You "have to love" Win 8 ...
Someone, somewhere might....
Monday, February 16, 2015 by Jafo | Discussion: Personal Computing
I 'really' only have it on my Laptop...[the 2 installs in VMware and VirtualBox don't really count]...
....and now Internet Explorer is in a death-spiral of crashing...and telling me it has...and telling me it will restart....and do I want to restore the last session...and then it crashes...and tells me it has....and telling me it will restart....
The IT Crowd will tell me to...
"turn it off and turn it on again..."
...which I'll try first....
...but I'll bet my left proverbial I'll be uninstalling IE and reinstalling it....
Mark my words...eightwillneverbeonmyprimemachine....
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Reply #22 Wednesday, February 18, 2015 9:20 PM
Loving 8.1......no issues with IE and I would use it regularly if it was not for the crappy font bleed. Chrome is my browser of choice but you guys got me intrigued in Pale Moon and I must say I'm quite impressed so far. 
Reply #23 Wednesday, February 18, 2015 9:54 PM
Just Finished a new machine with win 8.1 touch screen and I Love it. Boots in under 30 seconds, runs Explorer 11 and not a single problem yet.
With my new machine I think half the trouble is it boots too fast for the OS to catch up with itself....and locks when the MS flag starts its squirl...
...cold reboot...typically about 3 times...
..and then bang...it's up and loaded....
Of course, it's 7 and thus isn't trying to fool people like 8 does...
Terry's taken the lappy to work for a Presentation....hopefully it won't crash and burn while she's using it [Powerpoint pres].
It's a fairly decent machine...ASUS R500A i7 3610. It's just that corny OS...
Reply #24 Thursday, February 19, 2015 7:16 AM
With my new machine I think half the trouble is it boots too fast for the OS to catch up with itself....and locks when the MS flag starts its squirl...
...cold reboot...typically about 3 times...
can you tell me what drives are installed external internal
Reply #25 Thursday, February 19, 2015 10:10 AM
can you tell me what drives are installed external internal
512G Samsung XP941 M.2 PCIe x4 SSD [C]=Win7 Ultimate [H]=Games
240G Corsair Neutron GTX SSD [E]=[Office + Proggies] [hotswap]
240G Corsair Neutron GTX SSD [F]=[Games 2] [hotswap]
3TB Western Digital Caviar Green Sata2 HD [G + D] [hotswap]
2TB Western Digital Caviar Green Sata2 HD [I] [hotswap]
2TB Western Digital Caviar Green Sata2 HD [J] [hotswap]
The Samsung is the critter that's off the scale with read/write speeds ...
Reply #26 Thursday, February 19, 2015 10:35 PM
The Samsung is the critter that's off the scale with read/write speeds
I'll say!!!! With Win 8.1 loaded on my Samsungs M.2 in my AMD machine, program loads and startup speeds are through the roof... rig boots fully in under 6 seconds.
And no, I'm not waiting for the desktop, cursor and icons to load... ALL are available the moment the desktop lights up.
Reply #27 Friday, February 20, 2015 3:42 AM
Had a similar Problem.
One of mine was related to a power issue of an external drive.
The other time this happend was either due to a pending windows update or because of the hybrid shutdown.
Once i used shutdown /s /f /t 0 the flag whirl did not pause for a couple of seconds without doing anything.
Reply #28 Friday, February 20, 2015 5:06 AM
Had a similar Problem.
One of mine was related to a power issue of an external drive.
The other time this happend was either due to a pending windows update or because of the hybrid shutdown.
Once i used shutdown /s /f /t 0 the flag whirl did not pause for a couple of seconds without doing anything.
Nope...not the same issue at all....it's more correctly Win 7 doesn't understand DDR4 and the PCIe type of SSD....one that is not even attached to a PCIe slot...but to a M.2 socket.
Things that did not exist when 7 came out...
Reply #29 Sunday, February 22, 2015 2:23 PM
Had a similar Problem.
One of mine was related to a power issue of an external drive.
The other time this happend was either due to a pending windows update or because of the hybrid shutdown.
Once i used shutdown /s /f /t 0 the flag whirl did not pause for a couple of seconds without doing anything.
Nope...not the same issue at all....it's more correctly Win 7 doesn't understand DDR4 and the PCIe type of SSD....one that is not even attached to a PCIe slot...but to a M.2 socket.
Things that did not exist when 7 came out...
I thought we were talking about the swirly circular dot thing on windows8 bootup, you had me all confused then
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Reply #21 Wednesday, February 18, 2015 5:48 PM
Excuse me, RND... I'm from the IRS & I'm here to help.