Never, under any circumstances, consume a laxative and sleeping pill, on the same night
Thanks for the link.
"Remember back in the day, when things were made by hand, and people took pride in their work?"
- Rick Dale
I'm beginning to think there is no Windows after 7.
8 is a joke.
8.1 is not much better.
9 stillborn
10 might be worth looking at in a year or so. Probably not.
Home users, buy a Mac!
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
Same here. I run Windows 7 Pro at work, and 8.1 Pro at home. With a start menu add-on for 8.1, it's identical to Windows 7, only faster.I've been using 8.1 with an add-on program to get rid of the Metro interface. And like that 8.1 is good - I like it.
Then you've probably never used it.8 is a joke.
8.1 is not much better.
Gerry
JointCAM
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
My experience with Win8.1 is the same as yours with the start menu replacement program.
It has become the popular thing to jump on the Win8.1 is horrible bandwagon. The main thing MS did wrong was get rid of the start menu, just about everything else is good. It takes $5 or less to fix that and you are left with a strong stable operating system.
Myk,
Besides the start menu thing, what exactly is it about Windows 8.1 that makes it a joke?
Larry J Browning
There are 10 kinds of people in this world; Those who understand binary and those who don't.
I like the user interface on 8.1 a whole lot better than 8 simply because you can right click on the start menu to do a lot of stuff. I like to avoid third party add-ons to what I consider core parts of the operating system.
Larry J Browning
There are 10 kinds of people in this world; Those who understand binary and those who don't.
If I add a pull to a cabinet the cabinet doors won't fall off and the cabinet won't become unusable. If I add an add-on to my Windows PC the core system may become unstable and crash more often.
I work on computers all day and too many add-ons can cause instability. I've had to remove stuff fairly often from Windows servers because it causes them to crash.
I tried an add-on for the menu. It was nothing like a real installation of 7. If you need an add-on, why use it in the first place?
I don't like the "Metro" interface of 8/8.1.. It was made for touch screens, not a keyboard/mouse system.
I'm done on this topic.
Never, under any circumstances, consume a laxative and sleeping pill, on the same night
"Start is Back" for $3 is nearly identical to Windows 7, and you never see the Metro pages again.
Gerry
JointCAM