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Windows 8.1
broadstairs:
My wife decided she wanted her own laptop so we bought an HP one today and it came with W8.1. I am just sitting here in total disbelief as whet an awful system this is, and as for all the c**p it has installed beggars belief. The setup phase is so condescending in its wording and expects you to use MS cloud stuff eventually allowing a local account when you can get past the MS stuff. You wold not believe the absolutely awful desktop backdrop it has chosen, looks like broken glass. It also expects you to use IE by default - and there's me thinking the EU put a stop to that.
As for the laptop itself I have no dea how good or bad it is as I've sat here for some 10 minutes while it set itself up.
Also strange to say there is no MS COA on it either so how do I knkow I have a valid copy of W8.1?
Oh well now to strip it of W8.1 and go back to W7 at least there is some sanity in that.
Stuart
HPsauce:
Did all the criticism of W8 over the last year or so pass you by? :-X
Try installing Classic Shell before you scrap it. ;)
There are actually quite a lot of improvements under the skin (much as I loathe the new UI) and it can be quite useable. :graduate:
My wife's PC has W8.1+CS and she barely noticed the switch from XP. :lol:
broadstairs:
No I knew all about it but did not realise just how bad it is. If it were mine it would have Fedora Linux installed in a heartbeat. I just dont see the need for all the apps rubbish it has, or why IE is the default browser - I should not be forced to even have it installed in my view. All my wife does is a bit of email, web browsing and the odd document (Xmas card lists etc).
Does the classic shell allow you to turn off those goddamn tiles?
Stuart
I've just discovered my product key is embedded in the BIOS and so I presume I cannot use it to install 8.1 on another PC so if this PC dies I have a useless W8.1 license!
Also all the HP Recovery Manager has managed so far is to create a coaster and not any recovery DVDs.
HPsauce:
You didn't look far did you. ;) Try the sticky in this very section: http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=11931.0
broadstairs:
--- Quote from: HPsauce on June 28, 2014, 11:19:49 PM ---You didn't look far did you. ;) Try the sticky in this very section: http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=11931.0
--- End quote ---
I had read that before but not today. I'd still prefer the tiles to be gone completely but for now I've decided to install Classic Shell and yes it is an absolutely essential improvement.
One major gripe is that the HP Recovery Manager so far has not managed to create any recovery disks, only 3 beer mats. On looking into this there is a huge issue with doing this reported on the HP Support forums, even using a 32GB USB stick is not guaranteed to work but at least that does not mean it cannot be re-used like DVD+Rs. HP have known about this for ages and it seems done nothing but blame users blank DVDs or the DVD drive itself. This is also why for now I have stuck with 8.1 despite how much I despise it - Linux is soooooo much better ;) ;) I need those disks in case we ever want to pass on or sell the PC.
One minor gripe is that using the trackpad the 2-finger scroll to my mind is counter-intuitive since it works in the opposite direction to scroll when compared with a 1-finger scroll on the RH side of the trackpad.
Stuart
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