Windows 8: create system image fails with 0x80070001

Last week i tried to create a system image with the built-in backup-tool from Windows 8. It sounds very easy:

• connect an usb storage to your computer
• start system image creation (look here)
  But then i got this error: 0x80070001

After googling around i found the following solution:

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973455

But there you get something with junctions and FAT-filesystems... This did not solve the problem...

The solution was very easy: I had truecrypt running and this created an additional mount point. After stopping truecrypt the system image was created without any error...

Windows 8.1: Update via Store

Yesterday i did the update from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 via Windows App Store. Here some screenshots:

The Download took more than 1 hour...

The some configurations before the reboot:

But after the reboot it took more than 15 minutes until i was able to login again. And that without any progress bar - just several messages like configuring applications and more than once percentage indicators running from 0% to 100% and then the next one...

Android Update: 4.3

This week my Nexus 7 came up with this notification:

I read about that Google launched 4.3, so i tapped on this notification and:

And this time Google provides some information about this release.
One really nice thing is, that with 4.3 it is possible to create restricted user accounts and you can grant these accounts access to specific apps, which you already installed. This is exact the thing you need, if you want to create accounts for your children without app store access and without creating them e-mail accounts....

Windows Surface RT: There is a desktop?!

Last week i had the opportunity to use a Windows Surface RT tablet. For several month i am using a windows 8 laptop, which is equipped with a touchscreen. So i am used to the new tiles interface and i knew at least on laptops, you have the desktop-applications and the "tiles"-applications.
I was curious, how it feels to work without having "two worlds" of applications on a device...
But it was for me big suprise: If you install Microsoft Office on a RT device, you get the desktop back:

 On a tablet with a display size with 10.6 inches (27cm)? I tried to write a document and it wasn't easy to hit the right icons...
By saving the document it was astonishing, that i got a file chooser. From my Nexus 7 i was used to get no folder structures or similar things:

There are two problems with this desktop applications: If not in full-screen mode, you have to work with really small windows and resizing is very difficult and

 the applications are not shown in the application bar:

They are all summarized with desktop... There is no way to switch directly to your word application or powerpoint.  You have to move the desktop und then choose your Office application....