Jun 27 2012

LogMeIn and Windows 8 Release Preview Stability

I finally got the chance to install the Windows 8 Release Preview on my MacBook Pro this weekend. I was rather annoyed that my laptop didn’t seem to support booting of a USB stick for the installation so I had to go “old school” and burn a DVD to kick off the installation process.

Anyway, as soon as I had installed the Release Preview I installed the latest Windows 8 compatible drivers from nVidia (302.80 at the time of writing for laptops) after all of the horror stories people had been posting on the web about random hanging on systems with nVidia video cards in them. After installing the drivers I began to notice that my MacBook Pro really cooled down. When I had the Windows 8 Consumer Preview installed the MacBook Pro would get rather hot and then eventually hang. It was definitely good news that the excess heat and stability seemed to be corrected.

However, after installing LogMeIn things didn’t seem to go too well. The laptop could barely stay operational for a couple of hours before encountering a hang with the only solution being a hard reset. Obviously, this became rather frustrating so I uninstalled LogMeIn which seems to have corrected the issue.

Apparently, uninstalling the LogMeIn mirror driver in Device Manager has corrected this problem for some but I am yet to verify if this is works in my case. I’ll keep you posted either way 🙂

Boydo

My name is Boyd and I’m a Service Management Specialist with a knack for operational data gathering, transformation, analysis and reporting.

In 2012, I obtained my Masters of Science in Information Technology through the University of New South Wales @ The Australia Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA).

I was also part of an online community known as the Panasonic Insider Crew in the capacity of “Insider Guru” for Panasonic Australia where I interacted with other tech enthusiasts and find out more about Panasonic's latest gadgets.

I love technology, gadgets, and the Internet and maintain a keen interest in these areas locally, nationally, and globally. I hope by sharing my views on these topics that people will receive an honest point of view from someone with a genuine interest in these topics.

I have also written and edited articles for Neowin - you can check out my articles over @ https://www.neowin.net/news/poster/boyd_chan

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