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Nope not a bit.
Since hte system didnt have an optical drive, i used a jump drive. I downloaded the ISO off our action pack, and had to use a utility to make a bootable image on the flash drive. The utility works great, you can get it from microsoft at http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/...usbdvd_dwnTool
Since hte system didnt have an optical drive, i used a jump drive. I downloaded the ISO off our action pack, and had to use a utility to make a bootable image on the flash drive. The utility works great, you can get it from microsoft at http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/...usbdvd_dwnTool
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Well, it's been a week with Windows 8 on the media center PC and no issues so far. Been running just as smooth as 7.
Friday night I took the bigger plunge on put it on my regular PC. Same motherboard as the media center, just more memory and less drive space. All has been working well there too.
Nathan, if you end up with a new laptop with it, give it a chance. It's not as bad as you think it is. Yes, you have to learn a few new keystrokes and some things look a little different, but i'm finding it very easy to do. You don't have to look at all the tiles all the time either, since you still have to old desktop, but I do find myself going back to the tiles.
Friday night I took the bigger plunge on put it on my regular PC. Same motherboard as the media center, just more memory and less drive space. All has been working well there too.
Nathan, if you end up with a new laptop with it, give it a chance. It's not as bad as you think it is. Yes, you have to learn a few new keystrokes and some things look a little different, but i'm finding it very easy to do. You don't have to look at all the tiles all the time either, since you still have to old desktop, but I do find myself going back to the tiles.
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Windows 8 is growing on me. The more I use it, the more I like it. Till I can buy the Mac I want, I guess I'll continue buying these disposable computers from HP. lol
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I guess they've turned disposable. I've had great luck from HP since 94. Tried a Dell in 01 but won't again. But this latest HP took a dump at 13 months. And Staples sucks! I'm currently on my old backup HP from 07 that still works (except that Bill Gates crap won't update Windows suddenly. And hours of trying their fixes didn't work).
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The 13 month old one that failed had 7.
The 07 one I'm using now has Vista Svc Pack 2. I get error 800B0100. Download the fix KB97 something. Runs for about 20 mins, says its fixed, until you try Windows Update again - same error.
I tried restore to an earlier date, didn't help.
Signed up and downloaded MS FixIt. Didn't.
The 07 one I'm using now has Vista Svc Pack 2. I get error 800B0100. Download the fix KB97 something. Runs for about 20 mins, says its fixed, until you try Windows Update again - same error.
I tried restore to an earlier date, didn't help.
Signed up and downloaded MS FixIt. Didn't.
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The 13 month old one that failed had 7.
The 07 one I'm using now has Vista Svc Pack 2. I get error 800B0100. Download the fix KB97 something. Runs for about 20 mins, says its fixed, until you try Windows Update again - same error.
I tried restore to an earlier date, didn't help.
Signed up and downloaded MS FixIt. Didn't.
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I guess they've turned disposable. I've had great luck from HP since 94. Tried a Dell in 01 but won't again. But this latest HP took a dump at 13 months. And Staples sucks! I'm currently on my old backup HP from 07 that still works (except that Bill Gates crap won't update Windows suddenly. And hours of trying their fixes didn't work).
Good luck lol
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Finally got around to setting up that machine with the vertex4 SSD. Its a dell optiplex with 8GB ram, i5 3.40ghz, 256gb SSD, sata III, and win 7 pro. After tweaking everything, like where the OS boots using all cpu cores, disabling the PXE boot and all since none of that is needed, from a cold start, to windows desktop and being 100% useable (i.e. launching programs and surfing net), and with typing in a complex password, 26.1 seconds. friggin love it!