Changing Windows

**JDNSW** · 30th October 2014, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by PhilipA

No. It doesn't get that far. The screen that asks about language doesn't seem to complete and when you press continue it stalls at 3dots at the bottom. If you press continue again after waiting with no action on hd for several minutes it shuts down and reboots from the USB . I haven't tried to have as the only operating system, as I wanted to keep the windows7 and trend micro i paid for.lol
Philip A

Somewhere else I have seen a similar problem with that computer attributed as a BIOS bug, and fixed by resetting the BIOS to factory defaults.

This may not be your trouble, but could be worth trying.

John

**PhilipA** · 31st October 2014, 02:00 PM

After several failed attempts I gave up on Ubuntu and tried AFAIR Lubuntu which was supposed to take up fewer resources on a EEPC.
It had a very simplistic screen appearance and really added not much to speed.
I gave up and reverted to Win 7 and it now goes fine if a bit slowly. the problem is that I only use it every few months and it slows right down when downloading updates.
I then had my Son in law buy me a win 7 professional as they can buy for family. I now find with my 3 laptops on win 7 that it is much better than having the printer server on Vista home basic.

We can share files and the printing is done through Homegroup. it all works great.

Only PITA is that they sell an original WIN 7 and first /second night it tells me there are 197 updates to be installed, and it took all night to advise 98 installed!LOL. Over the next couple of days it did another 50 or so, then I remembered that it should also update Office2007 which I owned already,so I downloaded Microsoft update rather than Windows update and it updated another 50 or so.
I think it is all finished now.LOL
Lucky I have 50 megs download limit.
Regards Philip A

**theresanothersteve** · 3rd November 2014, 07:20 AM

I hope you mean 50 Gigabyte...

**PhilipA** · 3rd November 2014, 01:54 PM

I hope you mean 50 Gigabyte...

Yes of course we oldies have trouble keeping up. What is next terabytes isn't it? one definition is a 1000 gigabytes.
Geez hard to comprehend but I guess in 10 years or so we will have to have a terabyte hard disc.
Regards Philip A

**Dougal** · 3rd November 2014, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I hope you mean 50 Gigabyte...

Yes of course we oldies have trouble keeping up. What is next terabytes isn't it? one definition is a 1000 gigabytes.
Geez hard to comprehend but I guess in 10 years or so we will have to have a terabyte hard disc.
Regards Philip A

I've been running terrabyte backup drives for about 6 years or so. They're quite common.
I was just thinking back to the first 286 my family had with a 30mB hard-drive. Back when Windows came on 9 floppy discs.

**s7000** · 10th November 2014, 12:09 AM

Originally Posted by olbod

I cant bloomin remember now.
In my HP I am still running Windows XP home thingy which is no longer supported and causing problems.
I can get Windows 8 online and install it with the updates etc but if I install it will I lose everything on the hardrive and need to reinstall everything ?
Dont want to buy a new pc really.

Ta.

I'd suggest a new PC buddy.

Get an external HD and save all your files etc so you can move them over... In all honesty, everything has moved so far forward, an upgrade won't really be that useful.

W7 is better... Although I now run both, 8.1 is fine once you get used to it.

You can pick up a cheap PC from officeworks from about $500... (Everything included)

Upgrading old technology is a waste of time unless you want to replace everything in the box... And the box itself

Ps. Stop making out like it's so damn hard. You can jump online, you can clearly get/receive emails, and you can clearly join up to forums etc... Your "bloomin' memory" can't be that bad.

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