RAMWolff
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- Location
- RWC, CA USA
Hi,
Been meaning to write a note here for perhaps some tips and suggestions on what to do to get my 8.0 upgraded successfully to 8.1.
Months ago I was very excited to upgrade as I read of all the great improvements and now there is a note on line that 8.1 will get more upgrades in April.
So I got the banner across my desktop asking me if I wanted to upgrade so eventually I gave in and allowed the process to happen. I was very excited until the final reboot and well... I booted into a very grave mess.
I had NO background image, black screen. No task bar, no icons, only "a cursor in the dark" as I like to call it. Yea, I actually had a cursor I could move around and click but I couldn't "see" what I was clicking on. So upon trying what I could I called up Microsoft and after a while they asked permission to take over my machine and after 4 HOURS we both gave in and I had to do a full reinstall. At least the newer Windows saves all the older stuff in a Windows.old folder so not all was lost but enough to know I didn't want to go through that again.
Apparently the video drivers became corrupt along with Windows Explorer (that's what the MS tech was able to figure out). She was just as amazed as I was.
Anyway, I've laid off the upgrade again in hopes I could get here and ask what it was I should do before trying again? My video drivers are all up to date (as they were the day all that happened). The only thing I had running was the scripts from Stardock to tweak things so I booted directly into the desktop and the other to give more options to tweak the new tiled start menu... (Decor8 and Start8). I'm sure I had a couple of other scrips running but nothing that should have caused this to happen.
So what advice can you give me to assure that this will be a smooth upgrade?
Thanks
Richard
Been meaning to write a note here for perhaps some tips and suggestions on what to do to get my 8.0 upgraded successfully to 8.1.
Months ago I was very excited to upgrade as I read of all the great improvements and now there is a note on line that 8.1 will get more upgrades in April.
So I got the banner across my desktop asking me if I wanted to upgrade so eventually I gave in and allowed the process to happen. I was very excited until the final reboot and well... I booted into a very grave mess.
I had NO background image, black screen. No task bar, no icons, only "a cursor in the dark" as I like to call it. Yea, I actually had a cursor I could move around and click but I couldn't "see" what I was clicking on. So upon trying what I could I called up Microsoft and after a while they asked permission to take over my machine and after 4 HOURS we both gave in and I had to do a full reinstall. At least the newer Windows saves all the older stuff in a Windows.old folder so not all was lost but enough to know I didn't want to go through that again.
Apparently the video drivers became corrupt along with Windows Explorer (that's what the MS tech was able to figure out). She was just as amazed as I was.
Anyway, I've laid off the upgrade again in hopes I could get here and ask what it was I should do before trying again? My video drivers are all up to date (as they were the day all that happened). The only thing I had running was the scripts from Stardock to tweak things so I booted directly into the desktop and the other to give more options to tweak the new tiled start menu... (Decor8 and Start8). I'm sure I had a couple of other scrips running but nothing that should have caused this to happen.
So what advice can you give me to assure that this will be a smooth upgrade?
Thanks
Richard
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 64 bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- CyberPower
- CPU
- Intell Core i7 5820K
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF
- Memory
- 16 Gigs of DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX760
- Sound Card
- on board
- Monitor(s) Displays
- ViewSonic 27" and 20"
- Screen Resolution
- 27":1920X1080 20":1600X900
- Hard Drives
- Toshiba 1863GB SATA
- Cooling
- liquid
- Mouse
- Logitech M570 Marble
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- MS default