Windows 8.1 is available now

Great! and thank you ronjor.

Regards Janus , have a nice day )

 

so this is but a service pack? can we say that?

 

thanks

the first thing i noticed are the different hashes compare to the leak versions

 

Thanks Stapp for step by step instructions. How about AX64, did it work for you?

Best regards,

Mohamed

 

Dearest Stapp,

Excellent news about AX64 and IE11. At least AX64 being installed didn't give you BSOD as it did to MarcP.

Best regards,

Mohamed

 

i looked at the Windows Updates and the Windows Store, nothing yet.

running the Beta here.

maybe i should disable the local account and go back to the 'cloud' account?

 

try clicking download from windowsstore.com. It will then navigate you to your local windows store, from where you should be able to do the update.

b/W i have started the update process in the morning and had to leave the system for work . Should be all done when i return to home

 

Installed...works great !

 

Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 8.1

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-starts-rolling-out-windows-8-1-7000022052/

• The Windows Team Blog •
Windows 8.1 now available!
http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2013/10/17/windows-8-1-now-available.aspx

 

i don't think you can upgrade to the final version from the 8.1 Beta.

so I went and restored an image of Windows 8 I had.

downloading it right now from the Store.

can the download be saved as an ISO?

should keep me busy for the better part of the day.
I guess I should go to the liquor store and get something good to drink.

 

The file size download makes me feel lazy to upgrade.

 

hahaha!

anyway, I downloaded the whole thing from the Store and everything went fine.
I created a base disk image right after install.

since I upgraded from a base Win 8 image I get to re-install all my programs.
I expected to be able to upgrade from the Beta but no such luck.

anyway, I like to geek away on this stuff so it's all good.

 

anyway, i'm glad the little logon Beta fish is gone.

i like the blue windows logon much better.

 

Review: Windows 8.1
http://www.neowin.net/news/review-windows-81

 

I think W 8.1 is a keeper. Upgraded nicely on my MSATA drive. It's a little quicker and I like being able to clean roughly 4 Gigs from the upgrade (used Disk Cleanup).

 

Updated 8 with Media Center to 8.1 through the store. Minimal issues so far. I did have to reinstall my graphics drivers and I had to remove and reinstall SmartFTP. I uninstalled NIS for the upgrade because I don't like to have AV while doing an upgrade of this type. Now to decide what to put back...

 

What about the "Windows.old" folder (2,36GB) & "Default.Migrated" (0 bytes) subfolder in "Users" folder?

Can be safely delete them after the upgrade from 8 to 8.1?

Edit:
How to remove the Windows.old folder
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/how-remove-windows-old-folder

 

8.1 is not about being faster, or using less disk space, or improving the desktop experience in any way. It is about improving the Metro / Modern / TileWorld experience.

Reconciling 2 Worlds With Windows 8.1,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/t...2036207-ceRHlWexnKiBRnU I wQLg&pagewanted=all

 

the hashes will be different. the leaked version matches the msdn and technet versions not the update version though this is only if you got the correct leaked verison.