Win8 upgrade experience

Seems like another silly question but how do you get it to your flash media drag it to the device ?

I can't remember off the top of my head exactly how it works, but that tool will let you select the ISO from wherever you saved it.

Boozad said:

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The Start screen does nothing for me whatsoever, I don't really do apps so I have no need to go there. I bought a copy of Office 2013 for £9 through the HUP and installed that, so my Outlook account is tied into that while my ISP email account is in Office 2010 on Windows 7. It's a bit like a Jekyll & Hyde install, I can boot where I want depending on what mood I'm in.
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enquiring minds want to know.

That's the thing tough isn't it. It's a mindset.

Think of Start as the Start menu - forget about apps and whatnot. Right click to remove what you don't want to see - or uninstall the buggers.

Perhaps more to the point - think of Start as pin to start menu (that little area above all programs on the start menu in Win7). Win8 just gives you a really big canvas to place all of your favorite programs (almost said apps - oops). I suppose most people just let the start menu get populated when a pgm is used. I turned that (recent pgms) off in Win7 and put what I wanted there in the order I waned them to appear (yeah, I know..... I'm ....)

I think once people see Start as the start menu, it will become more useful to them - 8.1 added search, power and user switching there (bugged me that 8 didn't have it prominently on view).

edit: If you look at my screen shot, you'll see mostly familiar pgms, only a few apps that I want to experiment with to know what they offer.

Okay it came up with the option to transfer to the flash drive

ThrashZone said:

Seems like another silly question but how do you get it to your flash media drag it to the device ?

You'll select DVD or USB and it does the work. I put it on DVD, Gavin put it on USB.

edit: never fails, I type too slow! I see you found the answer. Cool.

LOL yea Bill you can keep that metro screen buddy

Slartybart said:

Boozad said:

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The Start screen does nothing for me whatsoever, I don't really do apps so I have no need to go there. I bought a copy of Office 2013 for £9 through the HUP and installed that, so my Outlook account is tied into that while my ISP email account is in Office 2010 on Windows 7. It's a bit like a Jekyll & Hyde install, I can boot where I want depending on what mood I'm in.
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enquiring minds want to know.

That's the thing tough isn't it. It's a mindset.

Think of Start as the Start menu - forget about apps and whatnot. Right click to remove what you don't want to see - or uninstall the buggers.

Perhaps more to the point - think of Start as pin to start menu (that little area above all programs on the start menu in Win7). Win8 just gives you a really big canvas to place all of your favorite programs (almost said apps - oops). I suppose most people just let the start menu get populated when a pgm is used. I turned that (recent pgms) off in Win7 and put what I wanted there in the order I waned them to appear (yeah, I know..... I'm ....)

I think once people see Start as the start menu, it will become more useful to them - 8.1 added search, power and user switching there (bugged me that 8 didn't have it prominently on view).

edit: If you look at my screen shot, you'll see mostly familiar pgms, only a few apps that I want to experiment with to know what they offer.

I get what you mean, I just use Start8 to have the standard Start menu. I do launch a fair few programs from there, and sometimes I don't want to minimize Firefox, switch to Metro to launch the program then switch back again after taking a screenshot or using the Snipping Tool. To me it's more of an inconvenience to be honest.

ThrashZone said:

Okay it came up with the option to transfer to the flash drive

I believe the partition was also listed not sure if I should of selected it instead ?

Start8 is that the not freebie Gav ?

ThrashZone said:

Start8 is that the not freebie Gav ?

Yeah it's about £3.50. Or $4.99 in Monopoly money.

Well worth it though.