Have you done so already? If so, what has been your experience? As always, if you have comments or information to share about this topic, please take a moment to drop by the TechRepublic Community Forums and let us hear from you. Step 1: Move the mouse cursor to the upper-right corner of the screen to bring up Charms Bar and then click Search.
If you are running Windows 8 on a tablet or PC with touch screen, simply swipe from the right edge of the screen to see Charms Bar and then tap Search. Step 2: In the search box, enter Add features and then tap or click to see Add features to Windows 8 in the search result. Step 5: Select I accept the license terms checkbox and then click or tap Add features button to begin adding the feature.
During this, your PC will be restarted once or twice. This offer was launched on Oct. Fortunately, Microsoft did remain true to their word. Microsoft Weekly Newsletter Be your company's Microsoft insider with the help of these Windows and Office tutorials and our experts' analyses of Microsoft's enterprise products. Delivered Mondays and Wednesdays Windows 8. Get your product key Getting your free copy of the Windows 8 Media Center Pack is pretty straightforward procedure.
On your Windows 8 system, launch Internet Explorer and point it to the Add features page on the Microsoft Windows 8 site. When you arrive at the page, read the introductory information and then scroll down to the Windows 8 Pro section as shown in Figure B. Once you click the button, you'll see the message shown in Figure C appear on the screen. I've magnified the message so you could read it.
When I first read the message, I was confused. But it didn't. In fact, I didn't receive the email containing the product key for close to 48 hours. Windows 8 Media Center Pack Figure C The message informs you that you will have to wait 24 hours to receive the product key. Figure D The email message will contain your product key. Windows 8. The program has been crippled by Microsoft as it does not play DVD movies anymore. You may remember that it did play them on Windows 7. So, if you want DVD playback on Windows 8.
There are two different packs that give Windows 8. The most essential thing here is of course what was mentioned only very briefly: by far the most users have a regular Win8 edition, not the required Pro version. Who in his right mind would pay that much? It looks more like an intentional barrier to keep Win7 users away from Win8. This is so stupid, there most be some supersmart reasoning hidden behind it.
This does not work for me. This is after upgrading to Windows 8. No features are available to purchase yet — check again after the official launch date to add media centre. I just got mine pho freeee.
I have windows 8. There are only links to a page on a microsoft site telling you how to do the same thing as found above. I tried to install but after saying it is a valid key it comes back saying that I must try a different key.
Where can I get it? I had the same issue. It had in fact installed, and I eventually noticed that above the system tray on the desktop it said that I had windows 8. Media Center should be in your list of all apps. My issue was that the installation screwed windows by deactivating it. The only way I could get out of this was to roll back to the restore point before Media Center was installed.
I now need to find out how to install Media Center without deactivating 8. What to do? Looks like a rip-off to me. I purchased and installed Windows 8.
Now my apps do not work. I have tried many things to fix this problem. I am about ready to uninstall 8. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up. Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann.
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