I was first having trouble bringing up my router’s control panel. Wasted hours thinking it was my router. Then noticed other computer connected to router had no issues. Then I also noticed that this 4-yr old Windows 7 computer was browsing the web like 5 times faster than my brand new notebook.
Disabling the Network Shield solved the problem of the Router Control. But then things still seemed to be slow when web browsing. The old Win 7 machines was still way faster. So I uninstalled Avast, and wala, back to NORMAL!
I had latest build of Avast of today. I am a bit frustrated that there was no communication from Avast I received regarding Windows 8 issues despite having registered an account when I installed Avast!
Avast! is not the only company having problems with Win8. Avira threw in the towel temporarily and said their offerings will not be compatible until some time next year.
Im running win8 64 bit pro with avast installed with no issues… i noticed on my laptop that the temps were in the 60+ degrees Celsius which is not normal for my laptop on idle should be in the 40’s if not lower so i looked into using resource monitor what was causing the cpu usage and it was the windows search indexer doing the dog on my CPU ! so i went to enable/disable windows features and disabled that windows search and it fixed it no more fans going all the time! also removed all the fancy graphic features too on windows/programs also help to speed up the laptop, im browsing now, with avast running in the background with temps on CPU at 46 degrees Celsius, CPU between 18 and 20 % also streaming on Youtube, 1 gb ram used out of 4 so yh i think avast is pretty stable on win 8 well done guys!
Instead of suggesting to avoid Windows 8 I bet on Avast, sure that they will fix some issues in a short time. I’ve got an issue too on Windows 8 but as most of us can see Microsoft is releasing some hotfix to improve application compatibility. I’ve installed several applications on Windows 8 and pratically all of them are running great, as well as in my previous system (Vista X64). I remember similar issues with Windows 7 and even with Vista (some also Avast related). But I’m confident that Avast will fix them in a short time.
I’m definitely waiting before they manage to fix all avast issues. I had way too many. I’m currently using built in Windows Defender and Comodo Firewall (without D+) and I definitely will not be installing Avast Firewall part again.
To be perfectly honest im not interested in windows 8 at all.I dont like the look of it one bit.
Windows 7 has everything i need and i dont see any reason why i would wish to upgrade.
Im keeping hold of windows 7 for as long as i possibly can,i mean just look at how many windows xp users are still in the world and they should not be getting neglected even if their OS is getting on a bit. 8)
I have to disagree with that. If somone is interested in W8 but is not planning to buy a new computer within the next couple of years or so I would suggest buying the W8 DVD now for just $69.99. Then when things settle down maybe around the time of W8-SP1 people will have a much cheaper version of W8 Pro than what it will cost after next January. When someone is comfortable unpgrading to W8 then all the W8 updates after their DVD was created can be auto applied by Windows 8.
If if someone doesn’t plan on using the Modern UI or have a computer upgradable to UEFI there are a number of other significant security, memory managment, W8 maintenance updates in W8 that will make it worthwhile buying now and running W8 rather than W7 even in the desktop mode once the bugs have been worked out with W8 and with W8 third party apps.
Well, as many of the newer systems available now have UEFI boot protocol, and if you have one of those systems, you will not be able to downgrade to Win 7, Win Vista, or XP, as none of these os’s support UEFI boot.
Should point out that, major vendors will not, and do not, support a downgrade on an os on a fresh and new machine that comes with Win 8, and has the old BIOS boot format.
Need drivers for that old os for that new specific machine? You likely won’t find any at the manufacturer vendor site if it is UEFI.
As this is a bit off topic (OT) back to the OP here.
EDIT: You can PM me if you wish to continue this UEFI discussion there.
Windows 7 is UEFI compliant. Already been working on those machines, but they do pose additional challenges. Windows XP is UEFI complianT, if the drivers exist (some yes, some no)