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It will most likely work. Press Start and type "repair". Then you will see it.

If you right click on the speaker icon in the task tray (bottom right of your screen), you will find the settings.

You are probably out of luck. On some Windows 8 systems you cannot change the uefi settings and then you cannot install a legacy OS. A workaround is to install Windows 7 with VMware Player running in Windows 8.

Even with an upgrade, you can make a clean install. See here: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/13375-clean-install-windows-8-upgrade.html And if it is a full installation disc, there should be no problem at all. :

I compared the boot times as measured in Event 100 of the event viewer. The Windows 10 boot was twice as long as Windows 8.1 in a completely identical environment (50.3 sec versus 23.5 sec)

For data, sync programs are also a good option - e.g. Allway Sync.

If it is so impotant, you better make frequent backups. And next time you lose a file, you can also recover it from the restore points. That's also why restore points are so important. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/132087-shadowexplorer-recover-lost-files-folders.html#post1137368

If you want a really nice Linux distro, use Mint Mate. Here is a video demo that I made to give you an idea. That one is running from a USB stick, but it looks the same when installed. I have a tutorial to install it on a stick - if you want to try that first. The installation on the internal...

Use the Microsoft Expression Encoder 4. It produces very high quality videos and is free. Here is a tutorial on how to use it that I had made a long time ago.

Freespace you cannot add to anything. You need 'unallocated space'. Right click on that freespace and delete partition. Then do what was said above.

It does not really matter what you think. You are stuck with your OEM disc. There are no more Windows 7 isos for download or even for sale - unless you want to venture into Ebay.

Why don't you image your Windows 8 system with elevated command prompt. The command is: wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:X: -include:C: -AllCritical -quiet Where X is the drive letter of the partition to where you want to place the image. Recovery is started with the W8/8.1 installation disc.

The SSD is definitely not the cause. Try different browsers.

Playing with the services is not going to help. All you end up with is a bricked system. Apart from the usual cleanup tasks there is little you can do. Netbooks have slow Atom processors and slow disks. If you can replace the disk with a SSD, you would get a big performance boost for the system...

Update: the Microsoft Expression Recorder 4 is free now. Microsoft no more charges a fee. That is probably one of the best recorder you can find if you want quality output..It is not fancy, but efficient. If you want to try it, Here is a little tutorial I made to get you started...