bawldiggle
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New (out of the box last week) Dell laptop preloaded with Win 8.0
Laptop belongs to my 40-ish daughter for her business.
She freaked at Win 8.0 and wants an XP style UI
(I had to change the battery in my pace maker too)
I have installed Classic Shell Start (and Classic Explorer) on several of my Win7 PC, while three of my XP beasts soldier on. All "corporate" tools.
Over the decades many windows updates have been cosmetic and in some instances sabotaged settings.
Granted some security updates are a good idea.
How can I determine what version of updating is on the Dell ?
12 months ago I disabled Windows updates on Win7, because updates were destroying some of my settings. No problems, to date)
Noises on the net are that 8.0 was a hurried release so I am aware that there will be some necessary fixes (MS call them updates :shock.
Now with 8.1 release and noises of Win9 I cannot see the point of allowing MS to down load a lot of crap onto any PC, unnecessarily.
Dell Inspiron 15.3521
Intel Pentium, 2007U @ 1.80GHz
2GB RAM
Windows 8 Pro, 64bit
250GB HD
Laptop belongs to my 40-ish daughter for her business.
She freaked at Win 8.0 and wants an XP style UI
(I had to change the battery in my pace maker too)
I have installed Classic Shell Start (and Classic Explorer) on several of my Win7 PC, while three of my XP beasts soldier on. All "corporate" tools.
Over the decades many windows updates have been cosmetic and in some instances sabotaged settings.
Granted some security updates are a good idea.
How can I determine what version of updating is on the Dell ?
12 months ago I disabled Windows updates on Win7, because updates were destroying some of my settings. No problems, to date)
Noises on the net are that 8.0 was a hurried release so I am aware that there will be some necessary fixes (MS call them updates :shock.
Now with 8.1 release and noises of Win9 I cannot see the point of allowing MS to down load a lot of crap onto any PC, unnecessarily.
Dell Inspiron 15.3521
Intel Pentium, 2007U @ 1.80GHz
2GB RAM
Windows 8 Pro, 64bit
250GB HD
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