windows 8

custardy

sunrise27 wrote: »

been reading all about windows 8 and getting pretty scared about the possible big change , i bought an external hard drive earlier in the year so i didn't lose photos etc if my computer went wrong which it did will that still work on a new windows 8 computer ??
and I do all my work on microsoft works se9 will that install on the new computer - I'd like to stick with what I know if possible

its no big change
I ran Vista,then W7 and now have a mix of 7 & 8 PCs

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID, there are plenty of laptops and pcs with Windows 7.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

There are lots of reports online of users woes with windows 8 sufficient for microsoft to start work on what is rumoured to be windows blue as an anaul update to stop users leaving ms for apple and linux plus stable versions of windows ie xp and windows 7.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

just cos computer makers are flogging windows 8 dont mean you should believe them, after all they all flogged vista en masse and look what a dogsmess they made of peoples computers?

penrhyn

sunrise27 wrote: »

I'm going from windows vista to windows 8 so might be a bit of a shock to the system lol I organise all my different bits and pieces into different folders on the desktop at the moment can you still do that with windows 8 but where do you put them as the desktop bit is full of tiles ???

The screen full of tiles is the Start screen. One of the tiles takes you back to the desktop, which is where most if not all your applications continue to run.

prowla

The screen full of pastel tiles is really the start menu made into a separate screen to suit a mobile phone.

Microsoft have decided that your PC is a big mobile phone, and that it will enrich the users experience by (a) flipping into a kindergarten display of touch panels rather than just having a pop-up menu, and (b) hiding some other things you want to do behind some obscure mouse movements.

(Somebody suggested having a 2nd monitor to display the start screen - what a great idea; a whole monitor for the start menu!)

Also, not all applications are multi-tasking, for instance opening a PDF file opens a non-windowed PDF viewer that takes up the whole screen.

Windows 8 is worse than Vista. (I am half of the opinion that they must have deliberately made it that bad.)

macman

As above, only the W8 Start screen is radically different.
Almost any upgrade is better than Vista though.
Id just go up to W7 though, which will allow you to do an 'in place' upgrade. W8 from Vista will require a clean install.
Your back up drive will work fine with either W7 or W8.
It really is time to ditch MS Works, it's obsolete and incompatible with almost anything else. You can get Libre Office for free if you don't want to pay for MS Office.

someonesgottosayit

I went from 32bit win7 to 64bit win8, I just saved all my personal stuff (photos etc) and copied to win8. Just ensure you can get working drivers for stuff like printers.

Added a start button, got rid of the UI and win8 looks exactly like win7 now.

Do a search for "avast BSOD" and you'll see the problem with it.

I also tend to do the grandfather - father - son backup method, so have 3 hard-drives each with the same OS on it. Currently one has my old win7 on it just in case.

Johnmcl7

sunrise27 wrote: »

I'm going from windows vista to windows 8 so might be a bit of a shock to the system lol I organise all my different bits and pieces into different folders on the desktop at the moment can you still do that with windows 8 but where do you put them as the desktop bit is full of tiles ???

Windows 8 still has a desktop interface almost identical to Windows 7, you just click the desktop tile (or press Windows + D) to take you to it.

John

Johnmcl7

prowla wrote: »

The screen full of pastel tiles is really the start menu made into a separate screen to suit a mobile phone.

Microsoft have decided that your PC is a big mobile phone, and that it will enrich the users experience by (a) flipping into a kindergarten display of touch panels rather than just having a pop-up menu, and (b) hiding some other things you want to do behind some obscure mouse movements.

(Somebody suggested having a 2nd monitor to display the start screen - what a great idea; a whole monitor for the start menu!)

Also, not all applications are multi-tasking, for instance opening a PDF file opens a non-windowed PDF viewer that takes up the whole screen.

Windows 8 is worse than Vista. (I am half of the opinion that they must have deliberately made it that bad.)

You don't have to use any of that if you don't want to, the machine can boot straight into the desktop mode and you can completely ignore the tile mode. Windows 8 is not worse than Vista (although I never had any problems with a variety of Vista installs, the main problem was the perception of it rather than the OS itself), people seem to be getting hung up on the modern UI and completely ignoring the fairly wide range of improvements it makes particularly in regards to performance improvements.

John