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My wife bought a new laptop that had the WIndows 8 garbage pile loaded into it. We've had three different IT service techs work on it and it is still garbage.

Cant get emial
won't stay on page
times itself out
brings frustration to every small function

We have just learned of a company that specializes in scrubbing Windows 8 so that computers can function normally and interface with all the other existing systems of the world. We will be going back to XP on this machine asap.

7 is what we have, my mistake. That shows my lack of nerdness.
BTW- we went through the cesspool called Windows 8 to try to update the upgrades that may have been missed because it will not communicate with our email server. There was an update from last Tuesday that we missed so we closed all the open programs like it says and gave it a go. The computer went blank, shut down and will not restart.

I'm mad that I didn't listen to my son and go with Mac - we thought it would be too hard to learn - LOL

Baynative,

We have Win 8 on two 4 month old HP desktops.

Can’t get email? What does that mean? We both use Microsoft Outlook and Hotmail for emails. Never have had a problem with either one. If sounds like you have not set up your incoming and outgoing email POP settings.

Won’t stay on page? What does that even mean? The only time our PCs move to a different page is when we execute a command.

Times itself out? If you mean that the PC goes “dark” as a result of power savings settings, why not just simply change the settings so it stays on longer, or it never goes “dark”. Plus, when it does go dark for lack of use, all you have to do is move the mouse.

Brings frustration to every small function? We both have found Win 8 easy to learn and work with. If you want the Win XP or 7 Start page, all you have to do is click on the bottom left icon, AKA Charm, and you have a page that can be set up to look like the former start page with all of your commonly used program icons at the bottom of the page.

>>times itself out<<

Go to “power options” in control panel — they are all set way too low. And NEVER sleep if at all possible — Hibernate is much better (too bad that isn’t an option).

Also — VERY IMPORTANT: Go to the device manager and find your network card(s). For all of them, under the “Power Management” tab DE-CLICK the “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.” Let’s face it, when the network card is down yo have a doorstop or a brick on your hands.

As for me, well I like to do multiple things and have multiple windows in “windowed” mode. Live Tiles won’t do that (or not very well).

I use the Desktop tile and ignore the rest of that crap.

And yes, Win 8 is much more unstable than Win 7. It is like my first wife: easily offended and shuts down for no good reason.