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Hi All,
I'm sure you get lots of people coming here desperate after installing win 8 so I'll try to keep it relatively brief. This site has come up a number of times in my google searches so I thought it would be a good place to sign up.
I've been building machines for 20 years, which usually involves a clean install on a new machine, stripping that to an absolute minimum for my needs and then carefully installing drivers and software.
I got my first laptop yesterday, which came with an oem version of win 8 64 (home or whatever they're calling the consumer version). As I'm sure you can appreciate it was an absolute nightmare. I felt like the guy in one of those 'dad tests' even though I'm pretty tech savvy.
I'm a power user and like to set things up and be able to access things which win 8 wants to hide from people.
First I had to install over a hundred updates, then 3.6gb of win 8.1 which took hours, I some how figured out how to get to the windows update section. It was a living nightmare pretty much.
After installing classic shell I had some semblance of normality. I right clicked all the tiles I could and uninstalled the apps, used ccleaner to reduce startup load etc.
Something I CANNOT get rid of is skydrive, despite uninstalling it it's still running in the processes section. I'd like to completely eradicate it from my machine. I don't want to hide it, I'd like it gone.
That's pretty much the theme for my experience with win 8 so far, it's impossible to find things and when you do things aren't actually gone. There's many other things I'd like to address but lets start with this one
There's a lot of helpful people on here from what I've seen so hopefully someone can help me out, thanks in advance.
I'm sure you get lots of people coming here desperate after installing win 8 so I'll try to keep it relatively brief. This site has come up a number of times in my google searches so I thought it would be a good place to sign up.
I've been building machines for 20 years, which usually involves a clean install on a new machine, stripping that to an absolute minimum for my needs and then carefully installing drivers and software.
I got my first laptop yesterday, which came with an oem version of win 8 64 (home or whatever they're calling the consumer version). As I'm sure you can appreciate it was an absolute nightmare. I felt like the guy in one of those 'dad tests' even though I'm pretty tech savvy.
I'm a power user and like to set things up and be able to access things which win 8 wants to hide from people.
First I had to install over a hundred updates, then 3.6gb of win 8.1 which took hours, I some how figured out how to get to the windows update section. It was a living nightmare pretty much.
After installing classic shell I had some semblance of normality. I right clicked all the tiles I could and uninstalled the apps, used ccleaner to reduce startup load etc.
Something I CANNOT get rid of is skydrive, despite uninstalling it it's still running in the processes section. I'd like to completely eradicate it from my machine. I don't want to hide it, I'd like it gone.
That's pretty much the theme for my experience with win 8 so far, it's impossible to find things and when you do things aren't actually gone. There's many other things I'd like to address but lets start with this one
There's a lot of helpful people on here from what I've seen so hopefully someone can help me out, thanks in advance.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- win 8 64