Hello, I was on an official hands-on ST32M workshop on 2013-03-07, by ST & Arrow.
a) The free edition of the Keil uVision IDE still suggests to be installed at c:\Keil.
With Win7 and Win8, it's the best to install the uVision IDE ( on 32 Bit Windows ) at C:\Program Files\Keil
b) More important, the ST-Link debugger driver shipped with the Keil uVision IDE 4.70a does not install on Win8 :-(, while it was possible to install it on Win7 ( on 32 Bit Windows 7 Pro).
Still after install, Win8 does handle the driver for the ST-Link USB device as "not properly installed" in the Win8 device manager :-(. With Win7 everything works fine...
Sincerely Rolf
Yet, I've been using Keil and Windows 8 with assort ST dev boards for months. Win8 silently ignores unsigned drivers.
Microsoft dating back to at least Vista has been trying to stop people installing user modifiable content under Program Files, it's a single directory visible to all users. Having the examples under Program Files is a problem, and why most anyone doing this kind of install uses \Keil or \IARSystems or \Atollic to explicitly avoid this mess, and not have Windows make virtual links to \User directories for things under \Program Files.
I have the Keil tools under c:\keil\
Most other tools gets installed in subdirectories under c:\bin\
And I keep lots of documents under c:\doc\ instead of merging them into the M$-defined messy "My Documents"
Micro$oft have somewhere down the line made the decision that we don't own our computers and have to be protected from ourselves.
"Win8 silently ignores unsigned drivers" Thanks for the info :-), though it's a bad info :-(, but you know
The good, the bad, the ugly - Linux, Windows, DOS :-).
Don't you meain "Linux, DOS, Windows"?
Both Linux and DOS agrees that you are the rightful owner of your computer, and allowed to configure it and make use of it as you feel best suits your needs.
No, I think he was right with "Linux, Windows DOS"; ie,
Good = Linux;
Bad = Windows;
Ugly = DOS - so it's ugly, but not bad.
and allowed to configure it and make use of it as you feel best suits your needs.
you, yourself, do not know what you want, be happy someone in Redmond does.
Erik