Metro annihilation

[The_Fire]

Hi
Was wondering if any of you boffins whom are more into win 8 than I, can help me.
I am currently working as a TA in a school where they are getting tired of the Metro tiles. Particulary the more demanding (read: ADHD etc.) students are getting annoyed with the tiles. They want a windows 7 enviroment like the one they have at home and the teachers are tired of the tiles as well. And no, they dont have touchscreens, so they dont need them.

I know, that there is a way to annihilate the tiles and make the desktop look like 7 from the get go and I need to make sure that theres no way the metro pops up anywhere as some of the students gets upset when things aren't consistent.

Help?

 

[commandlinegamer]

Hi
Was wondering if any of you boffins whom are more into win 8 than I, can help me.
I am currently working as a TA in a school where they are getting tired of the Metro tiles. Particulary the more demanding (read: ADHD etc.) students are getting annoyed with the tiles. They want a windows 7 enviroment like the one they have at home and the teachers are tired of the tiles as well. And no, they dont have touchscreens, so they dont need them.

I know, that there is a way to annihilate the tiles and make the desktop look like 7 from the get go and I need to make sure that theres no way the metro pops up anywhere as some of the students gets upset when things aren't consistent.

Help?

Check what edition of Windows 8 your machines are running. Depending on the licence used, you may be able to downgrade:

http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/downgrade_rights.aspx

 

[Alareth]

You can use Classic Shell http://classicshell.net

 

[Wowbagger]

Or Start8 from StarDock. It's $5.00 after a free trial

Classic Shell is free. But, I still like Start8's options and stuff better.

 

[oody]

While some of the behaviors can be mapped back to Windows7 style, there will remain Metro-style dialogs of 8.1 as the only available means to do certain tasks. For example, clicking the network icon down by the clock wiill bring a Metro-blue menu over from the right, entirely unlike a Windows7 wifi dialog, and the start-button app or boot-to-desktop won't change that.