[deoetdoctrinae]

My wife had to replace her laptop last week, and I quickly put Classic Shell in place in her new one, to simulate Windows 7, before Windows 8.1 sent both of us screaming into the night.

[Red in Blue PA]

With the Classic Shell, 8.1 is now enjoyable, and stable to boot. I love the system now, though rarely use the tiles.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, yeah. I snuck that great app onto the Win8.0 box myself out of sheer frustration prior to the 8.1 upgrade, but I have to be somewhat proficient in the 8.1 UI because I have a lot of users requiring help with it and if I don't use it, I won't learn it. My Mac users have a little higher pain threshold but still need help, and so I was able to talk the boss into an Airbook for awhile. Nice box. Kinda spendy but a work of art.

I've got a Live Mint thumb drive (thing about ultrabooks is lack of ports - you pay for the small footprint) and it rocks at USB 2.0 speeds. It's a USB 3.0 port, and so when I pony up the bucks for a USB 3.0 thumb drive, it ought to smoke. Fun stuff!