The Win7 vs Win8 battle continues :)

As some of you know, Monkey had a major battle with Windows8 after buying a new LT ... well, here's the resolution for anyone interested.

I finally got the Window7 disks - and because we're on the road, waited until we got to a 'good internet' area to install it ...

Tried numerous times to get this LT to accept the disks, but during the process it continuously blew up windows telling me about errors and other instructions that were unknown to me - in my tech ignorance. So, after several tries - gave it up and returned to the Windows8 program, at least for now. I will eventually return to Windows7 when we get back to Florida and tap into our tech friends - or maybe not, as I have discovered a few options over the past month...

Went thru all the programs or applications, whatever we call these things nowadays, and uninstalled everything I don't want ... including the new MSWord program which kept converting all my email into unreadable messes ... once I removed that program, my email and other inputs act normal. Let me tell you, there was a lot of junk on this LT that interfered with smooth operation - at least, it runs much smoother and faster now.

I'm expecting a lot of those little apps required updating (news, weather) constantly, so it ate a lot of my hotspot allowance. Who cares if the weather or news updates if you're not watching it? I don't know, but if I want news, I know where to find it...

At his point, the last two months, we over-ran our hotspot allowance in both months for the first time in about five years. After deleting "the junk", we used less than half our hotspot this month. So, that says at least something about the non-required updating processes that occur.

We also set our updates to "ask and we update all at once" sometimes on a CG wifi, sometimes not.

Anyway, it took a lot of time and effort to find those 'unnecessary gems' and boot them out of here - and one problem was, as I discovered finally with my MSWord, as long as the 'buy me - new version' was installed, it would not let my older version act as the default - AND it converted all my incoming documents into unreadable junk - but once I uninstalled the 'buy me - new version' ... my original version works fine as default.

SO, there is a way around all the cr---p they install and force a person to buy ... so, generally, I dumped most of the 'new junk', and installed most of my other versions - and it works in an acceptable way now, despite the potential to work better once I get Windows7 installed ...

My guess is a lot of younger folks and kids 'NEED' these apps and all the digital world media today to keep up to date with friends etc. instantly - But we find it easier on the mind if we do it when we want, and keep the rest of our time available for places like the Missouri River, Custer Park, Yellowstone, Olympia, Hood, the Oregon Coast, Redwoods, and the California Gold Country, and Death Valley, not necessarily in that order, and not skipping anything interesting along the way ...

And, Monkey did manage to save that final hair to rip out the next time we locate or purchase another digital nightmare ... :):):)

Happy camping you all, and thanks for all that assisted in the original Windows8 'help me' posts ...