Anyone able to help with WiFi problem?

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I've been running W8 on a laptop for a while and have dumped it in favour of a copy of Vista I had lying around....the lesser of two evils?

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Well I have only used windows 98 / XP / 7 myself and the difference between XP and W7 64 bit is just insane.
Built what you could call a really-cheap "gaming pc" if you want to call it that about 2-3 years ago, still running games on max settings.
Only had to tone it down a bit on Arma 2 and BF3

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Quote from: Strat

the lesser of two evils?

Tricky one that; I've had systems running W8 in various versions for a while and I loathe that "Metro" user interface.
Trouble is, under the skin it's VERY good indeed. Many improvements over W7.
I think I'd stick with W8 if Vista was the only alternative and find ways (there are many and not too tricky) to make it useable. But I am a techy....

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Is W8 that bad Strat????
Why, how?
I'm currently on Vista (It's not soooo bad but not that good either) but only because my W7 install failed 'big-time' and I haven't had the time or patience to call Microsoft to get it fixed.
Vista is significantly slower then W7 for me - dual boot laptop (but at least it's working at the moment).
[Sorry for OT]