Windows 8.1 on may laptop - what a mistake
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Windows 8.1 on may laptop - what a mistake
Should have gone with Win 7. What a pain in the arse. Windows opening and closing seemingly on their own, have to click about 6 times to open a fucking program. Who designed this fucking thing?
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Re: Windows 8.1 on may laptop - what a mistake
the interface is a turd but it runs well. Try a program like Start Is Back, Classic Shell or Start8 to disable most of the Windows 8 weirdness and make it more like 7.
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Ta woodsy - got start is back. phew.
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Re: Windows 8.1 on may laptop - what a mistake
I wouldn't personally go back to Windows 7 as Windows 8.1 has better battery life, lower boot times, improved gaming performance and a bunch of other things.
However some simple setting changes will make life easier (before you start installing 3rd party apps). These are:
However some simple setting changes will make life easier (before you start installing 3rd party apps). These are:
- Right clicking on the start button to access...
- Control Panel
- Shut down, Restart, etc...
- Navigation settings...
- right click on the task bar and select 'Properties'
- Click the 'Navigation' tab
- Enable 'When i sign in or close all applications on a screen go to the desktop instead of start'
- Enable 'Show my desktop background on Start'
- Loading applications through search (e.g. using the Start button then typing for what you want to load, the same as windows 7).
- Making sure you are running all the "service pack" type updates (if you have a power button on the Start screen and you have a Store shortcut pinned to your task bar then you most likely have the latest version).
- Enable 'Expand to current folder' in Windows Explorer (right click on some empty space in the tree view / left panel)
- If screen resolution is low, enable 'Use small taskbar buttons' (right click the taskbar > Properties > Taskbar tab)
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Can't stand windows 8 personally. Had to deal with it far too much working at JB. It disgusts me. I'll be waiting for win10 before I change OS, even then ill wait and see how that goes for a while, and wait for bug fixes etc before making a switch.
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Re: Windows 8.1 on may laptop - what a mistake
As with Astro.
It was made to run on lower powered devices, in-turn it runs faster.
Do you have all the updates installed?
It was made to run on lower powered devices, in-turn it runs faster.
Do you have all the updates installed?
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Re: Windows 8.1 on may laptop - what a mistake
Running Win10 on my laptop and it seems pretty good. A big step up from 8.
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