LOL at all of the threads about Windows 10 issues. I have had a laptop that I barely use for about a year now and it came preloaded with Windows 8. I would have installed Windows 7 on it immediately but it has a touch screen and I couldn't find any Dell drivers for Windows 7.
Last night I installed Steam to try to download some games and see if I can't get a little action while on an airplane or something. Nope, they all crash upon trying to open. They were old school (doom II, trials II, i-fluid) but every single one of them crashed.
I then figured maybe it is just old school games, so I went and installed Starcraft II. Upon putting in my Blizzard username/password it crashes. I even had Blizzard live help talk me through deleting folders, trying different things and nothing worked.
Earlier this week I tried installing and running a work related program: you guessed it, it wouldn't work. It didn't crash like the others, just simply closed up.
What in the world? Is this normal operation? The only thing I can pin it on is Windows 8. I've updated java and other runtime related items that these programs required. I've tried running the programs directly with the executable with admin privileges to no avail.
Last night I installed Steam to try to download some games and see if I can't get a little action while on an airplane or something. Nope, they all crash upon trying to open. They were old school (doom II, trials II, i-fluid) but every single one of them crashed.
I then figured maybe it is just old school games, so I went and installed Starcraft II. Upon putting in my Blizzard username/password it crashes. I even had Blizzard live help talk me through deleting folders, trying different things and nothing worked.
Earlier this week I tried installing and running a work related program: you guessed it, it wouldn't work. It didn't crash like the others, just simply closed up.
What in the world? Is this normal operation? The only thing I can pin it on is Windows 8. I've updated java and other runtime related items that these programs required. I've tried running the programs directly with the executable with admin privileges to no avail.