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[Q] how to add windows 7 and android and leaving the original windows 6.5 on htc hd2

hi, i want to know how to add windows 7 and also android but leaving the windows 6.5 on the phone and also is there a way to add the option where you can select from which OS to boot from when the phone turns on just like the simple selection menu when starting on a computer. Is the zune and marketplace and also the connectivity to the zune software where it did not detect the windows 7 phone been solved on windows.Also it would be nice to have everything installed on the nand instead of on the SDCARD.
Thanks

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Someone please correct me if I am wrong but let me get this right. If I decide to get a Windows 8 Phone but choose not to upgrade to this horrible Windows 8 OS, I can't have Xbox Music on Windows 7? Will I be forced to upgrade to Windows 8 in order to sync with my WP8?

Windows Phone app for desktop
No, you will not be forced to Windows 8, just to connect and sync with WP8.
Microsoft has released Windows Phone app for desktop, which supports Windows 7, Windows 8 and Mac.
Read more:
Sync between PC and Phone
Windows Phone 8 shows as Removable/Portable device in Explorer when connected to Windows PC, and it supports drag/drop or copy/paste as well.

Techno-Freak said:
No, you will not be forced to Windows 8, just to connect and sync with WP8.
Microsoft has released Windows Phone app for desktop, which supports Windows 7, Windows 8 and Mac.
Read more:
Sync between PC and Phone
Windows Phone 8 shows as Removable/Portable device in Explorer when connected to Windows PC, and it supports drag/drop or copy/paste as well.
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Thank you for setting me straight on this. :good:

Windows 8 is not horrible, stop believing every single stupid article about it on the web.

mcosmin222 said:
Windows 8 is not horrible, stop believing every single stupid article about it on the web.
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Your right but lets not go down this road
sinister1 said:
Someone please correct me if I am wrong but let me get this right. If I decide to get a Windows 8 Phone but choose not to upgrade to this horrible Windows 8 OS, I can't have Xbox Music on Windows 7? Will I be forced to upgrade to Windows 8 in order to sync with my WP8?
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Consider making your thread titles a lot more useful, perhaps something like "Does WP8 need Windows 8 to sync"
not only is that more useful to people responding to posts but also to those searching and asking questions
"wait a Sec" is about as useful and informative as a chocolate tea pot in a dark cupboard. :silly:

[Q] Windows 8 Pro & HTC Touch Cruise Driver Issues

Hi All,
First off I did try posting this in the windows 8 forum but got a message about insufficient privileges so hopefully this is the next best place. If not, apologies.
I'm running Windows 8 Pro x64 on my desktop computer with an HTC Touch Cruise running Windows Mobile 6.1 This worked fine with windows 7 x64 and will still sync happily on my windows 7 laptop sharing all contacts etc. However I cannot for the life of me get the phone to talk to my new windows 8 machine.
It seems I'm missing a driver by the name of "Microsoft Windows Mobile Remote Adapter" (as per device manager of my win7 laptop) but despite 3 hours of searching on google i cant find a download for this driver.
I have tried using Smart Driver Backup to copy the files from my Win 7 machine and tried doing so manually as well but in both cases I get an error on the windows 8 machine saying the driver cant be installed due to missing files.
This is slowly driving me nuts. WM6 isnt *that* old. I cant believe that Microsoft wouldn't include some sort of backward compatibility. All I need to do is sync my contacts to outlook!!!!
Anyone else experienced this problem and managed to solve it?

You will not find a driver for it for windows 8. This is due to MS killing the WM OS all together. Main reason business won't update to windows 8. Most will remain on 7 for many years to come
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How to install xap file in surface pro

Plzzz. Guide me to the process of installing win8 xap files of games and app to my surface pro.
Thanks

Heres a guide:
You can't.
XAP files are windows phone 7 and windows phone 8 apps. The surface pro is not a windows phone. It cannot run windows phone apps.

But there is all features like microsoft store and all the games and app.
I think the format would be xap only weather it be win phone or win pc tab. Please do further research
thanks for your help.

Why should I do the research? Why cant you?
Windows phone 8 and windows 8 ARE NOT THE SAME THING. Windows 8 apps do not work on windows phone 8 and vice versa.
Windows 8 apps use the WinRT runtime, windows phone 8 apps use a different runtime entirely and CANNOT run on windows 8 without emulation. You want to emulate windows phone 8? Install visual studio 2012 and the windows phone SDK and start compiling your apps from the basic source code, which requires that the source code be available because the emulator cant sideload .XAP's either, and its slower.
Windows 8 apps are in .APPX format.
Windows phone 8 apps are in .XAP format.
Do your own research next time. .XAP cannot be installed on Windows 8. Its like saying an iOS app runs on OSX or vice versa.

thanks boss... sorry if that research line hearts you but this time things are all clear thanks again for detail description.

Heimdall.exe has stopped working

Hi, I noticed that Heimdall.exe supposedly doesn't work for Windows 8, is there a workaround for that which doesn't involve using another PC with Windows 7, iOS, or Ubuntu?