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Did you switch to Windows 8?

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Offline Moshe123

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Re: Did you switch to Windows 8?
« Reply #40 on: February 06, 2013, 05:43:00 PM »
Bought a laptop with 8 installed. I'm used to 7 and it's hard to get used to the few things that are missing like the start menu.
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Re: Did you switch to Windows 8?
« Reply #41 on: February 06, 2013, 05:50:27 PM »
you could install one
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Re: Did you switch to Windows 8?
« Reply #42 on: February 06, 2013, 05:53:26 PM »
Quote from: Moshe123 on February 06, 2013, 05:43:00 PM
Bought a laptop with 8 installed. I'm used to 7 and it's hard to get used to the few things that are missing like the start menu.
Treat the start screen like the start menu.
What else is missing?
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Re: Did you switch to Windows 8?
« Reply #43 on: February 06, 2013, 05:53:59 PM »
Quote from: Moshe123 on February 06, 2013, 05:43:00 PM
Bought a laptop with 8 installed. I'm used to 7 and it's hard to get used to the few things that are missing like the start menu.
You could buy it.
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Re: Did you switch to Windows 8?
« Reply #44 on: February 06, 2013, 05:57:25 PM »
Quote from: Moshe123 on February 06, 2013, 05:43:00 PM
Bought a laptop with 8 installed. I'm used to 7 and it's hard to get used to the few things that are missing like the start menu.

I haven't used 8 yet, though IMO the start menu is something MSFT should have gotten rid of a loooooong time ago.
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Re: Did you switch to Windows 8?
« Reply #45 on: February 06, 2013, 06:08:39 PM »
I have a laptop with win8. I enjoyed win7 much more. if I upgrade to win7, will I lose all the programs and drivers, etc.
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Re: Did you switch to Windows 8?
« Reply #46 on: February 06, 2013, 06:11:26 PM »
Quote from: dirah on February 06, 2013, 05:17:16 PM
Win8 still seems to have other benefits. My two favorites are the super quick start-up time, and the absence of "are you really sure you want to delete this file" messages. [When added all up, the average person probably spends a couple of days of their life responding to those pop-ups.]
Another important one if you have kids, the "Family Safety" setting has more features, and quite useful with regards to children accounts. [Not to say that its a complete solution, but there's definitely quite a lot of progress there.]
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Re: Did you switch to Windows 8?
« Reply #47 on: February 07, 2013, 12:42:58 AM »
still feels crappy, has many many compatibility issues - and I've found many times shortens the battery life as well.
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Re: Did you switch to Windows 8?
« Reply #48 on: February 21, 2013, 08:48:09 PM »
OK, one really lousy thing about Windows 8 is the size of the C:\Windows\WinSxS folder.
Its eating up 11GB out of my 55GB SSD.
Anyone (DH Data Recovery?) know a safe way to either minimize this folder, or move it to secondary hard drive.
[Yes, I heard about lmgtfy, but the advice there is very conflicting, and the official MS point-of-view seems to be "tough luck".
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