I just bought a new HP Pavilion preloaded with Windows 8.1 64-bit. So far I am very unimpressed with Win 8.1!
I just tried to install MS Office 2010 from my original DVD. I have the product key. I typed it in and MS accepted it. The installation seemed to proceed, although it also seemed to take a long time. Eventually it said I needed to reboot for the installation to complete. So I selected that and the machine started to restart but never fully restarted. I sat here and watched the word restarting and the little wheel of dots going in circles for nearly 5 minutes. By the end of that time, the hard drive light on the unit was not blinking much at all. Maybe one quick blink every 10-15 seconds or so. So I powered down, and from that point on nothing seems to be working right at all.
Eventually I just uninstalled MS Office 2010 (it did appear on the list of installed programs). At that point, there were none of the usual MS Office shortcuts on my desktop that I'm used to seeing.
Now the system seems to be behaving somewhat erratically, but it does work.
Was the problem that MS Office 2010 just won't work in Win 8.1 at all? Or has something else gone wrong?
I just tried to install MS Office 2010 from my original DVD. I have the product key. I typed it in and MS accepted it. The installation seemed to proceed, although it also seemed to take a long time. Eventually it said I needed to reboot for the installation to complete. So I selected that and the machine started to restart but never fully restarted. I sat here and watched the word restarting and the little wheel of dots going in circles for nearly 5 minutes. By the end of that time, the hard drive light on the unit was not blinking much at all. Maybe one quick blink every 10-15 seconds or so. So I powered down, and from that point on nothing seems to be working right at all.
Eventually I just uninstalled MS Office 2010 (it did appear on the list of installed programs). At that point, there were none of the usual MS Office shortcuts on my desktop that I'm used to seeing.
Now the system seems to be behaving somewhat erratically, but it does work.
Was the problem that MS Office 2010 just won't work in Win 8.1 at all? Or has something else gone wrong?
