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Originally Posted by Blossom
My main problems have been Jump lists are useless and they get corrupted every few weeks. Computer slowing to crawl after being idle really bad with web browsers crashing or just freezing after being idle. The need to reboot every day. Vista spoiled me where I had only to reboot like once a week. The memory manager in Windows 8.1 is a nightmare. It holds onto programs think you may want then later this is good when playing games with long loading times but not so good with other programs. If a program takes long time to do anything Windows 8.1 thinks the program is frozen and tries to fix it causing crashing. 
When I had Vista I never had anything crash but Windows 8.1 likes to crash alot programs, it worse than XP and almost right up there with ME.
There is so much running in a background on Windows 8.1 I can't do much power tasks without it thinking I am idle and then slows to a crawl. |
I got Windows 8.1 running on a media center (runs 24/7), on an Atom tablet (runs 24/7) and on an i5 tablet (runs 24/7). I've seen a blue screen twice now (once on my atom and once on my i5 tablet, the i5 I can even explain as not OS related but rather hardware related). I've never had an application or app crashing, and I only reboot when windows update wants me to.
Having said that, I still don't want Windows 8 on my desktop, because it's not made for desktops. And the only reason I'd go to Windows 8 would be because of the way OneDrive is included. And that's being destroyed in Windows 10 so, no reason to update at all.