Computer Help Please?

Windows 8 and 8.1 are the worst viruses unleashed on the planet. They have disabled to alternate boot option so you can only reboot Windows 8 off your hard drive. I recommend avoiding at all possible turn.What is Panda? Could be there as pointed out.For me, Panda is the Internet Go server.BTW, for full disclosure, I am running 8.1 myself.

I have been unable to boot into Ubuntu. Read this carefully - they still are not describing how to do it, only that they will have the option at some later time:"While Clark didn't mention it, booting to a Linux operating system on a Windows 8 machine appears to be a whole different kettle of fish that's associated with a UEFI "secure boot" controversy. Users who want to do that probably won't be able to do so on a Windows RT device (also known as "Windows on ARM"). This potential limitation has raised the ire of many people in the Linux community.The new ARM-based Windows 8 devices will use the newer UEFI-based firmware, rather than BIOS, to boot the system. UEFI features a secure boot certification process that reduces the risks of booting into malware, but that feature doesn't play well with Linux OS variants. Microsoft will require hardware manufacturers to have the secure boot feature turned on by default in new Windows RT devices, but users of x86/x64 Windows 8 machines apparently will be able to turn that feature off.Microsoft has said that it expects to deliver a "release preview" of Windows 8 in the first week of June. The OS may be rolled out as a final product sometime in the fall of this year. "I have meticulously tried to sneak around Windows 8.1, but I always get slapped down.

I'd love to know how you did that, Thin Air. Seriously - I learned how to change the 2 millisecond interrupt and made a thumb drive boot, but it never sees it.

Percy - I hear that 10 fixes a lot of the 8 troubles. Just a little wait longer?

That also didn't work for me.But thanks.

coffee_addict writes: I'll tell one huge advantage of dropped support! You don't get any more of those annoying popup windows demanding you upgrade! LOL

First off thank you for kicking my butt about this. Time has flowed under the bridge and the help files out there are a bit better.Thin Air writes: I have tracked it down to a comedy of errors. The first time I tried to install Ubuntu I used wubi. Little did I know that 8.1 can't use wubi. But even further more it will never work if any of the wubi files are still on your system. So you have to clean that off and start again with UEFI stuff.Then I need to make the ISO file reside on a bootable CD or flashdrive. So I am making a bootable flashdrive now.Edited by xongsmith, : ing

thanks everyone for helping me get here from ubuntu linux!

Moose ABE: But did you write down what you did so you can do it again? I always forget what ever random walk of futzing I did when I accidently wander into the solution I was looking for. For example, my dual boot of Ubuntu and Windows 8.1. I doubt I could remember how to do that all over again.Sounds good!

OS is like Windows, Mac, linux and so on.

Faith writes There are 5 fundamental forces. Here they in order, weakest to strongest:gravity
the weak nuclear force
electromagnetism
the strong nuclear force
chord tangle

RAZD writes: ...and there goes my brief unenlightened foray into String Theory - nothing left but shards of dischord...tangled up in blue.

AZPaul3 explains: Why is a, the area, given in units of volume?
Inversely proportional to the square of the volume??
Do you have a back-of-the-envelope derivation of that???Innarestin'.

RAZD notes: ...okay, this is starting to hurt my head - especially when I go under my desk to plug in my other computer. OUCH.

Faith correctly grumbles:
This reminds me of the numerous instruction manuals that have a section on connecting to the internet. They all begin with something like "just go to Forbidden and download the connect app".