#%^&%$# Window 8

[brianinpa]

My son fried the mother board on his laptop so we had to get a new one for him. Now I am fumbling around with Windows 8 for the first time and I feel like my Grand-Mother using a cell phone for the first time. Thankfully I have until Friday to figure this thing out before we take it to him at college. :rant:

 

[roncar]

Put it back in the box!

Take it to him (let him figure it out.) He will probably take to it like a duck to water.

Forget you ever saw Windows 8.

 

[brianinpa]

I know. I have to move all of his music: 3,500 files, from my external hard drive to his new laptop. I am really worried about when my Dad needs to get a new PC. My phone is going to going crazy.

 

[dan filipi]

8 does have some nice features bit just too different for my liking.
The tiles.....confusing. me no like.

You have discovered the usual desktop right?

 

[Anonymous]

is Windows 8 a lot worse than 7? I hear it is very social media friendly

 

[brianinpa]

You have discovered the usual desktop right?

Yeah I stumbled onto it. That makes it more to my liking, but I miss the Window logo in the lower left corner. Tiles seem too much like the apps on my phone.

1060 - it may be social media friendly, but I ain't. Closed my facebook page two years ago and I haven't missed it since then.

 

[Anonymous]

You have discovered the usual desktop right?

Yeah I stumbled onto it. That makes it more to my liking, but I miss the Window logo in the lower left corner. Tiles seem too much like the apps on my phone.

1060 - it may be social media friendly, but I ain't. Closed my facebook page two years ago and I haven't missed it since then.

Ya but this is social media !! I keep my Facebook page just to keep track of what the kids are doing !

 

[AApple]

:shock: But...but...W8 is s'posed to be sooooo much easier to use!??! Are ya''ll sayin MS LIED?!? Say it ain't so!

 

[brianinpa]

It wouldn't be the first time that MS lied. It took a few days for 7 to grow on me when I moved on from XP, so maybe 8 will do the same thing.

 

[mcgovern61]

Windows 8 is a BREEZE! (If you like smashing computers with hammers!!) :smilie_happy:

I tried it and if you don't use the touch screen feature your outta luck! It works like a giant touchscreen phone (which I also hate!) Customize??? NOOOOO your stuck with that stupid screen with giant apps on it! (OK, I am done ranting) :rant:

I have one computer with Windows 7 and it is real nice!! (Wish MS kept it that way).

 

[brianinpa]

I am glad to see that I am not the only one ranting.

 

[Omega Man]

LOL Windows 8, I think it's ugly. Brian, why did your son "fry" his old motherboard? I prefer mine "poached." :hihihi:

~O~

 

[brianinpa]

I am not certain, but I think he may have "fried" it so he could get a new laptop...

 

[bcassel]

Haven't you guys noticed: There's never been a successful, useful, reliable version of Windows that was an even number? Remember windows 2,4, 2000, millenium....

Windows only works in odd numbers

 

[brianinpa]

XP was good (still using it at work) and then Microsoft they blew it with Vista.

 

[AApple]

Haven't you guys noticed: There's never been a successful, useful, reliable version of Windows that was an even number? Remember windows 2,4, 2000, millenium....

Windows only works in odd numbers

I wuz gunna say, it seems like every OTHER version works otay. Vista sucked, 7 is fine, 8 sucks(apparently).
I was happy with 3.5.... :smilie_happy:

 

[brianinpa]

I was happy with 3.5.... :smilie_happy:

I guess if you have been around long enough to mention 3.5 or know what that was you might be getting a little long in the tooth.

 

[scdmarx]

I'm still using XP. Our house computer came with 7 on it and I hate it. I can't find anything I'm looking for until I either forget what I was looking for or just give up. Why oh why does every new version have to have a completely different and unfamiliar face lift! Everything in 7 has been renamed and moved to an unfindable location. I want to just give up on maintenance. We got 4 people who use that computer and nobody wants to clean up after themselves. Then when it gets all packed up with junk and trojans they all start hollering like I owe them a new computer or something. Well, I ain't gonna do it. If these kids need a computer for school they can just go out and get their own. Or learn to take care of the one I provided. Cuz when it's gone, that's all there is. Mine is passworded and nobody else uses it. :rant:

 

[joedrum]

make a stand ron ...i do and they laugh at me ....oh boy payback for our own youth can be bad :Awe: :doh: :rant:

 

[mcgovern61]

Haven't you guys noticed: There's never been a successful, useful, reliable version of Windows that was an even number? Remember windows 2,4, 2000, millenium....Windows only works in odd numbers

Cannot agree completely there. I loved 2000! It was stable, reliable and worked as a workhorse all the way up until MS would no longer support it! I ran my computer (I built it from scratch) for nearly 9 years on WIN 2000 and it never lost speed, opened programs quick and surfed real fast UNTIL.......MS changed to IE 6 and it never ran the same again. :crying: I could not keep using IE 5.5 because websites would not support it and many other browsers did not play nice with WIN 2000 (except Netscape). I was happy.........productive....... and nearly maintenance free until they stopped supporting 2000!