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Shane:
When you did the clean boot did you make sure to not uncheck any of the MS services?

Shane

DJDaren:
yes definately checked that off....unfortunately this is all moot, because i decided to try a clean boot again and it went into black screen and couldn't restore it to any of the 10 restore points and had to refresh everything and now after 2 days i've refreshed to windows 8, updated windows 8, used windows repair all in one in regular mode (because i did not want to risk having to go thru this all over again) to fix the windows store and the component store so that i could access the windows store and upgrade to 8.1, so i've just finished upgrading to 8.1 and now most likely i'm gonna have to run windows repair all in one in regular mode once more to fix the windows store because after the upgrade i can't open the store or any windows store app and windows settings.   I've actually gone thru this exact thing about 5 times since buying this laptop in January.  I've also done 3 full system restores and about 10 restore to a previous time.  I"m convinced the Windows 8 that came bundled with this HP Envy Sleekbook is too corrupted to be 100% fixed, unfortunately HP won't do anything about it.

Shane:
This is one of the reasons why with any store bought computer I wipe the drive clean and install windows fresh, without all their pre loaded crap. Windows 8 is the easiest OS to break that I have ever seen, and I have read how some of the 3rd party apps are the cause of a lot of the problems since windows 8 is so easy to break.

So what would be a good idea is to get ahold of a normal windows 8.1 install disk and install windows fresh and not use the factory restore. There is no cd key for it, the setup in windows will pull the key from the bios, then you can be free of all the 3rd party crap that is installed by default lol

Shane

DJDaren:
I'd have to be able to download it and put it onto a usb drive or an empty external hard drive since there is no disc drive on my laptop, I wish there was a way to make a recovery drive or an installation drive of the current running operating system, any hp software or windows software that does it does the operating system bundled which is Windows 8, which makes any recovery or refresh extra long cuz you have to go back to 8 and then go to 8.1

Shane:
Yeah I had a heck of a time getting the iso as well, but there is a way :-)

When windows downloads the 8.1 installer it is actually the 8.1 iso, see if this helps you get it, and yes it can be on USB :-)

http://betanews.com/2014/04/15/how-to-download-and-install-the-windows-8-1-iso-using-a-windows-8-or-8-1-key/

Shane

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