Consumer Beta Windows 8

[xit]

Downloaded it, burned ISO & installed, pretty nice so far. From power button to desktop is less than one & one half mins. on a five year old desktop.

 

[dilettante]

Yes, it is amazing what forcing hibernation on users who don't already use it accomplishes in Win8. That's where they said a lot of the boot speed improvement came from.

 

[hairlessupportmonkey]

I wonder how the corporate sector will see this....

Tiles? Hmmmmmm............

ACSS - SME
General Geek

 

[xit]

Actually, this timing was from OFF to desktop, not hibernation to desktop. There is much to learn with this system as it involves some things I am never involved with on a daily basis.

 

[dilettante]

From what I've read much of the kernel always hibernates:

Now here’s the key difference for Windows 8: as in Windows 7, we close the user sessions, but instead of closing the kernel session, we hibernate it.

I suspect you are like many who have hibernation confused with standby and sleep modes. A hibernated system is completely powered off.

 

[flyboytim]

Is that what the 256MB c:\swapfile.sys is for, which sits alongside c:\pagefile.sys and c:\hiberfil.sys? It does not seem to be documented.

 

[Browntellis]

Yesterday I was wondering about how to download and install Windows 8, specially in a virtual environment. So what I have found is a very useful link where it has been mentioned in a step by step manner about how to download and install Windows 8 in a vitual environment.

http://www.techseeks.com/how-to-download-and-install-windows-8-on-a-virtual-environment.html