Well that didn't last long
Windows 8 was really growing on me and I was happy with the purchase I made on Friday.....until this morning.
Went to open Chrome and got no response, went into task manager to shut "chrome.exe" down got an "access denied" error so I re-started via the power options.
Since then (about 4 hours ago) it has been stuck in a boot loop which consists of the following steps
1) Attempt to boot for about 2 minutes
2) Show a blue screen with a message like "There was a problem and your computer needs to re-start" for < 1 second i.e. so short that I can't actually read the message no matter how often I try.
3) Restart goes into Preparing Automatic Repair mode which appears to do nothing for about 2 minutes
4) then a blank sceen appears for about 1 minute
5) back to step 1
I guess I'll try and get my £25 back from Microsoft and throw a copy of Ubuntu on which is a shame as I really liked a lot about Windows 8 and it made a huge difference to my laptop's power consumption.