Just a quick one
this time…. Hopefully.
After running the
"Release Preview" and "Enterprise Trial" versions of
Windows 8 over the last several months, I actually managed to get my laptop
into a state where I was happy to blank it off and install Windows 8 Pro as its
only operating system.
With the caveat that
all new Windows installations tend to boot quickly (until you start filling
them with… erm… useful applications) I'm impressed with the boot time of the
system. This is a two year old laptop with mechanical HDD, yet I can boot to
the log-in screen in 19 seconds (of which eleven seconds are taken by the BIOS
check). This is fast enough that I'm tending only to sleep the system if I need
to keep the desktop state. As a result I'm shutting down now (I used to sleep)
in preference - although this is also partly down to the issue that sometimes
after waking the machine (from sleep) the cursor tends to be a little erratic.
I'll have more
thoughts on Windows 8 over future posts no doubt (but frankly there are enough
reviews out there that I'm not going to bother adding to the noise), however in
case you were in any doubt: I like the new OS, but I am aware there are issues
that need to be resolved, some fairly major.
One thing I am
pleased about is the apparent simplicity of adding the Windows 8 laptop to the
Windows Home Server backup schedule. This, as you would hope is done exactly
the same way as earlier versions of Windows, and seems to be running without
issue.
The one thing that
has got me puzzled is that I have only managed to connect via remote desktop
from the web page once (as in the very first time I tried), after which I get
the following error (every time since):
I have no idea why
this is happening. I can connect without issue via the remote desktop client.
Unfortunately I'm not given an opportunity to fix this issue, and don't know
where I should look on the server to make changes. Even Google seems bereft of
answers (or indeed questions). No doubt I'll have a poke around, but I'm not
feeling confident at this stage.
Other than that
annoyance, so far so good. Hopefully my desktop will be converted soon too.
Now to start filling
the laptop with crap again!
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