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I am not a fan of the all-in-one crap, But I have been running IObit for a few years and I am very happy with it

In fact I paid for the full version, first time I ever did that with maintenance software 

Myself, I think the best OS was Windows 2000. Totally stable, not bloated, and the only thing it couldnt handle was video games. But I didnt use it for that purpose. I first got it for graphics and 3D work and it filled that purpose nicely. If there were up to date drivers for it, it might make Win8 performance look like a snail.

agree, I also have no issues with Windows 8, get over xp

Been listening to McKee for a few years now, pretty good stuff

This is the daughter of two friends of mine from my old home town

She writes her own stuff.

As flakey as it seems, I would look at your power supply and see if it is in spec,

you can download a hardware monitor here http://download.cnet.com/windows/3055-2094_4-10793486.html?&tag=pdl-redir

when you install it be sure and decline the weather app, or you will have another piece of crap running on your system. but run the monitor and you can view information about your hardware real time, you can look at your cpu core voltages and temp and see if something funky is going on.

do you have access to a spare power supply you could swap out for testing?

<p>If you go someplace, they are going to pull hardware off the shelf if they have old stock they need to turn over, that means you are paying a premium price for hardware that could be getting long in the tooth. If I pick my hardware myself, that isn't happening. One good reason to build one, or select the parts  for the build.</p>

<p>I also see a lot of builders skimp on the power supply ( big fucking dumb mistake) you can go with the best hardware out there and with a shitty power supply you will have a shitty PC. A crappy power supply causes more problems than any other piece of hardware in a PC</p>

Build it your self, I have built many more than I can count.

Newegg is your friend

since he is not up on the tech side of things, maybe a restore point will get him up and going, before messing with things he is not comfortable with 

I been running the free version, seems to work well

can't beat newegg for price and service

congrats,Let the sleep deprivation begin  

Steam was the death of COD as far as i care, I tossed my black OPs. By the time they had it running right on line I would to have forked out another 30.00 to play on any server with their lame ass canned maps, FUCK them

yup. on my list 

I just watched a movie I must have seen 100 times, but not in years.

"once upon a time in the west" one of the best spaghetti westerns made

IE sucks, Chrome is nice

I always build a new one for me and my wife gets the hand-me-down, we both are happy with that

I run Windows 8 and COD4

I shut the firewall off when playing, no problems

can not get it to play well with the firewall up

happy birthday, you old bastard

and I mean that in the nicest way possible 

sending them out to ya now

Thank you, thank you very much ( in my best Elvis impersonation )

silly question, does it show during boot up with the bios screen? or just black from the start

Windows8 for PC and windows8 for a tab are not the same operating system, the have the same GUI but there are many differences

So no windows 8 is not like Android

windows 8Pro (PC) Windows 8RT (tab, or like Android)

you need to read up 

Let me see, how should I put this

FUCK YOU SHIT HEAD