Originally Posted By: Tegger
I recently tried to help my daughter with her Win8 non-touch laptop. All we were trying to do was to upgrade to 8.1
The installation stalled at 64% in the afternoon and stayed there overnight. Eventually it returned this error: "Something happened and the installation was unable to continue. Error ".
"Something happened"? What kind of kindergarten silliness is that? Does Microsoft think their users are children?
Anyway, I killed the install and attempted to restart. Daughter was at work and her phone was off, so I could not ask her how to do that. And I decided that something as simple as restarting the computer ought to be pretty easy, so I didn't go to my own Win7 machine to Google it.
I could not figure out how to do a shutdown or restart. Then I remembered that daughter had shown me how to get the Search, by sliding the mouse cursor to the upper-right corner of the screen.
I searched for "restart". Search told me "No apps match your search".
Then I tried searching for "shutdown". Search told me "No apps match your search".
What? Does Search ONLY search for programs? Win7's Search at least returns results from Control Panel, so you do have
some kind of starting point. In retrospect, I should have used "Help", but I couldn't figure out where that was, and didn't think of Searching for Help.
Pushing the Power button simply sent the machine to sleep. I ended up pulling the battery. We gave up. Laptop is still running Win8.
And don't even get me started on getting our printer installed on her machine. I managed that, but only by thinking sideways. All our Win7 machines found the printer instantly, but the Win8 laptop stubbornly refused to see it until I did my "sideways" stuff.
Dumb dumb dumb dumb. Win8 is the least-intuitive OS I've used since DOS6. MS had it right with Win XP, and Win7 isn't bad. But Win8? Dumb dumb dumb dumb.
Not a fan, either, but restarting isn't rocket surgery...
Let me Google that for you!