My old laptop died and I had to buy a new one. Unfortunately it had Windows 8. It had no word processor and I had to buy the Office Suite and an external CD drive. Total cost? Near $1000! Now the problem. Word has no spell check, no dictionary. Any one know how I can get them? The internet was no help.”
I cant be the only one that cant make head or tails of this.
Windows 8 had nothing to do with you not having a word processor. You could easily have gone and just used Google Docs (free) and had one right there with a spell-check. Open Office or Rough Draft are both also free.
Why you went and bought an external CD drive is completely lost on me. And following stupid advice like getting Windows 7 when you already have an OS is just milking you out of more money.
Unfortunately, I have a computer at work that runs W8. I would PAY money to be able to revert to W7, but HP doesn't offer that possibility. And yes, W8 "is" that bad.
Right now, I am trying to upgrade that machine to 8.1 (thus far unsuccessfully) in hopes that some of the changes move at least slightly in an acceptable direction. NOTHING about Windows 8 is in the least attractive if you need to get real work done.
Fortunately, that machine is NOT my main desktop, which has W7.
Yup...need more info. It’s hard to believe it didn’t have an optical drive of some sort. CD??? Should be a DVD at least.
This is all speculation until we know what kind of machine and what software, if any, was bundled.