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monkey44
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Jun 08, 2013

WDW 8 - Install program CD

First, I bought a LT Toshiba with WDW8 by default - worst money I ever spent = WDW8. Will skip the words I'm thinking at the moment.

But, I have a Photoshop CD and it won't load - I can't even find the install part of the WDW8 ... when I go to the managing window, it tells me it can uninstall, and security, etc, a buncha other stuff, and everything BUT install ad CD. I've tried every button and launch possible - probably something easy and I'm missing it.

It also won't auto-play for install either - each time I ask it to install the CD, it tells me "go to auto-play" and when I do that, it tells me I don't have an app for installing. WHAT?

I've opened it and clicked on setup.exe and install.exe, and open and all the 'normal' stuff - but nothing. It even opens a window that says PHOTOSHOP INSTALL ... but then nothing happens.

SO can anyone explain how I can get it to read and install this, or am I stuck with buying a new Photoshop, which I won't do, and will dump this WDW8 as soon as I return home - we're on a trip now and wish I'd have thought to bring it.

And this WDW8 monster is filled with a million things - little squares the continuously pop up that want me to BUY something I don't want, and no matter what I do, it wants me to buy something again. What a waste of money... And I forgot my WDW7 program disks, or I'd dump this immediately and load WDW7 ... End of rant.

On another PC here, I have my WDW7 ... and in a new thread, I'm asking if I can unload that WDW7 and load it here without the original disks. Maybe I can do that - but for anyone that wants to know - don't buy WDW8 if you can possibly avoid it.

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  • My own experience says it is not an easy job. I finally took the hard drive out of the laptop and to it to a repair shop and asked them to remove all partitions and format the drive so it would work with Win7. Then did a complete install of Win7. Some drivers were not found and had to search internet for them.

    After all the frustrations, Win7 is working well and it is something I understand.
  • There is a 5.00 program and a few free programs which will make you windows 8 computer work like and look like windows 7 I can't for the life of me remember the name ( I don't use windows ) but I've heard several people love the new look it provides ... Perhaps someone can suggest what it's called
  • monkey44 wrote:

    On another PC here, I have my WDW7 ... and in a new thread, I'm asking if I can unload that WDW7 and load it here without the original disks. Maybe I can do that - but for anyone that wants to know - don't buy WDW8 if you can possibly avoid it.

    I believe you can still download the full WIN 7 .iso install file from Microsoft authorized servers, and just burn it to a DVD yourself. But you will still need a WIN 7 specific license for that particular notebook. Microsoft does allow downgrading if you're notebook came with Windows 8 Pro, but the process can be somewhat confusing - Understanding downgrade rights. Even so, some manufacturers don't support downgrading.
  • I just bought a Toshiba with windows 7, it took me some looking to find a new one without windows 8. Some stuff won't work on windows 8.

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