Windows 8 Help!!!!
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My lovely, wonderful, well meaning husband decided our Dell Inspiron needed to have Windows 8. I have no earthly clue how he installed it, or what on earth he did, but now the permissions are messed up, we cannot restore to factory settings and after utilizing Google and rephrasing the queries, I cannot make anything work.
Things that are currently messed up include and are probably not limited to:
1.) Network path settings
2.) Permissions, even though I have administrator rights
3.) Inability to change permissions
4.) Inability to use Word, Excel, Powerpoint
5.) Inability to download anything from the internet (ie: itunes)Pretty please help me????
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Do you have the install media? If so, pop the disk in, or use another computer to make USB installer stick using Windows 7 USB boot maker - then reinstall, during which time delete all partitions.
Of course only do this assuming you have no data you care about on the device.
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The problem makes me wonder if it has a virus infection too.
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@Dashrender I just want my laptop to work. he apparently downloaded it from the Window's website.
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Is there data on it you care about? do you have the windows 7 restore media?
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Best to start over. Get a full install of Windows 8 or, if possible 8.1 or even better 10, and put it on a USB stick and do a fresh, clean install. You don't want to do upgrades, you want a fresh install with nothing from your previous life there. You will need to back everything up first and then you will need to restore all of your applications by installing them again, but that's how you reliably get a working machine.
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@SarawithanH said:
@Dashrender I just want my laptop to work. he apparently downloaded it from the Window's website.
You need to set permissions so that he is not an administrator on the machine.
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@scottalanmiller said:
You need to set permissions so that he is not an administrator on the machine.
^^An extra +1 to that
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can you not upgrade with out it?
