found wrong well 2 things. Language packs appear to be missing (couldn't use the windows 8 packs said had to re-download in 8.1 and that option not available yet) and of course MSN messenger being killed (I liked that mainly for the email notification along with windows mail)
I've just logged onto sky go to watch the F1 Show, however the pc is apparently not registered. I last used this PC to watch sky go on the 16th, the only thing that has changed is the 8.1 update. I've used up my device allocations, and have to wait till next month.
Laptop is so laggy since the update. Unimpressed so far but will await an update before really laying into MS
So it made a quick OS into a slow OS, not good. that was the one major reason I stayed with windows 8 and did not re-install windows 7 because it was quicker.
So it made a quick OS into a slow OS, not good. that was the one major reason I stayed with windows 8 and did not re-install windows 7 because it was quicker.
Have you rebooted yet? A few people have said the speed picks up a while after the install.
So it made a quick OS into a slow OS, not good. that was the one major reason I stayed with windows 8 and did not re-install windows 7 because it was quicker.
I don't think that is a universal truth....Obviously not everyone has experienced this...
Even W8 ran slower after something changed. If it stays slow after a few shutdowns then it is slow. Also the quick startup requires a shutdown. If you are restarting, it's done in a slower old fashioned way.
Even W8 ran slower after something changed. If it stays slow after a few shutdowns then it is slow. Also the quick startup requires a shutdown. If you are restarting, it's done in a slower old fashioned way.
OK, so has it now speeded up for people, after a day of use?
Well my windows 8.1 has gone tits up on the PC, will not dual boot and says the winload.exe is missing. Trying to recover a previous backed up image and then try 8.1 again.
PS: has anyone got the windows old folder after upgrading?
I agree with his points on getting a download, but isn't it just how things are nowadays with updates, things just update individually per machine
I update chrome and it just does it in the background, no saved file to move between machines
I do a windows update and it just downloads/installs on the machine
My BB is slow so it took a while to upgrade (multiple machines), but I would have thought many people would find this much easier than having to download files and save to media, then update
Yep. I'm seeing that here too. IE11 reporting that Microsoft's own add-ins (Office 365 related) are incompatible. Presumably they will issue updates ASAP. They've had long enough to test compatibility with their own products!
I solved the issue of IE11 reporting incompatible add-ons by uninstalling Office 365 and reinstalling it (effectively it downloads a fresh copy) again.
but isn't it just how things are nowadays with updates, things just update individually per machine
That's fine for small downloads and people with only one computer, but with 8.1 being such a megafile it would have been a good idea to offer the option to download and save the file for people who have to upgrade more than one computer.
Of course, why something which does so little should be so huge is another issue...
That's fine for small downloads and people with only one computer, but with 8.1 being such a megafile it would have been a good idea to offer the option to download and save the file for people who have to upgrade more than one computer.
Of course, why something which does so little should be so huge is another issue...
I agree on download sizes, but what do we define as big/small
For my slow BB a small size is about 100 meg
If I was on Fibre then it would be much bigger
Many companies now seem to assume everyone is on super fast BB, people that aren't just have to suffer it
I prefer downloads (and would have used this for 8.1) due to how long things take (tv streaming s/w downloads etc), but this option is slowly being taken away and we just have to suffer long downloads, sucks but that seems the way of life now
Well my windows 8.1 has gone tits up on the PC, will not dual boot and says the winload.exe is missing. Trying to recover a previous backed up image and then try 8.1 again.
PS: has anyone got the windows old folder after upgrading?
Yes I have along with $Windows.~BT (the latter folder is also in the root directory but is hidden by default). Both folders can be deleted using Disk Cleanup then choosing Clean up system files and then Previous Windows installations from the menu.
I've also lost 350MB of my C: Drive, the partition I use to store all my system files. During the upgrade process Windows 8.1 took 350MB of the free space to use for the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE). Although one was already on my computer (it's known as the System Reserved Partition) for Windows 8, apparently every time an upgrade happens Windows creates another System Reserved Partition. Looking in Computer / Disk Management this small partition shows as "Healthy (Recovery Partition)".
The loss of 350MB isn't the problem, what is the problem is that Windows has gone and created this partition at the end of my C: partition, before all the other partitions I created (I created a partition for system files, one to store all my documents and data, one for media files (photos, music, videos) and one for "odds and sods" such as program setup files, downloaded drivers for my computer, a place to backup things etc. By creating the recovery partition at the end of the C: drive it means I'm stuck with the C: drive being that size. If I needed to take space from what was the next partition (my documents and data partition) I can no longer do that.
You never had trouble upgrading a service pack on XP, vista or 7.
Given the size of the update Windows 8.1 seems to be a lot more than a mere service pack update. it's almost like a clean install of a new operating system.
Going to have to do a fresh install of windows 8 on the PC as the recovery failed, can't repair it and windows says the drive is locked and I have to unlock it
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1. Right click on the Task Bar
2. Select Toolbar > New Toolbar
3. Enter the following path "C:\Users\Andy\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu" (obviously replace Andy with your own username
You should end up with a Start Menu tool bar. Just click the right chevron. Note it doesn't show everything. But you can drag things into it.
4. Repeat again with "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu" (To keep it simple just do this one instead of the one above!)
Were all your emails and mail account settings intact after the reinstallation?
yes. They. Were ok.
It was just a dll file that was missing, according to the error message
Anyone else had this problem with the 8.1 update?
So it made a quick OS into a slow OS, not good. that was the one major reason I stayed with windows 8 and did not re-install windows 7 because it was quicker.
Have you rebooted yet? A few people have said the speed picks up a while after the install.
I think that comment should have been to The Wulfrunian, I have not installed windows 8.1,
going to avoid it i think.
I don't think that is a universal truth....Obviously not everyone has experienced this...
OK, so has it now speeded up for people, after a day of use?
Mine was slow initially after the upgrade
Today it is working the same speed as 8.0
I think it was doing some type of clean up after the upgrade, I have gained about 20GB of disc space
http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-81-upgrade-woes
PS: has anyone got the windows old folder after upgrading?
I agree with his points on getting a download, but isn't it just how things are nowadays with updates, things just update individually per machine
I update chrome and it just does it in the background, no saved file to move between machines
I do a windows update and it just downloads/installs on the machine
My BB is slow so it took a while to upgrade (multiple machines), but I would have thought many people would find this much easier than having to download files and save to media, then update
I solved the issue of IE11 reporting incompatible add-ons by uninstalling Office 365 and reinstalling it (effectively it downloads a fresh copy) again.
Of course, why something which does so little should be so huge is another issue...
I agree on download sizes, but what do we define as big/small
For my slow BB a small size is about 100 meg
If I was on Fibre then it would be much bigger
Many companies now seem to assume everyone is on super fast BB, people that aren't just have to suffer it
I prefer downloads (and would have used this for 8.1) due to how long things take (tv streaming s/w downloads etc), but this option is slowly being taken away and we just have to suffer long downloads, sucks but that seems the way of life now
I've also lost 350MB of my C: Drive, the partition I use to store all my system files. During the upgrade process Windows 8.1 took 350MB of the free space to use for the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE). Although one was already on my computer (it's known as the System Reserved Partition) for Windows 8, apparently every time an upgrade happens Windows creates another System Reserved Partition. Looking in Computer / Disk Management this small partition shows as "Healthy (Recovery Partition)".
The loss of 350MB isn't the problem, what is the problem is that Windows has gone and created this partition at the end of my C: partition, before all the other partitions I created (I created a partition for system files, one to store all my documents and data, one for media files (photos, music, videos) and one for "odds and sods" such as program setup files, downloaded drivers for my computer, a place to backup things etc. By creating the recovery partition at the end of the C: drive it means I'm stuck with the C: drive being that size. If I needed to take space from what was the next partition (my documents and data partition) I can no longer do that.
Yes, windows.old folder is there on mine.
EDIT: well I swear it was there yesterday but njow seems to have deleted itself!
This update has screwed up my PC :mad: