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Interesting things to do with Windows
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Interesting things to do with Windows
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<p>Some people like the new Modern UI (me) and some hate it (my brother). It can be disabled easily by installing <a href="https://www.pokki.com/">Pokki</a>.</p>
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<p>Some people like the new Modern UI (me) and some hate it (my brother). It can be disabled easily by installing <a href="https://www.pokki.com/">Pokki</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.pokki.com/">Pokki</a> is Start Menu for Windows 8 which also has options to login directly to desktop (without seeing Modern UI) and disable hot corners. Pokki also includes inbuild application store where you can <em>get hundreds of free applications.</em></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.pokki.com/">Pokki</a> is Start Menu for Windows 8 which also has options to login directly to desktop (without seeing Modern UI) and disable hot corners. Pokki also includes inbuild application store where you can <em>get hundreds of free applications.</em></p>
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<p>First download <a href="https://www.pokki.com/">Pokki</a> and when you see the start menu, right click it and set the settings you want (boot to desktop & disable hot corners).</p>
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<p>First download <a href="https://www.pokki.com/">Pokki</a> and when you see the start menu, right click it and set the settings you want (boot to desktop & disable hot corners).</p>
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<h2 id="creating-windows-usb-install">Creating Windows USB install</h2>
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<p><a href="http://www.raivogalleria.net/?p=1388">RaivoGalleria</a> has good instructions on how to create bootable Windows USB stick, but iẗ́'s in Finnish. It uses Windows internal utilities instead of Windows 7 USB creator tool, so you don't need .net framework.</p>
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<ol class="incremental" style="list-style-type: decimal">
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<li><p>Plug in the stick and open cmd.exe as Administrator (right click it in Start menu/Modern UI and select "run as Administrator).</p></li>
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<li><p>Enter the following commands <strong>replacing X with your USB stick number</strong>. WARNING: This will erase everything on that stick.</p></li>
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<pre><code>diskpart
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list disk
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select disk X
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create partition primary
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select partition 1
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format fs=ntfs</code></pre>
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<p>The formatting will take some time... After it's done, enter these two commands:</p>
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<pre><code>assign
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exit</code></pre>
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<p>Now minimize the command prompt, you will need it soon.</p>
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<li><p>Mount the Windows 8 image. If you are using Windows 8, simply double click it. Otherwise download use <a href="http://www.daemon-tools.cc/eng/home">Daemon-Tools</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p>Open the command prompt again and replace the first X: with drive letter of the virtual drive containing Windows installation image and the second with USB stick letter.</p></li>
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<p>Now open the virtual drive and copy-paste all files to the USB stick. Then read the next section of this page unless you made Windows 8 Enterprise stick.</p>
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<h2 id="installing-all-versions-from-single-media">Installing all versions from single media</h2>
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<p>First disable hiding of extensions of known file types in folder options if you haven't done so already. Then go to the USB stick and open folder sources.</p>
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<p>Create a new file called "ei.cfg" (NOT "ei.cfg.txt" which you will get if you hide extentions of known file types!).</p>
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<p>Then paste the following into it:</p>
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<p>and save. Note that the second line must be empty.</p>
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<p>Now try booting from the stick and press "install". You will get a menu asking whether you want to install "Windows 8 Pro" or "Windows 8" (this doesn't work with Enterprise). If you don't want to boot, press the X on top right corner and then click it again and your computer reboots.</p>
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<p>This method also removes asking of product key from installation.</p>
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<p><strong>Vista & 7 users: remove the ei.cfg file to get this menu if you aren't installing Windows 8).</strong></p>
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Windows offers trial period of 30 days by default. When that time has went, you can open cmd.exe as Administrator and run
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slmgr /rearm
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to get another 30 days. This can be repeated three times so you will get 90 days.
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To check how many rearms you have left, simply run
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slmgr -dlv
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[Pokki]:https://www.pokki.com/
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[Pokki]:https://www.pokki.com/
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## Creating Windows USB install
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[RaivoGalleria](http://www.raivogalleria.net/?p=1388) has good instructions on how to create bootable Windows USB stick, but iẗ́'s in Finnish. It uses Windows internal utilities instead of Windows 7 USB creator tool, so you don't need .net framework.
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1. Plug in the stick and open cmd.exe as Administrator (right click it in Start menu/Modern UI and select "run as Administrator).
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2. Enter the following commands <strong>replacing X with your USB stick number</strong>. WARNING: This will erase everything on that stick.
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5. Open the command prompt again and replace the first X: with drive letter of the virtual drive containing Windows installation image and the second with USB stick letter.
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## Installing all versions from single media
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Now try booting from the stick and press "install". You will get a menu asking whether you want to install "Windows 8 Pro" or "Windows 8" (this doesn't work with Enterprise). If you don't want to boot, press the X on top right corner and then click it again and your computer reboots.
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