Waiting for boot.wim
Any minute now.
Update 1: It looks like a lot of people are having the same issue. Try to search Twitter and you’ll see. My guess is that I have not yet been authorized to install, so therefore we wait a little while longer. My daughter seems a little impatient though.
Update 2: Yeah, so I decided that the boot.wim issue would not get resolved anytime soon, I went with the ISO option for installing Windows 10 on my daughter’s PC. Now her machine has more or less imploded, so it will be a while before this thing will ever be up and running. Words like Macbook and Apple have been uttered.
Update 3: So, I managed to get Windows on my daughter’s PC without any major problems. Of course we had to go through a long process of creating a bootable CD, since her Asus could not boot from from the USB flash drive, luckily I have an old laptop that could handle that for us.
The installation and activation went fine, but when we tried to restart the machine we experienced nothing but a black screen, sometimes interrupted by a blinking mouse pointer. I have now reinstalled the whole thing again and I am in the process of running Windows update. We didn’t let Windows update finish before restarting, so now we will try that and see if it works. It seems to take a very long time to get all the updates, but today we will exercise a lot of patience.
Update 4: OK, so patience didn’t work. It looks like windows 10 bricked my daughter’s laptop. I have one or two things I can try before returning to Windows 7. As for my own laptop, I was able to install (and restart) without any problems. I had to get som edrivers and there are some minor annoyances, but nothing I can’t live with. However, SR 1 seems to have messed something up. Windows can’t connect to the group service now. Mail doesn’t work, Edge doesn’t work and it takes almost 10 minutes for the computer to shut down.
At this point I am almost ready to throw in the towel. After all the issues with Lumia 930 I am not in the mood to deal with the two laptops. Anyway, time to take a deep breath, drink some coffee and deal with it.
Update 5: I have given up for now. I have installed Windows 10 about 5 times on my daughter’s computer and it won’t boot after updating. Back to Windows 7 for her, for now at least.
Juel.me now with Live tile
Download old texts on your Lumia device
I didn’t know about this feature. Very nifty.
Save blog posts to Onedrive
Or dropbox or whereever you like. Scott Hanselman has the ‘how-to’ over on his blog. Cool stuff as usual.
New shoes
So, I finally got around to buying myself another pair of running shoes. I got a brand new pair in October last year and I decided I wanted another pair, so I have two pairs to switch between.
Granted, this is borderline gluttonous, but it feels pretty good feeling to always have a pair of dry, fairly fresh shoes. Asics Nimbus, I salute you!
Garmin Forerunner 310XT not uploading
My Garmin Forerunner has given a lot of headaches lately. It has not uploaded my running data to Garmin Connect, causing me to lose data from three runs, including a personal best.
As with most devices, a master reset did the trick. So, if you have this problem I suggest you try the following. It worked for me. Just remember that you will lose all data and there are no guarantees that it will work for you, just because it worked for me. I stole this from the support forum by the way.
To perform the master reset:
1.Power Forerunner off
2.Press and hold Enter and Mode buttons
3.Press and release Power button
4.Press and release Lap/Reset (watch will power off)
5.Wait 3 seconds
6.Release Enter and Mode
The reset on the Forerunner 310XT is only successful if the device finishes powering up, and goes to the setup wizard. Repeat the steps again if the setup wizard does not appear.
Leave the device outside with a clear view of the sky for a minimum of 20 minutes to acquire satellite data once the reset and setup wizard are complete.
Netflix error W8156-C00D717F on Windows 8.1
File this one under “Works on my machine”.
Some week ago my old Zune software stopped working as did the Netflix app on Windows 8.1. A quick search suggested that I upgrade either Windows or my graphics driver. Now, I always keep Windows updated so that led me to believe that the driver was the issue. And so it was. Turned out my driver update was broken for some reason, and that the Nvidia app was unable to update the driver.
A quick download and a longer install process has solved the problems, so if you run into this error message reinstall the driver. It works on my machine.
Uncool
Update: Crisis averted, it was a network problem at work.
New phone
No, I didn’t get an iPhone. I got a Lumia 930 instead and so I decided to stick with Windows phone a while longer.
This is the nicest phone I have ever played around with. Hands down. And with the Denim update it runs so nice I can’t put it down.
This is the best purchase in a very long time. More later I’m sure.