Chuck, I downloaded and have installed Win8 on a second partition.
Thus far, all of the Elecraft utilities have worked with a caveat - I installed the K3 utility and it worked fine. I installed the P3 utility and could not talk to the P3. At that point, I installed Fldigi and Flrig. Neither would talk to the K3 on the correct port (well, neither Fldigi nor Flrig saw *any* com port). I restarted Win8 and the problem was resolved. For whatever reason, once the K3 utility started, it didn't want to release the com port. After a restart, Flrig talked to the K3 through the P3 and also controlled Flidigi as it should. I have not noticed this problem again. I did not take the default install location and changed it to C:\Elecraft\... I have *not* been able to turn off UAC in Win8 as I have in Win7. Even though it should be off, I still get warnings. Oh, I almost forgot, when I installed the K3 utility, I got a Win8 warning. I do not remember the verbage, but I hit "More Info" and then "Run Anyway" (or something similar). I did not get this warning with either the P3 or KX3 utilities. I also got this warning upon installation of either Flrig or Fldigi but I don't remember which (it was not both). I also have a KX3 and I downloaded and installed the KX3 utility. I even updated the firmware on the KX3 with no issues. I will say that I hate/love the Win8 interface. If you've ever used Ubuntu Linux and gone from Gnome to Unity, it's a similar change. However, I think the new Windows interface is slightly (I mean slightly) more intuitive than Unity. I am slowly installing stuff on the Win8 partition. I may just buy a second SSD and install Win8 and Win7 side-by-side albeit on separate hard drives. There are actually two interfaces: 1) Metro UI - this is geared toward the tablet / touchscreen crowd, but it works okay with a mouse. To close an open "app," you drag it to the bottom of the screen. I searched for a long time on how to do this. I never could find a "close" button. Also, in the Metro UI, all the apps pop up full screen. There is no way to resize a window in Metro that I have found. Again, think tablet. 2) Desktop - this is what most Windows users are familiar with. It works just as the previous versions' desktops except there is no "Start" button. Programs that are installed (if you choose to install a shortcut to the desktop) will give you an icon on both Metro and the desktop. I stated more than you asked and apologize for taking this OT. 73, Joel - W4JBB On 10/28/2012 10:51 AM, hawley, charles j jr wrote: > Has anyone found any difficulties running Win8 in regard to using the > Elecraft utilities for upgrade, etc? > > Chuck, KE9UW ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
