On 2013-12-05, Juan Wei wrote:
Jim has written on 12/4/2013 11:40 PM:
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:22:32 -0700, Ken Springer
wrote:
Winston and xfile,
This link was posted in a Mozilla newsgroup:
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-lif...203-2yo3r.html
I have no idea if the site is reliable, but the date for the page is
12/3/13.
I for one have no trouble at all with Windows 8.1. The way I have it
set up it isn't much different than Windows 7. I don't use the Metro
stuff so I uninstalled all the apps, also I have Start8 and boot
directly to the desktop. I could probably get by without Start8 and
still do fine with Windows 8.1. I am amused when I see the posts from
people who are downgrading to Windows. A few tweaks makes Win 8.1 the
same as Win 7 so why downgrade?
I really don't understand why this OS is disliked by so many people.
IMHO, Windows 8.1 is equal or better than Windows 7.
Amen.
The msft drivers for usb3 are scr$ed up. msft coopted having msft
usb3 drivers as part of the win8.x so that mfg are not providing
any usb3 drivers for their hardware.
E.g. the 1st time I had win8 on the desktop, win8 kept interfering
with mass copying using either robocopy or richcopy; the files were
audio files & the copying wasn't successful as autoplay stopped all
processing even when autoplay was set to be disabled for ALL drives.
Then win8 started to claim that the usb3 hdd had to be "initialized"
before it can be used even tho about 700+ gb were on the drive.
After reverting to win7, I did more backups from my nas to the usb3
hdd. However, when 8.1 became available, I stupidly thought m$
fixed the usb3 problems that have been reported. A ms person just
claimed that the drivers are "perfect", it is just the hardware mfg
doing an incorrect implementation (sounds like jobs & apple). When
I needed to do some more backups, win8.1 wanted to "initialize"
the usb3 hdd even tho it had been reformatted by win7 since it was
claimed by some that the ntfs had been changed some.
Anyway, back to win7 which does work unlike win8.x; don't even
think I will try win8.2 if it appears in 2014. I have no intention of
buying another usb3 hdd just for win8.x.