How did you setup your Win 8 install?

[CountMike]

S'all right to use different OSs. I also use couple of flavors of Linux installed on USB thumb drive to do some work when called for and Widows XP Pe with W7 on another, within Hireens boot disk, That way you can get closer to hardware and do things to main OS that it would not allow you to do otherwise.
Win8 will invariably deactivate Defrag if installed anew on an SSD, for Win7 without SP1, I'm not so sure.

 

[ICit2lol]

Yes well mine is just an upgrade as it was cheaper and a lot less of a headache than trying to find a trial of 8 so I was thinking that the defrag part of the 7 OS would somehow be incorporated hence my concern as in 7 even with the SP1 unless I am sadly mistaken one has to disable that function for SSD's as per Brink's tutorial in there.

I shall have a look to see if I can find a similar optimize tutorial here.

 

[Rafita]

dual boot with ubuntu 12... now it's alone.

 

[ICit2lol]

Now I have posted a couple of replies today re my method which was an upgrade and I am disappointed to find as i aid in those posts that program were transferred across either in part - security program only not the config a particular concern to me at least and my Office not at all.

A point worth keeping in mind for any that are considering this route.

The other issue I find a tad disturbing is that some of the apps free and paid for are not so good as meets the eye. I have already had to do one reinstall because of stuff i could not get rid of so no apps for me thank you.

 

[PhyllisColeman]

while i was voting i was with the though that surely there be many who still prefer the traditional way of window installing

 

[bawldiggle]

Daughters new "work" laptop
Inherited Win 8.0 on Dell Un-Inspiron 15-3521 -- 2 GB RAM
Bits of jumbo burger stuck to the non-touch screen.
Corrections fluid does not stick to the screen either.
Win 8 very frustrating on a bog sub-standard laptop with mouse ... even.

Replaced McAfee AV with Bitdefender Internet Security.
Win 8 access is very slow in a serious corporate environment.

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Welcome to Windows EightForums, bawldiggle. It's good to have you aboard.

LOL! Bits of jumbo burger? Corrections fluid?

 

[alphanumeric]

My ASUS laptop came with Windows 8 pre installed. One of the first things I did was to swap out the spinner for an SSD. Two SSD's actually, a 128 gig for the OS and a 256 for data. I did a clean install and haven't looked back. The embedded key made this a snap.

 

[HPgeek18]

Main OS

 

[MrShowdown]

Changed my vote to dual boot.

I use Windows 8 as a main OS, and Windows 7 for aesthetic and customization purposes.

 

[ICit2lol]

Well have got mine all sorted now laptop and Sandy Bridge on 8 with the 7 style start menu and the tester and Ivy Bridge a straight 7 so have the best of all worlds.

 

[turbofish]

Ok, I couldn't vote because I have set it up different ways - both virtually and as my main OS on my laptop [desktop is still Windows 7].

 

[Coram Daes]

I will test out the setup process with HyperV to begin with and then probably on a Toshiba Laptop. 8.1.

 

[CountMike]

Since I started with Alpha version it was on a VM in W7. Beta and RTM were running on a separate HDD while the primary HDD was disconnected and required BIOS change to run. Later on, a clean install on SSD as a sole OS. Now, I had to install Win7 on a separate HDD because some games could not run on W8 and the kiddies were crying for them. I even have XP on a small, separate HDD, just in case. Win7 is ultimate, Win8 is Pro, both 64 bit and XP is 32bit.

 

[ICit2lol]

Ok, I couldn't vote because I have set it up different ways - both virtually and as my main OS on my laptop [desktop is still Windows 7].
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Actually Turbo I went in with an upgrade over the 7 and carried over my settings saved a lot of time then just got Stardock8 on one machine and Classic Shell on the other using the same method.
I did use clones so I could keep the original 7 so if things go pear shaped I can always revert and do again

 

[Tweak Freak]

First a 5 minute acronis restore of a raw 7 install on my 4 year old HP laptop. Let er rip and it went perfect for a fresh install. Let the tweaking begin

 

[amurale72]

i have used past one year with out any problem as main os.window 8

 

[ICit2lol]

Have just updated both the 8 machines to 8.1 and they seem to be better than ever

 

[ryanandshalon]

please tell me how to get the best of both worlds

 

[ryanandshalon]

how?????