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Windows 8 on laptops

by gidergodt - 9/1/12 1:28 AM

In Reply to: Frankly I worry about this OS. by R. Proffitt

Windows 8 will run fine on labtops , that has run vista or win 7 and latops running Xp you have too tjek if the grafic cart is ready for it. My experiene is that your pc / labtop should not be older than 5 years . Then it will run fine and fast on most off them , and i discovered an increase in boot time and running speed on mot apps.
Still there is some small problems whit compability whit some sides . But thats only a few of them i have run into.

Kindly regards Allan

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Not what I noted.

by R. Proffitt - 9/1/12 8:43 AM

In Reply to: Windows 8 on laptops by gidergodt

We know the OS will run but is it what you wanted?

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Running Win8 & Win7 dual boot

by pocosdad - 9/1/12 9:08 AM

In Reply to: Windows 8 on laptops by gidergodt

Like most folks I have read a lot of articles on the pros and mostly cons of Win8. So to satisfy my own curiosity I installed Win8 in a seperate partition and kept my Win7 Pro as my primary OS. Installation was a snap and the two OS's each run in full mode (I had tried Win8 before in a VM and was not happy with it).
So for the meat of this I wasn't into Metro so I installed Classicstart.exe and that made all the difference for me. I now have a start button and a desktop that is very similar to Win7.
Win8 seems to run slightly faster than Win7 , but I have not done any actual timing of it. I should mention that I have a self-built system with a Intel Q9400 Quad, 8 gigs RAM, Samsung 830 SSD and WD 1TB 7200RPM HDD.
I was disappointed that Win8 would not let me install my desktop gadgets (2) which I use to monitor my system. They graciously invite me to the "store" to purchase their app for this...however they don't have it in the store yet.
So far I am not inclined to feel any need to upgrade to Win8 and am quite content with W7for everything I need to do. I also have 2 netbooks with Mint and another with XP and a 5 year old laptop that I also setup as a dual boot Win8 and Win7. On this laptop I found a very nice increase in performance and may just upgrade to W8 for this machine.Overall I think it will be in the eye of the beholder on Win8. Try it and you may like it...then again you may not. I found the Classicstart made my experience much mpore productive.

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Windows 8

by Batman - 9/2/12 10:18 PM

In Reply to: Share information on win 8 by phongvelacviet

I had a weird issue, Windows 7 updated, but, did not update, even though it updated and showed it as having been successfully updated. I kept receiving messages that would tell me I had to reboot before the updates could take effect. I did. They did not.
That's the 10 second version of what happened. Whatever the issue was, I decided if I had to reinstall windows, I might as well test drive Windows 8.

There's a few issues I ran across; mostly due to incompatible printer drivers. (What's new there? Same thing happened with XP and Vista). Actually, the printer worked; it's the much needed scanner that did not. I discovered audible.com was not compatible yet; their response was pretty much, "Well, Windows 8 isn't out, and so, we haven't figured it out". How annoying, but typical. To my surprise several online gaming programs worked. I play Word Soup that works; and BigFish.com games that all work. If you use Logos.com (Bible software) it works.
The Windows 8 experience was awesome for me, with exception of the two printers I tried getting to work (HP 6700 pro, I was assured worked, by the HP rep.; so, I purchased it. unfortunately, the scanner drivers did not. My 3 year old HP C309g of course did not, either).

I am planning to move over to 8 when it comes out Oct. 27th; esp since it will be only $40; and, yes, i will be paying the extra for the disc. $65 for a Windows Professional Upgrade disc? Oh yeah.

Btw, I've heard tons of people complain about the interface. There's definitely a learning curve. Things are not where they should be. It's geared for touch screens; but, I used my mouse and keyboard and never had an issue. Actually, with desktop view, I have to say, there's very little difference between 7 and 8. All my icons were where they were in 7 and Vista.

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Hp printers not working

by gidergodt - 9/3/12 10:17 AM

In Reply to: Windows 8 by Batman

Try a canon printer instead they should Work on win 8 my old multi funktion printer and my new are running fine whit win 8 so i think that it could help
Kindly regards Allan

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