Thread: Introduce Yourself.

Hi folks,

I'm Dennis from The Netherland, found this site via Google while I was googling at windows 8.
Hope to have a nice stay on this forum

PS. my English wont always be as good as yours, that's cause I'm still learning it and in The Netherlands it isn't the default language.

Originally Posted by Dennis

Hi folks,

I'm Dennis from The Netherland, found this site via Google while I was googling at windows 8.
Hope to have a nice stay on this forum

PS. my English wont always be as good as yours, that's cause I'm still learning it and in The Netherlands it isn't the default language.

Hello Dennis! Welcome to Windows 8 forums. Glad to have you here

Greets Peeps!!

Hi all. I downloaded Win 8 Dev Preview shortly after it was available and installed within Virtual Box on my Win 7 Ultimate OS. I have been using Win 7 since the RC. I have been a member of Windows Secrets Lounge since Dec 2009 and have been a VIP there for a while. I hope to contribute to these forums equally as I do there. This is a link to my Windows Secrets Lounge Profile page. Over time I hope to meet many of you here.

Originally Posted by Ted Myers

Hi all. I downloaded Win 8 Dev Preview shortly after it was available and installed within Virtual Box on my Win 7 Ultimate OS. I have been using Win 7 since the RC. I have been a member of Windows Secrets Lounge since Dec 2009 and have been a VIP there for a while. I hope to contribute to these forums equally as I do there. This is a link to my Windows Secrets Lounge Profile page. Over time I hope to meet many of you here.

Welcome Ted! It's nice to have you here

Welcome Ted, hope you enjoy your stay with us

Thank you both for your welcomes

Hello I am Andrea Borman. Most people will know me from Windows 7 forums where I am a member. I have several netbooks with Windows 7 and 2 others with Windows XP. And I have recently installed Windows 8 developers preview on one of my Windows 7 netbooks.

And I am running Windows 8 as my only operating system on that netbook. As I installed Windows 8 by mounting the ISO file on virtual clone drive. And it wiped out all of my Windows 7 operating system and replaced it with Windows 8. But I do have other netbooks so I am not to worried.

I have limited experience with computers and I intended to install Windows 8 as a duel boot alongside my Windows 7. And I thought that mounting the Windows 8 ISO file would do that. The same way I have installed Linux mint alongside Windows in the past.

But that did not happen and instead the Windows 8 install wiped out my Windows 7 completely and it also wiped out my recovery partition. So now I cannot restore to factory condition or go back to Windows 7.Unless I buy a Windows 7 CD to reinstall Windows 7. And I will also need to buy a CD drive as I only have a 1GB netbook that has no CD drive.

The other members over on Windows 7 Forums are giving me advice on how to back up my operating system. And how to install Windows 7 and maybe install it as a duel boot. As the version of Windows 8 that we have is not permanent. It is a developers preview due to expire in March. But I hope that when the time comes I will be able to upgrade or do a clean install of the Windows 8 beta version or consumer preview. Which I have read we may be able to carry on using for another year. And then after that upgrade to a permanent version of Windows 8. Or buy Windows 8 in the shops.

Readers will know that before I tried Windows 8 for myself I was worried about using it. As I thought I would not know how to use it.

But my experience with Windows 8 has turned out to be a good one. As you are able to disable the Metro theme with either software that you can download from the Internet. That turns off the Metro theme or with a simple registry edit. Both ways work and the Metro theme is now permanently disabled on my Windows 8.

Actually I did not find it difficult to get around the settings with the Metro theme. It is true that most of the Metro apps did not work.Probably because they are not active yet. Buy all of the software i installed myself that showed up as apps in the Metro theme DID work.

But I have disabled the Metro theme as I think it is better to have the Windows 7 or Windows Vista start menu for every day use. And also for people like me with limited experience and most other Windows users. I would advise you to use the Windows 7 start menu because that is what I and most people are used to.

My experience with Windows 8 has turned out to be a good one. And everything in Windows 8 is working and it is running just like my other versions of Windows are. And most of my software from Windows XP,Windows Vista and Windows 7 is working on Windows 8. So I am getting to like Windows 8 now. and it is a pity that we cannot just keep on using Windows 8 developers preview after March. As now that I have tried Windows 8,I would like to keep it on my computer.

Obviously when our version of Windows 8 expires we will have to find an alternative to it. But I hope that Microsoft will let up upgrade or do a clean install to a beta or RC of Windows 8. like they let us do with Windows 7.

I am getting along fine with Windows 8 at the moment. But as I explained I have limited experience with computers and often I make mistakes sand get things wrong. So I might need some help in the future if I run into problems with Windows 8. Andrea Borman.