Ouch! Just as I thought I'd pretty much whipped all the little problems with my new upgrade to Windows 8 Pro I got a big surprise tonight....as follows:
All the programs I currently use are booting up and running just fine. Even some of the old ones.
BUT....tonight I decided to do my Web surfing from my computer room using the Win 8 PC rather than my Win 7 laptop in the living room. Imagine my surprise to find that a fairly large share of my favorite sites would either not boot up at all or would be so slow as to make using or reading them impossible. Notice....I said a large share. Some sites come right up and work fine. Some come up quickly but then bog down and I can't move around because it is so slow. Then....there are the ones that just would not completely come up at all.
I got shook up so I headed for the living room and fired up the laptop which runs on Win 7. Everything was OK and worked just fine on it. So now I don't really know what is going on. The only difference between the two PC's (other than the laptop is Win 7 and the desktop is the new upgrade to Win 8) is that the desktop unit is connected via Ethernet cable to the router while the laptop is connected via wi-fi. I tried using both my FireFox browser (version 17) and the Internet Explorer that came with Win 8. Same problem with both of them.
The desktop Internet function was working just great until I upgraded to Win 8. This is a deal killer. If I can't figure this one out and fix it.....I'm going back to Win 7 and (I guess) just count the money I paid for it as the price of a bad mistake on my part.
Anyone have ANY ideas what I should look for?
All the programs I currently use are booting up and running just fine. Even some of the old ones.
BUT....tonight I decided to do my Web surfing from my computer room using the Win 8 PC rather than my Win 7 laptop in the living room. Imagine my surprise to find that a fairly large share of my favorite sites would either not boot up at all or would be so slow as to make using or reading them impossible. Notice....I said a large share. Some sites come right up and work fine. Some come up quickly but then bog down and I can't move around because it is so slow. Then....there are the ones that just would not completely come up at all.
I got shook up so I headed for the living room and fired up the laptop which runs on Win 7. Everything was OK and worked just fine on it. So now I don't really know what is going on. The only difference between the two PC's (other than the laptop is Win 7 and the desktop is the new upgrade to Win 8) is that the desktop unit is connected via Ethernet cable to the router while the laptop is connected via wi-fi. I tried using both my FireFox browser (version 17) and the Internet Explorer that came with Win 8. Same problem with both of them.
The desktop Internet function was working just great until I upgraded to Win 8. This is a deal killer. If I can't figure this one out and fix it.....I'm going back to Win 7 and (I guess) just count the money I paid for it as the price of a bad mistake on my part.
Anyone have ANY ideas what I should look for?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Professional 64 bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP pavilion p7-1026 desktop
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 840T
- Motherboard
- N-Alvorix-RS880-uATX (Alvorix)
- Memory
- 14 gb DDR3 1333
- Graphics Card(s)
- Integraded graphics using ATI Radeon 4200