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I need to rant quickly about windows 8

Posted on 2/9/15 at 4:07 pm
Posted by Doldil
The Ham
Member since Jan 2010
6214 posts
Posted on 2/9/15 at 4:07 pm
Dude in the office just brought in his laptop to see if I could fix it...full of god knows what from installing toolbars etc. I have some items that won't uninstall so I reboot the machine and start pounding on f8 to get to safemode and see if I can uninstall it that way.

But...f8 no longer works to bring up the boot options, instead I have to look up how the frick to get into safemode on windows 8. "hold shift while pressing the restart button" I read. So I do it, and then the reboot starts and a menu pops up and I have to click through like 5 or so options before FINALLY finding safe mode. And then the fricking computer reboots again and asks me if I want to boot in to safe mode...

frick YOU MICROSOFT. I've hit f8 for 15 fricking years.

Thanks for listening
Posted by Kingpenm3
Xanadu
Member since Aug 2011
8985 posts
Posted on 2/9/15 at 4:09 pm to
Ha. I had to figure this out today as well.

Posted by ashy larry
Marcy Projects
Member since Mar 2010
5569 posts
Posted on 2/9/15 at 4:43 pm to
quote:

f8 no longer works to bring up the boot options


I had to google it the first time I worked on one. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the fact that windows 8 boot too fast for the 'f8' prompt. I could be wrong though.
Posted by TigerGman
Center of the Universe
Member since Sep 2006
11352 posts
Posted on 2/9/15 at 4:45 pm to
:rimshot:
Posted by tigerstripedjacket
This side of the wall
Member since Sep 2011
3011 posts
Posted on 2/10/15 at 12:07 pm to
yuuuuuuuuuup
Posted by Hu_Flung_Pu
Central, LA
Member since Jan 2013
22239 posts
Posted on 2/10/15 at 1:55 pm to
There is a script you can run to allow you to own the file and you can then delete it. Uninstall until something else needs to be deleted.
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