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I was really happy to go to 8 when the offer came out to purchase it at such a great price. Now I really wish I had not. I have no one in my usual group of people who know computer stuff who knows a thing about 8 and I am having mountains of problems with it.
It worked great at first but all of the sudden and for no apparent reason I started getting a strange error code if I attempted to install anything. In this thread: http://www.eightforums.com/general-support/22092-i-need-serious-help-8-please.html ) I researched and found that I needed to activate the Administrator account and install from there, which I have done. Now so many things do not work and I am not really able to figure out why. My Incredimail can not access the network from my admin account for some reason. It keeps getting a firewall error. I have no idea of how to fix this. Also, I am in the BETA for Neverwinter Nights. I downloaded and installed the game which, of course, had to be done from the admin account. This was automatically placed in the public games folder. I do not want to play an online game from my admin account. I logged out from there and logged in to my regular account. It did not show Neverwinter as being installed there. This happened with Skype too. I figured I knew where it was saved so I went to the public folder and launched the game. It is not able to run from there and crashes. It does run from the admin account. Why? How do I grant my regular account permission to install? I have searched the user settings and I have not found a way. this account is part of the administrator group. Why can it not install? I have looked all over to find tutorials or any kind of instructions for fixing all of this but nothing I have found seems to apply. Would I be better off just going back to 7 where I knew how to do all of this and could make things work or can any of this be fixed in 8?
It worked great at first but all of the sudden and for no apparent reason I started getting a strange error code if I attempted to install anything. In this thread: http://www.eightforums.com/general-support/22092-i-need-serious-help-8-please.html ) I researched and found that I needed to activate the Administrator account and install from there, which I have done. Now so many things do not work and I am not really able to figure out why. My Incredimail can not access the network from my admin account for some reason. It keeps getting a firewall error. I have no idea of how to fix this. Also, I am in the BETA for Neverwinter Nights. I downloaded and installed the game which, of course, had to be done from the admin account. This was automatically placed in the public games folder. I do not want to play an online game from my admin account. I logged out from there and logged in to my regular account. It did not show Neverwinter as being installed there. This happened with Skype too. I figured I knew where it was saved so I went to the public folder and launched the game. It is not able to run from there and crashes. It does run from the admin account. Why? How do I grant my regular account permission to install? I have searched the user settings and I have not found a way. this account is part of the administrator group. Why can it not install? I have looked all over to find tutorials or any kind of instructions for fixing all of this but nothing I have found seems to apply. Would I be better off just going back to 7 where I knew how to do all of this and could make things work or can any of this be fixed in 8?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 professional
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- I buy Power custom build
- CPU
- sandy bridge
- Memory
- 8 gig
- Graphics Card(s)
- invidia
- Browser
- chrome
- Antivirus
- windows defender