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.
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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
I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
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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
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- You could buy a cheap wi-fi router.
- link to MS suport page
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- more on another MS page
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No your not the only one hearing the Ironside loop from Kill Bill...
edited 14th Oct '13 8:43:58 AM by TairaMai
I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....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.
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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
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Take a look at this Cracked article regarding the Windows 8 hating its user
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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.
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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.
Join my forum game!I spose for gaming though its pretty good. I can run Half Life 2 on my laptop at Standard settings pretty well.
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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

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...
I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....