[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Stuart

Well, after running Windows 8 pretty much since release ,and a fresh install of 8.1 since release, I am going back to Windows 7.

I've never really used the extra features of Windows 8, my external hard drive (A Western Digital one, so not a fly-by-night make) has for a long time been causing the USB Mass Storage driver to crash (this doesn't happen on OSX, so I don't think the drive is at fault) and the machine appears to have lost it's mouse pointer. Uninstalling and reinstalling the Mouse driver and display driver (even replacing the display driver with the one provided by Windows Update) has not cured this.

The only way I can see around this is a full OS install. If I'm going to do that, and I'm getting little advantage from Windows 8 and a few annoyances, I might as well go back to 7.


Sadly, I don't have Windows 7 on DVD or USB, and I don't have any blank DVDs or USBs large enough for Windows 7, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow.

Originally Posted by AdamD

I've tried windows 8 a few times, but it's just not good enough, for me anyway.

I'm still on Windows 7, because it just works.

Originally Posted by Russ

I've always been indecisive (I think....) and to be honest there's nothing on 8 (or 8.1) that has made me feel I couldn't live without it. I've always maintained I prefer the look, feel and theme of 7 and as I tend to format my machine every few months or so I'm thinking a return is due.

Still using Windows 8.1 with startisback for my start menu. I am only running it because microsoft removed my windows 7 key. Having said that 8.1 does work fine.