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  • Tricky
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    • Apr 2009
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    #16
    Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

    A few months ago when Windows 8 was released in the UK I decided I wanted a new PC, not because I wanted Windows 8 but because the old one was starting to have hardware issues and all the internal cards were obsolete by today's standards.

    I had a genuine Windows 7 retail copy that I could just transfer right?

    Got the new PC home and turned it on.

    What I liked

    Windows explorer now has an up button and task manager had some more features, trivial stuff really but I felt I had to add something here.

    What I didn't like

    Metro,

    Searches are crap.

    Too many steps to turn the bloody thing off.

    No start button.

    No bios


    The following day I placed my Windows 7 disc in the drive and restarted, i booted into Win8

    As per microsofts requirements for Windows 8 pre built computers the bios screen was hidden, after some research I managed to enable it and select the disc drive as the boot media, then I got an error about invalid installation media. This turned out to be a check the PC does expecting the media to be Win8, nothing else will work. I found a whole bunch of Win8 settings in the bios and disabled everything.

    Then I upgraded to Windows 7..

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      • Hansoon
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        • Sep 2007
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        #17
        Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

        Then I upgraded to Windows 7..
        "upgraded".... I like that.

        Hans
        “Sent from my Intel 80286 using MS-DOS 2.0”

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          • Shadow1
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            • Sep 2008
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            #18
            Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

            Originally posted by skynet
            Then I upgraded to Windows 7..
            Remember how much extra money Microsoft made selling upgrades to XP when Vista came out?
            73 DE W5SSJ

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              • Tricky
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                #19
                Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                Originally posted by Shadow1
                Remember how much extra money Microsoft made selling upgrades to XP when Vista came out?
                You mean the opportunity to upgrade to Vista from XP or buy a full retail copy? I don't see a problem, every industry needs a price structure, yes the full retail is expensive so if you cant afford it buy the update.

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                  • Shadow1
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                    • Sep 2008
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                    #20
                    Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                    Originally posted by skynet
                    You mean the opportunity to upgrade to Vista from XP or buy a full retail copy? I don't see a problem, every industry needs a price structure, yes the full retail is expensive so if you cant afford it buy the update.
                    No, I mean the computers people bought with Vista pre-loaded, and the OS sucked so bad Microsoft got to make extra money selling them "Familiarity Upgrades" for the license to downgrade back to XP even though they had just paid for a Vista License with their new computer.
                    73 DE W5SSJ

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                      • Shadow1
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                        #21
                        Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                        This may be helpful to anybody cursed with Win8: Windows8 Quick Guide.pdf
                        73 DE W5SSJ

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                          • draph
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                            • Jan 2010
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                            #22
                            Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                            Do you really wonder why the windows 8 project developer was canned 30 days after the introduction?



                            Originally posted by Shadow1
                            This may be helpful to anybody cursed with Win8: [ATTACH]19159[/ATTACH]

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                              • Hansoon
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                                #23
                                Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                                Do you really wonder why the windows 8 project developer was canned 30 days after the introduction?
                                Canned or caned as in punishment?

                                Hans
                                “Sent from my Intel 80286 using MS-DOS 2.0”

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                                  • GemBoy
                                    #24
                                    Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                                    Its bit complicates to handle the settings and I am getting irate with the pop up messages. I prefer windows 7 than windows 8.

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                                      • mrwho
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                                        #25
                                        Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                                        And apparently it's not selling like hot cakes either...

                                        Good riddance!
                                        ' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
                                        Mascan42

                                        'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
                                        Ibid

                                        I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!

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                                          • blackcat4866
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                                            Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                                            Thanks for this thread mrwho. I came across my first Win8 OS the other day with a Kyocera MFP. The little shortcut I found was to go to My Computer > right-click to Properties. If you look at the address line you can get to the Control Panel screen, and the rest is familiar.

                                            I also found that the setup.exe autorun driver will not do a proper install on WIN8. If it does install at all, the resulting driver does not print. In the Printers screen I used the Add-A-Printer wizard to install an XPS driver, like a breeze. I did notice that the XPS driver does not have Job Accounting functions. To get Job Accounting, I installed an additional KX driver, then switched drivers to KX.

                                            The XPS driver is very easy to install but doesn't have much in the way of advanced features. Again, thanks for the timely topic. I was prepared.
                                            =^..^=
                                            If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
                                            1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
                                            2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
                                            3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
                                            4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
                                            5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.

                                            blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=

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                                              • JR2ALTA
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                                                #27
                                                Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                                                how do you delete a post.

                                                sorry for the hiccup here on your thread.
                                                Last edited by JR2ALTA; 03-15-2013, 03:30 AM.

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                                                  • JR2ALTA
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                                                    #28
                                                    Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                                                    delete

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                                                      • ZOOTECH
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                                                        #29
                                                        Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                                                        Originally posted by JR2ALTA
                                                        delete
                                                        Didn't work!!! or did it?
                                                        "You can't trust your eyes, if your mind is out of focus" --

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                                                          • SalesServiceGuy
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                                                            Re: My first Windows 8 experience...

                                                            Win 8 is not going away. I have made some cheat notes on my Blackberry to help me navigate this O/S as I have only Win 7 Pro at the office.

                                                            In the MFP business, you have to be prepared to learn all of the time. Regardless of age or position.

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