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    Windows 8 FURIOUS at Windows

    Thanks for the reply (and sorry for my delayed response). I agree about McAfee - I let the trial run for a week and then removed it (gave me a couple of seemingly invented-by-mcafee results). Didn't know that about spybot/malwarebytes, very interesting, don't know which is best but I think...
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    Windows 8 FURIOUS at Windows

    Many thanks for all the informative responses. After a couple of failed attempts to update (windows kept failing the update and reverting the changes back) I eventually succeeded and checked it was 8.1.1. (Unfortunately, pressing esc never got me into the BIOS menu). The following might be my...
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    Windows 8 FURIOUS at Windows

    Many thanks for your help
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    Windows 8 FURIOUS at Windows

    With app-updates, it actually asks me to sign in. Does this mean it wasn't coming from the store? Or should I sign in and do it? Permissions - this gave me the option to turn notifications on or off, they were already on! Mike - thanks, I saw something on the web about using gpedit but...
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    Windows 8 FURIOUS at Windows

    Many thanks for these informative responses. I'm going to try this in a moment and hopefully that will be the end of it... I would prefer to have the latest Windows version, but after freezing so many times on restart, I'm afraid to do any updates - maybe a factory reset is what I need. The...
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    Windows 8 FURIOUS at Windows

    This has just happened again!!! Excuse my french but what the F*** is going on?? I had a message popping up every 20 seconds saying I need to help windows update by allowing it. I found out via the web how to stop this message. I've just restarted my computer for another reason and it's...
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    Windows 8 FURIOUS at Windows

    Thanks. I've actually selected the option for Windows to not even check for updates. Hopefully that will do the trick. It's a shame cause I do like the "start button" icon that Windows 8.1 had. Never mind, no biggie. Cheers for the reply.
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    Windows 8 FURIOUS at Windows

    I am extremely annoyed with Windows. A week ago, whilst I was in the middle of work, Windows 8 just shut down. When I restarted, it began to install updates. It seemed to freeze and after a couple of hours there was no progress - I had to do a "Refresh" of Windows. Very inconvenient. When I...
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