Please read all of this before
proceeding.
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I was mildly curious when I noticed
that a new laptop I had ordered will arrive with Windows 8.1 So ... I
said -- “Self. If that one will arrive with Windows 8.1, why have
these others using 8? What is the difference?” So, I investigated
and decided to upgrade now; before the next laptop arrives.
I was none too happy with Windows 8,
and by now most of the planet knows why. I guess a lot of people just
have to find out the hard way that something is really bad. I have
been telling people about the Five Evils and the Monkey Lawyers and
the Monkey Judges (and how horrible it all is) for decades now; and
still, many people just do not get the message until it happens to
them too. In the case with the Deviates; by then it is too late, and
the things are claiming your soul, life, children and possessions.
My problem is -- I cannot in all good
conscience allow so many people to be damaged and exposed to such
lying perversions -- just to prove a point, and for my messages to be
seen as the Truth that they really are.
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Windows 8, is surely an example of
that. It is too bad that so many people have had to suffer from
Windows 8, just to find out that I was right about what I said before
-- about the Never-ending Windows Scam.
But, this message is not about scolding
Microsoft. What I want to do here, is to urge all of you to upgrade
to Windows 8.1 -- and to tell you how to do it.
Yes -- Windows 8.1 -- IS BETTER!
Follow these simple steps. Please do it
my way, because I know this works right.
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ONE.
On the Internet, locate the website at Microsoft that is the download
page for Windows 8.1. Mark it. Bookmark it. DO NOT USE IT NOW! Write
down the web address if you have to -- you will return to it later.
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TWO.
Turn off all applications that you are running, and keep on your
Internet browser. Put on some innocuous page like the Google
homepage; something that will just be there, and not actively cause
traffic. Minimize that while it is still on. Get it off your desktop,
but still running (so, you are still connected to the Internet).
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THREE.
Go to your Control Panel. Inside the selections of the Control Panel
you will find 'Windows Update'. If it is not there for some reason,
you have other issues to correct before you can do all of this.
Open 'Windows Update', and make it
search for all possible updates. The results will come in two parts
-- Important, and Optional.
To properly upgrade to Windows 8.1 --
you must first update all of the important items for Windows 8 --
which includes an update of the Update Service itself, which you
might see first. You may have to restart the computer after that.
Update Windows 8 with all of the
available Important Updates for that. This will take time. Hours
maybe. You will have to watch over it, while the update process
happens. You will want to know if the computer gives you any strange
messages or warnings or says something is missing. Usually, the
computer will download the Important Updates and then automatically
start to install them. The install process, can make the computer
restart several times -- sometimes giving you messages that only a
percentage has been installed, and then it restarts again. When all
of the restarts are done, the update process is finished.
[[You should not have to go through the
Log On screen each time, but if for some reason you do -- just do it.
This is one reason why you must watch over it.]]
It is very wise for you to leave the
Internet on (Hotspot, modem etc) and cycle the computer several times
manually after this.
That means, when the computer says it
is finished; turn it off. Make things so when you turn the computer
on again, it will connect to the Internet automatically (if you can,
otherwise you will have to do it manually). When the computer
reboots, and you have logged on, and after it has gone back to
stasis; invariably it will start to do some more adjustments to the
updates that have just been loaded -- PLUS -- a bunch of programs in
your computer will start to update themselves via the Internet. You
have to let that all happen.
You should have some kind of Internet
Monitor like 'BitMeter' to show you what is happening (traffic wise).
You MUST also have an operational Internet Firewall on at the same
time. The firewall should not interfere with these processes, but it
will keep assholes out of your computer. Keeping your computer
non-political.
When the computer seems to have gone
through all of those updates and is happy -- and BitMeter shows no
more Internet Traffic -- shut off the computer again. Repeat this
cycling process until the updates no longer occur.
Now -- one more time -- shut off the
computer and turn it back on (use cold boots, not restarts for the
cycling). Watch what your computer does; if it just starts normally,
you are ready to upgrade to Windows 8.1
[[Keep in mind the difference between
'Updates' and 'Upgrades'. You are performing 'Updates' in order to
gain an 'Upgrade' to Windows 8.1]]
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FOUR.
You are ready to upgrade to Windows 8.1
Be on the Internet, and go back to that
page that you marked -- the Microsoft one -- where you can upgrade to
Windows 8.1
Start the Upgrade Process.
Again, the computer will download from Microsoft for a long time;
then it will automatically start to install Windows 8.1
This is very similar to the Update
Process that you just went through. The computer will restart several
times. Keep track of what your computer is doing -- in case you are
needed for Log Ons.
When the Upgrade Process is all done
(completely, after restarts) -- begin to cold cycle the computer
again -- making sure that the Internet connection will come on again
too. Once more, the programs in your computer will want to download
updates -- let this all happen -- do not shut down the Internet.
When BitMeter (or something like it)
says there is no more traffic -- cold cycle the computer again.
When all of the automatic adjusting and
downloading by programs is done -- and BitMeter shows that everything
is normal. There is one more thing to do.
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FIVE.
Cold cycle the computer again. When everything is normal -- and you
have the Internet on again, with your web browser on ...
go to your Control Panel again. Go back
to 'Windows Update'. Make it find more updates -- THIS TIME for
Windows 8.1!
Make it download all of the Important
Updates for Windows 8.1
For the last time, watch over the
download process. Watch the computer restart several times. When all
of the Windows 8.1 updates have been installed, cold cycle the
computer again (manually) several times. Allow the programs to update
again -- readjust.
[[In situations like updates and
upgrades, not everything adjusts with one cold cycle. I use the term
Cold Cycle, because some people confuse 'Reboot' with 'Restart'.]]
When it is all done -- cold cycle the
computer one last time. Turn it off manually. Turn it back on
manually. Log on.
You should be looking at a new 'Lock
Screen'. Later, you can change that Lock Screen picture to anything
else -- by going to 'PC Settings' and then 'Personalization'. In
there, you will find the Lock Screen controls.
For now, after you log in -- you will
be facing your Desktop. In Window 8, you had to call up the desktop
from the Start Tiles screen.
Now, they are gone. You have a Start
Tile in your upper right corner (if you are vertical) and when you
hit that, it takes you to the tiles.
This makes your computer operations
much more coherent than with Windows 8. Windows 8.1 also seems to be
quite stable and a bit faster.
Before, in Windows 8, my computers used
to flash about. Screens would change for no apparent reason. That is
gone now.
You must go to 'PC Settings', and
calibrate them to your desires again.
Also -- 'My Computer' is now called
'This PC'. Maybe, to denote that you are now in Windows 8.1
[[Depending upon the condition and
speed of your computer, and Internet connections, this whole upgrade
could take from two to six hours. I suggest that you have an Internet
Traffic Monitor like BitMeter installed before you start all of
this.]]
Good Life -- and Happy Upgrading!
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Markel Peters
