Win8 upgrade experience

Thanks Bill,
Too late for that one,
I'm not worried about it though,
I hate when people drop vague suggestions and disappear
Cheers.

At this particular moment 8.1 is driving me a little batty

How the heck do you turn off tool tip ?
The giant freaking corner arrow ?

I think you just click on it. I'm not sure but I got a tip, then another then no more.

I understand, I was there not too long ago

I'm only ahead of you by 24-36 hours, but know ye this.... it gets better once you start clicking things and moving the apps out of your way. Right click everything.

Tune off live tiles - they waste bandwidth

uninstall the crap apps - they keep coming back on my sys - I have to figure that out soon or ..... or .... why I oughta....

Tip: When you're in the tiled Start or Apps, use the mouse wheel to scroll left or right.

Use the WinKey button to switch between Tiled GUI and Desktop


Hmmmm, just tried to uninstall an app - it took me to Pgms & Feats, but there is no entry. Looked again and realized it's a portable app - there is no install. It's just a shortcut to the pgm.

Bill what's a VUP version and what is ESD ISO?
Do you have the link to the Win 8 forums tutorial?

Slartybart said:

Thanks David, I was going to try and find the post you made - saved me from looking for it.

The tuts on Win8 were written by some guy named Brink and they are very good as usual. I took the long road just for experience.

Clean Install - Windows 8

Clean Install with Windows 8 Upgrade

Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 ISO - Download or Create
Read Option Three a few times.
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Britton30 said:

Bill what's a VUP version and what is ESD ISO?
Do you have the link to the Win 8 forums tutorial?

Gary, I don't have a clue what those things mean. They were on the packaging and in the tutorial so I was hoping someone who knew might clue me in.

In the last tut I linked SIW wrote a tool to manipultate the ESD-ISO in order to create a "normal" install media. I read OPTION THREE a few times, but decided "what the heck".

The three links above are fairly standard - Mike and David link some others up near the top of the thread.
I think the key is to interrupt the install either at the very beginning or before 100%. Why? Again, I don't know.

Once I'm more comfortable with Win8, I might do this again - the right way.

Did 8.1 installed them all back

I made a big mistake and used a outlook.com email address not knowing that was going to be my login
Already switched to a local account that took away 6-7 annoying app right there,
Account settings open my email account settings very weird adventure so far,

Starting to settle down a bit no error switching to a local account is the only good thing so far,
win-8.1 start thing is a two function waist desktop or metro gezz that's the next annoying thing to go,

Gav !

You're making me laugh - yes it is / was a weird trip down some rabbit hole.

To be honest, I don't think the learning curve will be as bad as going from Vista to Win7 - that too was a long strange trip. Having a tablet to play with makes it easier to understand a little, not that I like the way tablets work either. I keep trying to open the other "tab". Oh well, back to the future!

I had vista for less than 30 days/ win-7 was a joy that needed Zero tweaking,
8 is already more complicated,
But yes life goes on I'm on 8 now but that was just to kill the outlook.com connection,
Who knew what a local account was

The real bummer is Onedrive is stuck in win-8.1 forever,
It took 10 minutes to find the freaking snipping tool

Thanks Derek, I was lazy.

My turn!
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