Posted on 01/30/2013 6:22:15 PM PST by daniel1212
I bought the $39.99 upgrade version but I haven’t installed it yet. I was wary of replacing Win 7 on my desktop computer with 8 as I am not a fan of Metro. Are you saying they did include the classic start menu option? I was told several times that Microsoft was not going to include the classic menu. Did they include this in the 11th hour? Also are you saying if you downloaded Win 8 upgrade from a 32 bit computer that the version that will be 32 bit and not both? I bought the Win 8 Upgrade, but I have a 64 bit laptop I’d rather install it on.
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(Classic Shell with classic Start Menu)
(Windows key and Q brings up Apps)
(Windows key and Pause/Break)
(Firefox This is the Orange Fox theme, but the NOIA theme is better, with Colorful Tabs and TabMixPlus extensions, so you can get multiple rows and reduce tab width)
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There was and is no need i know of to replace W/7 with W/8. Why did you want to do so, outside of price? The only advantage is that you can take it off one PC and put it on another that you own: http://www.zdnet.com/how-the-new-windows-8-license-terms-affect-you-7000003028
Are you saying they did include the classic start menu option?
No, but the capability is there. Just hit the link in the article to Classic Shell and install it. Get the R.Clk extender also. Unzip it and run.
Also are you saying if you downloaded Win 8 upgrade from a 32 bit computer that the version that will be 32 bit and not both?
Yes. Only the DVD has both unless they changed it recently. So do as I described.
I bought the Win 8 Upgrade, but I have a 64 bit laptop I’d rather install it on.
If you downloaded it on a 32bit then you should call Microsoft (1-800-642-7676) and try to get the 64 bit.
W8 seems to boot faster than W7.
Also W8 comes with Hyper-V (if you have the horsepower to support it).
BTW you can also configure it to boot directly into a Hyper-V VM, and it will run as though it were your desktop OS.
Both my desktop and laptop are running W8 now and I have no issues with it. Metro annoyed me for about 20 min, until I figured out where everything was hiding. I’ve had no other issues with it.
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I also took advantage of the $40 offer and run Windows 8 with classic shell.
Thank goodness for classic shell, so I don’t have to deal with metro ever.
Other helpful links for upgrading:
Download Upgrade Assistant http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=261871
Call Customer Service at 1-800-642-7676
AMD Driver Autodetect http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/auto_detect.aspx
Intel® System Identification Utility http://www.intel.com/support/siu.htm
Processors: http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/CS-031726.htm
Intel® Processor Diagnostic Tool (32-bit)
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=19791
Intel® Processor Diagnostic Tool (64-bit) http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=19792
W/8 Preview: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx?wt.mc_id=MEC_132_1_4
W/7 Trial: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx
http://www.zdnet.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-windows-8-upgrades-faq-part-2-7000008775/
That is a common and warranted complaint. However, as said, it can be customized to be just as quick as XP or W/7, with more functionality than the former.
I use AutoHotKey to make keyboard shortcuts for numerous things, and do not use some of the default places MS provides for user docs and images etc..
A second drive is also recommended, or at least a partition for your main drive.
Let me know what takes you extra steps. Have you tried Classic Shell? (See article.) Are you familiar with the Run command (Windows key and R)?
You can also try Start8 from stardock. It works well and only costs $4.00 if you wait for the trial to near end.
Thank God for freedom to customize and those who provide it. Imagine what computing would be like if the government was in charge, or the liberal elite dictated what is best for us. Firefox is an example of what an customizing community can do within the boundaries of proper coding, and God did not make us all clones.
I figured when I launched the setup.exe once Win8 downloaded, that the option that says CREATE DVD MEDIA or something, would be like Win 7 Ultimate where you could select x32 or x64 once you are ready to install from the DVDs. I didn’t think they still had separate Windows versions like this since Windows XP or Vista.
Maybe I’m missing something here .. I read this thread from top to bottom and I have only one question.. Why? There isn’t one instance cited as to this being any sort of an improvement or of this giving additional functionality .. all I’m seeing is people obsessed with having the latest toys and listing ways to fix it’s shortcomings so that it works as well as the old stuff.
You’ll never get those hours/days back that you spend fixing this thing up.
What’s this obsession with a frigging OS all about anyway ... it’s the apps that matter ... nobody ever wrote a proposal with Windows XP they used an office suite... or coded anything with Vista ,, they used a language and a compiler ... The OS just needs to be stable , allocate memory for you and control dataset/database access.
I have had computers since before Windows .
I have run a server.
I have had every single Windows operating system to date .
I have built my own computers too.
Here is the pathetic thing ....
it took me half an hour to figure out how to shut down Windows 8 and another half hour to figure out where they hid notepad lol
Good thing - it does boot faster than Windows 7
Other than a new mail program I have not added anything yet as I am trying to learn the OS to be able to help others that always ask me questions when they end up switching to it but I plan to instal it this week .
Shutting it down is really annoying lol
. Did you read,
I am trying to get more life out of this one, as XP would use up most of my 3gb of ram after a while due to 80+ tabs open on Firefox (Chrome or Opera is not an answer, nor Linux), and with many documents open in various stages of completion. And since 64bit can handle more ram and I heard W8 was better on older PCs than Vista and even W/7, and I could try it for free.. .[and] now I can use the ReadyBoost feature.
What i left out was that even after much diagnostics and (root inspections also) and a clean install XP was freezing up sometimes, and that support for XP will end a little over a year from now, thus no more security updates.
And that it boots and loads apps faster than XP, and tests even show a slight advantage over w/7, testifying to efficiency, and it has more functionality now than XP (including its Resource Monitor, Disk Management, File recovery, Speech recognition, etc,.), and perhaps more to come (XP had 3 service packs).
And i could try it for free and buy it for 30.00 with the mail in rebate (i would only recommend it now for people who have faith in Jesus and the patience of a saint!), or even 42.00 download, both unheard of prices for any Windows OS upgrade as far as i know.
So for myself, for 45.00 (including the memory) i can have the latest OS with more functionality and a support cycle perhaps longer than the Constitution may last.
HOWEVER, as i later stated, I see no reason to upgrade from W/7 (though i use Classic Shell with that as well), but at least in my situation an upgrade from XP was worth it i believe, though i would not have agreed to pay more than the 42.00 price
LOL -- Glad I'm not the only one who [ab]uses lots of tabs.
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