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RE :”I posted a thread a while back in search of comments regarding Windows 8 and other OS. I’ve come to the conclusion that ppl prefer anything but W8. This is a gift, so we had no say in the choices. Unless we take the Dell in and exchange it, but from what I’ve seen, we’d have to use the same OS regardless.”

I am using windows 8 to post this and its usable, just a real pain to get used to.

They tried to make it do stupid stuff to be like an touch screen Ipad.

Windows 7 was a great replacement for Vista. I dont know why they screw up every other major version.

But I liked the deal that Dell gave me and all the key SW already on it.

You can make W/8.1 like XP/W/7 with the free Classic Shell (http://www.classicshell.net/downloads/), without losing access to the extras W/8 offers. Once installed, R. clk. on the Start buttn and choose Settings and customize it as uyou like.

See a pic. of mine here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3109356/posts?page=124#124.

I missed the Quicklaunch bar, so i added it. The location is C:\Users\enterusernamehere\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Enter your user name where i put enterusernamehere. R. clk. on the Taskbar, point to Toolbars and New... and navigate to or paste the above text in the window.

It is also a good idea to go to C:\Users\enterusernamehere\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo then go up one level and R clk, on the Send to folder and create a shortcut, then drag it into the Send to folder. Now you can send any shortcut you want to that folder via right click.

Then go to the Quick Launch folder (paste the address into the Run command: Windows key and R), go up a level; create a shortcut and then r. clk >Send to>Send to -shortcut. Now you can add whatever shortcuts you want to it.

And rather than use W/8 libraries, etc, I make my own folders on a different partition or drive.

Also hand commands you can paste into the Run command:

C:\Windows\System32\appwiz.cpl (Uninstall progs)

C:\Windows\System32\rstrui.exe (system restore)

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wuapp.exe (Windows update)

powercfg.cpl

devmgmt.msc (device mgmt)

eventvwr.msc (event viewer)

services.msc

msconfig