Running Windows XP? Time to upgrade to Win8

JackAllTog (e2 Member)

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2 Nov 2012 - 9:22 AM

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I upgraded mine last night - i spent an hour or so first upgrading all the 5 year old Lenovo laptop hardware drives, and the windows update etc. and downloaded a few blue tooth drivers etc to the c drive in case needed.
After this the Win8 update took about 2 hours and 3 times had seperate counters saying various aspects were 0-100% - so be patient and let each stage do its thing.
All OK last night & today, looks great as a tablet. the Tech parts seem well hidden like command prompt, remote desktop etc.

Not too impressed that i need to login with my hotmail account, will need to see if this means anyone can login like this etc.
As said before closing apps seems awkward and alt-F4 is what i use at present.

Its different, but change happens.

As a consumer device its much better with the tiles telling me i have mail - my mum would find it easier to use as its much more "see and do" than remember to go here, launch that, use this ulr etc.

redsnappa

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3 Nov 2012 - 8:48 PM

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Quote: the Tech parts seem well hidden like command prompt

The hotkey Win X will allow you to quickly access the geekier parts of windows 8.