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Windows 8 went RTM on August 1st, 2012 and was released for general availability on October 26th, 2012. It contains many new features and changes, the most noticeable being a new graphical user interface, know as Modern UI. It is available in four major editions, Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Enterprise, and Windows 8 RT.

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Windows 8 went RTM on August 1st, 2012 and was released for general availability on October 26th, 2012. It contained many new features and changes, the most noticeable being a new graphical user interface know as Modern UI. It is available in four major editions, Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Enterprise, and Windows 8 RT.

Aside from the new Modern UI, some other notable new features and enhancements included:

  • Support for ARM processors (low power processors found in many mobile devices)
  • Native support for USB 3.0
  • Support for, and in some cases, mandatory inclusion of UEFI SecureBoot
  • New versions of existing Microsft products, including PowerShell v3.0, Internet Explorer 10, Windows Defender, and a redesigned Task Manager
  • A Windows Store for purchasing Windows 8 applications
  • New authentication methods, including local logon with a Windows Live account, picture based password and login via PIN
  • Two new boot options: Hybrid Boot and Windows To Go
  • Client Hyper-V

Minimum hardware requirements for the x86 and x64 of Windows 8 are:

  • 1 GHz processor (with support for PAE, NX SSE2)
  • 1 GB RAM (2GB for x64 versions)
  • A graphics card capable of DirectX 9 and WDDM 1.0
  • 20 GB of disk space
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What features of Windows 8/8.1 Pro will not work without a Microsoft Account?

With respect to domain-joined Windows 8/8.1 Pro machines, what features of Windows will not work unless a Microsoft Account is used? Also, aside from "feature loss," are their any gotchas of not using a Microsoft Account in a…
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Is there a way to loop through Windows 8 Apps and remove them all?

Windows apps are annoying and I would like to remove them. Been playing around with Powershell and scripting and I wanted to know if there was a way I could make Powershell to loop through all the apps and remove them. # List of Applications that…
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How to disable Fast Startup using a Group Policy?

Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10 has this feature called "Fast Startup" (or "fast boot", "hybrid statup", "hybrid shutdown", and so on...) which doesn't actually shut down the computer when you tell it to do so, instead putting it in a sort of hybernation, in…
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How to deploy Windows-8 Enterprise Apps to other users?

Windows-8 (Metro) Apps can be installed using "sideloading", bypassing the Windows store in enterprise environments. In principle this is easy: Once you enabled sideloading (which is automatically done when a Win8-machine joins a domain), you can…
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Windows Event Viewer is slow on newer versions of Windows

The modern Event Viewer application that you get on all versions of Windows since Vista is so much slower the previous version that was on Server 2003 and XP. I know there is much more functionality in the newer version but most of the time I just…
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Is it possible to enable MSMQ from PowerShell on Windows 8?

Is it possible to enable MSMQ from PowerShell on Windows 8(.1)? If so, how does one do this?
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Extremely slow file transfers to Hyper-V VM on local machine

I am attempting to transfer a 1.3GB file from my local machine (Windows 8) to my local hyper-V instance (Windows 2012). The transfer begins at about 300kb/s and then swiftly drops to 12-20kb/s. The two machines are connected to the LAN via the same…
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How can I debug PAC (proxy auto config) on Windows 8.1 (IE11 and Modern UI)?

On older systems such as Windows 7 + IE10, calling "alert()" in the PAC file would cause a dialog being shown. However, with Windows 8.1 no dialogs are displayed even if IE11 seems to be making use the PAC. My current situation is IE11 can use the…
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Administrator view ALL mapped drives

In my understanding of security, an administrator should be able to view all connections to and from a computer - just as they can view all processes/owner, network connections/owning process. However, Windows 8 seems to have disabled this. As…
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Can I schedule a windows task to run in an interactive desktop session?

I'm trying to create a scheduled task that will run once daily on a dedicated machine. The task will run an exe. That exe does a bunch of things, including running automation that manipulates the mouse/kb etc. Is that possible (on any windows based…
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Open Windows Server 2012/Windows 8 Start Menu

I realize that Windows Server 2012 (and Windows 8) removed the start menu button and replaced it with moving your mouse to the upper right corner of the screen. This works fine when the desktop is full screen. However, I access all my servers…
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Where is the Create New Connection button in the Connections panel in IIS 8?

I need to connect to a Windows server through IIS 8 to configure a website, but I can't create a new connection in my manager. The online documentation tells about a set of buttons I am supposed to have in the highlighted area of the screenshot…
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Where can i find the latest unattended.xml schema (xsd)?

I'm working with Windows Server 2012, Windows Deployment Service (WDS), and Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK). I created a base unattended.xml file. When I go to edit in an xml editor it's actually a bit annoying since I don't have an…
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Do not allow passwords to be saved with RD Gateway in Remote Desktop Client

I'm trying to disable the Remember my credentials in the Remote Desktop Client via a Local Group Policy or registry. But the DisablePasswordSaving setting does not have an effect when a RD Gateway is set. Like cmurphy2266 found out here:…
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Drive mapping maps two different folders for elevated and non-elevated programs

I have a Windows 2012 Domain with a couple of Windows 8 x64 Enterprise members. I want to use Group Policies to map a drive X: to a folder on a file server. The drive X: should be available on the Windows 8 machines for elevated and non-elevated…
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