What is your operating system?

[claptonman]

4. going to be 8 32 bit when I am done downloading it.

You mean windows 8?

8 is... really annoying. But its kind of growing on me. Its way faster at booting than win7, but it has problems. (obviously)

 

[wolfeking]

yes I mean windows 8. I think I will have to delete XP to boot it though, cause of that annoying 4 partition limit.

 

[cabinfever1977]

claptonman are you using the win 8 beta from today or one from before

 

[claptonman]

claptonman are you using the win 8 beta from today or one from before

I downloaded and installed it last thursday.

 

[cabinfever1977]

that was not a beta then,its been changed alot since then so i heard,around 100,000 changes in code, and the beta only came out today.

 

[cabinfever1977]

I went and put windows 8 beta (there newest build beta consumer preview) on my spare harddrive.
If you press windows key on keyboard the desktop turns into windows 7 but without start button,but it does have a taskbar where you can pin stuff to it.
And you can switch back and forth between Metro interface and windows 7 standard.
Never did find the exit button,lol,i just hit the power switch.

 

[wolfeking]

move your mouse to the far right, settings, power.

It is not that difficult.


Installed it to my HP, good thing too, as it did not listen well and I might have ended up messing up 2000 and vista on the del if I had tried.

 

[NyxCharon]

yes I mean windows 8. I think I will have to delete XP to boot it though, cause of that annoying 4 partition limit.

Use a extended partition. Then divvy that up into two partitions. Works fine with linux and such, so I don't see why It can't be applied here.

 

[wolfeking]

Windows will not boot from an extended partition. XP, Vista, and 2000 are booting on Primary, and the extended with Ubuntu (as of today) and my data partition reads as another. I am out of partitions unless there is a work around for booting windows in a extended partition.

 

[Dngrsone]

As I recall, you need NTLDR on a bootable primary partition, it can point to an extended partition for the actual OS.

There are plenty of tutorials out there for multiple OS boots; this might be a good place to start, though the information is a bit dated.

This one deals with booting Win 7 from an extended partition.

 

[turbodiesel]

I went and put windows 8 beta (there newest build beta consumer preview) on my spare harddrive.
If you press windows key on keyboard the desktop turns into windows 7 but without start button,but it does have a taskbar where you can pin stuff to it.
And you can switch back and forth between Metro interface and windows 7 standard.
Never did find the exit button,lol,i just hit the power switch.

can you make the windows start menu come back ?

 

[turbodiesel]

I do not see it listed in your specs, what are the system specs of your new laptop.

to be honest i don't know, haven't been on it that much but i will give it to my bro


why would i put that laptop in my Sig when it's not mine and is that slow

 

[cabinfever1977]

can you make the windows start menu come back ?

you can make it look like windows 7 by pressing the windows key on keyboard,the taskbar at bottom will be there but not the start button,you can always pin icons to the taskbar

 

[Junglist0682]

Windows 7, 64bit

 

[turbodiesel]

shame i always loved he start menu

 

[engrmudasirmalik]

I am using for user mode (Windows7) and for the development privilege (Linux Mint )
Core i3 3.2
RAM 2GB

 

[bkribbs]

I use Lion on my laptop!

Its great. But I think macs are overpriced so I wish they could be a good bit cheaper.

 

[Pell]

I use Windows 7 64-bit its brilliant!

 

[DMGrier]

to be honest i don't know, haven't been on it that much but i will give it to my bro


why would i put that laptop in my Sig when it's not mine and is that slow

I thought you said you got a new computer, wow that was from a while ago.

 

[S.T.A.R.S.]

I thought you said you got a new computer, wow that was from a while ago.

Then what would you say on mine lol? xD