Downgrading to win7 from win8 is a pain in the ass
#1
Posted 19 February 2013 - 07:50 AM
#2
Posted 19 February 2013 - 08:21 AM
#3
Posted 19 February 2013 - 08:22 AM
#4
Posted 19 February 2013 - 10:08 AM
#5
Posted 19 February 2013 - 12:20 PM
#6
Posted 19 February 2013 - 03:38 PM
#7
Posted 19 February 2013 - 06:08 PM
There's a grammatical error in the thread title: You said downgrading to 7 from 8, it's UPGRADING from 8 to 7.
I'm pretty sure a little boys opinion doesn't change a definition of a word :l
you innocent... fucking... fox...
#8
Posted 19 February 2013 - 08:13 PM
I'm pretty sure a little boys opinion doesn't change a definition of a word :l
and I'm pretty sure that you don't recognize a joke when you see one :|
#9
Posted 21 February 2013 - 08:24 PM
and I'm pretty sure that you don't recognize a joke when you see one :|
I actually do! Just being a wise ass
you innocent... fucking... fox...
#10
Posted 26 June 2013 - 02:10 PM
#11 Guest_ElatedOwl_*
Posted 26 June 2013 - 03:18 PM
Windows 8 really features plenty of positive and useful ideas, but like many reviewers have warned, there seems to be an odd marriage between the Metro, or tile, user interface and the desktop. If only this marriage was a bit more ceremonious between the two when using it in a desktop environment, fewer folks would find reason to complain. Microsoft will iron out their faults in time, but the learning curve or, quite simply, the change it has brought to the market may remain as an act of futility on their part to some critics, but it was certainly a necessary change, one of which has brought some nice things to the table.
I'd say that's a pretty fair assessment. Generally speaking every other version of windows has been less than successful but has plenty of new features with a lot of merit (e.g. vista's UAC and aero).
I like the general idea of live tiles but at the moment of writing don't think I'd ever want to give up my standard taskbar; maybe a compromise where live tiles act as an active background but the standard toolbar is still there? Or make live tiles one of the windows key combination menus, or possibly dual monitor setups where your main is your standard desktop/taskbar and your secondary hosts your live tile stuff.
In the benchmarks I saw early on there was a decent performance difference between 7 and 8; not enough to upgrade solely based upon that, but enough to still surprise me.
I'm going to take a guess and say 9 (or whatever they decide to call it) will be much more successful.
#12
Posted 27 June 2013 - 01:47 AM
I'd say that's a pretty fair assessment. Generally speaking every other version of windows has been less than successful but has plenty of new features with a lot of merit (e.g. vista's UAC and aero).
I like the general idea of live tiles but at the moment of writing don't think I'd ever want to give up my standard taskbar; maybe a compromise where live tiles act as an active background but the standard toolbar is still there? Or make live tiles one of the windows key combination menus, or possibly dual monitor setups where your main is your standard desktop/taskbar and your secondary hosts your live tile stuff.
In the benchmarks I saw early on there was a decent performance difference between 7 and 8; not enough to upgrade solely based upon that, but enough to still surprise me.
I'm going to take a guess and say 9 (or whatever they decide to call it) will be much more successful.
I does seem to skip every second release. 98 was good, i didn't really like 2000, XP was great!, Vista was shit, 7 was good, some things on 8 are ok... but the overall feel I get is another Vista... and so yes, very likely the next one will be more good then bad. My friend did do an amazing vista overhaul and his worked amazingly but it took him months to do and he was reluctant to upgrade to Win7 after all the work he had put into his machine. he has upgraded since then though so he could grab Dx11 for games like Crysis and stuff and go back to official windows patches in security.
#13
Posted 01 July 2013 - 06:39 AM
XP was and still is amazingly stable for a Windows OS.
also longest running/supported production os
#14
Posted 04 July 2013 - 12:19 AM
It wasn't that hard for me. The hard part was making a bootable Win7 USB on a UEFI Win8 computer. No bootsect.exe
Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
#15
Posted 04 July 2013 - 04:46 PM
The last one I had a problem with had the bios locked so you couldn't enable legacy mode to boot from CD.