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Thread ID: 135851	2013-12-18 19:11:00	In praise of Win 8.1.	Bryan (147)	Press F1

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1362997	2013-12-18 19:11:00	I was a sceptic re Win8.1 until I took the time to sit down and try it out. Other than a little help from Wainuitech for the creation of shortcuts I soon had it sussed. In about 15 minutes of getting to grips with the OS I would say that I have moved on from WIN7. There are one or two programs that are better suited to WIN7 that I will occasionally visit (both OS are on the one PC which is 64bit). For me, WIN 8.1 will rule from now on. I'm looking forward to learning more but I do not think I will have the troubles I thought I might! I prefer to use the start desktop like in Win7 as I think that the charms are more for touch screens, they just don't suit me, otherwise no problems. So for all the doubters, bite the bullet. If I can do it surely you can too! There are lots of help you can use by typing in a question on Google - a big help.	Bryan (147)
1362998	2013-12-18 19:24:00	I agree. Like Wainui has preached it is remarkably easy to set up how you want it to be. Google provides a quick answer to any perceived problem with it. I would not go back at this time and with the exception of the few that need to use some specialised programs which cannot run on Win8.1 I cannot see why anyone would want to.	CliveM (6007)
1362999	2013-12-18 19:31:00	The best thing about Windows 8.1 is that it keeps your settings synchronised as well :D	pcuser42 (130)
1363000	2013-12-22 06:26:00	No I've decided the best thing about windows 8 is it's awesome ease of hardware changes. I just swapped motherboards between two PC's as I'm going to sell one of my machines and wanted to keep the best parts of both. One's an Asrock B75 board and the other an Asus H77 so different chipsets, plus I swapped to a different graphics card as well. Guess what happens when you boot up off the old install of windows belonging to the other board?? nothing it just detects new hardware and starts as usual. A quick visit to the activation screen, put in the key that belongs to that board, windows reactivates and you carry on as if nothing has changed.	dugimodo (138)
1363001	2013-12-22 06:38:00	No I've decided the best thing about windows 8 is it's awesome ease of hardware changes. And set ups as well - Windows 8 is the first version of Windows able to automatically detect and be able to print to our networked printer straight after a clean install. :D (basic drivers of course, but they work)	pcuser42 (130)
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