hairlessupportmonkey
IS-IT--Management
As an IT professional its important for me to keep abreast of what's new and get up to speed with it.
Windows 8 has been no exception. I grabbed various beta copies and then my full copy off my Technet account. I tried it on various platforms and first impressions as with many users was WTF?
I persevered, growing to like its speed of boot up and interface. I purchased Start8 because the modern UI just didnt agree with me or anyone else at home who used it. People like new, but they dont like change, and especially when its radical and also told that you CAN NOT boot to a desktop. Again, WTF?
I continued, and tried the media centre add-on on my media centre. What a piss take. Reverted to Win 7 within 10 mins of finishing Win 8 configuration.
My PC at home is no slouch and fairly recent hardware, Asus P8P67 Pro Mobo, Core i7-2600K, 16GB Ram, 250GB OCX Vertex 4 SSD, ATI HD7870 Gfx etc, etc..... Win 8 was singing along, until odd things started occuring.
Firstly, the condescending pale blue screen of death, system file corruptions, constantly rebooting to repair and recovery which had NO affect and could NEVER repair start up errors, lost boot loaders, explorer crashing all the time, and so on.
I rebuilt Win 8 three times. with the same issues over and over. All the time, I still had my Win 7 installed on a conventional HDD on the same hardware working without a hitch.
I gave up, backed my stuff up and rebuild Win 7 onto my SSD, and it sits so much better than windows 8. Its not flaky at all.
Now, I have no real evidence that Windows 8 is truly at fault. perhaps some driver related? Who knows, but one thing is for sure, Windows 8 IS the Windows ME of the 21st Century
ACSS - SME
General Geek
Windows 8 has been no exception. I grabbed various beta copies and then my full copy off my Technet account. I tried it on various platforms and first impressions as with many users was WTF?
I persevered, growing to like its speed of boot up and interface. I purchased Start8 because the modern UI just didnt agree with me or anyone else at home who used it. People like new, but they dont like change, and especially when its radical and also told that you CAN NOT boot to a desktop. Again, WTF?
I continued, and tried the media centre add-on on my media centre. What a piss take. Reverted to Win 7 within 10 mins of finishing Win 8 configuration.
My PC at home is no slouch and fairly recent hardware, Asus P8P67 Pro Mobo, Core i7-2600K, 16GB Ram, 250GB OCX Vertex 4 SSD, ATI HD7870 Gfx etc, etc..... Win 8 was singing along, until odd things started occuring.
Firstly, the condescending pale blue screen of death, system file corruptions, constantly rebooting to repair and recovery which had NO affect and could NEVER repair start up errors, lost boot loaders, explorer crashing all the time, and so on.
I rebuilt Win 8 three times. with the same issues over and over. All the time, I still had my Win 7 installed on a conventional HDD on the same hardware working without a hitch.
I gave up, backed my stuff up and rebuild Win 7 onto my SSD, and it sits so much better than windows 8. Its not flaky at all.
Now, I have no real evidence that Windows 8 is truly at fault. perhaps some driver related? Who knows, but one thing is for sure, Windows 8 IS the Windows ME of the 21st Century
ACSS - SME
General Geek