Not quite in full. They had ad breaks during some of the track action.

In reply to a post by GeeTee:

The problem goes away next year as BBC has all the races thankfully.

Have they? I thought they sold it all to Sky and only having the highlights.

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

The situation Adrian reports is totally abnormal. In fact, it puzzles me as last week I upgraded some of the most rubbish spec systems you'd imagine to Windows 8 and the performance of them compared to when they were running XP is amazing. Windows 8 will beat Windows 7 at performance hands down, guaranteed. Unless, there is some weird compatibility issue at stake. As long as you meet the minimum system requirements, you are good.

Just compare Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2008 R2 - the performance improvements are extremely impressive.

To say that Microsoft have made Windows 8 less efficient at multitasking than Windows 7 is a total nonsense - I feel sorry for Microsoft employees and developers who have to put up with all this disinformation that floats around about their products.

Aw, the poor things, where are the violins? they most lose a lot of sleep over it.

the problem I had with windows 8 may be abnormal, but it is still a problem and to be honest I can't be bothered to muck around with it at the moment, so windows 7 will stay on my machine until I can be bothered to sort out the problem.

Never had this problem with windows 7 and it also most a different Os than windows Xp, window 8 is pretty close to windows 7 even using the same drivers.

In reply to a post by kamelion:

I would love to know what windows 8 can do than windows 7 or 7 with an app can't do. My productivity is geared towards multiple windows , If I want a single window ui ill continue with froyo on my tablet or use alt-tab

Ps. 4:3 is over. Your vision is designed for binocular panoramic view - move on

Nothing apart from the fact that Ms wants you to be connected to their cloud permanently so they can spy on you. thankfully you can have a local account, which my windows set up, but only because I did not have nay internet acess when I installed windows 8

the only thing you can't do in windows 7 that you can do in windows 8 is use the metro interface and the silly apps.

It is SOP here to disconnect from the internet when doing a fresh Windows install until you have have been able to install your preferred firewall and AV.

In reply to a post by gomezz:

Not quite in full. They had ad breaks during some of the track action.

No they didn't. Not once. Not even during lengthy safety car periods. They ran adverts during the build up and post race but they never had adverts during the qualifying or the race. They didn't even run ads between each qually session.

I don't know what you think you were watching but if there were adverts between the start of Q1 and end of Q3 or between the warm up lap or podium then it wasn't Sky. Sky were true to their word and never once interrupted the two main events with adverts.

Edited by Andrue (Fri 30-Nov-12 20:49:19)

Agreed, at least as far as qualifying and the race are concerned. (I didn't watch practice). Probably the relaying service that did it, but vipbox.tv doesn't.

In reply to a post by Andrue:

No they didn't. Not once. Not even during lengthy safety car periods. They ran adverts during the build up and post race but they never had adverts during the qualifying or the race. They didn't even run ads between each qually session.

If you didn't notice the ad breaks then you weren't trying to follow *all* the on track action.

In reply to a post by gomezz:

If you didn't notice the ad breaks then you weren't trying to follow *all* the on track action.

How were you watching this? Sky TV claims no ads, so if there were any all hell would have broiken loose at the start of the year.

Andrue and I both regularly watch complete races on Sky relayed by other sites, with no interruptiion by adverts, (I stream the F1 website Live Timing in a window next to it), and there are no unexplained or strange "inserts" where Sky could have placed ads.

You and the other poster would seem to be using dodgy relay sites, inserting their own ads.

In reply to a post by gomezz:

It is SOP here to disconnect from the internet when doing a fresh Windows install until you have have been able to install your preferred firewall and AV.

Windows 8 have got AV and firewall, while I would not trust it long term, it be ok for short term.

The reason why mine would not connect is because windows 8 don't have any drivers for my wireless network.

Must have a play with my homeplugs again and see if I can get them working.