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 ·Hargray Cable
| WIN8 on new laptop=crap Bought a laptop yesterday with Win8 and back it will go. Win8 is crap, tablet OS at best terrible in every other way. I am not new to PC's in fact I learned to program in the mid-80's, I've built my own computers for years etc. I just needed a laptop for some light work and
Win 8 sucks period. No I will not get use to it. 
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DelmarPip
join:2011-10-15
South Padre Island, TX | can I have it for free ? |
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·Hargray Cable
| If they don't take it back maybe........ Hope I can still get a win& laptop around here.... |
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SipSizzurpFo' ShizzlePremium
join:2005-12-28
Houston, TX
kudos:4 | reply to Corehhi
said by Corehhi:Bought a laptop yesterday with Win8...
Win 8 sucks period. No I will not get use to it. Was that the "Metro Only" version of Windows 8 or the full version that includes the conventional desktop ? |
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·Hargray Cable
| said by SipSizzurp:said by Corehhi:Bought a laptop yesterday with Win8...
Win 8 sucks period. No I will not get use to it. Was that the "Metro Only" version of Windows 8 or the full version that includes the conventional desktop ? Not sure the difference?? It starts and I get a bunch of apps all over the screen and I have to click one to get to the desktop. Desktop has no start button and no easy way to look for programs. In fact everything is proving hard to get to. I guess it was stupid on my part not to look at Win 8 and see how different it was. My main computer will be running win 7 till wheels fall off. I don't use any of those sharing apps and all that. I don't want to be tracked all the time and I don't want to inform people of my latest bowel movement in real time. Sorry I'm not a hipster.
This is what I bought, $260 out the door with an odd combo of discounts and coupons. Figured I couldn't miss. »www.staples.com/Samsung-Series-3···t_985037 |
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 La LunaSurvived AshrafulPremium
join:2001-07-12
Warwick, NY
kudos:3 | reply to Corehhi
ONE day and you've decided it's crap?
I rest my case (see my posts in other Windows 8 threads). |
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SipSizzurpFo' ShizzlePremium
join:2005-12-28
Houston, TX
kudos:4 | reply to Corehhi
said by Corehhi: I don't use any of those sharing apps and all that. I don't want to be tracked all the time and I don't want to inform people of my latest bowel movement in real time. Sorry I'm not a hipster. You have a good point, but from what I see ( I'm de-crapping and customizing a new Gateway W8 computer as we speak ) those problems are not nearly as chronic as they may first appear. All of those "Tile" apps can be quickly obliviated. Right click on one of them and a tool bar appears at the bottom of the screen with the option to un-install. I just hosed about 12 of them in less than two minutes.
If you go to the real desktop by clicking the desktop tile you can right click the real desktop and add the icon for "My Computer" and the control panel. The control panel is identical to W7 and you can use the "Programs and features" list to un-install the rest of the factory loaded crap, like Norton, Wild Tangent, & etc just as you would need to do with Windows 7.
You would be shooting yourself in the foot by over reacting to such a minor "problem" of a slightly different computer feel. It is a new OS and will of course take a few minutes to get comfortable with. Windows 7 is going away and is not coming back.
The worst case scenario is that you can install a simple utility called "Classic Shell" that will completely skip the Metro interface and boot into a classic Windows 7 desktop with the start button and all the other normal things we already know how to operate. |
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 MavenPremium
join:2002-03-12
Canada | reply to Corehhi
Re: WIN8 on new laptop=crap said by Corehhi:Desktop has no start button and no easy way to look for programs. Customize the start screen and use that to launch your programs. Treat it as a full screen start menu.
said by Corehhi:I don't use any of those sharing apps and all that. I don't want to be tracked all the time and I don't want to inform people of my latest bowel movement in real time. Sorry I'm not a hipster. So uninstall those apps. Turn off whatever tracking you're talking about.
If you feel the start screen is that terrible, install classic shell as another user suggested and carry on. You are overreacting here. |
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·Hargray Cable
1 edit | Re: WIN8 on new laptop=crap
Thought was simply buy a Roku or boxee something like that but a cheap laptop would be more useful. Well combo of coupons etc got a laptop in the price range I was looking. I was looking simple stuff no point in over kill, my main computer runs three screens and I use it to make a living, different matter all together. Win 8 is a shock to me, it feels like a phone play toy or tablet. What I run for work is not an app or at least a win 8 app and won't be. Win 8 also feels like some wide open crapware device. In the end you are right I should have been paying attention I know MS is looking to get more money out of an OS and this is the way they are heading, mindless app clickers. |
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·Hargray Cable
| reply to SipSizzurp
Re: WIN8 on new laptop=crap Well Sip you may be right butt it's going to take me way to much work to de crap this, not as simple as just uninstall everything. If I can put classic shell on it life would be much better for me. We will see I just don't want to spend the time to figure this stuff out. Working on it right now but using a different computer to post that should tell you something..... |
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SipSizzurpFo' ShizzlePremium
join:2005-12-28
Houston, TX
kudos:4 | reply to Corehhi
I'll post some screen shots for you in about an hour, after I finish getting office, classic shell and some other goodies installed. |
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said by Maven:said by Corehhi:Desktop has no start button and no easy way to look for programs. Customize the start screen and use that to launch your programs. Treat it as a full screen start menu. I have three screens and can rarely see more than 10% of my desktop. The last thing I want to have to do is minimize everything to get to it to launch an app that I used to be able to with one click on the task bar.
Decent phone interface, blunderously stupid interface for a computer. |
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SipSizzurpFo' ShizzlePremium
join:2005-12-28
Houston, TX
kudos:4 | said by lorennerol:The last thing I want to have to do is minimize everything to get to it to launch an app that I used to be able to with one click on the task bar. The ability to pin tasks to the task bar has not been removed, and still works fine.  |
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SipSizzurpFo' ShizzlePremium
join:2005-12-28
Houston, TX
kudos:4 | reply to Corehhi
Here are a few screenies to show the start menu and items pinned to the task bar. The ugly metro tile screen is gone forever. What you see is what the computer boots up into.
In my opinion Windows 8 is a bigger improvement in functionality and usability over Windows 7, than 7 was over Vista. Microsoft has done a lot of house cleaning and de-bloating of the base code. Everything is easier to do and more intuitive. |
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| Ok I can work with that. BTW I have seen no reason to upgrade from XP, win 7 isn't an upgrade except for the fact MS is killing off XP.
I'm done for tonight I got side tracked with black Friday deals. |
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 shollingPremium
join:2002-02-13
Hemet, CA
kudos:1 | reply to Corehhi
I wouldn't put up with that phone OS on a laptop either. The level of arrogance that it takes to expect customers to relearn everything because MS thinks they know better than their customers is amazing. The only thing more amazing is how far the MS groupies and sycophants have their noses up Ballmer's butt. They're easy to spot they're they ones that insult (as opposed to helping) anyone not smitten with the latest crapware from Microsoft. I have the feeling that the MS brass stepped on their.... this time.
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