anyone on win 8?

[seamouse]

after i updated a week ago to win8 , wanted to see what people think of it

from last sat to monday it was crap, hang ups , freezing, could only move mouse

3 hrs monday morning with the Microsoft team didn't solve it, i was even going to get some call back from their tech team

over night, i sorted it out myself, was nothing to do with posts on the net with drivers ect, a simple thing to do solved it all for me.

Yes wasted 3 days and once i sorted it out a few hours to get it back to how i was running

but its seems quicker then 7, some menus are ok.
I hate some of the folder lay out

what do other users think?

[ramjet]

dont tell us what the simple fix was then eh ?

for ?14.99 its probably a good buy for win8 pro upgrade , but not really any better than win7 pro or ultimate

you have to put a few hacks in to make it more like win7, like the classic shell install and the shutdown from right mouse menu hack, and the turning off of the startup screen

I found that the windows 8 firewall stops some programs working properly, and if it goes into sleep mode or anything the wifi is dead when you wake it up, which needs me to reboot it (shutdown-restart)

when the niggles are ironed out it may be ok , and for ?15 or ?25 its a good upgrade to have from xp or vista and you can get WMC free at the moment too

but at the moment not impressed with the niggles but I am sure problems will be fixed over the next few months as microsoft use us new customers as guinea pigs and the error reports flow in

you can make it like win7 pro as much as possible, despite their attempts to stop users from doing so, but I think its early stages yet

[seamouse]

its not ?14.99 unless you just brought a pc or laptop, i had to pay ?24.99

[seamouse]

the parts i hate is on left it does give the user name file, u have to go desktop, user name folder then docs to see downloads etc

[ramjet]

its not ?14.99 unless you just brought a pc or laptop, i had to pay ?24.99

YOU may have paid ?24.99 , but a week ago anyone could register and get the special offer for ?14.99 by just putting any old details in, so until they filled that loophole thousands of people like me did just that

now they ask you to put in the 25 character serial number off your win7, and check its a valid authorisation. I have 3 downloads and only registered one legitimate win7 , which was the third one after the loophole was closed

so I have 3 legitimate copies for less than ?45 !!

[dan39]

Anybody know...Can I buy and download the Win8 upgrade on a different PC, than the one I intend to install it on?

Want to install it onto a new PC which so far has no OS on it.

[ramjet]

Anybody know...Can I buy and download the Win8 upgrade on a different PC, than the one I intend to install it on?

Want to install it onto a new PC which so far has no OS on it.

yes you can , and use a 32 bit pc to run the tool, then when its downloaded make an iso and then burn to dvdr, or use the win 7 tool iso to usb to make an active usb stick for installing it instead. and use a 64 bit pc to download the 64 bit version of the iso

however, it wont install to a pc with no os (well it will, but it wont authorise with ms)

so either install it to a clean hdd , then use the same disk in windows to update the unauthorised install by installing again

or install xp or vista or win7 to the clean hdd , then use this upgrade to upgrade the new install to win8

hope that is clear ?

it will go through the motions of installing to a clean hdd, but the key will fail when you try to activate it, hence needing an os on the hdd in the first place, before upgrading to win8

[Hoppy01]

after i updated a week ago to win8 , wanted to see what people think of it

from last sat to monday it was crap, hang ups , freezing, could only move mouse

3 hrs monday morning with the Microsoft team didn't solve it, i was even going to get some call back from their tech team

over night, i sorted it out myself, was nothing to do with posts on the net with drivers ect, a simple thing to do solved it all for me.

Yes wasted 3 days and once i sorted it out a few hours to get it back to how i was running

but its seems quicker then 7, some menus are ok.
I hate some of the folder lay out

what do other users think?

Credit to you for taking 3 days to troubleshoot Windows 8 fella, you have more patients than me.
I had 8 working fine on my desktop and i couldn't last 3 hours using it, a found it a mess on a desktop.
It is quicker for a average desktop but on my pc which i custom built and has plenty of juice i didn't really notice any difference.
Are you using it on a desktop mate?