Need some help, and I dont feel like making a forum account with PCGamermaster548lolzforum or whatever's out there. Any input is great, even if I get called a faggot.
Downloaded a game, wont launch, long story short it's because I have some deep undercover aids virus that fucks with windows 7 updates. Can't install the latest visual C++ redistributable. SO, that leaves me with two options.
Option 1: Upgrade to windows 10. I'm not sure how to check if I'm compatible with the big creator's fall update because everything I google has some different god damn method. Just spent the last 45 minutes doing a dell stress test that was supposed to give me the answer but ended up doing fuck all.
If I AM compatible, I need to figure out if I can install it digitally, if I HAVE to order a CD box, and if I can install it on my current hard drive or if I have to get a clean one. I tried installing it from the "Free windows 10 for tards who use magnifying glass" thing and I got "something went wrong" error. Research got me no luck on fixing that.
Option 2: I buy a new computer. WITH windows 10 on it.
My budget is -under- 300, and I'm not looking to play NoseHairSimulator 7 on 1080p. I play RPGs and stuff. Yes, I know I'm a filthy casual faggot, but work sucks and a couple hours in the evening is the only thing that takes the edge off. I'd prefer it prebuilt because I don't want to fuck up trying to put it together and have wasted the money. Plus it's easier to have one box mailed to me instead of 30 smaller ones, where if just ONE goes missing I'm fucked. Mail people make me nervous.
I know you guys are busy with more interesting threads, but I spent 6 hours last night and 4 already today just trying to figure all this out. I'm kinda looking for a quick fix knowing there wont be one but secretly hoping someone knows super seekret computering stuff. Don't forget to call me a faggot, it's the rules.
Try a factory reset faggot. Move anything important to a flash drive
Easton Torres
Buy a new hard drive Pirate Win 10 Copy important data to new hard drive Wipe old hard drive Add to computer for backup and/or more storage
Brody Clark
Can't you just wipe the hard drive, download windows 10 installer into a USB from the Microsoft website, then just reinstall your stuff? You dont need a new pc I think
Daniel Sanchez
I don't care if all my data gets wiped, my hard drive is clogged anyway. None of it's work related and I can install games overnight.
Does a factory reset require my windows 7 keys or disc? I don't have those anymore, they got lost in a move. Comp is 4 years old.
Jason Perry
you fucking retard, get a flash drive, make a boot drive from a windows 10 torrent on pirate bay, stick it in your pc and "upgrade" it creates new system files, you can still access your old shit in windows.old like games and porn
stupid nigger
Blake Roberts
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Eli Brown
PIRATE NEW WINDOWS
Gavin Flores
Install gentoo
Isaac Butler
>install extra virginity protection
Michael Roberts
Well god damn man, wont the aids virus still be on my computer if I do this?
Leo Reyes
user, do what I did when I had a similar fuck up. Back up your user folder (so C:/Users/, maybe don't bother with shit like AppData unless you play minecraft because that's full of loads of tiny files that'll take like a day to copy) Uninstall windows 10, install either Ubuntu or Xubuntu. Get the Linux version of steam and then get the steam-cli and wine (so you can still download and play Windows-only games)
If you do that then you can keep all of your existing data without having to worry too much about them being infected, because you're on Linux now so it probably won't affect you.
Other than that, Linux is better and way faster than Windows (my graphics card is pretty old so the NVIDIA drivers actually slow things down for me, the open source drivers like the Xorg driver have my computer running perfectly), way more customisable, and almost everything you need is either native or works with wine (only about 5% of my steam games aren't native to Linux).
Don't see this is a fuck up, user. See it as an opportunity.
Nathaniel Peterson
fresh install if u scared pussy u still need to pirate windows 10
Joseph Lopez
How do you navigate through drives and files on linux?
Joshua Brown
Why can't I just buy it?
Michael Torres
>I need to figure out if I can install it digitally, >digitally how do you think cds work then?
anyway.. enough with your autism. download a pirate copy from somewhere. make sure it has kmsnano or kmsauto (activation) and you're good to good. win10 is compatible with a wide range of shit-tier computers, ram and gpu requirements. i've been able to get it to run on a pentium 4 with 1gb of ram. :)
Ian Powell
>Why can't I just hand over my hard earned shekels to big corporations who only see people as numbers when I could take 5 minutes and push a few buttons and not waste 100 burger bucks
Michael Rogers
There's visual file managers, some that even appear like windows explorer. Plenty of people just navigate with console commands though
Jacob Allen
option 3 install steamos? no really tho if you have any sort of gaming pc from the win7 era its fine to run win10... well... usually... theres 1 thing that win10 needs that win7 didnt uefi support basically if you mash escape during boot you can get into the advanced system menue right? if you look around for information in there and it says 'BOIS' youre beat but if it says 'UEFI' youre fine to install win10 but honestly if you used make a win10 install usb [i reccomend this] it wont let you even try to install on a BIOS system that said win10 tracks win7 and win8 validation keys so if you can upgrade to win10 and you do you wint have to worry about buying a windows licence or getting a key if your win7 install was valid [and wasnt invalidated by your virus which i suppose is possible but not likely]
Joshua Lopez
Same way as you would on Windows. It's basically the same, just with a few changes.
The partition with your OS on it isn't C:, it's /, and all the other directories are under that. The device manager isn't in the control panel, all your devices appear in the directory /dev You plug in a USB? If on Ubuntu or Xubuntu, it automounts to /media//. You get a shortcut to it on your desktop too.
Linux supports way more filesystems than windows, too. All the windows ones (FAT, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT) are supported so you can still work with those, but you also get ext4 (which supports symlinking and stuff like that), btrfs (which has error correction and RAID arrays built in).
Honestly if I can get my technologically disabled girlfriend to use Xubuntu quite comfortably you'd have no issues user.
if his win7 install was valid he shouldnt need a win10 key microsotf does this creepy telemetry darta syphoning trick where they allready know if he had windows and they still offer the upgrade for free since they want all the sheep to get their updates on time so the next heartbleed doesnt spill so much blood...
Jeremiah Kelly
You can still just upgrade to windows 10 through microsoft's website, just say that you're some autist that needs the assisitve tech and you get a free upgrade, you don't even have to use the assisitve stuff.
free upgrade from win7 no longer works i think, mby with 8.1 u still get offer to free uprade to win10
Elijah Nelson
You can upgrade from windows 7, I literally did it last month. It's free until Dec 31st
Carter Rogers
Come on user/faggot, install Xubuntu. Download the ISO and either burn it to a DVD (or you can use their minimal CD if you HAVE to use a CD) or use 7zip to extract the files to a FAT32 USB. Boot it and select "Try Xubuntu without installing". You can see whether you like it or not.
If you do, just double click the icon on the desktop to install. You can install it alongside windows if you don't want to make the full switch or you can wipe the drive and install it.
Trust me you'll never go back.
Jordan Wilson
nice, i was wrong, but if it works for op didnt it just gonna upgrade system and keep user files along with that virus on?
Justin Cook
user don't upgrade to Windows 10.
Think about it. Why would they give you windows for free just because you bought the last version? They've never done that before. They want you to upgrade for free because that way they can sell your data. Windows 10 has more malware in it written by Microsoft than your current computer. They legitimately harvest loads of data about you so they can put ads on your login screen.
Juan Robinson
trust me, if you make the bootable usb installer and install win10 over win7 and do validity check, it will work forever, i gaurentee it, microsoft makes $0 on old win7 installs, i can only guess how much the ads in the start menue of win10 are worth alone, not to mention integrated windows store which im sure some people are dumb enough to actually use, they want you to have win10, they dont even take offlline the installs that they know are pirated, again that bullshit telemetry they do tells them exactly who the pirates are, they dont even care, i will find the source for this if you dont believe it.
Luis Nelson
Tried this. My computer has super undercover ebola and the update "something went wrond"d
Jonathan Morris
dont forget your contractually obligated to take all their updates right up the asshole in the middle of youre most important match you will start lagging as it updates then it will reboot right whle youre saving and corrupt anything thats not MS branded...
Lucas Thomas
Your computer is beyond saving at this point, faggot. Either nuke your windows install or do what the other user said and get linux
Lincoln Robinson
format your drive before you try to install this will not invalidate your windows key they track you by the hw mac addresses
Alexander Price
but yeah really get linux pussy steamos is fine to game and easy to install if youre gonna nuke and pave anyway
Cameron Gomez
user repeatedly recommending Xubuntu here.
I kept having EVERYTHING interrupted by a massive pop up to upgrade to 10.1. I finally concede and do it, it says it failed. It then reboots, tells me welcome to 10.1. I then start getting pop ups telling me my antivirus subscription has expired and when I try to use MS Office I get told that's expired. Only reason I was still using Win 10 was for the warranty on my laptop. Ditched it as fast as I could.
Aiden Perry
Yeah if you're going to nuke get a good OS. Just install a Linux distro.
Jace Baker
Fuckin shit, I don't know how to code. From what I remember hearing about linux you basically have to know c++ just to access the date and time. You're not selling me. I'm a lazy guy who's been using windows since BIRTH.
Sell me better.
James Cooper
thats the whole point of steamos you only want to play games and use the web so you never leave steam big picture mode it boots right into it and you have to do nothing litterally just click next a buncha times....
Levi Collins
You don't need to know ANY programming languages. Command lines are quicker but on Ubuntu and Xubuntu (the most user-friendly distros) there's no need.
Main features - most software can be got from the built in repository. You can access this through a GUI or the terminal (sudo apt-get install). Default repo is audited by the developers so you know it's malware-free. - hardly any malware written for Unix anyway, so you don't need to bother installing antivirus - multi-screen setups are way better, supports all the regular crap as well as different wallpapers - boots faster, starts applications faster. About 10 different drivers (at least) including proprietary for doing one thing so if you want to optimise for ultimate speed you can - customisable as fuck if that's what you're into, look at ricing - I can do 360 updates in under 5 minutes. No more waiting for Windows to reconfigure your entire computer for 4 hours after 1 minor update.
It's basically windows, except free forever, open source, more secure, faster, more comfy, and not at all restricted in the slightest.
Hunter Wright
I used windows since birth too. Thought it was the best shit ever. Got a raspberry pi at one point and fell in love with Linux. Just try a Live USB or something and see what you think of it. Takes a bit of getting used to but it's worth it. And if you're worried about gaming, my whole library is compatible. Don't worry about it.
Hudson Allen
everyone whose old enough to be on the board was born with windows its like being born with aids, except with windows, you can get cured a few years on linux and you wont believe you put up with MS BS for so long
Bentley Scott
Give it a year, user. Buddy of mine raised his kids on Linux because he couldn't afford Windows. They're 17 now.
Chase Baker
yeah im more worried about when ios kids are old enough to vote
Mason Cruz
Here is my setup, user.
You see, it's just as simple and just as good (if not better) than Windows.
Christian Evans
you can also emulate the windows look and feel almost exactly with other desktop environments if thats more your style
Kevin Wilson
get the fuck out of here terry davis with your fucking faggot temple os
William Cooper
how fucking PC-handicapped do u have to be to be like you OP? Jesus. I wont even bother helping you. Worthless.