I run a few VM's on my workstation to perform different tasks one is a Windows 8 dev box, I finally got around to upgrading it. So checked all updates were done and then went to the store to get an error message I think is somewhat unusual.

Sorry, you can't install the update because it isn't supported by your computer's CPU.

So quick search online didn't yeild any obvious results and a simple setting came to mind that may fix it. When choosing your VM you select your version of Windows so after switching it to 8.1 it worked magically (well not magically but you get my point).

Then nipping back into the Windows Store and all works fine. Message of the day -- thinking a little helps!

Stuart James  …

Many of us dont hugely enjoy recompiling libaries. I for one who only use 3 large and a handful of small, causing me to cringe at the idea of recompiling to include a new feature or worse a new platform. 

So when I hit:

error LNK2026: module unsafe for SAFESEH image.

So after looking around for a solution I found there is just a simple switch you can turn off to allow an old library to be used

Hidden in Linker --> Advanced -> Image Has Safe Exception Handlers you can set this to No and recompile and your code work again.

Stuart James  …

As soon as about.me launched I got a profile on the site, a shameful admission to some but to me is interesting to see how new sites work and how they can be utilised. For a long time though it has had little attraction never getting many views and not having much visability online. It seems that those days are over with increasing popularity over the last year. As any good site does about.me includes statistics.

I very much doubt over the last year I have suddenly become more applicable to the world wide web -- would imply I was irrelevant before Feb 2013. So personally I attribute this increase, however unstable to an increase in popularity of the site.

Interesting observation through the power of graphs! To Corrupt my future stats feel free to view my profile

Yes a shameless plug.

Stuart James  …

This week I finally did the Windows 8.1 update on my Surface RT 1st generation, it went well took a while so be prepared for a couple of ours process to update your tablet but, it doesn't much user engagement to complete this.

Pre-Upgrade

• Clear out well everything -- The only thing I hit before upgrading was space issues I had to clear out quite a lot of my own junk to provide enough space to do the download something I found a little annoying was the lack of definition of how much space

Post-Upgrade

• Clean-Up -- I recommend after you have done the update make sure you go into clean-up tool in Administrator Tools the reason is simple

Thats 5.72 gb of recovered space!

• Unlock Some more Start menu screen estate -- Charms Bar (Swipe from Right) -> Personalise -> Show More Tiles

• Keep 3gb Free -- Skydrive wont sync if you have less than 3gb on your primary (C:\) drive.

Stuart James  …

For a long time I have been thinking about migrating from Office 365 SMB to the enterprise plan, the only reason I see to do this is to be able to buy additional storage, but now you seem to be able to on the P1 Plan! I have long since been confused why this feature was not available on SMB plans since these are a group that you want to "lock-in" before the company grows and then has klout to choose where to go.

A sneaky additiona that I didn't hear any announcements about has added this feature, that hopefully means greater exploring of the Sharepoint Document infrastructure and Skydrive Pro for me!

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