WINDOWS 8

ME | August 05, 2013 | ME

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Just a heads up, if you're stuck with Windows 8 there is a free program called "CLASSIC SHELL" which gives you a start button. You can even choose to simulate XP.

I'm stuck with this rig, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna put up with it!

[ShadowAce]

No one is truly “stuck” with an OS they don’t like. One can always change the OS.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I use Classic Shell...and a few other tweaks...on my Win7 desktop that I am forced to use by my company. I miss XP. But I have pretty much all of that Aero crap hacked out.

[gallandro1]

You can download the free Windows 8.1 update which gives you the option of switching from Metro to the Classic GUI.

[whitedog57]

Windows 8.1 never loaded for me.

[varmintman]

Is there any way to get the windows chess game back for win 8??

[ctdonath2]

You missed an installation step. After WinXP, you were supposed to upgrade to OS X.

[Mr. K]

But if you DON’T want windows 8 you can PURCHASE the ‘upgrade’ that will allow you to remove it

Isn’t that great?

[lefty-lie-spy]

Major ping-a-ling-a-ding goodness. As I have since 1986. Windows XP and Windows 7 still takes thirty minutes to crash when it decides to, it’s just that the BSOD is hiding behind the desktop.

[HomeAtLast]

While we’re on the subject...I’ve noticed that in Windows 8, I have to minimize an app or go elsewhere, in order to close it. There seems to be no way to close things with just one click on the little x because it isn’t there. Example, the music app with the silly headphones emblem. Go in there and there’s no quick way out. I have to go to the desktop, put the browser in the top left corner, see the thumbnail of the music app, right click, then select “Close.”
Am I overlooking something obvious?

[Baynative]

My wife bought a lap top with Windows 8 and she is indeed, stuck. The stuff that is supposed to work like a touch screen is problematic, the commands don't control searching or scrolling effectively and the program isn't compatible with our email server that we have through our bundled cable service. We have had three different computer service techs try to fix it an they all gave up.

I would strongly urge anyone looking at a new computer to take a serious look at Mac as my son tried to get us to do.

[smokingfrog]

Metro — appropriately named.

[smokingfrog]

More importantly - does Win8 still have solitaire?

[McGruff]

I haven't had the pleasure yet but here's a recent review of Windows 8.1

Microsoft takes a mulligan with Windows 8.1.

And yes the Start button is back Jack.

[HomeAtLast]

And what is an Apple update doing in my task scheduler on Windows 8? (It’s also on my Windows 7 laptop which has slowed to glacier level movement.)

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

We have Vista and Windows7, and now Windows8 on my daughter's new laptop. She loves it, and I love it, especially for the laptop. For our purposes, the user experience is great. She's a college kid, with the obvious college needs. I use it for light duty, when she's not around 8-)

I do heavy-duty graphics on my old Vista computer, and I've never had any trouble with it. Can't wait to upgrade, though. Still, for a four-year-old computer, it's doing pretty well.

[The Great RJ]

When I recently rebuilt my desktop computer, I traded my almost decade old copy of Windows XP for Windows 7. Why, when Windows 7 is such a worthy successor to the venerable Windows XP, did Microsoft have to get carried away again with quickly bringing out the strange Windows 8? Windows 8 reminds me of the flop Windows Vista with all the cute memory hungry graphic interface. I have been a long time Windows user and even have for a time used a Mac, but I find Windows 8 almost incomprehensible. It took me more than an hour to figure out how to install a free anti-virus program on my brother-in-law’s Windows 8 laptop.

[HomeAtLast]

There are more different solitaire games in Windows 8 than you’d find in Hades. The Start thing offers Games, and All Casual Games, All Enthusiast Games, All Family Games, All Kids Games, All MMO Games, More Games, and more still. I’ve never been to any of them except plain solitaire, and the plainest solitaire isn’t near as plain as it could be.

[ShadowAce]

I bought my last laptop, and stuck in a DVD with s different OS before even powering it on. I run something other than what came on the laptop.

You can always change the OS.

[Baynative]

You can always should be able to change the OS. Then trouble we have found with Windows 8 is that it is like a plague with viruses all though the computer.. While installing a new OS may be possible, UN installing W-8 is all but impossible and multiple problems have occurred for us in trying to navigate around it. We are users, not programmers or mechanics, that makes matters worse and frustrating for us.