My wife's laptop came with win 7, so assuming the same key can work for two laptops at the same time, I could use her key.
-1You really have strayed far from the path.
Just use the key off any old system, we all have one of those
So:.... means from an old system that's no longer in use?
I was computer savvy in my teens a decade and a half ago, but have since strayed from the path .......In expecting a new Envy laptop to arrive in a weekish with Win 8. Has a 24GB SSD cache drive for OS. Does anyone know of clear safe instructions that they could link to for the dinosaurs among us, how to clean it and start fresh with win 7?I could google but don't want to end up in a mess by following bad instructions. My wife's laptop came with win 7, so assuming the same key can work for two laptops at the same time, I could use her key.
The most difficult part of installing windows 7 on a win 8 system is finding drivers, which if you know what your doing is not that hard. First thing you need to do is go into the Bios and disable secure boot - turn on legacy boot options. after that its pretty straight forward just make sure to delete all the old partitions as windows 8 uses different partitions which wont allow windows 7 to install.
If I never touched a computer before, should I start with windows 7, or if I start now I should go rather with 8 because everyone eventual will chang to 8?
New windows 8.1 I'm starting to think I should update even though I don't have touch.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/6/116B9895-EC9C-4174-8A85-A28146CF8B6A/Windows_8-1_Product-Guide.pdfNew windows 8.1 I'm starting to think I should update even though I don't have touch.
Defiantly.I'm going to too.
It's not possible to have a laptop changed from win 8 to win 7 by a tech with remote access is it?
Don't get too excited about 8.1 ...
Do you have any reasons why or just catch phrases?
Yeah, been reading a lot of feedback from users that tried the preview.A lot of assumptions too. Read this: http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/26/windows-8-1s-start-button-isnt-a-start-button/
I think the forums below discuss a workout around for that.