I went with 10.1 using the exact methods descrbied and the process worked... no idea why it didn't do anything for 10.2

hi med...finally it works perfectly in Windows 8...tq very2 much

@med2003, do i need to sign up the 4shared website before i can download?

If you have the problem that after replacing the service.txt and re-reading the licenses, the License Manager will never switch to "Running" and the "Diagnostics protocol" only showing messages about "invalid license files" (as I struggled with for an hour now), the solution might be simple:
Open your windows "Run" tab and enter "services.msc".
In the windows services manager that should open (you probably need admin rights), search for the "ArcGIS License Manager" and hit "start" or "restart" if it already is running. For some reason the license manager tool was unable to do this step for me as it did in 10.1 just fine.
After restarting this service, everything works just fine as usual (including all extensions).

I have installed ArcGIS10.2 without problems but when i try to make a buffer, a clip, a merge, etc.,.

For a buffer it is written "error 000210 / Unexpected operation [GDB_items] / The table was not found.

Have you got any idea about the origin of this problem please ?

Thank u so so much med2003 for the upload. Is there any chance to upload the tutorial data ???