Upgrading to Windows 8
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If I upgrade my laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 8, will all the user profiles and individual settings still be there. Or will I have to set up mine and girlfriends profile again?
Also will I have to set all my privacy settings on Firefox again?
I'm not sure it's worth the hassle if I have to mess around with the settings, but I want Windows 8 so I can sync easily with my windows phone especially if I'm going to subscribe to xbox music.
Also will I have to set all my privacy settings on Firefox again?
I'm not sure it's worth the hassle if I have to mess around with the settings, but I want Windows 8 so I can sync easily with my windows phone especially if I'm going to subscribe to xbox music.
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(providing you tick the right boxes during installation)
Just use the migration wizard and save the data to external storage then you can re-import the data but you'll still have to install all your apps again.
Only purchase needs to be by 31st Jan to get the discounted price. Install whenever you like.
Cool. Cheers.
Sure if you're buying a new machine and it has it. or if you've got a touch screen I can see the point. The new interface is pretty much awful for use with Mouse and keyboard, and the OS has few technical improvements to justify the hassle or expense (however small)
I've given in with TIFKAM as a keyboard/mouse environment, but once you install a 3rd party start menu into desktop mode then Windows 8 is quite usable and you start to see some small improvements over Windows 7.
So it's either windows 8 to make using my phone easier (I did choose a windows phone to eventually sync with my laptop and xbox easy) or choose another music service like Spotify.
The Windows 7 to 8 cheapo upgrade works fine and you will be very unlucky if it doesn't keep all your settings.
Windows 8 works fine and if you don't like the Metro tiles interface, you can run everything from the old style Start Menu using the free "Classic Shell" interface (even the Apps can be run from the Start Menu).
In your situation, I'd upgrade, install Classic Shell if you want to... and you're away.
One can sync the Windows 8 phones with either a desktop application which should work pretty much the same in windows 7 and windows 8 or a metro app which is only available for windows 8/RT. If using the desktop application, going to windows 8 should not offer any advantages, AFAIK - the application is the same in both systems.
For playing subscription music, you either use the metro app in windows 8 (which is still not user friendly) or you can still use the Zune application in windows 7 or 8, it works with the xbox music pass and is a nice application to use on a PC, especially for combining your own music with the subscription music.
As for WP8, I can see my Lumia 920 on W8 laptop as a drive, I can also use an app or a programme. Unfortunatelly I cannot test how it works with W7, but there's at least the same programme as for W8.
There was a similar discussion on the Xbox forums and there was no mention of the Zune software so I assumed Zune was phased out since Xbox Music came along.
I'll give it a go later when I get back in. I might still download Windows 8 since it's cheap, then install if I want to.
Zune is to WP7 and iTunes is to iPhone.
You can't use Zune to sync to your WP8 but you can use it to organise your music and you can use your xbox music pass subscription with it too.
I had some artists messed up in my music collection so I started to tidy it up using Zune.
Looks like I'll be upgrading my OS on the laptop. I personally don't mind the way windows 8 looks, my girlfriend is the one who isn't too keen.
I tried buying it online, and the assistant lost connection to the server a couple of times. It eventually go to the payment part but again it didnt go through. I have an email from Paypal saying a request for £24.99 was maid but have not been charged so I'm reluctant to go through the process again in case I am charged twice.
'Your migration choice isn't compatible with offers in your country/region, Please go back and try again after changing what you need to keep'
Have tried US/UK download sites, makes no difference.
The only way I appear to be able to get to the 'buy' page is via Safe Mode, but not sure whether the upgrade will work in that mode.
Anyone else seen this? if so is there a fix? or will it upgrade from Safe Mode? sorry for all the questions
Sorry to hear you both have been having problems. It all went very smoothly on my family's laptops.
Just want to check you are buying it from here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/buy?ocid=GA8_O_WOL_Hero_ShopHP_FPP_Null
And you are using the online software to take you through the process?
Contrary to historic windows upgrades where I would recommend doing a clean install of the operating system, people seem to be having most success with in-place upgrades this time around.