Good Day Ladies and Gentlemen

We're currently Setting up a Windows 8.1 PC with our Starface SIP Client.

Once we finished installing the Client we manually assing the callto: and tel: protocol to it.

I used http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/aa767914(v=vs.85).aspx as Help.

We've a Strange issue with that.

As command we're using "C:\Program Files (x86)\STARFACE Client\STARFACE Client.exe" PlaceCall "+%1"

Which works perfectly for callto.

If we use the Same command on the Tel Protocol it asks which Program it should open the tel protocol with.

It only brings up Lync and Skype or get app from Store without an "Open With" Function.

If i make the same thing on a Windows 8.0 it does work Perfectly.

I tried to add it manually to the OpenWithList. (http://www.technorms.com/26760/add-remove-programs-open-menu-registry)

Which didn't work. I still can only choose Lync Skype or get app from app store. I've a Feeling Windows wants me to desperately use an app for the Tel Protocol.

Restoring the defaults and then Re-Adding the Registry KEY's didn't help neither.

Here the Full Registry code which we use.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\callto]
@="URL: CallTo Protocol""EditFlags"=hex:02,00,00,00"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\callto\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\callto\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\callto\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\STARFACE Client\\STARFACE Client.exe\" PlaceCall \"+%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\tel]
@="URL: Tel Protocol""EditFlags"=hex:02,00,00,00"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\tel\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\tel\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\tel\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\STARFACE Client\\STARFACE Client.exe\" PlaceCall \"+%1\""

Thanks for your attention

Sincerly Fabian Zünd

Nucom AG

(Sry for my Bad English)

System:

I sucessfully upgrading to Windows 8.1 and everything was functioning after the upgrade.  However, after the first time I restarted my system after the upgrade the intergrated soundcard no longer worked.

I attempted to remove and reinstall the RealTek audio driver, downloading the newest 8.1 compatible driver from the Lenovo support site.

The drive refused to installed, either via the executable or by manually installing the driver through a device manager upgrade.  

So I attempted to install a stand alone soundcard, to no success.   

In device manager this is displayed for both the integrated motherboard audio and the new Asus sound card:

Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source. (Code 52)

If I disable the driver driver signature enforcement, neither audio option works.  Instead I get this error in device manager:

"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"

Attempting to update the driver in device manager, Windows tell me I am on the most up-to-date, recommended driver, yet at the same time refuses to allow it to function.

Extremely frustrating.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

No sound after windows 8 update to windows 8.1 

Removed sound card (Sound Blaster X-FI) and all of its software to eliminate one possible reason and tried using the on board sound with no luck. Everything shows up and says "enabled". Although when testing sound there would be an Error: "Failed to play test tone."

any idea for the no sound?

Windows 8.1 upgarde does not work. Got the upgrade from Windows Store and get blue screen of death.

What should I do?

I already try to reboot. Reboots into blue screen.

Tryed using Linux and does not want to boot. I but a new hard drive in and the  computer works. I reimaged the drive to a new drive. Still same problem.

I tried to reinstall from backup. Same blue screen.

Is Windows 8.1 Pro upgrade broken?

Is there a way to updated from Windows Updates instead of Windows Store? I think the problem is with Windows Store.

Hello,
Good Day

I upgraded to windows 8.1 pro preview with media center to windows 8.1 pro with media center via windows store of windows 8.1 pro preview with media center. So, my question is how to remove media center and take only windows 8.1.Can anybody help me please help me.

Than you

Best Regards,

Kaf

Hello,

I have a very peculiar situation; I've created a custom Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 image, but when I deploy it using Windows Deployment Services on Windows Server 2012 R2, using the Windows 8.1 Enterprise x86 boot.wim as the Windows Deployment Services boot image, it deploys successfully, but malfunctions;

• it doesn't activate [against our KMS server]
• when a new user logs on, the process stalls; if you logoff then logon, Microsoft Office gives you a 1603 error.
• File Explorer [I think] doesn't work (apologies for vagueness; I absolutelywasn't expecting this and was somewhat floored by the symptoms)

HOWEVER, if I manually deploy the SAME .WIM image, copy in theSAME unattend.xml, and manually replace %MACHINEDOMAIN% and %MACHINENAME% with the right values, it works fine.

HOWEVER, I've already verified that Windows Deployment Services is working perfectly well because I've added the Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 install.wim as an install image, and used the unattend.xml to automate it.  In other words, with the install.wim from the .ISO, everything is working fine, but with a custom image, it malfunctions.

I don't know why it's malfunctioning; nothing looking like a root cause appears in any event logs. I have injected some drivers into my custom image, but these are for relatively obscure devices such as scanners and smart card readers, which aren't even on the computer I'm testing this on.  The test computer would benefit fromchipset, video and network drivers, but the inbox ones work OK.  In any event, they work fine when I manually deploy.

Have more-or-less replicated this on test machines that are virtual, desktop and laptop, so I have no reason to believe the target device is a factor.

For now, Windows Deployment Services doesn't have a client unattend file.

This is a very peculiar problem. My existing, production environment has

• Windows 7 Enterprise in a custom image
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Deployment Services

working perfectly, and was looking to maintain the same approach, but simply update it.

Would welcome your ideas.

Kind regards,

Anwar

Hi There,

I have a Lenovo x240 and i have installed a fresh copy of W8 on it (without any key since we install license keys individually). What i basically do is to download and run Lenovo System Update which downloads and installs chipset drivers automatically. Once this is completed i run sysprep with command: sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown (we do not use any answer file) and proceed to capture the image afterwards. This has been working fine with laptops/computers running Windows7. It is not the case with Windows 8 though.

I have check the setuperr file for errors and states that is failing to secure drivers (intel\openCl). Error is below:

Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue are greatly appreciate it.

ERROR IS:

2014-01-10 09:44:42, Error      [0x0f00a4] SYSPRP WinMain: Unable to parse command-line arguments to sysprep; GLE = 0x0
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\clang_compiler64.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\clbltfne9.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\clbltfne9_img_cbk.o. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\clbltfne9_img_cbk.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\clbltfnh8.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\clbltfnh8_img_cbk.o. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\clbltfnh8_img_cbk.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\clbltfnl9.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\clbltfnl9_img_cbk.o. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\clbltfnl9_img_cbk.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\cpu_device64.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\intelocl64.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\OclCpuBackend64.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\task_executor64.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\tbb\tbb.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\tbb\tbbmalloc.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\__ocl_svml_e9.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\__ocl_svml_h8.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x64\__ocl_svml_l9.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\clang_compiler32.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\clbltfng9.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\clbltfng9_img_cbk.o. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\clbltfng9_img_cbk.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\clbltfnn8.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\clbltfnn8_img_cbk.o. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\clbltfnn8_img_cbk.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\clbltfns9.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\clbltfns9_img_cbk.o. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\clbltfns9_img_cbk.rtl. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\cpu_device32.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\intelocl32.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\OclCpuBackend32.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\task_executor32.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\tbb\tbb.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\tbb\tbbmalloc.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\__ocl_svml_g9.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\__ocl_svml_n8.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\bin\x86\__ocl_svml_s9.dll. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\llvm_release_license.txt. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\readme.txt. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\OpenCL\version.ini. Err = 0x3
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\AERTSr64.exe. Err = 0x2
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Windows\system32\drivers\intelaud.sys. Err = 0x2
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\iwdbus.sys. Err = 0x2
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Windows\system32\igfxsrvc.exe. Err = 0x2
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Windows\system32\igfxtray.exe. Err = 0x2
2014-01-10 09:47:18, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to secure driver file C:\Windows\system32\RTSnMg64.cpl. Err = 0x2
2014-01-10 09:52:20, Error      [0x0f0073] SYSPRP RunExternalDlls:Not running DLLs; either the machine is in an invalid state or we couldn't update the recorded state, dwRet = 0x1f
2014-01-10 09:52:20, Error                 SYSPRP WinMain:Hit failure while processing sysprep re-specialize internal providers; hr = 0x8007001f
2014-01-10 10:26:15, Error      [0x0f0073] SYSPRP RunExternalDlls:Not running DLLs; either the machine is in an invalid state or we couldn't update the recorded state, dwRet = 0x1f
2014-01-10 10:26:15, Error      [0x0f00ae] SYSPRP WinMain:Hit failure while processing sysprep cleanup external providers; hr = 0x8007001f
2014-01-10 10:30:06, Error      [0x0f0082] SYSPRP ActionPlatform::LaunchModule: Failure occurred while executing 'SysPrepDtcCleanup' from C:\Windows\system32\msdtcprx.dll; dwRet = 0x80100101[gle=0x000000b7]
2014-01-10 10:30:06, Error                 SYSPRP ActionPlatform::ExecuteAction: Error in executing action; dwRet = 0x80100101[gle=0x000000b7]
2014-01-10 10:30:06, Error                 SYSPRP ActionPlatform::ExecuteActionList: Error in execute actions; dwRet = 0x80100101[gle=0x000000b7]
2014-01-10 10:30:06, Error                 SYSPRP SysprepSession::Execute: Error in executing actions from C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\ActionFiles\Cleanup.xml; dwRet = 0x80100101
2014-01-10 10:30:06, Error                 SYSPRP RunPlatformActions:Failed while executing SysprepSession actions; dwRet = 0x80100101
2014-01-10 10:30:06, Error      [0x0f0070] SYSPRP RunExternalDlls:An error occurred while running registry sysprep DLLs, halting sysprep execution. dwRet = 0x80100101
2014-01-10 10:30:06, Error      [0x0f00a8] SYSPRP WinMain:Hit failure while processing sysprep cleanup providers; hr = 0x80100101

Hi

I am having issues with my Toshiba MK8009GAH PATA SSD Harddisk.I keep getting error such as "Windows can't be installed on drive 0 partition 1".

So when I click on the error it indicates as "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The disk may fail soon. If other harddisk are availabl. Install Windows to another location".

I did apply with diskpart command.

Such as the following...

list disk 0

select disk 0

clean or clean all

create partition primary

select partition 1

active

format fs=ntfs quick

But it Still it fails.

Hey guys

I'm having a little weird thingy with my dual boot systems at work... I've been Google-ing a while, but can't find anything about it. Allow me to explain.

I have a classroom with 16 computers running Windows 7 Professional. Because a course of Windows 8.1 will start next month, I have to install a dual boot system in that classroom. So, like normally, I take one PC to my office, create an extra partition, install Windows 8.1 on it, do the necessary configurations and place the Win 7 partition as default. No problems there.

After the install and configuration, I create an image of the Windows 8 partition, the system state and MBR. So actually, I have an image of all the available partitions, except the Win 7 partition. After creating an image, I'm going back to the classroom and install it on the PC's. After putting the image of the partitions, one problem arrives and that's the MBR. But after a few commands (bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /fixboot, bootrec /scanos, bootrec /rebuildbcd), that problem is solved.

So, everything is ready to rock! Or so I thought... Here's my real problem now. When you boot the PC, you get the new blue boot option of Win 8 where you can choose which OS to boot. Well, when I select the Win 7 partition as default, I get the old DOS screen for that. Ok fine, not a big problem, but the problem goes deeper. 
With Win 8.1 you have two ways of shutting down a PC: either via right mousse click on the start button followed with 'shut down', or use the charms bar. If I do it the way with the start button, the PC boots in the Win 7 OS by default (just as I want it to be). BUT when I shutdown the PC via the charms bar, the PC skips the "select OS to boot" menu and immediately starts Win 8!

I hope my entire explanation is clear to understand... So, anyone advice?

NOTE: On the source PC (created with the DVD and pulled the image from) is this problem not happening.

How can I use a Windows tablet with 32GB systempartition like the Dell Venue 8 Pro?

Before  X-Mas I bought a Win 8.1 tablet with 32GB systempartition...

I got a 25 Euro voucher but cannot use it, because my systempartition is nearly  full...

Desktop application are already installed on the SD-Card. How can I move the WindowsApps Folder to the SD-Card as Default?

Also the AppData Folder from my  Profile would be nice to have on the SD-Card.

Any ideas? Otherwise I have to try to get a 64GB tablet from the US. In Germany I haven't seen 64GB tablets with 8" Display...

I just updated from window 8 to 8.1 and my Wireless does not work. I did another window update after still nothing. It does work if I plug the cable. When I look at the internet uptions it does not see any Wireless connections.

Please help.

Marc

All Macintosh computers and other Apple Inc. products come with Helvetica and Times fonts built-in by default, although Windows doesn't. Helvetica is probably, at least to my opinion, the best and finest among all Sans-Serif and other typefaces in the world, and there's no doubt that it's one of the most popular fonts and it suites almost all types of design and typographic works. Although Arial is close enough to Helvetica, it's far inferior to the beauty and typographic natures of Helvetica. There are also a lot websites out there designed in Helvetica. So it should have been available to most computer users in the world.

However, although being the manufacturer of the most popular OS in the world, Microsoft does not make Helvetica and Times available in their operating system Windows by default, nor they do in Microsoft Office or other software or products they design. But it's not a big deal, since Helvetica is available to Windows users by purchase. Yet, even after purchasing Helvetica from a trusted source and installing it on my PC, I find that my browsers, Microsoft Office and other programs either don't render it properly, or substitute it by Arial and Times with Times New Roman — which clearly states that Microsoft does not support these fonts. But my question is WHY?

System Specs:

• HP G62-363TU Notebook PC
• Windows® 8.1 Pro (x64)
• Intel® Core™ i5 M 460 @2.53 Ghz
• 6.00 GB (5.80 GB usable) RAM

Is it a problem with my system or with the font file that I installed, or is it Microsoft? If it's Microsoft, I have no option but to switch to Mac.

Hi I brought Windows 8.1 64 bit installed it on a new 1tb hdd (clean Install ) the system has a TPM chip

If I buy windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit   (for  bitlocker ) and do a clean install on the new Hdd .

Question is   Will the licence key for the Windows 8.1 be useable on another system?

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