Windows 8 build 8045

Windows 8 build 8045 is a build of Windows 8, which was uploaded to BetaArchive on 26 January 2020.

New features and changes

 * The system crash screen has been redesigned to resemble the one found in the RTM build, albeit with a black background instead of a cerulean shade.
 * The background in the wordoku puzzle desktop wallpaper has been changed to feature a set of colorful strands at the bottom of the image.
 * The Refresh your PC option was added under the name Rejuvenate your PC.
 * The loading animation has become larger and whiter in some occasions.
 * Setup graphics have been updated to remove Windows 7 references. Most notably, the setup wallpaper has been changed to a solid light blue color and the "7" on the setup launcher has been removed.
 * The ability to display verbose output during startup has been removed.
 * The boot screen has been redesigned to feature a smaller loading spinner.
 * The right-hand Charms bar is now accessible again without the need of a touchscreen. It is accessible by pressing the ⊞ Win key combination.
 * All SKUs have been dropped except for the Prerelease SKU, which is now referred to as "Windows Developer Preview".

Bugs
If you are using VMware, you must set hardware compatibility to 8.x or below, otherwise you will get a screen which will say, such as error   or. This error would occur right when the system kernel takes over the startup process but immediately crashes.

Start screen
The Start screen appears to hide all tiles on boot, until you start interacting with them.

Lock screen
On boot, if the Start button has been removed, the lock screen may not display correctly (such as displaying nothing but the lock screen art, or not showing the date).

Microsoft Confidential in winver
On this build's  dialog box, the text of the disclaimer is colored black instead of the red that is seen in earlier and later builds.

Unlock Metro
If you use MetroUnlocker V4, you can treat this build as build 8056.

Metro Apps
Sometimes the Metro Apps won’t install correctly so they won’t work in this case.