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chris635:
Whats up forum :cheesy:
Is anyone using windows 8.1? Is it any better?
Chris
Shane:
I tried it and still want my Windows 7 lol.
They put back a start button but not a start menu. You click the start button and it takes you back tot he metro screen. You have to right click it to bring up a simple menu to give you a few more options you didnt have before. So diffidently MS just adding enough back to shut people up without giving up their new change.
I really dont think we will ever see our good ol start menu again from MS. They want the App store market, so I would truly be surprised if Windows 9 will have a start menu. But for 8, it never will have one like we are use to.
MS will simply buy some time and let people get use to it, at the same time some people who have gotten use to it dont mind it.
I am simply one of those people who has so much work to do that I really have no desire to learn it yet lol. And to be honest I hate the flat look. Also Avast just updated since I use them, their new version of the Avast freaking copys the Windows 8 look and everything is flat and square. Who in their right mind would follow MS on that look lol.
Shane
chris635:
Yeah i noticed that about avast. If I do make the move. Do your tweaks, such as networking etc.. still work? Or are they even need in windows 8.1?
Chris
Shane:
Windows always needs tweaked. MS always has a default setup and allows people to tweak it as needed, admins, users and such. The default from MS works but is not always the best.
Also I was using classicshell for a start menu, but I found this one and havent tried it yet
http://www.iobit.com/iobitstartmenu8.php
But with a startmenu back it makes Windows 8 MUCH more usable. Just sucks you have to use a 3rd party, but hey at least we have the option :-)
Shane
neroilo:
--- Quote from: Shane on October 20, 2013, 01:51:15 pm ---They put back a start button but not a start menu. You click the start button and it takes you back tot he metro screen.
--- End quote ---
With "Show the Apps view automatically when I go to Start" option you'll see a list of all your programs without redirecting to Metro interface (the main one with squares).
The more I try Windows 8.1, the more I don't miss start menu at all, especially with the new Apps view.
I think they have other problems than a start menu debate, for example they need to unify desktop environment with metro and in the same time re-thinking control panel (having two different control panels for Desktop and Metro is not the best solution indeed).
Win-X menu seems too limited by default, the old context menu is far superior and more customizable.
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