Hi Dennis,
Glad to see you got the TX-SDK-V2 software to install and run successfully on Windows 8. And thanks much for detailing your findings / experience for everybody's else's benefit.
I will keep a record of your findings and document these inside the Tx-SDK-V2 (and TX-SDK-V1) documentation once Texas Instruments migrates to the Windows 8 platform where I can verify each and every step.
Thanks again.
Hooman