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Re: Installing windows 8, bye bye vista, advice needed.
« Reply #25 on: March 27, 2013, 09:28:30 PM »
Quote from: Jason B on March 27, 2013, 08:27:32 PM
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Re: Installing windows 8, bye bye vista, advice needed.
« Reply #26 on: March 27, 2013, 09:35:39 PM »
Quote from: Lost on March 27, 2013, 09:28:30 PM
and may god have mercy on your soul.

And your PM inbox.......... >:D

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Re: Installing windows 8, bye bye vista, advice needed.
« Reply #27 on: March 28, 2013, 07:12:42 PM »
Hi Jason,

Sorry to hear you've put up with Vista.  Man that was a bad OS.  Microsoft get every other one right.

As a mentioned in a previous post back everything up to a portable usb drive.  Pay attention to the options presented to you.  One will do a clean install and trash everything on your hard drive.  The other option will maintain all your files and folders from your Vista install and likely stick them all into a folder called Windows.old  This option is good if you cant back things up to another hard drive.

Either way you will need to re-install all of your software.


Besides the interface change Windows 8 has far quicker boot times over Windows 7.  However you need pretty new hardware (UEFI support) to see the speed increase boot time.  Its not a bad OS and far better than Vista.

Not that you want to hear it but Windows Blue/9 is supposed to come July/Sept according to the rumor mill.

I think you should have a crack at it yourself.  OS installation has improved over the years and its not as complicated as it used to be.  This is coming from someone who looks after a few thousand pcs.

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« Reply #28 on: March 28, 2013, 07:21:05 PM »
Windows ME. so bad. You forgot it. :))
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Re: Installing windows 8, bye bye vista, advice needed.
« Reply #29 on: March 28, 2013, 07:41:28 PM »
Well it's now done and I can't say I am at happy camper at present. I took the option of maintaining my settings etc and backed up all of my pictures etc etc.

But the new OS trashed all of my software, some of it was downloaded others from disks. I can't locate quite a few of my disks and am not actually sure if my PC came with Microsoft office on disk as it was all pre loaded.

My missus was in the middle of a resume and job application so you can imagine how popular I am now that we can't open any work documents on the machine. The stupid OS wants me to down load apps........???

Just want word/office back and I will worry about the rest later. I have micro soft disks but they are for windows xp professional, for a factory install so I believe they have the old OS system and all on the disk.

Any ideas? The windows help page isn't much chop either as it just wants me to buy more stuff.

On the plus side, iTunes, Internet and email are working.

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Installing windows 8, bye bye vista, advice needed.
« Reply #30 on: March 28, 2013, 07:51:24 PM »
If you have the files. Then open office (free. - open source) http://www.openoffice.org/download/. Will let you modify / edit. Etc the documents.

It's a free word processor.   Will fix your immediate issue :)) (a ~150mb file. I think).
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Re: Installing windows 8, bye bye vista, advice needed.
« Reply #31 on: April 04, 2013, 08:45:58 PM »
Quote from: Lost on March 27, 2013, 07:26:55 PM
People are used to it. People like familiarity. They just want a bug freer OS (Compared to Vista, Dos 1 would be an upgrade)

Specially when you have old **** users at work that went on stress leave when we went from Office 03 to 07... GOd help us when the next round of PC's show up with 8 or 10 or PPP or what ever it will be called

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