I botched up trying to remove that partition unsuccessfully only to be left missing about 120GBs of my hard drive and not being able to see the partition. Lol + 1/2 again! If you stick around you'll learn that I'm not the savviest of users. More resources saved, although I had to contend with the OEM recovery partition which just sat there unused.
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Then with upgrading with fresh install to 7 I didn't carry along the Acer OEM crapware.
While using 7 I upgraded the RAM in it to maximum 2GB, which probably Vista would've ran fine with. It was more that Acer OEM released and sold the machine with far too less RAM in it to run Vista efficiently. While using 7 I found out that it really wasn't a Vista OS fault, although as an OS compared to others it was quite a resource hog. Luckily 7 came along, which ran quite nice with very little problems. Like I said, at the time I was very busy professionally trying to run a business with it, so setting up and learning a whole new system was questionable. Lol! Like you, I was finished with Windows forever!, but with me I started to look into Linux. It got to be where I was fixing the blasted thing more than using it! I was very busy at the time professionally and didn't need the headaches. It ran a little faster than my old Gateway with 98SE on it, but was far more unstable. Ugh! Not a good experience whatsoever! "How unstable of an OS this thing is and quite a resource hog", or so I thought at the time.
I can relate to your frustration, for I bought this Acer tower (please see specs) with Windows Vista preloaded. Then there's the elimination of much exciting anticipation when things go south with it. Sorry to hear you're having so many problems with your new machine, especially if after spending hard-earned money on it. Welcome to Windows EightForums, onedoggy.