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thanks for the “Clean outside Windows”, very informative. there is an Outside Windows antivirus etc., that you might want to take a look at from http://www.fixMeStick.com which I have been using for a few months. comes with its own OS on a Thumb Drive. simply insert into a USB slot and restart your computer making sure you have an Internet Connection for updates. Highly recommended

“If you download and install Windows 8 Consumer Preview, released late last week, I can almost guarantee that you won’t like it”

says Woody Leonhard’s on March 8^th, 2012. And he is correct. But there is a reason.

First installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview is really easy. The process has been improved over Windows 7. But!
Most people will not be able to run the Metro interface with a keyboard. Windows 8 wasn’t designed for a keyboard, but for touch. And currently very few computers, notebooks and laptops have touch capability.
The Windows 8 “desktop” is quite different to Windows 7 desktop.
There are some people who will take to Metro like ducks to water – IF you are using a tablet. But on the desktop you will have to use the keyboard Windows Key shortcuts. IF
you install Windows 8 on a HP 2760P tablet it will be fun from the get go. Who has a $2.000.00+ tablet?
On the desktop you are at Daytona with a bicycle. Regrettably, the rest of Woody’s article is based on using the wrong tools for the job.

There is one other area that needs to be thunk through. It appears as though Windows 8 may come on two platforms; Windows 8 on the tablet and Windows 8 on the desktop.
And there are two versions for each: WOX and WOA, marketing genius.
The Apple competing tablet will be for the consumer who does NOT connect to a Network Domain. It will do all the iPad will do and Office. WOA tablet.

And the Business tablet, that is on and off the Network Domain network, with the required security and server features. WOX tablet.

Thought of in this light the whole Windows 8 Consumer Preview paradigm takes on a somewhat different perspective.

That is my take with Windows 9 Consumer Preview. I think it is pretty darned good and after a hour or so is really easy to use.
If you can open the Explorer, open a CMD prompt and elevate to administrator level you are not reading this.
Pakeha