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Samsung Evo 840 250GB v WD 250 Sata1.5 on sata 3 ports Because of a few problems I upgraded W7 to W8 then W8.1 on an old WD250 250 gb drive. Once I had it all working to my satisfaction i.e boot to desktop,classic shell menus, gadgets, elevated prompts to start up my W7 gadgets and other progs...

System image I gave up I gave up with this retrograde step making life more difficult. I just cloned the widows 8.1 installation using aomei partition manager (free) took 15 mins. Should the installation be screwed up or disc fail just swap the drives over boot then make a new clone. besb

The way I want Win 8 I had my initial say here.http://www.eightforums.com/general-support/27226-your-general-opinions-windows-8-1-preview-release-4.html I then spotted this thread and decided to post an image I created and posted one year ago of my own idea of what I wanted in the next...

My Initial Reaction Hi Guys, I have been quiet for some time having bought a couple of 8 upgrades and slowly customised them to my own satisfaction for use on my desktops to completely ignore the start screen. I read a few pre-pre release revews 8.1 and downloaded the iso minutes after it was...

Hi All, I decided to chime in on this one as last week I was traveling very light and did not want a large laptop with me. I decided too to stick the RP on my Netbook Asus 1005ha with 3g mobile internet,upped to 2GB ram 500gb disk, running W7pro. It performs reasonable well running office email...

Hi James Clark; I had a similar problem type of problem when on occasions the system went into slow motion. Checking a gadget I had installed showed considerable cpu activity and constant disk activity. I opened task manager and no process appeared to be consuming the amount of cpu activity in...

Had a quick look, and cannot find any apps that are worthwhile. But I think we all really need this one - MyPasswords - "This app has permission to use your internet connection" LOL:huh::sarc:

There is a new policy on loading startup programs in w8 All of mine show up in the task manager - startup tab but one steadfastly will not load. I can load it manually once I am in the desktop. But the new policy obviously deems it unsafe to load - it is a hardware monitor program. I found the...

House Fires made me remember one of the more traumatic periods of my life. At 3am one morning in 1965 I had a call at home saying "we have a fire but it is OK the brigade are here now." A £6M mainframe burnt to the ground, luckily we had files stored-off site and were up and running by begging...

Making a full backup at the moment including system image. Using Windows 7 File Recovery as mentioned by cluberti it is the same as W8 RP

What is more annoying to me is the RP and RTM are actually different: am not talking about the rainbow colors, and the "metro" icons but the functionality they have removed. gadgets are gone - glass is gone (alpha transparency on the desk top) I have been running RP since day one and have been...

I can remember when MS tried to copyright the word "Windows" and were turned down as it was a word in common usage. Note I said copyright not trademark. No one can prevent them usage a common word but they can be stopped from registering it if it is a registered company name and or also a...

Not quite, The pro upgrade allows windows media center free of charge. Free standing pro does not it will be an app in the store at a yet to be disclosed price. hence my indication of preference. And yes I am aware that the enterprise version is not generally available

I have been quiet recently because I have been "experimenting" the reason being in the past I bought Windows ME and Vista both were a disaster for various reasons and lasted only a week £200 up in flames. Windows 7 leaks were used and tested, passed with flying colors immediately bought 3...

Here is mine partially complete, showing left hand screen only. 2x 24in monitors. Ignore the wei scores the rtm being installed on an incomplete new system build. I want to ensure I can make it do what I want to rather than what MS wants me to do before shelling out for the upgrade. I got my...