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Jim I am personally quite paranoid especially with money and I couldn't do without my Safe money with KISS hence my still wanting it.
The WMP issue well I don't know apart from that fix by Dave and Brink it is a mystery and must have come over with the original 7 set up because it has only music that I would have put on.
I only tried 8 really out of curiosity and the upgrade because it was cheap and the preview was like some spy story trying to get it.
Mart the speed I think a lot of it is cos I use a fair bit of the optimisation tutorial settings plus that SanDisk is definitely quicker with 8 than 7 with that (7) it was like watching doggy do doos go white in the sun waiting for it to do much at all. Anyway now it beats my Ivy Bridge set up by at least 12 seconds into the boot screen and that old girl is really my main machine the Sandy lags by another 2 seconds to that.
Personally I am not into all that touch screen rubbish I cannot see the point and beside s it is a dirty habit as is I suppose the KB and mouse is but at least I don't have to see through the grot on them.
Siggy I am sorry for you because it seems like you have been caught with a sneaky manufacturing ploy with that SSD that is in my book - wrong and means if it goes bung for example you have to have that drive or nothing. Pretty unethical practice but trouble is - legal
8 to me I think M$ has gone away from the easy to use system that 7 is and tried to haul in the yuppy population with fancy features like touch screen stuff. Thankfully I only have it on my main laptop and my 7 is a drive swap away to get 7 back on - thank heaven for cloning