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Help with Dell Windows 8
So, I bought a Dell Inspiron with touchscreen and preinstalled Windows 8 for my kid. I then upgraded to Windows 8.1. So far all good.
Then I made the mistake of upgrading to Windows 10, and the family safety settings started to fail. The times weren't honored, the curfews weren't being enforced. All in all a very bad experience.
I tried downgrading, but the PC didn't come with installation discs, so I found some old Windows 7 discs and installed it.
Now I realized that the family protection features of Win 7 aren't as good as those of Win 8, so I'd like to upgrade again to Windows 8.
But I DON'T HAVE THE DISCS. Any suggestions of where to get it? is it possible to download my PC specific configuration from Dell?
Thanks
Philip_Yip
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Posted February 24th, 2016 11:00
Even if you procure media from Dell its likely to be a generic installation USB/DVD. A Clean Install of Windows 8.1 with Update 1 or Windows 10 TH2 will perform better than your factory settings (which are from 2012 and will require you to download Windows 8.1 or 10 from Windows Update anyway).
Mary G
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Posted February 23rd, 2016 14:00
You can create media for reinstalling win 8.1 from Microsoft and it will see your embedded win 8 key. Follow the directions carefully--
windows.microsoft.com/.../create-reset-refresh-media