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It will be interesting to see if the EU does anything about MS selling windows 10 in Europe after all they forced MS to produce a version of windows that didn't include media player.

try this command from an administrator command prompt: powercfg -requestsoverride DRIVER srvnet System

After you do a boot up check the event viewer for any errors during the boot process. This is the best way to track down what the problem is.

Mine is exactly the same. Good to know mine is normal. Thanks guys cheers

I have Windows 8 Professional installed on my laptop. The drive is formatted GPT. I checked using the Disk Management utility in windows today and found my Recovery partition was 300MB in size. This Recovery partition is created by windows 8 during installation. What I want to know is...

Does the windows NT install disk have a driver?

I quite like Win 8 with Start8. Only drawback is no XP Mode

Clean install

the reason is simple, that is exactly what 8.1 is: windows 8 with with the "new" start button and all the fixes in one pack with maybe a bit of optimizing to make it a bit zippier.

well for me it would have to be OS/2 and DOS. Both absolutely rock solid and always worked.

Why bother using a utility to set the size when Windows itself does a great job of letting you set the size. Just go to Control Panel > System and Security > System. Click on "System Protection" on the left side of the window. Scroll down to your C drive and click on it and then click on...

Recommendations from experienced users AFAIK. I've used SSDs for some years now and always disable system restore. I much prefer to use either Ghost or True Image to create a full disk image.

Not Microsoft as far as I know but just check out the forums of most SSD makes and do some reading. Most recommend that System Restore be disabled.

If you have an SSD then it is highly recommended that you disable it.

Well I'm with the minority. I say if you want to go back to win 7 then do it. I went from win 7 to win 8 (clean install) and I actually like the win 8 setup with start8 installed however I am fast running out of excuses why not to also revert back to win 7. Devices than ran perfectly in win 7...