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On 01/08/2014 08:37 PM, Silver Slimer wrote:
I will never get one...I need a full keyboard...not those tiny little buttons Well, they're on-screen buttons. I prefer a physical keyboard as well but I have to admit that the word suggestions which appear over certain letters of the on-screen keyboard on the Blackberry Z10 I own make typing absolute heaven. The iPhone is a nifty little device though. I probably should not get one though my wife seems to be addicted to hers. |
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On 09/01/2014 2:58 AM, philo wrote:
On 01/08/2014 08:37 PM, Silver Slimer wrote: I will never get one...I need a full keyboard...not those tiny little buttons Well, they're on-screen buttons. I prefer a physical keyboard as well but I have to admit that the word suggestions which appear over certain letters of the on-screen keyboard on the Blackberry Z10 I own make typing absolute heaven. The iPhone is a nifty little device though. I probably should not get one though my wife seems to be addicted to hers. They don't make you any more productive, that's for sure. If you can go on in life not taking advantage of the latest technology, that's a good thing. Acquiring the latest technology in order to maintain happiness is not much different than being addicted to crack. -- Silver Slimer GNU/Linux is communism |
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On 1/09/2014, Silver Slimer posted:
On 09/01/2014 2:58 AM, philo wrote: On 01/08/2014 08:37 PM, Silver Slimer wrote: I will never get one...I need a full keyboard...not those tiny little buttons Well, they're on-screen buttons. I prefer a physical keyboard as well but I have to admit that the word suggestions which appear over certain letters of the on-screen keyboard on the Blackberry Z10 I own make typing absolute heaven. The iPhone is a nifty little device though. I probably should not get one though my wife seems to be addicted to hers. They don't make you any more productive, that's for sure. If you can go on in life not taking advantage of the latest technology, that's a good thing. Acquiring the latest technology in order to maintain happiness is not much different than being addicted to crack. It's not as bad for your teeth than crack, unless you're so addicted that you neglect dental hygiene. Which is not 100% outside the realm of possibility... -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Unable to download and install W8.1 from MS App Store to upgrade W8.0 machines.
It seems to suggest that you have to log in with the original
Administrator account, in other words the first account ever created on that installation. OK, I finally got the password for the original administrator account and was able to download. I also found out that the new accounts I made/created were still in standard, and not administrator! I had to edit their types. W8 sure changed on how to make accounts too. Now, I am currently SLOWLY downloading W8.1 up(grade/date) from MS App Store. Boo. It failed overnight. I saw it idling at a boot up(?) with diagnostic stuff. Usually this happens if the computer goes to sleep during the process or, even worse, hibernates. I get the impression this might have been the case. Hmm, I didn't see it asleep. Anyways, I saw it again when I came back to check machine! Here is what I saw: Language selection (picked English) screen. Choose an option: "Trouble (Refresh or reset your PC, or use advanced tools)" or "Turn off your PC". I stopped here to see what you guys will say. I did not boot back to desktop. Maybe I can get logs from here instead to see what's up? Wow, no comments? I went to back to its desktop and saw this: "Couldn't update to Windows 8.1 Sorry, we couldn't complete the update to Windows 8.1. We've restored your previous versions of Windows to this PC. 0xC1900101 - 0x20017" -- Quote of the Week: "I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t." --Mitch Hedberg /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. If crediting, ( ) then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Unable to download and install W8.1 from MS App Store to upgradeW8.0 machines.
On 1/9/2014 8:23 PM, Ant wrote:
Wow, no comments? I went to back to its desktop and saw this: "Couldn't update to Windows 8.1 Sorry, we couldn't complete the update to Windows 8.1. We've restored your previous versions of Windows to this PC. 0xC1900101 - 0x20017" "Dood, you got the same code as the guy on Forbes.com" :-) You're in good company. I wonder if a tech support person from Microsoft will be contacting you, after reading this thread :-) http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymag...on-2-machines/ Someone here, traced the problem to a missing SYSTEM RESERVED partition. On Windows 8, that would be around 350MB. There is at least one recipe for removing such, and maybe the upgrader doesn't like that :-( Further down the page, a person reports updating their SSD firmware fixed it. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...fe62d9?page=45 And there are only 602 replies in that thread. Talk about "telemetry". It seems there's no end to proposed solutions. Everyone thinks they've got the answer. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...6-31979d8636e7 I would start with a .log file if you can find one. Someone mentioned a "Panther" directory, but I don't know if it's there or not. When **** like this happens, I usually do a search on "ext:log", then sort by date, and see which log(s) were last created. The logs are totally useless, but they're a "breadcrumb when nobody seems to care". Paul |
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On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:38:27 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
wrote: On 1/09/2014, Silver Slimer posted: On 09/01/2014 2:58 AM, philo wrote: On 01/08/2014 08:37 PM, Silver Slimer wrote: I will never get one...I need a full keyboard...not those tiny little buttons Well, they're on-screen buttons. I prefer a physical keyboard as well but I have to admit that the word suggestions which appear over certain letters of the on-screen keyboard on the Blackberry Z10 I own make typing absolute heaven. The iPhone is a nifty little device though. I probably should not get one though my wife seems to be addicted to hers. They don't make you any more productive, that's for sure. If you can go on in life not taking advantage of the latest technology, that's a good thing. Acquiring the latest technology in order to maintain happiness is not much different than being addicted to crack. It's not as bad for your teeth than crack, unless you're so addicted that you neglect dental hygiene. Which is not 100% outside the realm of possibility... Mountain Dew is almost as bad, and in some areas* is even more widely available. *Outside of Missouri and Arkansas, for example, the crack capital of the nation. https://www.google.com/search?q=mountain+dew+teeth |
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Unable to download and install W8.1 from MS App Store to upgradeW8.0 machines.
Paul wrote, On 1/9/2014 9:54 PM:
On 1/9/2014 8:23 PM, Ant wrote: Wow, no comments? I went to back to its desktop and saw this: "Couldn't update to Windows 8.1 Sorry, we couldn't complete the update to Windows 8.1. We've restored your previous versions of Windows to this PC. 0xC1900101 - 0x20017" "Dood, you got the same code as the guy on Forbes.com" :-) You're in good company. I wonder if a tech support person from Microsoft will be contacting you, after reading this thread :-) http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymag...on-2-machines/ Someone here, traced the problem to a missing SYSTEM RESERVED partition. On Windows 8, that would be around 350MB. There is at least one recipe for removing such, and maybe the upgrader doesn't like that :-( Further down the page, a person reports updating their SSD firmware fixed it. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...fe62d9?page=45 And there are only 602 replies in that thread. Talk about "telemetry". It seems there's no end to proposed solutions. Everyone thinks they've got the answer. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...6-31979d8636e7 I would start with a .log file if you can find one. Someone mentioned a "Panther" directory, but I don't know if it's there or not. When **** like this happens, I usually do a search on "ext:log", then sort by date, and see which log(s) were last created. The logs are totally useless, but they're a "breadcrumb when nobody seems to care". Paul Reading those answers.microsoft.com threads shows much variation in the systems attempting the upgrade some quite old, other unclear on what software is installed, whether or not 8.1 requirements are met, presence of 3rd party AV, etc. - is it any wonder that multiple solutions are being thrown out and unless I missed it, I don't see any recommendation 'marked as an answer' With respect to the System Reserved (350 MB) partition. It does contain the contents or link to OEM recovery partitions. When upgrading to 8.1 the refresh/reset bits are not updated to 8.1...they continue to provide going back to 8.0 (remember 8.1 is an upgrade not a new o/s). If the SR is corrupt or missing for some reason then it would seem plausible that 8.1 would fail if it needs to validate the ability to refresh/reset during the upgrade process. Either way...it's still messy with different causes for different systems when the upgrade fails. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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