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Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now

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On 2014-04-14, mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> wrote:
>  From my experience Win8 is horrible to use but the OS seems much faster 
> on the same hardware than Win7 was. The Win8 fix that worked for me was 
> to install the free utility, ClassicShell. This makes it as near 
> Win7/XP/2k as you want. It turns an unusable heap of junk into something 
> I'm happy to use. I prefer Win7 though.
>
> Win7 is readily available, look under "business" not "home" on vendor 
> websites.


Do you - or does anybody - have Win8 working on a Netbook though?  I
know people have gotten used to it on desktops, with some complaints,
but I have never ever seen a single netbook running Win8 and I suspect
its hardware requirements in disk space and memory are both too high to
run on existing netbook hardware.

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Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-04-12 07:06 -0500
  Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-12 05:49 -0700
  Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-12 18:23 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-04-13 00:11 +0100
      Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-13 04:55 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-04-13 07:28 +0100
  Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2014-04-13 10:35 +0200
    Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-13 22:04 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-04-14 10:40 +0200
    Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2014-04-13 20:06 -0500
      Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-04-14 17:54 +0100
        Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-14 17:50 +0000
          Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-14 12:00 -0700
            Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-04-14 20:19 +0000
              Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-14 20:44 +0000
          Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-04-14 21:49 +0100
            Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-15 09:15 +0000
          Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-04-15 11:23 -0400
        Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-04-15 21:47 +0000
        Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now "John" <j@j.j> - 2014-04-17 15:27 -0700
  Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Bryan Beicker <bryan@pipedot.org> - 2014-04-13 07:21 -0500
  Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-04-15 09:04 -0500
    Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-04-15 20:08 +0100
      Re: Ask Usenet: XPocalypse Now RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-16 10:33 +0000

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