>>Time to upgrade to Windows 7.
>>A lot of the windows 8 sales are OEM which makes it look like they have a lot of sales, but a great number of users upgrade to windows 7 because of all the issues. Need to follow the alternate version rule.
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>My other PC is Windows 7. I'll have to wait for a while to see if the additional issues are coming back. The unlock Retry issue is gone. That is one thing that was causing a lot of problems. But, an important one came back again which is that SQL Server is putting my databases in recovery mode. That one is a major bug.

I am using different VM's for more and more of my dayly stuff, and a big backup disk for those VM. Skipping the install into a separate path a I did turn of the century with multiple OS installs on physical machines, but have a singular mapping into data. Make-do work for sure, but less PITA than what you are expiriencing...

sympathies

thomas