Magical Jelly Bean Doesn't Work With Windows 8

Any of you using Magical Jelly Beans need to know for Windows 8 it won't work. It will show a coa but it will not be correct.
Try this little utility which does show Windows 8 correctly.
Option 5:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/27129-product-key-find-windows-8-a.html

 

Yeah well the clowns making name brand computers got together this year and Windows 8 pcs do not have Coas anywhere on them because they are in the bios.
That's fine until the mobo blows so anyone having a Windows 8 pc should find their key and keep it somewhere safe because that was one of my early surprises when I tried to reinstall Windows on a replaced board
on an Acer laptop, kinda hard to do without a COA.

 

That's why I will keep using Windows7 till Microsoft get Windows8 sorted properly.
I have Windows 8.1 and seldom open that OS.
You say it's hard to tell the difference with tweaks.
One OS works well and the other a PITB.

 

Dougie, so you know, I do all my work on my Windows 7 pc and I wouldn't dream of doing anything on my Windows 8 pc.

 

Yes Rich. Most of the techies I speak to on 4 web sites all do the same as you.
Windows 8 is not a very liked OS, however we need Windows8 to answer members issues with Windows8.
Not all the advice posted on the net is correct I have found.
At times the advice posted on the net can hose an OS.

 

I can't agree more on that, some things I have read would be horror stories. It can also go for some things that might be correct for a particular problem, but if tried on a system with a different problem, it can cause damage. That can be very true regarding some things a member may be asked to do in a malware removal problem, that if used on a different system would cause havoc.
Take a very large pinch of salt when reading stuff on the net in general.

Nev.

 

Correct Dougie I find the ones pushing Windows 8 so hard are mostly the "wing nuts" of the tech world though I must say there are two very rational successful fellows on a Linkedin Technology Business Owners Forum I am on who really are gung ho Windows 8. I have it simply so I will know how to use it to help others and soon more than a well substantiated rumor says that Windows 8.2 will have a normal start menu and will default boot to desktop which I also hear is how Windows 9 will work.

 

Right Nev that is one of the reasons I have always been so careful in posting a solution to make sure I am not blowing away someone else s system 1 week later when some innocent user reads something and misinterprets something else and then hoses their system. We have to realize all the time we are writing for more than just the poster we are addressing and I wish more people would think like that. Obviously to do this perfectly is impossible but we can try.

 

I am not aware of anyone who has hosed their OS from any advice given by our brilliant Techies.
CHF Techies take their responsibility in advising members very serious.

 

Dougie please number one do not take that personally as a slap at this forum, that is not the way it was meant at all. I also was not saying anyone here is sloppy with giving advice or anything like that.
We all go to other forums and we have all seen instances where bad advice caused real mishaps and personally I have never seen that happen here. My style of posting, and I believe the style of many others who frequent many forums as most of us do here, is to always consider who the reader might be is all. A perfect example of that happened to me a number of years back when I read somewhere about CCleaner and decided to try it and hosed two systems with it. After the first one I noticed there is a reg cleaner in it but even after I disabled that I hosed another one. Have they improved the product , well maybe but I won't recommend it because any product that ever caused a system to fail to boot, is off my list for good. It should have been checked and fixed long before that happened. Another example of that is TFC Cleaner, that many suggest. Recently I used it on a client pc and twice after each use it caused a BSOD. I know it was that product now it did not hose the system either but I would be reluctant to recommend it if it did that even once to a knowingly good system. So when hard drive cleaners are suggested I usually point out that they should be used at your own risk, but with these big hard drives of today where the user seldom fills even 20% of them, there really is no reason to employ them anyway. Actually the more on a hard drive to a point, the faster it will move it's sort of like what happens when you roll a big boulder down a hill and see once it starts how much faster it moves where the smaller the rock the less that is true. That is the sort of thing I was talking about.

 

I think Dougie was merely pointing out that we are all good enough to not knowingly post bad advice is my take on it. We have all been around long enough to be wary of advising in tricky situations.

 

Right Nev and I certainly didn't mean "knowingly" at all, I was referring to those posts that come along and do so by accident and certainly not here either. That is something that was ingrained in my head years ago that Mods have to watch out for others who who do either intentionally or not intentioanlly.

 

I was saying how good I thought our Techies were.
Entirely my own observation.