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Ive managed to fix the problems a while back, but im not sure how, after purchasing am OEM disk, and installing from that, it failed to activate again, after that i took out my storage drive and everything seemed to activate just fine, and has stayed that way ever since, even after putting the hard drive back in, which is rather odd... but at least its fixed. Only problem is now i decided to upgrade my other PC to Windows 8 using the upgrade disk that never activated on the other one, but its not telling me that its already activated on another PC, even though it never actually activated, im hoping that a call to Microsoft will resolve this issue.

I am trying to sync an iPad 4 with iTunes, but iTunes wont detect that its pluged in. When I plug in the iPad it makes the sound to say that its plugged in, but iTunes doesn't show it, and it doesn't appear in My Computer as a camera either. It detects fine in Windows 7, 8, and Mac OS X, but not in XP. my iPhone detects fine too, so its just the iPad. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Ive tried that twice. and its failed both times.

When I select my region (Australia) it throws up the same error as when i tried to activate (0xD0000033) and doesn't show the numbers that i am required to enter on the phone to activate. I think im just going to buy an OEM disk, because im pretty sick of this upgrade thing. But thanks for your help. :)

Just another update. The activation has failed again (Error code 0xD0000033) and I cant see anywhere to do a phone activation.

It turned out that windows deactivated its self a few minutes after i posted this on here and i could not reactivate. I've done a "custom" install from the activation disk, but when I checked the registry the "MediaBootInstall" value was already set to 0, and windows was already activated (and it says so in both locations). Is it likely to stay this way? or is it going to deactivate its self again later? If it deactivates again, i will probably just go and buy an OEM Windows 8 disk from my local PC store, just to get the job done so i can use my PC properly again.

Hi all, I'm having a couple of problems with my PC after upgrading to Windows 8: 1: After upgrading my PC to Windows 8 I noticed that system info, and windows activation don't seem to agree on the activation state of my copy of windows (picture attached) , is this going to be problematic in the future? and is there a known way to fix this issue? 2: When I click the "Shut Down" button in Windows, everything seems to shut down OK, but when i turn my PC back on, it says "Resuming from Hibernation" even when i clearly clicked shut down, so in order to access the BIOS on start up i have to turn off my PC by unplugging it from the wall so it will start up properly. Is this likely to be a something within Windows, or a setting somewhere in the BIOS? My system config: ASRock H77 Pro4/MVP Intel i5 3550 AMD HD7850 OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD WD 1TB Blue Any help would be much appreciated :) [ATTACH=CONFIG]n3673[/ATTACH]

Looks like most people have similar opinions. I have used it on my laptop, and I actually didn't find the "Metro" UI too bad, I just wish it didn't have its own apps as if its a completely different OS. It Windows, so the desktop environment should be the main area that the computer defaults too and that everything opens in, although this can be received with some tinkering and some third-party applications. The changes that were made in the desktop environment are really good. File transfers are more accurate. Task manager is 100 times better than the old one. ​Solid colour schemes look better in my opinion, and are slightly less heavy on the system. With all that said I wont be upgrading my gaming rig any time soon because ive heard about some games not running properly. I guess we'll have to wait until service pack 1 to see if all this gets fixed.

I just got an Olympus Tough TG-820, at first I was not very happy with picture quality, but after tinkering with settings it takes a very good photo for its price.

I use an iPhone 5, and I really like it, although sometimes I do wish I got the Samsung Galaxy S3 because I do like tinkering with things and installing custom ROMs.

Lets kick off some constructive conversation on Windows 8. Post any thoughts and experiences here. Thoughts on new UI? Thoughts on mobile "App" experience on desktop environment? Thoughts on touch optimisation?