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What You Need to Know About Windows 8.1
How-To Geek ^ | today

Posted on 10/18/2013 7:49:57 AM PDT by McGruff

Windows 8.1 is available to everyone starting today, October 19. The latest version of Windows improves on Windows 8 in every way. It’s a big upgrade, whether you use the desktop or new touch-optimized interface.

The latest version of Windows has been dubbed “an apology” by some — it’s definitely more at home on a desktop PC than Windows 8 was. However, it also offers a more fleshed out and mature tablet experience.

See link for details.

(Excerpt) Read more at howtogeek.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: pressrelease; windows; windows8
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To: McGruff

Is it secure enough to leave “updates” disabled?

I turned off “updates” after it broke every file association for every MS Office application file I had and there were thousands of them.


81 posted on 10/18/2013 12:53:15 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
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To: GeronL
doesn’t the free 8.1 update come with a start button??

Yes, but it doesn't perform quite the way we're used to. See here.

82 posted on 10/18/2013 12:56:40 PM PDT by KevinB (A country that would elect Barack Obama president twice is no longer worth fighting for.)
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To: KevinB

Still looks unappealing to me


83 posted on 10/18/2013 1:24:17 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: McGruff
Windows 8.1 is available to everyone starting today, October 19.

Huh? Did I fall asleep?

84 posted on 10/18/2013 1:31:28 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Uh...daylight savings time.


85 posted on 10/18/2013 1:33:03 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
Uh...daylight savings time.

I don't know where the How-To-Geek offices are located but if it is anywhere in the US, then DST has naught to do with it.

Unless you were being facetious. In which case...


86 posted on 10/18/2013 1:38:44 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
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To: McGruff

Thanks so much for the information!


87 posted on 10/18/2013 1:55:12 PM PDT by TXLady (This country was't built on defeatism.)
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To: KevinB

Thank you for the information and link! I appreciate the help very much!


88 posted on 10/18/2013 1:58:37 PM PDT by TXLady (This country was't built on defeatism.)
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To: McGruff

Bump for later -


89 posted on 10/18/2013 4:08:01 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: sand88

Newegg is good to deal with, and they are so fast to deliver, it is scary.


90 posted on 10/18/2013 7:27:02 PM PDT by ansel12 (Don't be eyeballing those distant mountains boy, those are on federal land, and closed.)
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To: TomGuy

Please evaluate using SeaMonkey instead of Firefox, if you don’t appreciate the upgrade insanity.


91 posted on 10/18/2013 9:19:58 PM PDT by mbj
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

““I have to do Gate’s gift to us, the control/alt/delete and reboot.”

Oh, and I forgot to mention that Ctrl-Alt-Del came from an IBM geek, not Gates. ;-)”

True, but if not for Gates, very few of us would have known how to use this useful tool:

http://search.comcast.net/search/?cat=web&con=toolbar&safe=on&cid=toolbar_button&attr=search_websearch&q=Bill%20Gates%20apologizes%20for%20control%2C%20alt%2C%20delete


92 posted on 10/20/2013 8:00:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Get our troops out of the middle east and let Allah sort out the Islamofascist losers!)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Yes, underneath little has changed in computing, business people do the same things they’ve done for decades with them. The one big change was going to graphical, from command line, and making the browser the front-end to every functional use.

Yet the developers keep churning out new releases for trite features. The create change for the sake of change. While someone productive is trying to use the tool the developers don’t even have a clue why rearranging the way the desktop functions is unwelcome.


93 posted on 10/21/2013 8:59:51 AM PDT by wrencher
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To: ansel12

I just had an awful Newegg experience, their support is abysmal. They shipped me a clearly used product, it took a fair bit of effort to get them to do a return/replacement with a new item. (I wanted it as a spare part on the shelf, I cannot accept used electronics for such a thing!) They agreed to replace it, and then later sent me a refund with no notice. Turns out they decided they did not carry that part any longer. Weird.

I won’t be using Newegg now if I find an alternative a Tigerdirect or one of many other suppliers.


94 posted on 10/21/2013 9:05:56 AM PDT by wrencher
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