I'm not sure what your situation is, but it sounds like you're better off spending the money on a stronger processor and more RAM than having to buy full licensed copies as often as is implied (Win7 is only 5 yrs old). Get longer life out of your hardware so you are not stuck buying new so often. If your board fails…

A full license copy of windows is ONLY needed for a computer you build yourself I.E. it never had a Windows OS on it.

I agree with you to a point, but I've been using systems since DOS 3.3. I do not consider the massive change from Windows 3.1 to 95 or NT4 to Windows 2000 a mistake. Windows 8.1 update did introduce an lot of options like booting to desktop, showing store apps on the taskbar, etc. I'm sure they'll tighten it up some…

Well most likely 9 will return with the start menu, I honestly hope it's an option. When I deploy to systems I can run a command "%DeployRoot%\Tools\OSDResults\IsTouchEnabled.exe" set a variable and then import and XML file to set application associations for non touch machines or different associations for touch. I'm…

I'm not going to argue that I want to pay for upgrades, but I doubt Adobe will give me a free upgrade to CS6 because I bought CS5. 8.1 was not just a service pack, I know, I make system images and a lot changed that the average user isn't aware of which is why they called it .1 and not service pack 1 or update 1. In…

Something like this? 8.1 added improved K&M support, I'm in total agreement that 8 was rushed without enough consideration for the vast majority of K&M users. But it's changed since then.

Oh and they aren't horrible decisions if you look at the big picture. I do enterprise tech support, build the images used on all our systems from tablets to desktops to laptops, having one image for all it awesome. The new GUI is wonderful on touch devices and for non-touch it's pretty much just a bigger version of…

So let's say the body of car looks the same, but contains an updated engine, engineering tweaks that get better fuel economy, etc. Are you going to say that the new car is not worth it because you can't really SEE the changes?

Not that many people care, but the license agreement actually requires you to buy a new license if you upgrade your motherboard. The only exception is an OEM machine that has a board replaced due to a defect.

That's what bugs me the most I hear people saying oh I hate Windows 8 or I don't want it. When asked if they've used it the answer is no, but they read that it was horrible. I show them in less than 5 minutes what it really looks like and that you can still do everything you did before and then they always tell me oh…

Don't like corners and edges, it's actually an option to turn off.

What do you call 8.1? There was no charge.

I'd look into drivers if I were you. Your sleep function breaking I can say for a fact was driver related. If it happens again run the command powercfg /a and it'll tell you what's keeping the system from sleeping. I've run games that are 10 years old on my 8.1 system (alt+tab has been working) so that's necessarily…

Just make sure your excuse isn't "I'm a desktop user" because it's meaningless. Windows 8.1 has a desktop, has a taskbar, boots to desktop. It does everything 7 did and in some cases better. Newer hardware will see the most improvement but it'll out perform 7 on older hardware as well. If you're happy with 7 and…

The way I see it is, if you're truly best friends and your a decent fellow, he'd hate to kill you. As a decent fellow you'd hate to die. Jokes aside your best friend knows enough about you and if you're honest with him/her about it they'll give you an honest answer. Heck your best friend would probably make the best…

I hope my car never looks like any of these. I've barely gone through my first tank of gas.

You MUST watch futurama then. It's all on Netflix

You're hilarious, I'm not even arguing about the downsides to using lower octane fuel in a car that requires higher octane fuel and yet you keep pointing why it's bad to do so. I know you shouldn't and pointed out that it shouldn't. What I'm saying is that if you bought 10 gallons of 87 octane versus 10 gallons of 91,…

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