Hi All,
I have bought new laptop with win8 pre-installed. So i wanted to install windows-7. Just wondering what could be cheapest way to get windows-7.
Cheap Win7
pyramid on 29/01/2013 - 12:01
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What's your problem with 8?
You can install a Start Menu replacement if all you want is the regular Windows Desktop when you boot up.I just don't like metro UI of windows-8. Is there any way we can get back normal UI of win7 on installed win8?
Yes. Install a Start Menu replacement and it's identical.
Or just click on the desktop pane from metro.
I can give you a win 7 pro key if you are keen… I just upgraded a bunch to win 8… so got some to spare. PM me.
Thanks. Pm sent.
Yep, just sent you a PM. Cheers.
Thanks a ton.
Any chance I could also have a Win 7 key too please?
You got one too… Check your messages. Cheers.
Don't suppose you got any more spare? Much appreciated
I personally don't think downgrading is the answer, as after 3 months now in our workplace it's clear the Windows 8 machines run faster with more features, and with a couple of keyboard shortcuts, its actually more productive and faster to work with them also.
It really is just a matter of setting up 8 to your liking with taskbar shortcuts etc.
Each to their own I guess, just wish people were a bit more open minded about change. I don't see the problem even using metro as your start menu if you just group and name the tiles according to your needs.
Nobody can seem to give me a VALID reason WHY they don't like the modern UI.
No, I do not work for Microsoft. Just deal with a lot of operating systems in my field (MS, Linux, iOS, Android - in the old days Unix variants and even Novell), and out of all of them I actually find Windows 8 pretty goood.
Ramrunner - Thanks for insight and detailed user experience.
this is like saying why i dont like ice cream
its personal preference isnt it?
i dont like the Macintosh o/s… so what?
some people like it, some don't
tony, yes there is such a thing as personal preference. I get that. There must be a factor which decides in people's minds whether they like something or not.
Just curious as to why people seem to give up on something so quickly just because it looks different in the case of Windows 8.
I'm just trying to understand why Windows 8 always gets such a bashing.
In windows 7, you install a program, it installs in the start menu, then usually under all programs, then usually the vendor or product's name, then the actual program. The installation program MAY or MAY NOT create a desktop or shortcut icon.
The Windows 8 UI works exactly the same way. My MYOB, Outlook, Excel, Word, VLC, whatever I have set up as tiles. Programs I install even in Win mode install on the Modern UI also as tiles. One click and I'm in. The added benefit is Windows Store Apps have live tiles that tell me the status of things without even clicking in to the program.
I've just organised all my most used programs to be at the start of the tile list, so they always show up as the first thing I see when I start my computer. The more advanced among us will surely group and name these tile sets also.
Anything less used is a single middle scroll wheel away. If I use something very rarely I even unpin it from the UI. You can always get to all your apps in one big list also, or just start typing it will find it.
So yes, I understand people have personal preference, but I just wonder how much of that is ingrained by doing things a certain way since truly 1995 (Windows 1995), and change is very hard, even though the change may in fact be better.
I'm just feeling the Windows 8 bashing is based on NOT the Modern UI, but the simple fact that Microsoft have changed things, for better or worse.
So I guess my curiosity really is - is it the Modern UI people really don't like (which I cannot really understand), or is it just the change Microsoft made (I get that - it's human nature).
And IF the Metro UI had been around since 1995, and now Microsoft came up with the start menu for the first time in Windows 8, how much dislike would there in fact be the other way around?
I do not like Macintosh O/S either by the way, but I will freely admit that most of that is simply because I do not understand how it works properly, and the few times I've had to work on one, it takes me a crapload longer to do things than on Windows. But again, what if the tables were turned, Macintosh was the majority O/S and I was trying Windows for the first time? Can almost guarantee my first reaction would be not to like it. There are more reasons such as Apple will not allow our store to resell their gear or repair them (you have to be exclusively Apple or have a huge commercial presence), and no matter how hard I try I cannot stop hating iTunes, but if it was the only or major choice would I think like that?
But now that I've ranted far longer than I should, surely you don't really NOT like ice cream? You'd really be the first person I know that doesn't. ;-)
I do not like Macintosh O/S either by the way, but I will freely admit that most of that is simply because I do not understand how it works properly, and the few times I've had to work on one, it takes me a crapload longer to do things than on Windows.
As a former Mac user (I'm now running Ubuntu exclusively) at home and Windows user at work. When you know how MacOS works it's generally faster and easier to get stuff done than Windows.
iTunes is a bloated and buggy piece of software (on Mac as well as on Windows), but I am still yet to find Music Management software that does the same things as simply as iTunes. MediaMonkey is the usual suggestion and Foobar. But buggered if I have the time to set up Foobar the way some people have it (they Sooooo! need a share system so you can "steal" other people's setups) and MediaMonkey is confusing and I'm still not 100% sure it can do things like sort new music into relevant Artist Folders automatically (as iTunes does).I LOVE ice-cream by the way! :-)
+1 for Ubuntu - if I had my way…..but I digress.
I use MediaMonkey myself, and find it pretty good for finding duplicates etc. BUT I'm not sure it does what you say above. (Sort Artist).
One thing I think everybody should know about though is Picard, a small app by a group called MusicBrainz.
Just chuck it a folder of MP3s, FLACs, WMA, whatever. It will match via recognition (much like Shazam, Soundhound), and sort all your MP3s automagically. You can get it to output any way you like. So you can in fact have Artist/Album folders generated automatically then have the tracks with or without numbers - whatever you wish. Fully customizable.
Worth a mention.
If you DO end up using it though, please consider donating to MusicBrainz. They've been at this for a while and though free, it costs money to do what they do.
people are irrational
i freely admit to that
i hate vista too but i realise win7 is largely vista 2.1
oddly enough even though i work IT i havent had to install vista… ever
or support it
i've installed vista twice and have used it for any stretch only for a few months
i've install win8 twice and hate it already
granted i may like it with the new start button tools but i dislike metro and dislike how they rearranged shit for no good reason
and ads in metro? really? i'm interested in pantene ads during my workday?
Ad in your laptop? That's ridiculous.
you can uninstall metro and not get any ads at all but i get where they are going with this
i may pay $59.95 for an xbox subscription but i still get endless ads
there's a reason win8 is cheap
its adveritsing subsidised
http://lifehacker.com/5974318/downgrade-your-new-windows-8-c…