Posted on 11/01/2012 10:37:06 AM PDT by whitedog57
Avoid Windows 8!
I had the trial version and purchased the upgrade on line, After an entire day trying to find problems, I finally got it working.
Then today, I was doing a search on Bing and Windows started to place a B when ?I typed a letter. And added an h before selected words.
I rebooted thinking it was a short cut error. Now I can't log in! When I type my password, it puts the CAPS LOCK on when I type the number 1. And I cannot undo it,
What a POS operating system.
Hmmm, as much as I hate, loathe, and f*rt in the general direction of Microsoft, it could be a hardware problem.
(Although if we hardware types evah turned out the cr*p Microsoft has done, we’d be sued out of business.)
it does sound like a hard ware issue. I would try different keyboards and see if I got the same weirdness.
it does sound like a hard ware issue. I would try different keyboards and see if I got the same weirdness.
Congratulations !
You just paid a billion dollar corporation for the privilege of beta-testing their newest O/S.
Always wait at least one year on any new O/S, always always always.
If this is a laptop it could have toggled the “function key” somehow
Get one of your friends to create a Ubuntu live CD image with the instructions on this web site.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
You do not need to install Ubuntu, just run it “live” from the CD.
You will be able to tell if you have a hardware problem, or if it’s Microsoft.
I thought it was pretty common knowledge you never buy a Microsoft operating system version that ends in “point O”.
Raymond,
Just a suggestion - maybe you might want to try Ubuntu Linux? The cost is right, and if the system is already trashed - why not overload it with another OS?
You might be right about it being a hardware issue. But it just happened after I installed Windows 8.
My Father always said do not buy new-model or “redesigned” models of cars. Let them work the bugs out first.
Congratulations !
You just paid a billion dollar corporation for the privilege of beta-testing their newest O/S.
Always wait at least one year on any new O/S, always always always.
I have a rule, never buy a MS OS until they at least release the first or even second service pack for it
Service Pack One...
Wait for it.
That sounds more like an unhappy keyboard than the OS. Is it a fancy keyboard with cool extra buttons that needs a driver? Could be the driver doesn’t like 8. Or there’s dirt. Or you did something in Windows to switch languages, that can always be fun, but usually doesn’t hit the non-entry keys like caps-lock.
“Point Of Service”?
While it may be frustrations with Microsoft that brought that saying into prominence, that's pretty much true for any major piece of software. Always wait for version X.1 (or X.Y.1) or SP1, depending on how revisions are numbered.
You either need a new keyboard, or an new person sitting between the keyboard and the machine.
I’ve been using Windows 8, from the developer trials to the present production version, and, nothing even remotely close to what you claim to be a problem, has come up.
Perhaps you need to clean your keyboard and remove all the food crumbs between the keyboard keys. At the worst, what you might need is a new keyboard. But, you don’t need to blame Windows 8 for what is apparently, hardware related.
You are, of course, correct. It's just that the downside is much steeper when you make that mistake with an operating system.
I have it and it works just fine.
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