Windows 8.1 question
Just bought a new laptop with Windows 8.1. Coming from Windows 7 I understand the frustration many have expressed. I have been trying to download Classic Shell to emulate the earlier Windows screen b...
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Gdetrailer wrote:
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Pretty fair chance the UAC (User Account Control) may be blocking your install.
Is it asking for user name and password?
If so that is UAC and that can be disabled.
Never disable UAC, it's simply not necessary. UAC has NEVER prevented me from installing or running any software.
Gdetrailer wrote:
And for the record, I am not impressed with Win8.1 at all.. Spent most of last week beating Win8.1 along with Office 2013 into submission on my new work PC..
Just absolutely retarded the amount of extra steps one must now take to do stupid simple things like printing from Word..
Managed to figure out work arounds for many things that used to be simple in Win7 and below that Win8.1 no longer has..
Can you give an example? I bounce between Win 7 and Win 8 and Office 2007. 2010 & 2013 on a daily basis and I don't encounter extra steps to make things work.
As far as VAHillbilly's issue with installing and running Classic Shell, I'm wondering if it's because he is running as a regular user and trying to install as a regular user. He may need to login as an admin user to install things then once installed, log out the admin user and log back in with his regular user.
