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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #45 on: May 16, 2013, 03:20:41 PM »
Windows 8 may look really nice and work really well, but this whole UEFI and Secure boot poo means that it has to go. WTF were/are Microsoft playing at? If they had their way, Windows 8 pre-installed machines would even lock out Linux.

I like it, but I will not be a party to it. Win 8 has to be nuked and Secure boot disabled.

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« Reply #46 on: May 16, 2013, 03:39:27 PM »
Oh dwell. :D
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #47 on: May 16, 2013, 04:03:14 PM »
Quote from: dweez on May 16, 2013, 03:39:27 PM
Oh dwell. :D

I'll now have to buy a Surface just to have those pretty "Charms".

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« Reply #48 on: May 16, 2013, 04:07:14 PM »
Hehe.  And to add to the Windows delight going on, next week I'll be attending a "Securing Windows and Resisting Malware" SANS class hosted here where I work.  Weeee.

http://www.sans.org/course/securing-windows
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #49 on: May 16, 2013, 04:59:50 PM »
I was thinking of jacking the SATA in favour of a SSD.  They are about the same in price now and I believe modern versions have longer lifespans.

This way I could keep the original disk with Win 8 and play around with Win 7 on an SSD that would boot in seconds.
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #50 on: May 17, 2013, 06:41:12 AM »
Quote from: smokester on May 16, 2013, 04:59:50 PM
I was thinking of jacking the SATA in favour of a SSD.  They are about the same in price now and I believe modern versions have longer lifespans.

This way I could keep the original disk with Win 8 and play around with Win 7 on an SSD that would boot in seconds.
excellent idea, I still have my original W7 hdd for my laptop somewhere.
Installed a hybrid hdd and away you go
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #51 on: May 29, 2013, 03:46:40 AM »
Windows 7 on the bad boy now and i am more than happy.

Thanks for all the advice as i am certain I made the right choice due to it.
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #52 on: May 29, 2013, 05:13:54 AM »

Microsoft sucks for locking out other operating systems on Windows 8 machines. I'll never buy one. All the more reason to build your own.
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #53 on: June 04, 2013, 08:38:10 AM »
 ::) + you dont get the manufacturers load of tosh installed as well.
Ubuntu found a way around the Windows 8 restriction
I will await W9 to see how that runs
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #54 on: June 04, 2013, 11:55:32 AM »
Yeah, I'll install Windows 9 Preview on one of my hard drives but I bet new machines with it installed will still have SecureBoot and you won't be able to install other operating systems. Ubuntu does have a work around for dual booting with Windows 8. I'll build a computer before buying one of those monopoly machines.
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #55 on: June 04, 2013, 12:01:06 PM »
I didn't know it did that. The one thing that I did notice is that when I installed Win 8 to dual boot with Win 7, it disabled the Win 7 authorization patch I was using. It was easy enough to fix, but it seems their anti-piracy efforts are now backward compatible.

I didn't know that all other OSes are locked out, though.
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #56 on: June 06, 2013, 08:50:01 AM »
Quote from: SACPOP on June 04, 2013, 12:01:06 PM
I didn't know it did that. The one thing that I did notice is that when I installed Win 8 to dual boot with Win 7, it disabled the Win 7 authorization patch I was using. It was easy enough to fix, but it seems their anti-piracy efforts are now backward compatible.

I didn't know that all other OSes are locked out, though.

I think you can butcher your way around UEFI 2.2 and Secure Boot to have Win 8 and other OSes installed, it just appears that there are no guarantees that the set ups will ever work.  It seems odd with such advanced technology that some things remain hit and miss.
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #57 on: June 06, 2013, 03:46:25 PM »
I don't dual boot anymore or I'd test it out.  I believe my work desktop is UEFI (not sure about the secure boot) but I'm running Win2k12 Server on it.
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #58 on: June 06, 2013, 03:53:26 PM »
Windows 7 dual boots with Windows 8 no problem, although if I remember correctly I had to run a fix using the Win 7 repair disc to replace some of the boot files, but I assumed that had to do with the detection of pirated OS files rather than just run of the mill "disable anything that isn't Windows 8" behavior.

Fortunately, I have a separate old 32GB SSD I've been using for my very occasional Linux use so I don't worry about dual booting that.
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Re: Tech Recs
« Reply #59 on: June 06, 2013, 04:09:47 PM »
Each OS installs it's own boot loader and dumps all over the previous one so haven't to "repair" the bootloader to show the other available OS to boot to is normal.  For occasional Linux use, you could just use a Linux Live CD and run it that way.
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