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<blockquote data-quote="HippsieGypsie" data-source="post: 284183" data-attributes="member: 6031"><p>Welcome to Windows EightForums, onedoggy.</p><p></p><p>Sorry to hear you're having so many problems with your new machine, especially if after spending hard-earned money on it. Then there's the elimination of much exciting anticipation when things go south with it. I can relate to your frustration, for I bought this Acer tower (please see specs) with Windows Vista preloaded. Ugh! Not a good experience whatsoever! "How unstable of an OS this thing is and quite a resource hog", or so I thought at the time. It ran a little faster than my old Gateway with 98SE on it, but was far more unstable.</p><p></p><p>It got to be where I was fixing the blasted thing more than using it! I was very busy at the time professionally and didn't need the headaches.</p><p></p><p>Lol! Like you, I was finished with Windows forever!, but with me I started to look into Linux. Like I said, at the time I was very busy professionally trying to run a business with it, so setting up and learning a whole new system was questionable. Luckily 7 came along, which ran quite nice with very little problems.</p><p></p><p>While using 7 I found out that it really wasn't a Vista OS fault, although as an OS compared to others it was quite a resource hog. It was more that Acer OEM released and sold the machine with far too less RAM in it to run Vista efficiently. While using 7 I upgraded the RAM in it to maximum 2GB, which probably Vista would've ran fine with. It made a big difference with 7 also.</p><p></p><p>Then with upgrading with fresh install to 7 I didn't carry along the Acer OEM crapware. More resources saved, although I had to contend with the OEM recovery partition which just sat there unused. Lol + 1/2 again! If you stick around you'll learn that I'm not the savviest of users. I botched up trying to remove that partition unsuccessfully only to be left missing about 120GBs of my hard drive and not being able to see the partition. Luckily I didn't destroy the HD! Thanks to this forum I found a nice little free utility lately that's able to see the partition. I will post on another thread to get help with fixing that problem.</p><p></p><p>Anyhoo, no OS nor machine is perfect coming out of the box, but I dare say it's rather from other sources, not the OS itself. Admittedly MS made some blunders with 8 rushing it out the door so far as design features, but I think most find that it is a rather stable OS.</p><p></p><p>This article covers most of the problems: <a href="http://www.eightforums.com/showthread.php?t=32157">www.eightforums.com/showthread.php?t=32157</a></p><p></p><p>I don't know what you bought, but OEM "brain-burn crapware" maybe another problem that you are having, although I realize that some of it is quite useful. Some of it goofs up machines. Sometimes we install programs that may not be compatible or install programs in the wrong way. I feel many here will attest to that.</p><p></p><p>We will be more than glad to help you with your problems, if that's what you decide to do. If so, please fill out your system specs so to help us help you better.</p><p></p><p>My apology if you feel this was long-winded > I'm sure all know I can be! Good luck to you and again welcome. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HippsieGypsie, post: 284183, member: 6031"] Welcome to Windows EightForums, onedoggy. Sorry to hear you're having so many problems with your new machine, especially if after spending hard-earned money on it. Then there's the elimination of much exciting anticipation when things go south with it. I can relate to your frustration, for I bought this Acer tower (please see specs) with Windows Vista preloaded. Ugh! Not a good experience whatsoever! "How unstable of an OS this thing is and quite a resource hog", or so I thought at the time. It ran a little faster than my old Gateway with 98SE on it, but was far more unstable. It got to be where I was fixing the blasted thing more than using it! I was very busy at the time professionally and didn't need the headaches. Lol! Like you, I was finished with Windows forever!, but with me I started to look into Linux. Like I said, at the time I was very busy professionally trying to run a business with it, so setting up and learning a whole new system was questionable. Luckily 7 came along, which ran quite nice with very little problems. While using 7 I found out that it really wasn't a Vista OS fault, although as an OS compared to others it was quite a resource hog. It was more that Acer OEM released and sold the machine with far too less RAM in it to run Vista efficiently. While using 7 I upgraded the RAM in it to maximum 2GB, which probably Vista would've ran fine with. It made a big difference with 7 also. Then with upgrading with fresh install to 7 I didn't carry along the Acer OEM crapware. More resources saved, although I had to contend with the OEM recovery partition which just sat there unused. Lol + 1/2 again! If you stick around you'll learn that I'm not the savviest of users. I botched up trying to remove that partition unsuccessfully only to be left missing about 120GBs of my hard drive and not being able to see the partition. Luckily I didn't destroy the HD! Thanks to this forum I found a nice little free utility lately that's able to see the partition. I will post on another thread to get help with fixing that problem. Anyhoo, no OS nor machine is perfect coming out of the box, but I dare say it's rather from other sources, not the OS itself. Admittedly MS made some blunders with 8 rushing it out the door so far as design features, but I think most find that it is a rather stable OS. This article covers most of the problems: [url]www.eightforums.com/showthread.php?t=32157[/url] I don't know what you bought, but OEM "brain-burn crapware" maybe another problem that you are having, although I realize that some of it is quite useful. Some of it goofs up machines. Sometimes we install programs that may not be compatible or install programs in the wrong way. I feel many here will attest to that. We will be more than glad to help you with your problems, if that's what you decide to do. If so, please fill out your system specs so to help us help you better. My apology if you feel this was long-winded > I'm sure all know I can be! Good luck to you and again welcome. :) [/QUOTE]
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