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Anyone updated to it?
What do you think?
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Campfire Tracker
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I think Windows 8 sucks. So this new one must suck better?
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Soli Deo Gloria!
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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That is the point, frying pan, to the fire?
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Did it yesterday! I will report back with either good news or silence. If silence it is because said PC is no longer functional after bouncing off the wall at a high rate of speed.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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When they first came out w/ 8.1 I downloaded it and gave it a try.............for about 1 hour...............still sucks IMO
Obama, busily making Jimmy Carter look smart UPDATE Sept. 2011!!! Jimmy has now achieved genius status ! UPDATE Sept 2013 !!! Jimmy has now achieved MENSA STATUS, Barry, not so much
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Campfire Ranger
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I use XP. Yesterday I helped a neighbor get his Windows 8 machine running. Once I figured out how to drill down through all the blather to the real controls it turned out that it couldn't read the Internet from the cable company router through the Ethernet port but would report a good connection. Seems odd it would just sit there but I don't do networking at least if I can help it.
What baffles me is why he has to be online and logged into somewhere just to play solitaire.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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8.1 is supposed to restore the Start menu and give you an option to log in directly to the desktop rather than the App screen. So it "should" be worthwhile.
Didn't know it was out yet, probably try it next week. Work to do on the deer blinds and a bit of deer hunting to do this weekend.
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Campfire Ranger
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We are used to Windows 7, our son gave his mother a new laptop for her birthday, Windows 8. What a nightmare.  We got a copy of "Windows 8 for Dummies", the book spent the first couple of pages telling us Windows 8 is a POS and whatever you do, don't buy Windows 8. 
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For those condemned to windows 8 the following may help you survive:
Try to do everything in the window 7 style interface.
Replace the builtin useless views with views from somewhere else. Example get pdf reader from Adobe.
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Microsoft is going to always suck. It's owners gave NSA a back door and the big boys are liberal POS.
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