[MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
12-12-2013, 22:47
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
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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.
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I've actually sorted out the problems I was having, so am going to stay on Windows 8.1 for the moment. I have a couple of legitimately bought applications that I need that have activation limits, so I tend not to wipe the OS on my machine that easily.
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03-02-2014, 18:06
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
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03-02-2014, 18:50
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
Being fairly new to windows 8.x how do I get widgets?
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03-02-2014, 18:50
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
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Thank god for third party start buttons having watched that video. I am still using windows 8.1 but in real pc mode not phone mode 
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24-02-2014, 14:46
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
How many times can I use the same copy of Windows on my laptop before I have to purchase a new license for it? All I can find on Google is people moaning about not being able to install on more than one computer at a time, but nothing about how many times a single license can be used on machine.
As far as I can remember, I have installed it three times onto my laptop. Once when it first came out, then went back to 7, then installed 8 again and had to do a repair install last summer when my laptop had a hissy fit. I know with Office in the past there was a limit of 5 installs before you needed a new license.
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24-02-2014, 17:38
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
As often as you like, if for whatever reason it doesn't activate you just phone them up.
There is not a limit on installing Office on the same computer.
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24-02-2014, 17:50
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
Thanks for that, it is what I thought but who knows with MS these days?
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24-02-2014, 18:05
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
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Originally Posted by MarkC1984
Thanks for that, it is what I thought but who knows with MS these days?
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If you own a copy of windows you can continue to install it on the same laptop as often as you like, i am not 100% sure but if you do it several times you just may need to activate over the phone but you don't need to buy a new licence.
A copy of Windows may not active if you change an important component like the HDD, and again in this case you just phone up and explain your situation and you shouldn't need a new licence unless the copy is an OEM copy, but they still may activate it for you.
You generally can't install a copy of windows on more than 1 computer at the same time with the same licence key, i am not sure if that is easy to get away with though.
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24-02-2014, 19:30
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
I was just thinking of buying an external HD for my images and videos, got around 100 GB sat on my laptop taking up room. So idea was to buy an external drive, move all that onto there and then load up W8 on my laptop and start fresh again.
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24-02-2014, 20:05
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
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I was just thinking of buying an external HD for my images and videos, got around 100 GB sat on my laptop taking up room. So idea was to buy an external drive, move all that onto there and then load up W8 on my laptop and start fresh again.
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Sounds like a plan, now if you got s network HD you could wirelessly access it from other places in the house and stream movies if you watch movies on your laptop or TV/games consoles.
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24-02-2014, 20:56
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
Watch on my laptop and xBox quite often, mostly Netflix. I'm just paranoid about my hard drive in the laptop dying on me and then I lose all my music, videos and pictures. Not to mention my CV, and other personal letters/documents on there. Think I need to upload them to a few online cloud servers just in case of a massive failure. Only the vital stuff anyway.
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24-02-2014, 21:51
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
Got all my personal documents saved onto 2 cloud servers, and also on a USB driver heavily encrypted and password protected. So now have at least 3 copies of all my personal documents should the worst happen.
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24-02-2014, 21:51
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
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Got all my personal documents saved onto 2 cloud servers, and also on a USB driver heavily encrypted and password protected. So now have at least 3 copies of all my personal documents should the worst happen.
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Excellent. 
You can always email important documents to yourself don't forget.
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24-02-2014, 21:56
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
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Excellent.
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Yeah thinking about doing that as you could have many email accounts with GIG's of space on each.
IE 10 gig for each VM addy and upto 10 addys, 100 giggies...
Just checked and its 15 GB on VM.
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07-03-2014, 16:44
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Re: [MERGED] Windows 8 discussion
running the new update to 8.1 I like it
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