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FWIW....... There is a recently improved third party fix for Win 8 that reportedly give you a start button and program menu much like win 7 .

From the info......
"StartMenu8 not only brings...

There's an old saying.."If it aint broken, don't fix it".

Obviously, MS has been changing things just for the sake of changing things.......to sell new OS' to people who really do not need a new...

FWIW........
After resisting anything but IE for many years, I finally gave Fire Fox and Chrome a try a few months ago.
Although I still have chrome installed on one sys for compatibility with...

Evidently, (as I assume) the "letter of destruction" that I had to "sign" before a refund would be issued is preventing me from ever installing Kaspersky on this system unless I purchase a new...

Update.......
They discontinued the new license as planned and it expired yesterday .
However, it was impossible to reinsert the old license that still had a month on it . There was just no...

Perhaps you did not read all the info that I posted? ;)

The article might be 2 years old but the info is still valid . I did not imagine what I went through.
In any event, just Google it . :)

Yes, that was auto renewal and this is not the problem as described. It only occurs when you renew manually. :)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375356,00.asp..

I found this info among the many kaspersy renewal complaints........

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375356,00.asp..

It should be noted that I was pestered to renew over two months ...

The net is full of renewal complaint about kaspersky.
The scam works like this ......

One is first pestered to renew months early and it would be added on to the existing license. However,...

FWIW........
I got it set up to also use my 46' TV as a monitor (via HDMI) when desired and it looks great!

I was surprised that configuration was really simple with Win7 and the R7870...

I also installed 18.02 with no problems. :)

Not only that....I'm an old "stick and rudder" computer user (since the "C-64") and it just bothers me if anything is not running perfect or, as it should be.

I was just a bit ignorant about the...

If you are replacing the MOBO,CPU and memory, you are essentially building a new computer from "scratch".
So, even if your case connection are " proprietary, you will just have to purchase a new...

*No SSD. I have a WD raptor 300gig for my boot drive.
* 8 gigs (2x4) RAM.
* I have a few systems but, the last I put together (except for frankenstein computers ) was an Intel "Core 2 Duo" 2.4...

Yeah, it's so fast that I presently have nothing that would make me want me to OC it at this point.
However, sometime in the future...........
The CPU runs really cool with the die shrink. :)

I may be having a major brain freeze but........

After being away from building any new systems for a few years, I just built a new i7-3770K sys for myself
with a Radeon 7870 GPU. Everything is...

I always tell people that the three most imprtant things to do with any new software is.........
configuration, configuration, configuration.

So, with that in mind, I have been configuring Win 7...

I tried aero years ago but did not like it .
My idea of the desktop it to navigate to where you want to go, not a place for a gee wizz/wow graphic display .

As far as gadets, I do have one...

XP is not that bad as long as you get rid of those Fred Flintstone graphics and configure it to classic widows style. ;)
At least it's not as confusing as Vista and 7.
What I hate is MS changing...

At least I found an e-mail program I like for win7........."PostBox". It sort of mimics the look and layout of outlook which is one MS program that I really liked. I absolutely hated "windows live...

.........and I remember when windows was on a few floppys and a 2 gig drive was considered a lot. I still got a 1.9 gig "champ" HDD packed away somewhere.:)

BTW, this is the first sys I ever...

I do have 8 gigs of RAM but, I not shure what you mean about that .

I don't know if this was addressed before but..........

I just put together a new sys with Win7 64bit and I'm slowly of getting used to this OS.

However, after a few days, I discovered ...

My current favorate has to be "The Big Bang Theory" :D

SB16 emulation is needed only for DOS apps.
In other words, If you don`t have any DOS games you play, It safe to disable it as many people do. http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/smile.gif