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Full Node Guide: Add Windows 8.x Instructions #838

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harding commented Apr 23, 2015

Preview: http://dg1.dtrt.org/en/full-node#windows-8x

Courtesy of @veqtrus, with assistance from @gurnec and some quick Q&A with @laanwj, this PR adds instructions to the full node guide for running Bitcoin Core on Windows 8 and 8.1. It has three commits:

  1. A tiny typo fix.
  2. Variablize some text in the existing Windows 7 section so it can be consistent between Win 7/8.
  3. The new Windows 8.x instructions.

Note, I took @gurnec's advice in issue #825 and didn't add instructions messing around with the file permissions on bitcoin.conf in Windows.

As mentioned before, I know very little about modern Windows, so I'd heartily appreciate a through proofreading of the section by someone familar with the platform.

veqtrus commented Apr 23, 2015

After downloading the file to your desktop or your Downloads folder (C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\Downloads), run it by double-clicking its icon. Windows will ask you to confirm that you want to run it:

You may want to change C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\Downloads to C:\Users\<YOUR USER NAME>\Downloads for consistency.

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harding commented Apr 23, 2015

@veqtrus good catch, thanks! I fixed it. Did you see any other potential problems?

veqtrus commented Apr 24, 2015

This is a cosmetic detail but when not right-clicking the Command Prompt icon on the start screen (e.g. when not running it as an administrator) it looks like this.

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harding commented Apr 24, 2015

@veqtrus to clarify, I should use a cut-out of that image you provided to replace this image? http://dg1.dtrt.org/img/full-node/en-win8-running-cmd.png

veqtrus commented Apr 24, 2015

@harding yes, no need to run as administrator.

harding added some commits Apr 23, 2015

Full Node Guide: Variabalize Some Paragraphs
Thanks to Wladimir for a description of the Windows/Bitcoin Core
shutdown relationship.
Full Node Guide: Add Windows 8/8.1 Instructions
Thanks to Paul Georgiou for instructions and screenshots!

Closes #825, Closes #763
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harding commented Apr 24, 2015

@veqtrus updated, thanks! Anything else I can improve?

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harding commented Apr 27, 2015

More feedback is always welcome, but in the absence of any major critical feedack, I will merge this around 14:00 UTC Tuesday.

@harding harding merged commit 6917c1e into bitcoin-dot-org:master Apr 28, 2015

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Merge #837, #838, and #842
* #837: Add A Blog To Bitcoin.org
* #838: Full Node Guide: Add Windows 8.x Instructions
* #842: QA: Fix 16,591 HTML Validation Errors
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