Wdw8 down to Wdw7 in laptop
If I buy a new HD for my Toshiba - which came with WDW8 - can I just install a new WDW7 program on it and toss this WDW8 OS in the trash can where it belongs ... What I want is WDW7, but couldn't f...
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For those tracking this, I just opened my older Dell laptop with Wdw7, and opened the email file my editor sent - the same file that converted itself. It loaded fine, opened in Wdw7 and in MSWord 2007, same program we both have on our LT - so, that answers at least one question - something in Wdw8 transfers this file into the new Word program.
Monkey began in 1985 with Symphony - a true floppy disc - and learned Win 3, Win 95, Win 98, Win 2000, Win ME, Win XP, Vista, and finally Win 7 ... that's enough.
But Wdw8 totally befuddles me, and so will uninstall this Wdw8 and load this new LT with Wdw7 if possible ... or dump it as an expensive lesson learned - or give it to one of the grandkids, who probably already know it better than I ever could - - and that's the end for me.
My thanks to all who posted help here, as usual, but this one just ain't cuttin' it for me. I'm sure there's an answer in all this info, but why bother, why go through all the hassle and trouble just to make something work that should work right from the mfgr - like a new RV should, but often doesn't - we all know those stories.
The one thing beyond all others that's truly annoying - why HIDE the icons, and why put all this 'cr...p' on the opening pages - sales, of course - but it only shuts me off to those products - if I need something, I know where to buy it, and bombarding the opening pages continuously with 'upgrades' and forcing me to buy it or upgrade it on a brand new LT is a sure turn-off. And - well, that for sure will send me away.
I'm not interested in the patches, the add-on, the fixes, or the conversions simply because the mfgr hurried it, couldn't wait for new sales -- it's just one more tech item to fail or interfere with the action a brand new LT should give us without all the hassle, find the hidden icon, or any other bleeeeeeeeeeper that we should never need to make a new program function.
MS got sued once for this kind of action, didn't learn its lesson, and someone should do it again ... all this extra stuff hidden inside that forces the buyers into something unexpected.
Monkey began in 1985 with Symphony - a true floppy disc - and learned Win 3, Win 95, Win 98, Win 2000, Win ME, Win XP, Vista, and finally Win 7 ... that's enough.
But Wdw8 totally befuddles me, and so will uninstall this Wdw8 and load this new LT with Wdw7 if possible ... or dump it as an expensive lesson learned - or give it to one of the grandkids, who probably already know it better than I ever could - - and that's the end for me.
My thanks to all who posted help here, as usual, but this one just ain't cuttin' it for me. I'm sure there's an answer in all this info, but why bother, why go through all the hassle and trouble just to make something work that should work right from the mfgr - like a new RV should, but often doesn't - we all know those stories.
The one thing beyond all others that's truly annoying - why HIDE the icons, and why put all this 'cr...p' on the opening pages - sales, of course - but it only shuts me off to those products - if I need something, I know where to buy it, and bombarding the opening pages continuously with 'upgrades' and forcing me to buy it or upgrade it on a brand new LT is a sure turn-off. And - well, that for sure will send me away.
I'm not interested in the patches, the add-on, the fixes, or the conversions simply because the mfgr hurried it, couldn't wait for new sales -- it's just one more tech item to fail or interfere with the action a brand new LT should give us without all the hassle, find the hidden icon, or any other bleeeeeeeeeeper that we should never need to make a new program function.
MS got sued once for this kind of action, didn't learn its lesson, and someone should do it again ... all this extra stuff hidden inside that forces the buyers into something unexpected.
