Windows 8 Keeps Freezing at Boot Screen, Here's How to fix it?

Windows 8 freezing becomes very common yet annoying issue in these days and Microsoft even after the three month of its release doesn't provided any hotfix or update either, that can able to fix it. What happens exactly is, sometimes after installing few Apps to your Apps gallery or heavy programs, Windows 8 will starts behaving abnormally and might freeze any running application at mid. To came over this, user may eventually restart their PC and here what the situation goes from worse to worst as Windows 8 will hang on the booting screen (or you can say, splash screen) at stays there forever. Even after several restarts, you can't able to move beyond Windows 8 booting screen. System restore option is not working either.

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However, after several attempts, I've managed to come over this and finally get to the desktop. So, you may also able to easily fix this whenever it happens with your Windows 8 PC. Just read carefully and follow the same steps on your Windows 8. If the trick didn't help you, you may post your particular problem in comment section and we'll feel glad to look onto it.

1. Enable Hyper-V

Hyper-V (Client Hyper-V) is a Windows Server virtualization technology used on host machine to make dual boot environment, works for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating system, while keeping performance at peak.

To enable Hyper-V on your local machine, follow the below steps:

1. Open control panel from the charms bar > settings.
   
2. Choose uninstall a program
   
3. Click on Turn Windows features on or off from the left sidebar pane
   
4. At the open pop up Window, mark check the box stating 'Hyper-V.
   
5. ' Click OK and reboot the system to apply the changes.

Remember, to enable hyper-v, you first need to enable or disable hardware Virtualization from the BIOS settings.

2. Update Graphics Card and Other Driver

Probably, you're using the old drivers of video card and graphics which may eventually leads your system to unresponsive. Visit to your driver manufacturer website to make sure that you are running the latest version and if not, install it in manual way.

3. Perform Windows Update

Running Windows update is crucial for your healthy PC and might prevent damages that may caused by the old or corrupt system files. You can simply keep your system up to date by typing wuapp in run dialog box (press Window button+R to open dialog box). This will automatically search and install the update KB2727113. However, if Windows cannot find this update automatically, you need to find and install it in manual way.

If you are particularly using a Dell laptop and facing this issue, Dell has a dedicated support page for Windows 8 hang or will not boot after restart.

Microsoft Windows 8 Released, Have You Tried It?

Much awaited and anticipated version of Microsoft Windows OS i.e., Windows 8 is officially released at New York City and ready for download at Microsoft official website. May be, many of you are already using a Windows 8 Consumer Version but now the time has come to upgrade it by paying just few bucks. Microsoft is offering upgrades for your home PC, notebook or laptop at just $40. You can upgrade to Windows 8 if you are currently running Windows 7, Vista or XP and your machine's hardware configuration matches the Windows 8 system requirements. However, a user having no Windows PC can also try it on or after 26th October either by downloading ISO image from the Microsoft website or buying from a local store.

                           


Windows 8 is available in two versions: Windows 8, TER  to be used on PC, notebook or laptop and Windows RT (Windows 8 for ARM devices) comes pre-installed with Windows tablet and Windows 8 enabled smart phones. Windows RT has certain limitations as compared to Windows 8 TER version. To be blunt, you can't use Windows RT unless you buy the new tablet enabled with Windows 8 and supported hardware. Microsoft has already launched Surface Tablet starting at $499 and can be pre-ordered from here: http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US

Its free to download and install third party as well as legacy Apps from Windows Apps store. Though, if you are using Windows RT, you won't be allowed to use third party Apps.

Windows 8 offers an easy to install procedure and removes the headache of installing OS as before. Just keep your Windows 8 DVD as well as license key ready and allow the computer to manually reboot and automatically install Window 8 for you. Microsoft has a separate guide to help you in successfully upgrading your PC from Windows 7, Vista or XP to Windows 8.

Easy Upgrade: You can carry all your settings, folders of Windows 7 to Windows 8 except their programs and 'Start' menu/button. But in Windows XP, this feature is restricted to carry only stuff from desired storage location.

What Microsoft has specially focused is to build an exceptionally better and high performance PC. This is true to some extent as because of metro start screen (Replacement of Start menu as looks in old Windows), all Apps are available on home screen, control panel settings in just single click etc. 

                         Img Credit: Cnet                 

In an above highlighted image, charms bar is located at the right side containing a set of tools to monitor and control various hardware as well as program settings in a single click. Tasks such as, finding and sharing the desired files of your loved ones, installing or un-installing Apps, accessing start screen, accessing internal or external devices can be easily performed by this Charms bar.

I think we can not expect much more from Microsoft Windows 8, it gives you no reason to complain. In dark side, Windows users may feel annoying while using Windows 8 for the first time might as there no replacement to the removed start button. One thing is for sure, Windows 8 has remarkably fast and free from bugs as compared to its predecessor. So, there is pretty enough chances of high success rate of this latest release in OS  market.  Let's wait for the time when we  all will have something better and more improved version of new generation OS.
 
To explore more features about Windows 8, read a great blog post entitled 'Are You Ready For Windows 8'