[ROK99]

I'm running Win8 with Avast with no problems. It still updates at least twice a day and I am very happy with it. The other 3 computers running in my house use Win7 and XP with MSE installed.
I haven't been this excited waiting for Win8 since XP was released. Win7 took some time for me to warm up to but now with a triple boot setup I have XP, Win7 and Win8 all running flawlessly with XP.
I think short of the Metro and having to use a 3rd party like ViStart to get the old start button in Win8 I think it will be a great OS but there will always be those who keep the blinders on to the Metro being a pain in the tail side and won't go to Win8.
Windows Defender though good I have never been a fan of it.

Question: How could i manage the triple boot setup rshaffer mentioned? I have tried to get Win7 and Win8 to work together, but it always boots to windows 8. The only way i can go to win7 is to "boot bypass" in the bios. If anyone can tell me how i could do this, it would be greatly appreciated.

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In windows 7 (its easier that way)

Right click my computer icon on the desktop
Select Properties
Select Advanced system settings
Select the Advanced tab
Select Startup and Recovery settings
Tick the time to display list of operating systems

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[Essexboy]

In windows 7 (its easier that way)

Right click my computer icon on the desktop
Select Properties
Select Advanced system settings
Select the Advanced tab
Select Startup and Recovery settings
Tick the time to display list of operating systems

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[ROK99]

I already have it set to 30 seconds. I did not mention that i recently did major upgrades to my computer (RAM, MotherBoard, Blu-Ray drive, graphics card. Maybe i have to reinstall Windows 7 because i lost some hardware files?

[Essexboy]

In the drop down box does windows 7 appear as well as windows 8 ?

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[ROK99]

Windows 7 does not appear, just Windows 8. I may have to redo the windows 7.

Edited by ROK99, 01 September 2012 - 05:25 AM.

[Essexboy]

Therer is a way to add it using BCEdit... But I do not have the data available on that yet

[ROK99]

I tried that as well. I really don't understand it.

[Essexboy]

Have you tried using the windows CD .. Boot from that and select startup repair. The blurb on that suggests it will check all present OS and then enter as required into the bootmgr

[rshaffer61]

What I did was setup 3 partitions.
First partition I installed XP Pro.
Second partition I installed Win7 Pro.
Lastly I installed Win 8 Beta on the third partition and Win8 setup the bootmgr so I have the option of which OS I want to boot to. Using Essexboy's method I was able to change the default OS to Win8 so that I would boot automatically into it without manually having to chose it.