Rescue 911 Posted January 23, 2013 Member ID: 1055 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 37 Topic Count: 47 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 356 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 9 Achievement Points: 2344 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 04/09/1977 Posted January 23, 2013 Ok i installed windows 7 64 bits and cracked it up so it's the full version now and legal ;-) I really like it, it is going really fast, i am getting used to it because it's a big step since XP. I'm still waiting to put all this in my real computer because i'm waiting for my memory to come to put on my Motherboard that fried as well as my power supply and video card. Hope it's enough of parts because i will have almost a brand new computer now with all this, only missing a new CPU, next step.... Awards
hxtr Posted January 23, 2013 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.94 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted January 23, 2013 Ok i installed windows 7 64 bits and cracked it up so it's the full version now and legal ;-) I really like it, it is going really fast, i am getting used to it because it's a big step since XP. I'm still waiting to put all this in my real computer because i'm waiting for my memory to come to put on my Motherboard that fried as well as my power supply and video card. Hope it's enough of parts because i will have almost a brand new computer now with all this, only missing a new CPU, next step.... you will have to teach me how you made it legal. hahahahhaaha just dont do any windows updates. Im still running SP 0. Not even one update.
7Toes Posted January 23, 2013 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 58 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27251 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Posted January 23, 2013 microsoft is shoving win 8 down everyones throat alll the new computers have win 8 bought my daughter one. i dont like win 8 it is not very user friendly as they say it is lol Awards
HighTower Posted January 23, 2013 Member ID: 2683 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 7 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 26 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 8 Achievement Points: 1069 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/23/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 24, 2022 Birthday: 01/27/1986 Posted January 23, 2013 i had it and after 4 days removed it and went back to 7. glad i didnt pay for it as it was on my MSDN account ( yipee) i think if i had payed i would have been gutted
djMot Posted January 23, 2013 Member ID: 3189 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 98 Topic Count: 357 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 5257 Content Per Day: 1.08 Reputation: 11146 Achievement Points: 48948 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 114 Joined: 02/11/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 12/24/1957 Device: Windows Posted January 23, 2013 (edited) I installed 8 pro 64bit on my laptop, a fully configured, 6 year old Dell XPS M1210(http://www.cnet.com/...7-31899187.html) It failed and rolled back to 7 pro 64bit. Followed all the commonly available advice about uninstalling things in the upgrade advisor report, running a registry cleaner (CCleaner) and other such nonsense. No joy. Contacted Microsoft Tech Support. They were able to get it running by disabling the NVIDIA display driver and RealTech HD Audio driver. That lasted till the first re-start when the machine started going to a blank screen when attempting to launch anything. Mouse pointer was still there and working, and the screen would dim and eventually turn off as if Windows and the screen saver were alive behind the blank screen and mouse pointer. This initiated a 2nd round of tech support with Microsoft. Problem is that they have made it impossible to get into Safe Mode if your computer isn't booting properly. Ironically, you can initiate a safe boot if you're already up and running, but cannot if your not able to boot. Totally Bass-Akwards. And no, F8 doesn't work anymore, or is reported to be sporadically successful, if at all. For me it was not. In a total EPIC FAIL for Microsoft Tech Support, their guy could not tell me how to get into Safe Mode. It is possible, but requires jumping through absurd hoops. While the guy was with me on the phone (on hold mostly,) I looked up a very cryptic bcdedit command on, of all places, about.com. (http://pcsupport.abo...ode-windows.htm) That got me into Safe Mode. Once in Safe Mode, he connected remotely and tried to turn services off through msconfig to troubleshoot the problem, but his strategy was illogical and erratic. I had to direct his troubleshooting actions and spoon feed him the appropriate logic behind my direction. All the while I was looking up additional information and had come to the conclusion WAY before he did that the problem was in a particular Locitech service associated with the integrated laptop webcam. So it's running now. But, btw, if you want to get apps from the Microsoft Apps Store, you're going to have to connect with an email account rather than a "local" account. I don't get that. The last thing I want to do is enter an email address and password to log into Windows. It forces me to dumb down my password (that would otherwise be something massively cryptic, like Y6k009Bz7%$9JcitRX*ODZdr, for instance) to something that can be easily remembered and entered without much effort. But what if you want to purchase a paid app from the store? Well, I guess you have to put a credit card behind that email account with its dummed-down password. Is this a good idea? Well, lets see... Google has adopted a 2-step verification process to enhance security on your accounts with them (if you opt to use it; I do) because of all the new email scams and hacks out there, so I'm thinking NO, it's not a good idea. Case in point, an old Yahoo! email address of mine was recently used to look up a phone number from some dip-shit service, and I received a welcome email from that service noting the $0.45 charge for that report and my enrollment in some monitoring service they offer on a 15-day trial. That was followed in that inbox by a password change request notification from Yahoo! So the hacker didn't actually obtain access to my email account, and there is no credit card on file behind the Yahoo! account, so no real damage. I changed the password myself on the account to preclude further hacking attempts (maybe.) Point is, Microsoft's login by email account is just a real bad idea! The interface flattening from the elegantly 3D look of Win7 back to flat, bland 2D in Win8 feels like such a retro move. Even Windows 3.11 for Workgroups looked better than Windows 8. All the bright colored tiles just seem gaudy. There are some cool things about it, don't get me wrong. And I am typically very accepting of Microsoft's newest Windows versions. I actually loved Vista when it came out, and Windows 7 is a MASTERPIECE for Microsoft. Windows 8? Not so much so far, and that feels like a radical departure for me, and quite telling, I think. Microsoft has a long, hard road ahead with Windows 8. A little aside... I will be installing Ubuntu Linux on my old XP Pro box, a Dell Dimension 8300. Installation will be to its own drive (dev/sdb) and the BIOS will be told to boot from that drive so the GRUB2 Boot Loader can provide the Windows or Ubuntu boot menu. We'll soon see what all the buzz is about Linux/Ubuntu. This is a new foray for me. I've been a Windows-only guy for a really long time. Stay tuned... . Edited January 23, 2013 by djMot Awards
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