[Mount Athos]

I learned to love windows 8.

Takes 60 seconds to install “classic shell”.

Instantly solved all my usability problems.

Gave me the same old windows 7 interface!

http://www.classicshell.net/

[meyer]

http://www.classicshell.net/

I used a similar product called Start8 that mimics the Windows 7 interface in many ways.

http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

It basically restores the start menu with its functions.

There are still some quirks in Windows 8 that I need to deal with - when I use the touchpad on my laptop, I sometimes inadvertently bring out the overlay of some other useless menu along the right side of the screen.

Frankly, if this laptop had been available with 7, I’d have gotten it that way. The touch screen is a nice novelty, but it isn’t anywhere near a necessary feature, and having the interface unilaterally changed to gain that feature was a bad trade.