Happy Days Are Here Again!
Keep in mind: You only allowed to use this Upgrade if you have a XP, Vista or Windows 7 license.
Guten Tag mein Herr
eutschland uber alles!
It worked like a "Charm" just as you had said it would.
Well that is with two caveats.
I eventually chose to purchase the $39.99 Windows Pro Ugrade, that would 'supposedly'
only upgrade an XP/Vista/Win7 box.
Buy Windows - Microsoft Windows
Went there and clicked on the link, entered my credit card info and after the download
completed, I chose "Burn DVD/Install later".
Cripes, I got 2 XP licenses, 3 Vista licenses, and 2 Windows 7 licenses.
Heck, I'm a idiot/windunce. When I buy a box from BestBuy the first thing I do is call MS and order
their OS and delete all partitions and do a clean install. Yea, two valid licenses for ONE machine,
but like I said I'm a windunce, but at least I know that all the crapware is gone
WHY wouldn't/couldn't they advertise what you just showed me?
"Run Evaluation, set it up just the way you want, "LEARN/DOWNLOAD/BURN" then downgrade!"
What WERE they thinking?????
Anyways, I used ImageBurn to burn one copy and then Windows DVD program to burn another.
Booted into Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation, browsed to /Sources/setup.exe and chose "Run as Administrator"
Walked away for an hour to rake and bag some leaves and upon my return all was completed.
I had logged in with a Local Account with no password and BAM that 'User' was open and ready for business.
My Quick Launch icons where willy-nilly all over the place, but I arranged them in their proper order,
logged off and on and all was well.
The only change....boo hoo... was that the Hash/Hack to play Windows 7 card games was gone.
Other than that everything else was just as i had left it.
All legacy apps/metro apps/Mail accounts and all tweaks intact!!!
Good Stuff! THANKS
Windunce
A big PS...
Hats off to Brink and all contributors for the guidance through Dev/Consumers/Release previews!
Happy days are here again!