Windows 8 who's buying/upgrading

theheyes · 29 Oct 2012 at 18:48

squarebutt said:
If I download and burn an iso on my desktop, and then install win8 on my laptop, can I sell the original version of win7 that I had on the laptop, or does the win 7 key get disabled.

Your upgrade license replaces your existing license, so no you can't sell it legitimately.

squarebutt · 29 Oct 2012 at 18:56

squarebutt said:
If I download and burn an iso on my desktop, and then install win8 on my laptop, can I sell the original version of win7 that I had on the laptop, or does the win 7 key get disabled.

theheyes said:
Your upgrade license replaces your existing license, so no you can't sell it legitimately.

Would it be the license from the machine I downloaded it from or the one Im installing to. The confusion arises because people are installing to a clean drive which wouldnt have a license to upgrade.

MagicBoy · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:00

It's the machine it's installed onto. Plus if you sell Windows 7 (illegally I might add) then you can't reinstall Windows 8 upgrade as it requires the qualifying OS installed on the machine, clean install or not.

Murray · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:01

Why isn't there a showoff your metro screen thread yet?!?!

prescott28 · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:08

OK, guys, a quick question. In the various weather apps, when I agree to use my location to provide me weather, the apps choose Liverpool. Now I live in Scotland so I presume Liverpool is where Sky hang out (my ISP... for now).

How do I persuade the apps to use my own location?

Murray · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:09

prescott28 said:
OK, guys, a quick question. In the various weather apps, when I agree to use my location to provide me weather, the apps choose Liverpool. Now I live in Scotland so I presume Liverpool is where Sky hang out (my ISP... for now).

How do I persuade the apps to use my own location?

Had this problem as well

If you right-click in the app and in the bottom left it should say change home and you can add new locations there and change it.

squarebutt · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:11

MagicBoy said:
It's the machine it's installed onto. Plus if you sell Windows 7 (illegally I might add) then you can't reinstall Windows 8 upgrade as it requires the qualifying OS installed on the machine, clean install or not.

The think I am thinking though is to take off win 7 and load one of my older versions of windows. Am I then able to sell my win 7 full version, as it wouldnt be installed anywhere and wouldnt have been used in the upgrade.

ColEx · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:18

I was just checking out the Windows 8 defrag tool and it shows this...

C: drive is a SSD, i think the "Needs optimisation" is Windows 8 telling me it needs to be defraged, but its a SSD! I'm guessing when the day comes for the weekly defrag check, it will just ignore my SSD? Like it did in Windows 7?

Broken Hope · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:27

ColEx said:
I was just checking out the Windows 8 defrag tool and it shows this...

C: drive is a SSD, i think the "Needs optimisation" is Windows 8 telling me it needs to be defraged, but its a SSD! I'm guessing when the day comes for the weekly defrag check, it will just ignore my SSD? Like it did in Windows 7?

Nope, it will do a weekly TRIM instead.

As for bledd saying you can't see the number of processes, you just need to hit more details.

hyperst · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:32

ColEx said:
I was just checking out the Windows 8 defrag tool and it shows this...

C: drive is a SSD, i think the "Needs optimisation" is Windows 8 telling me it needs to be defraged, but its a SSD! I'm guessing when the day comes for the weekly defrag check, it will just ignore my SSD? Like it did in Windows 7?

just hit optimize and it trims the drive

ColEx · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:46

Broken Hope said:
Nope, it will do a weekly TRIM instead.

hyperst said:
just hit optimize and it trims the drive

Ahh thanks, good to know.

cu3ed · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:57

Well mine froze mid use and fail AGAIN.
This is a heap of crap, and I like metro side of things.
Even after a couple of days use with no problems what so ever I restarted after the freeze and bit ran its own diagnostic saying their was disk errors (wtf?) and has rebooted to the logo with spinning dots, and me left with no clue as to what to do now.

Glaucus · 29 Oct 2012 at 20:01

cu3ed said:
Well mine froze mid use and fail AGAIN.
This is a heap of crap, and I like metro side of things.
Even after a couple of days use with no problems what so ever I restarted after the freeze and bit ran its own diagnostic saying their was disk errors (wtf?) and has rebooted to the logo with spinning dots, and me left with no clue as to what to do now.

Stick the disc in and boot to it. You'll get a whole host of repairs, safe modes etc.

cu3ed · 29 Oct 2012 at 20:04

You mean a disc of win8? I didn't make one at the time.

Broken Hope · 29 Oct 2012 at 20:09

Open up Settings from the Charm bar, click on PC Settings then the General tab, scroll down to advanced start up, you get the same options.

cu3ed · 29 Oct 2012 at 20:12

Don't think you see the problem here. It doesn't boot just said extremely briefly that it was running some kind of repair. And not my ssd seems to be running full pelt as I sit looking at the windows logo screen with the circling dots under it with no information of what it's doing.

Glaucus · 29 Oct 2012 at 20:14

If you now someone else with win8 you can get the disc, I have seen some reports that say w7 disc might bring up the options. So worth a try.

cu3ed · 29 Oct 2012 at 20:17

Thing is what if breaking whatever it's trying to do right now screws it up even more?
If their was some kind of information on screen then fine. But having just these dots is useless.

prescott28 · 29 Oct 2012 at 20:26

Actually, optimisation says 'trimming' as it works so go ahead and do it

cu3ed · 29 Oct 2012 at 20:37

So it has moved to the start screen. HD still running constantly and nothing is responsive and none of the live tiles are doing anything.