pinkteddyx64 wrote:bekbok wrote:Yep, guys have definite advantages.
Like being the best slaves!
That's just mean.
pinkteddyx64 wrote:bekbok wrote:Yep, guys have definite advantages.
Like being the best slaves!
pinkteddyx64 wrote:Will you be upgrading to that version of Windows that has a start menu in it when it is released?bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:That's the absolute bare minimum I can tolerate.Andy98 wrote:I'm for 07
Make sure it has SP2 installed onto it so that you can save your work as .pdf without any extra add-ons.
07 is reasonable
I have 2010 installed
2003 is too old
2013 is to do with those shitty tile interface crap garbage "Windows 8".
2013 is pretty similar to 2010 really. I don't really like the metro interface and just stick to the desktop bit, that's basically windows 7.
Here is what it will look like, in case you weren't aware:
spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:Will you be upgrading to that version of Windows that has a start menu in it when it is released?bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:That's the absolute bare minimum I can tolerate.Andy98 wrote:I'm for 07
Make sure it has SP2 installed onto it so that you can save your work as .pdf without any extra add-ons.
07 is reasonable
I have 2010 installed
2003 is too old
2013 is to do with those shitty tile interface crap garbage "Windows 8".
2013 is pretty similar to 2010 really. I don't really like the metro interface and just stick to the desktop bit, that's basically windows 7.
Here is what it will look like, in case you weren't aware:
I'd shove that onto our windows 8.1 machine, if it was free. Absolutely fed up of those nasty duplo tiles!]
I'm staying with windows 7 on my laptop - if it ain't broke don't fix it.
bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:Will you be upgrading to that version of Windows that has a start menu in it when it is released?bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:That's the absolute bare minimum I can tolerate.Andy98 wrote:I'm for 07
Make sure it has SP2 installed onto it so that you can save your work as .pdf without any extra add-ons.
07 is reasonable
I have 2010 installed
2003 is too old
2013 is to do with those shitty tile interface crap garbage "Windows 8".
2013 is pretty similar to 2010 really. I don't really like the metro interface and just stick to the desktop bit, that's basically windows 7.
Here is what it will look like, in case you weren't aware:
I'd shove that onto our windows 8.1 machine, if it was free. Absolutely fed up of those nasty duplo tiles!]
I'm staying with windows 7 on my laptop - if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Exactly my thoughts, I wanted 7 on my laptop, but it came with 8, which I'm dealing with. If it's free, get it, if not, I won't as I wont be able to afford it.
pinkteddyx64 wrote:Because you are a student, you won't have to save up too much, as Microsoft offer huge discounts to students on things like Office and Windows if you are from America, Canada, Britain or Australia!
spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:Will you be upgrading to that version of Windows that has a start menu in it when it is released?bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:That's the absolute bare minimum I can tolerate.Andy98 wrote:I'm for 07
Make sure it has SP2 installed onto it so that you can save your work as .pdf without any extra add-ons.
07 is reasonable
I have 2010 installed
2003 is too old
2013 is to do with those shitty tile interface crap garbage "Windows 8".
2013 is pretty similar to 2010 really. I don't really like the metro interface and just stick to the desktop bit, that's basically windows 7.
Here is what it will look like, in case you weren't aware:
I'd shove that onto our windows 8.1 machine, if it was free. Absolutely fed up of those nasty duplo tiles!]
I'm staying with windows 7 on my laptop - if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Exactly my thoughts, I wanted 7 on my laptop, but it came with 8, which I'm dealing with. If it's free, get it, if not, I won't as I wont be able to afford it.
If the only thing that was available was 8 (for my laptop) then I'd have bought a windows 7 disc, at additional cost, and dual booted it.
bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:Will you be upgrading to that version of Windows that has a start menu in it when it is released?bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:That's the absolute bare minimum I can tolerate.Andy98 wrote:I'm for 07
Make sure it has SP2 installed onto it so that you can save your work as .pdf without any extra add-ons.
07 is reasonable
I have 2010 installed
2003 is too old
2013 is to do with those shitty tile interface crap garbage "Windows 8".
2013 is pretty similar to 2010 really. I don't really like the metro interface and just stick to the desktop bit, that's basically windows 7.
Here is what it will look like, in case you weren't aware:
I'd shove that onto our windows 8.1 machine, if it was free. Absolutely fed up of those nasty duplo tiles!]
I'm staying with windows 7 on my laptop - if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Exactly my thoughts, I wanted 7 on my laptop, but it came with 8, which I'm dealing with. If it's free, get it, if not, I won't as I wont be able to afford it.
If the only thing that was available was 8 (for my laptop) then I'd have bought a windows 7 disc, at additional cost, and dual booted it.
I've considered switching back to 7 as well as doing a linux dual boot.
spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:Will you be upgrading to that version of Windows that has a start menu in it when it is released?bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:That's the absolute bare minimum I can tolerate.Andy98 wrote:I'm for 07
Make sure it has SP2 installed onto it so that you can save your work as .pdf without any extra add-ons.
07 is reasonable
I have 2010 installed
2003 is too old
2013 is to do with those shitty tile interface crap garbage "Windows 8".
2013 is pretty similar to 2010 really. I don't really like the metro interface and just stick to the desktop bit, that's basically windows 7.
Here is what it will look like, in case you weren't aware:
I'd shove that onto our windows 8.1 machine, if it was free. Absolutely fed up of those nasty duplo tiles!]
I'm staying with windows 7 on my laptop - if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Exactly my thoughts, I wanted 7 on my laptop, but it came with 8, which I'm dealing with. If it's free, get it, if not, I won't as I wont be able to afford it.
If the only thing that was available was 8 (for my laptop) then I'd have bought a windows 7 disc, at additional cost, and dual booted it.
I've considered switching back to 7 as well as doing a linux dual boot.
I've thought about a Windows 7/Linux (Ubuntu) dual boot as well.
If I had a nice big HDD (at least 1TB, preferably 2TB) I'd have windows 7 as my main OS but also triple boot it with Windows XP (needed for legacy programs) and either one of Linux or Windows Duplo.
pinkteddyx64 wrote:I'm actually now allergic to anything less than Windows 7!
pinkteddyx64 wrote:I'm actually now allergic to anything less than Windows 7!
bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:Will you be upgrading to that version of Windows that has a start menu in it when it is released?bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:That's the absolute bare minimum I can tolerate.Andy98 wrote:I'm for 07
Make sure it has SP2 installed onto it so that you can save your work as .pdf without any extra add-ons.
07 is reasonable
I have 2010 installed
2003 is too old
2013 is to do with those shitty tile interface crap garbage "Windows 8".
2013 is pretty similar to 2010 really. I don't really like the metro interface and just stick to the desktop bit, that's basically windows 7.
Here is what it will look like, in case you weren't aware:
I'd shove that onto our windows 8.1 machine, if it was free. Absolutely fed up of those nasty duplo tiles!]
I'm staying with windows 7 on my laptop - if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Exactly my thoughts, I wanted 7 on my laptop, but it came with 8, which I'm dealing with. If it's free, get it, if not, I won't as I wont be able to afford it.
If the only thing that was available was 8 (for my laptop) then I'd have bought a windows 7 disc, at additional cost, and dual booted it.
I've considered switching back to 7 as well as doing a linux dual boot.
I've thought about a Windows 7/Linux (Ubuntu) dual boot as well.
If I had a nice big HDD (at least 1TB, preferably 2TB) I'd have windows 7 as my main OS but also triple boot it with Windows XP (needed for legacy programs) and either one of Linux or Windows Duplo.
One of the reasons why I haven't is cause I'm scared of messing up my laptop. I have a big HDD though, 1TB which is nice.
spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:Will you be upgrading to that version of Windows that has a start menu in it when it is released?bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:That's the absolute bare minimum I can tolerate.Andy98 wrote:I'm for 07
Make sure it has SP2 installed onto it so that you can save your work as .pdf without any extra add-ons.
07 is reasonable
I have 2010 installed
2003 is too old
2013 is to do with those shitty tile interface crap garbage "Windows 8".
2013 is pretty similar to 2010 really. I don't really like the metro interface and just stick to the desktop bit, that's basically windows 7.
Here is what it will look like, in case you weren't aware:
I'd shove that onto our windows 8.1 machine, if it was free. Absolutely fed up of those nasty duplo tiles!]
I'm staying with windows 7 on my laptop - if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Exactly my thoughts, I wanted 7 on my laptop, but it came with 8, which I'm dealing with. If it's free, get it, if not, I won't as I wont be able to afford it.
If the only thing that was available was 8 (for my laptop) then I'd have bought a windows 7 disc, at additional cost, and dual booted it.
I've considered switching back to 7 as well as doing a linux dual boot.
I've thought about a Windows 7/Linux (Ubuntu) dual boot as well.
If I had a nice big HDD (at least 1TB, preferably 2TB) I'd have windows 7 as my main OS but also triple boot it with Windows XP (needed for legacy programs) and either one of Linux or Windows Duplo.
One of the reasons why I haven't is cause I'm scared of messing up my laptop. I have a big HDD though, 1TB which is nice.
That's good to hear. My hard drive is only 500GB which isn't really suitable for dual booting.
Have you still got your windows disks? If so that is good, as you could reinstall your O\S if anything went wrong.
I suppose a back up would be the best.
bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:Will you be upgrading to that version of Windows that has a start menu in it when it is released?bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:That's the absolute bare minimum I can tolerate.Andy98 wrote:I'm for 07
Make sure it has SP2 installed onto it so that you can save your work as .pdf without any extra add-ons.
07 is reasonable
I have 2010 installed
2003 is too old
2013 is to do with those shitty tile interface crap garbage "Windows 8".
2013 is pretty similar to 2010 really. I don't really like the metro interface and just stick to the desktop bit, that's basically windows 7.
Here is what it will look like, in case you weren't aware:
I'd shove that onto our windows 8.1 machine, if it was free. Absolutely fed up of those nasty duplo tiles!]
I'm staying with windows 7 on my laptop - if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Exactly my thoughts, I wanted 7 on my laptop, but it came with 8, which I'm dealing with. If it's free, get it, if not, I won't as I wont be able to afford it.
If the only thing that was available was 8 (for my laptop) then I'd have bought a windows 7 disc, at additional cost, and dual booted it.
I've considered switching back to 7 as well as doing a linux dual boot.
I've thought about a Windows 7/Linux (Ubuntu) dual boot as well.
If I had a nice big HDD (at least 1TB, preferably 2TB) I'd have windows 7 as my main OS but also triple boot it with Windows XP (needed for legacy programs) and either one of Linux or Windows Duplo.
One of the reasons why I haven't is cause I'm scared of messing up my laptop. I have a big HDD though, 1TB which is nice.
That's good to hear. My hard drive is only 500GB which isn't really suitable for dual booting.
Have you still got your windows disks? If so that is good, as you could reinstall your O\S if anything went wrong.
I suppose a back up would be the best.
I didn't get any with my laptop.
I do have an external hard drive for backing up though which is good.
spotify95 wrote:I didn't get any discs either. One must therefore assume it is on a partition somewhere.
I don't know how to work with partitions though!
I think I will one day, buy an external hard drive, for backing up purposes. Then reinstall windows 7, as some parts won't work (most notably System restore).
bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:I didn't get any discs either. One must therefore assume it is on a partition somewhere.
I don't know how to work with partitions though!
I think I will one day, buy an external hard drive, for backing up purposes. Then reinstall windows 7, as some parts won't work (most notably System restore).
I have one pre-done I can see called 'recovery'
Same here, friends that were considering it were talking about doing it on a partition.
I got one and it's really useful, it broke though, but they replaced it which was good.
My laptop has only the one partition, and it's a 256 GB partition on a 256 GB Sandisk SSD and has Windows 8.1 on it. I did use Windows 7 Ultimate up until I replaced the hard disk with the current SSD back in March, and then I decided it would be a good time to start using Windows 8.1 on my laptop.spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:I didn't get any discs either. One must therefore assume it is on a partition somewhere.
I don't know how to work with partitions though!
I think I will one day, buy an external hard drive, for backing up purposes. Then reinstall windows 7, as some parts won't work (most notably System restore).
I have one pre-done I can see called 'recovery'
Same here, friends that were considering it were talking about doing it on a partition.
I got one and it's really useful, it broke though, but they replaced it which was good.
My computer just has the Local Disk (C:\). However, my parents laptop has Local Disk (C:\), and Recovery (D:\). So I know that laptop is partitioned.
I don't know about my laptop though, where the recovery files are. Why couldn't they just give OS disks out, like they used to?
Only difference between the two laptops is that mine runs Windows 7 and my parents' runs Windows Duplo - will that have a significant difference?
One day I will probably get an external hard drive. Though lets hope it isn't faulty!
pinkteddyx64 wrote:My laptop has only the one partition, and it's a 256 GB partition on a 256 GB Sandisk SSD and has Windows 8.1 on it. I did use Windows 7 Ultimate up until I replaced the hard disk with the current SSD back in March, and then I decided it would be a good time to start using Windows 8.1 on my laptop.spotify95 wrote:bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:I didn't get any discs either. One must therefore assume it is on a partition somewhere.
I don't know how to work with partitions though!
I think I will one day, buy an external hard drive, for backing up purposes. Then reinstall windows 7, as some parts won't work (most notably System restore).
I have one pre-done I can see called 'recovery'
Same here, friends that were considering it were talking about doing it on a partition.
I got one and it's really useful, it broke though, but they replaced it which was good.
My computer just has the Local Disk (C:\). However, my parents laptop has Local Disk (C:\), and Recovery (D:\). So I know that laptop is partitioned.
I don't know about my laptop though, where the recovery files are. Why couldn't they just give OS disks out, like they used to?
Only difference between the two laptops is that mine runs Windows 7 and my parents' runs Windows Duplo - will that have a significant difference?
One day I will probably get an external hard drive. Though lets hope it isn't faulty!
pinkteddyx64 wrote:Will you be upgrading to that version of Windows that has a start menu in it when it is released?bekbok wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:That's the absolute bare minimum I can tolerate.Andy98 wrote:I'm for 07
Make sure it has SP2 installed onto it so that you can save your work as .pdf without any extra add-ons.
07 is reasonable
I have 2010 installed
2003 is too old
2013 is to do with those shitty tile interface crap garbage "Windows 8".
2013 is pretty similar to 2010 really. I don't really like the metro interface and just stick to the desktop bit, that's basically windows 7.
Here is what it will look like, in case you weren't aware:
Andy98 wrote:I retract my earlier comment - Office 365 is now my favourite
Andy98 wrote:I retract my earlier comment - Office 365 is now my favourite
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