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XP Pro seemed to not give me the grief that 8.1 does. Everything was fine. I was sick of the wait time for Windows to boot. Did some research and found that Catalyst Control Center Launcher was the culprit. So, I disabled the startup. I rebooted and first thing I see is 2 Kaspersky icons in the System Tray. WTF? Then 1 dropped out. Then Action Center screeches. No AV, no spyware protection and Windows firewall is off.
Bullshite! Kaspersky is running, firewall is on. So, I decide to do a sfc /scannow from an elevated command prompt. I have it pinned to my Start Menu. I right click on the icon and choose Run As Administrator. Guess what? I get a pupup saying that Windows can't find Command Prompt. I left click and up it comes. I then right click and choose Properties, then Open File Location. The System 32 folder opens. I right click cmd.exe and Run As Administrator. Once again I get the Windows can't find cmd.exe.
So I reboot. Now I can right click Command Prompt and run as Admin. But Action Center is still wrong. I run sfc /scannow and it says it found errors but can't fix them. Then says see the CBS.log. What a bunch of crappola. Shows a bunch of stuff like this:
2014-06-19 18:29:13, Info CSI 000007c6 [DIRSD OWNER WARNING] Directory [ml:520{260},l:106{53}]"\??\C:\WINDOWS\Inf\.NET Data Provider for Oracle\0000" is not owned but specifies SDDL in component Microsoft-Windows-NETFXCoreComp, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral
At this point I'm giving Windows 8.1 two thumbs down.
Bullshite! Kaspersky is running, firewall is on. So, I decide to do a sfc /scannow from an elevated command prompt. I have it pinned to my Start Menu. I right click on the icon and choose Run As Administrator. Guess what? I get a pupup saying that Windows can't find Command Prompt. I left click and up it comes. I then right click and choose Properties, then Open File Location. The System 32 folder opens. I right click cmd.exe and Run As Administrator. Once again I get the Windows can't find cmd.exe.
So I reboot. Now I can right click Command Prompt and run as Admin. But Action Center is still wrong. I run sfc /scannow and it says it found errors but can't fix them. Then says see the CBS.log. What a bunch of crappola. Shows a bunch of stuff like this:
2014-06-19 18:29:13, Info CSI 000007c6 [DIRSD OWNER WARNING] Directory [ml:520{260},l:106{53}]"\??\C:\WINDOWS\Inf\.NET Data Provider for Oracle\0000" is not owned but specifies SDDL in component Microsoft-Windows-NETFXCoreComp, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral
At this point I'm giving Windows 8.1 two thumbs down.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 64bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP h8 envy 1534
- CPU
- AMD FX-6200 (3.8GHz)
- Motherboard
- M3970AM-HP (Angelica2) (Gigabyte)
- Memory
- 10GB DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Eyefinity Radeon HD 7570
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Kaskersky Internet Security 2016