Windows 8

It can happen. Make sure you don't have proggies running while it's updating and that you have a stable connection. Someday you'll find it, a stable connection, the lovers, the dreamers...

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be a case on The First 48

Was it a cheap laptop? Sometimes they have a lot of extra bloatware that gets in the way. My wife's laptop (which came down to about $250 after a sale, a display unit discount, and a manager's discount because it had some muck stuck to the lid and it was from the previous model rotation) had so much bloatware on it that it could barely run. I ran the included Toshiba system restore utility which had an option to do a factory install without all of the extra crap, just the drivers and software needed to run the laptop's hardware features, rather than extra "free" crapware. Thing runs like a champ now.

I dont get the point of all the bloatwear any way, do the companies play to have those programs pre-installed?

He wasn't cheap, no... and nothing should have been running, because I'd just shut him down. Ah well. Hopefully this was a one off.

Be not afraid...

Imca, many companies put their own media players or their own versions of popular software on laptops. Sony, HP/Compaq, and most of the major PC makers put bloatware on laptops so as to: pester you when you play movies, nag you with ads, track your IE browsing habits and some actually duplicate things like windows update.

Most printer makers toss in bloatware with their drivers because they hate their user base. Lexmark and HP have decent scanner/OCR apps, but they are kinda clunky.

edited 19th Sep '13 12:29:53 AM by TairaMai

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be a case on The First 48

This isn't bloatware, it's shovelware. Bloatware is when any program turns out to be a resource-hogging snail.

Of course, since shovelware is usually low-quality, it can very well be bloatware too.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Pretty much the same thing when it's Sony or HP.

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be a case on The First 48

Isn't shovelware something extremely low quality made in a short time span? Most of the pre installed programs are subjective to that regard.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.

I have never had any issues with a Sony.

But then agian I always buy topshelf computers.

I have a Sony that cost about $800 that I bought at the beginning of August. I have to say that Windows 8 isn't that bad. You can use the desktop mode and it's basically like having Windows 7. But I don't like the fact that it opens files like music and photos in the weird start menu options way.

OK now Windows 8 is giving me a huge problem.

Microsoft removed Ad Hoc connections for some reason. My dorm only has ethernet. I need to use my laptop as a router for my 3DS and phone.

Only option google points to Connectify.

Connectify free version turns off wi-fi every hour unless you give them money.

FFS Microsoft.

Anyone help?

Dumbo

• You could buy a cheap wi-fi router.

• link to MS suport page.

• more on another MS page:

No your not the only one hearing the Ironside loop from Kill Bill...

edited 14th Oct '13 8:43:58 AM by TairaMai

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be a case on The First 48

so I got windows 8 and blugh

there's one thing that nobody talks about and that's the fact that some programs (music, winrar, PICTURES) seem to be in their own little world; it's inconvenient as hell. They have their own screen and it's absolutely unnecessary. I dread having to listen to music through Xbox Music and thus I've only used it four times within a two month period.

"we have to get vaccines against hunger"

I hear you brother

The Win8 PDF reader is a massive crock of shit. In it's own claustrophobic screen, and you can only read one at a time. Which, if, like me, your work involves a lot of PDF files of case reports etc, is really fucking annoying.

edited 16th Oct '13 6:00:37 AM by Achaemenid

Schild und Schwert der Partei

What about adobe or some other PDF reader?

Balmer needs to go away...far away and take some of the other marketing a-holes with him.

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be a case on The First 48

That's what I did in the end, and Windows Defender went batshit. Which is suspicious...

Schild und Schwert der Partei

another thing that pisses me off is just how unfriendly it comes off. everything is so big and imposing it almost feels like I'm being talked down to.

"we have to get vaccines against hunger"

Take a look at this Cracked article regarding the Windows 8 hating its user.

In a nutshell, it seems Windows 8 was only made for the people who created it, not us, the consumer.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.

Something I'm still not used to is how claustrophobic it is. I don't like it when my computer freezes (which it does if I ask it to load certain websites - Cheezburger is one). I hate not being able to see the desktop and the mouse - and Windows 8 is made of that.

Schild und Schwert der Partei

I called it many pages back: Someone told Balmer about that "tablet thing-y" and he went all in. Only to have his brains beat in by Google and Apple.

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be a case on The First 48

I doubt that. As a programmer, practically nothing I've heard about the new features in Windows 8 sounds like anything I would want to have while programming (or doing pretty much anything else).

Basically the only two advantages I've heard of so far are that it hogs less system resources and that its graphics drivers are better. Neither of these things is particularly useful for programming.

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I spose for gaming though its pretty good. I can run Half Life 2 on my laptop at Standard settings pretty well.

I'm quite confident in my shitposting you know

Thats.... a computer thing, not a OS thing.

OS wise, windows 8 is so bad for gaming, valve went "Fuck this" and are making there own OS.

Closed architecture is horrible for games, its one of two reasons no one likes to make games for mac.

edited 16th Oct '13 12:42:15 PM by Imca

That is not what they meant. They meant it is Windows 8 (and many gadgets) are designed for the user necessities of the ones who designed. As exampled by the focus on tablet. A tablet is not that great for programing per se, but the Microsoft designers use tablet frequently, so they design a OS focused on tablet. It is to appeal to them as users, not as programmers.

Not saying I agree, but that is what the article is saying.

edited 16th Oct '13 9:53:50 PM by Heatth

Oh. I was talking about the graphics card thing. Sorry.

I'm quite confident in my shitposting you know