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windows 8 is beautiful but before you can climb out of the 'frustrated club', there are certain things you should know about the windows 8 operating system before you go ahead with an upgrade:

# Navigation : Navigation in windows 8 is essentially the same as in windows 7, the major difference is that pressing the windows / start button opens up a menu of your home screen apps, amongst which is your desktop. Locating items in windows 8 using the search bar kind'a requires some additional steps ( press windows button, point you mouse to the lower or upper right, click on search or faster, press windows / start button + C then click on search) but it produces a more advanced and categorized result which - in my opinion - is worth the additional steps.

# Antivirus : Windows 8 comes with a preinstalled antivirus called Windows Defender. Avast - being very popular - is usually what most windows 8 users rush to install, and then they start getting blue screens and crash dumps. The reason is that avast is very paranoid ( jealous if you ask me) so it automatically intiates a fight with Windows Defender. To avoid such, disable windows defender.

# Drivers : Most people who rush into windows 8 do not take out time to find out if their PCs have drivers which support windows 8. Trying to use your windows 7 drivers on your windows 8 PC is suicidal! That's why most new windows 8 users get the Blue or Black Screen of Death a lot.
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