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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

My windows 7 laptop died! I went and purchased another, and it never even crossed my mind until I turned it on it has windows 8, lol omg wtf is this? Anybody got any tips like, how do I add favourite, download? this is like having never been on a computer in my life...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"My windows 7 laptop died! I went and purchased another, and it never even crossed my mind until I turned it on it has windows 8, lol omg wtf is this? Anybody got any tips like, how do I add favourite, download? this is like having never been on a computer in my life... "

Click the "Desktop" tile and you'll be in familiar Windows land. Leave the tiled interface for later.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've had windows 8 for some months now and took me ages to get used to it.... In essence it's similar to a smart phone with icons that can be moved around and apps that can be due loaded from the Microsoft App Store.... Best way to lol at it really..... And as above the familiar desktop is still there once you click in the desktop icon!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've had windows 8 for some months now and took me ages to get used to it.... In essence it's similar to a smart phone with icons that can be moved around and apps that can be due loaded from the Microsoft App Store.... Best way to lol at it really..... And as above the familiar desktop is still there once you click in the desktop icon!!!"

Well said. I played with the tile interface for a bit when I first got it, and since then I have never used it. I think MS should have gone the Apple route, and had two OSes, one for mobile and one for PCs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used the "consumer preview" version from the time it became available, and beleive it or not that version was better than the final release because it was purely windows 7 based. i do use windows 8 on my tower bu this laptop im using now is running on fedora os and i think its awesome for a 100% free operating system, seems much more secure than windows as well

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im just dwonloading win 8 Evolution and gonna dual boot it later so will keep you posted

Wasnt keen on win 8 to be honest though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

use it an hated it.

stick with windows 7, its fast an more stable

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

With touch screen I find win8 lovely - however when in desk top mode they removed the original start button. This can be retrieved quickly by downloading advanced system care 6 and there is the option of putting back the start button.

From then on it is virtually win7.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"With touch screen I find win8 lovely - however when in desk top mode they removed the original start button. This can be retrieved quickly by downloading advanced system care 6 and there is the option of putting back the start button.

From then on it is virtually win7. "

Win 8 is basically aimed at touchscreen its just the proper touchscreen tech hasnt been widely released yet

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Yeah found the desktop thank god,Yeah I prefer windows 7, I cant even change my home page 2 google ggrrrrr. Evolution I'll check it out. I tried 2 download Microsoft security essentials for virus protection but laptop saying I have windows defender, is that built in anti virus?, I loved my old laptop lol ty for suggestions

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By *infemaleWoman
over a year ago

liversedge

the one thing i found daft on win8 is that on the desktop, it doesn't have a start button, you need to download one. a major update is due soon, but not much details on what it's going to change

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

It's horrible I'll nevedr use any of that app things, think they have made it like a phone, it's going to take me months to suss it out,why fix what's not broken. Money I suppose, their greed is ruining my day lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's horrible I'll nevedr use any of that app things, think they have made it like a phone, it's going to take me months to suss it out,why fix what's not broken. Money I suppose, their greed is ruining my day lol."

There is a start button of sort on the desktop hover your mouse up to the right hand corner A menu will appear

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By *odka n CokeCouple
over a year ago

Greater London

I found a great, free website that has a learning course for Windows 8 including written and video lessons - I've checked the rules and would just like to say that this learning website does not have any malware/spyware - I've used it many times as have my family.

The url is http://www.gcflearnfree.org

Em x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Yeah I can find control panel and that, but I think it's going back to the shop tomorrow morning, nothing I usually use works, I use vipbox for streaming all the pay per view boxing free and it wont work, I've had it with this it's utter shit, how can you make a newer version worse than the old version. If I could get my hands on one of these geeks right now I'd have no problems choking the life out of him, I've been pissing about with this since 11am this morning...............

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have 6 pc and 6 lap tops in the house 2 on windows 8!, been in to computers for years I feel it's the worst one yet, has so many bugs, I can't log on to my Linux server from 8 have to use win 7, soon to move the 2 win 8 back to win 7 not recommend id m$ is loosening it!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I don't fucking believe this!!!!!

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By *opping_candyWoman
over a year ago

West Yorkshire

I hate windows 8. I went from using an 8 year old beast of a laptop with windows xp, amd athlon processor and 1.5gb ram that ran like shit off a shovel (technical term obviously) to a half decent spec windows 8 machine in January. Oh how I long for my old laptop.

Ignoring all the daft apps, I ended up downloading desktop versions of most things anyway, for example the skype app didn't want to work so got the standard one and that's fine! The whole thing is very laggy with extended non-responsive periods, and ctrl alt del doesn't even help as it takes an age for the task manager to appear.

Playback from YouTube very glitchy but audio CDs fine.

Annoyingly can't plug in my old basic .mp3 player and just play the files via media player for some reason tried downloading all sorts too, vlc quicktime realplayer and whatever else came up on Google!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Well I'm taking this back first thing in the morning. I think I'm within my rights to return it, anybody know???? The flash player doesn't work properly and why should I spend hours fixing something new from a shop, no way back it goes, I cycles 22 miles to get this and the same tomorrow to return it grrrr!!

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By *opping_candyWoman
over a year ago

West Yorkshire

If there is a fault yes you should be able to get your money back. If it's just cos you don't like windows 8 you might have a problem. Check the T's and C's on back of receipt or other documentation that came with it. It's been a fair while since I worked in retail and can't remember.

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