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I Hate Windows 8.

Caper

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I'm sure this had to have been brought up elsewhere. But I hate Windows 8. My wife has a laptop with Windows 8 installed... it's full of spamware (mysearchdial) and I just can't bring myself to fix it for her. Just Navigating around that system is a horrible experience... I can never find a program... I'm constantly get sucked back out to this tile screen... I use it a bit... but I just can't get used to it. I remember when facebook used to change up the site... and everyone would hate it, including myself.... for about a week... and then you wouldn't even remember what the old facebook looked like.... This is different... I can't even begin to see potential advantages.... it's horrible..... Why did they do this?
 
I think my favorite part is when I open a pdf file and the whole screen gets taken up.
 
Step one: Install ClassicShell (google it. Its free)
Step two: Setup interface like Win7 and make sure it boots directly to desktop
step three: Install a spamware/spybot/mallware remover like Ccleaner (pearsoft) and run a complete, exhaustive antivirus scan as deep as you can get it,
Step four: Convince spouse that keeping classic shell is the best way to go.
 
You realize you can make it look and work pretty much just like Win7, right?

Your first step would be to load the update to 8.1

You can then have it boot to the desktop, and pretty much never bother with the tiles again.
 
Foxit have a decent free pdf reader, try it yoursel and see if you like it.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
CCleaner is none of those things. And it's Piriform, not Pearsoft.
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Ooops. Note for me: must not post after 24 hours of nonesleep.

Offcause the sentence should have read:

"Install a spyware remover, a system optimizer tool (which I believe Ccleaner covers nicely) and an antivirus. Run the spyware remover. Uninstall unneeded software. Use tool to clean up software issues and run the antivirus as deep as you can."
 
I love foxit as well. The only drawback I found was last week. I was filling out some secure online forms for my bank and foxit wouldn't do it. I was stuck on a screen that said something to the effect of 'if you're seeing this you're pdf reader will not open this file - please use adobe'. Once I switched to adobe I could read it fine.

Of course once the form was filled out I dumped adobe and went back to foxit. Adobe, like Java, seems to think you have nothing to do all day but install updates.

As for Windoze 8... meh. I switched to the classical shell and it's all okay again. The tiles are fine on my lenovo laptop that has a touchscreen. I use some of the windows 8 apps for reading on planes and such but for sitting down with a keyboard and mouse the tiles suck
 
Caper said:
I'm sure this had to have been brought up elsewhere. But I hate Windows 8. My wife has a laptop with Windows 8 installed... it's full of spamware (mysearchdial) and I just can't bring myself to fix it for her. Just Navigating around that system is a horrible experience... I can never find a program... I'm constantly get sucked back out to this tile screen... I use it a bit... but I just can't get used to it. I remember when facebook used to change up the site... and everyone would hate it, including myself.... for about a week... and then you wouldn't even remember what the old facebook looked like.... This is different... I can't even begin to see potential advantages.... it's horrible..... Why did they do this?
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Yes indeed. They did it because they were stupid ********. On the bright side, several companies* are now selling new computers with Windows 7 installed instead of Windows H8. So sorry you have missed the threads priorly - especially if in the last 2 or 4 weeks.

Note, you will likely get posts from people who love it. They are Windows fans and love that it matches their phones. Windows loves that too. If I had learned about computers on my phone, I even might. I didn't. I don't.



*Amazon, Dell, HP.....
 
Caper said:
I can't even begin to see potential advantages.... it's horrible..... Why did they do this?
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Supposedly, it was designed for Tablet PCs, where fingers would be the primary interface device.

Microsoft assumed they could get away with "One Interface For All", that happens to be 'optimized' (to use the term loosely) only for tablets.

It didn't work. The UI is full of design flaws, that they are slowly correcting, with each patch that comes out.

For example: For Win 8.1 Update 1, they finally have right-clicking menus that show up where you right-click the mouse, instead of bringing up the menu in another spot (icons on the bottom of the screen), on the Start Screen.

It made no sense, from a design stand point, for the user to right-click in one spot, and have to move the mouse to another area to get to the actual menu they were bringing up.

Eventually, they will re-introduce the Start Menu, I think.

The sad thing is that all of this could have been avoided, if they hadn't brushed off the science of practical psychology and interface design so quickly. They pushed Win8 out the door, before it was barely dressed and didn't even have time to brush its teeth!
 
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Wowbagger said:
Eventually, they will re-introduce the Start Menu, I think.
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I miss the start menu.

I help out with PC support (no mac) for the blind. Going from XP to Vista to 7 is not much of a problem other than finding where they've moved/renamed things to. But 8 is a pain. It would be so nice if there was just a built in 'behave like Windows7' toggle.
 
Last night I tried to add my wife's new laptop to the Homegroup. I entered the password and it said there were no Homegroups available. Then, when I went to the Network page, it said a Homegroup was available. So I clicked on the link, put the password in and it said ...

And then after I went back to the Network page it showed that the computer was part of the Homegroup.

Loverly.
 
Wowbagger said:
Supposedly, it was designed for Tablet PCs, where fingers would be the primary interface device.
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Sounds about right, Mrs. Don's Surface and both our smartphones run Windows 8 and it's great. We still have Windows 7 on most of our laptops (I think there's one notebook still running XP somewhere).
 
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