To despise Windows 8?

[LittlePocket]

I've had it a while and I just can't warm to it. I'm close to launching this laptop through the window on a daily basis. There may be light at the end of the tunnel with 8.1 coming out in October but so far it's a load of shit!

I have windows 8, i still have no idea to find certain things, im just used to it now.

I hate Windows 8 (on my mother's computer - she's 300 miles away and new to computing and I help her out through Teamviewer sometimes) - her laptop isn't a touchscreen - so might be better if it was...but for just a start - can it not just have a decent taskbar - how to you get that thing to come down in the right hand corner and stay down! Grrrrr....
But I also hate Windows 7 (on my computer) - much prefer Windows XP!
(And I've used every windows system from Windows 3.1 and also MACs - found the changes in all more intuitive than Windows 7)
I just think as they try and make computers more user friendly they make them harder to use if you want to use them for something more than browsing the web ...
My pet hate are Libraries on Windows 7 - why? Made worst by the fact I have never used 'My documents' - always save my files to the D drive (while getting my Windows XP laptop onto a work server it managed to overwrite my user account - and so all 'My document' files - luckily I had a back up but still hassle I didn't need...)
And also if you have folders open and you try and move them they decide you want them to maximise -grrr...
And don't start me on their backup program - biggest load of crap I've come across ...I rotate my back up media and do different backups (I use my computer for my different 'jobs') except if doesn't like it!
I do think all computers should come with a decent basic computer maintenance info too like how and when to defrag, scan disk etc ...as well

Liquid

The settings for that are in Control Panel>Touchpad>Properties

YANBU. We've just bought a new PC with Windows 8 and I'm finding it so un-user friendly, especially for browsing the internet. I miss swooshing between pages like I did on my MacBook. Agree with fatdaddy72 though about Macs and Apple products in general.

Do install Classic Shell (or there are some others if you have a google). Honestly, it will cheer you up no end.

YANBU - I guess no experience.... my computer is a work one. New this summer, with windows 7 on it. Because we're a software company so we need kit we can work on. And DH brought forward his PC replacement to get the last of the Win7 machines in PC world, having read the reviews. (if he'd known there would be the classic shell available he might not have bothered)

My pet hate are Libraries on Windows 7
don't use them then! I do use Documents for a few things- but mainly via a link from my Cygwin home directory. Most of my serious stuff is on D - works fine. Come to think I use Cygwin for most serious work! (for those who don't know, its a unix emulator). Perversely my Linux 'machine' is now a VM running on the windows machine!

We bought DD a laptop with Windows 8 for Christmas but she hates it and never uses it - preferring to use our Windows 7 Home PC.

Took us ages to realise that most websites she likes won't work off the Explorer App - because of Flash issues - and that she had to use the full Windows Explorer.

Also it is a nightmare to navigate and I agree with the people who point out that even turning it off is a total pain...

If they've designed 8 for the sweep generation, why didn't they just launch it alongside 7?

call it Windows Swipe or something?
or Windows Touch?

and keep 7 for those who don't have touchscreens

It's awful. I've had it a few months and still haven't got used to it.

It's an unadulterated pile of shit.

My MIL who is a technophobe was sold one for a vast sum of money and I am spending hours and hours sorting stuff out for her - new printer, getting the printer to work, downloading documents from emails, attaching documents to emails, printing again, getting rid of stupid pre-installed apps that nobody would ever want to use, installing Solitaire instead (which is all she wanted in the first place) and so on and so on and so on.

I feel like killing the fucking salesman in Curry's who sold her this piece of crap, and I feel like killing my SIL who was with her at the time and who should have known better.

I'll try the Classic Shell thing.

www.extremetech.com/computing/141702-how-to-bring-the-start-menu-and-button-back-to-windows-8

A few more alternatives for those who just want a standard desktop and a Start button in Windows 8 - they are mostly free.

Grimma - I keep my data on the D drive in a folder named 'Asafedocs ' -but took ages to find out how to get rid of libraries from the task bar - (IIRC it involved a registry hack!)
Now I have my Asafedocs on the start menu (and have it on the taskbar too) -open that and it and any other folders I open appear like the libraries icon on the task bar ...before I found it an absolute PIA to even get to the D drive...and certain programs still default to libraries -grrrrrr....

YANBU. It is utter, utter shite. It looks ugly, runs like a pig, makes all sorts of assumptions and wastes your time while you fanny about trying to work out how to do basic stuff. Shite.

I installed Ubuntu Linux and half a dozen applications and configured the wi fi and a couple of window managers and a development environment in the time the pamphlet that came with my new laptop said it would take to boot Wankers 8 for the first time. Just to boot the bloody thing, never mind working out what to do next.

Shite.

Does anyone remember the launch of Windows 95?

They used a Rolling Stones track featuring the lyric "Start it up!"

It always made me laugh that the following lyric in the song was "You make a grown man cry"

m0nkeynuts That's exactly how I feel about Windows 8 too, it's a tarted up version of Windows 7 (the boot times are amazing even with a non SSD computer) meant for tablets and other touch screen devices. I bought it around Christmas time for £25 (bargain!) to update my old XP license.

I miss the start menu a little but that should be fixed in the near future.

I just want to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! to all you lovely ladies who suggested classic shell. I've just installed it and I think I may be able to survive the curse of the 8. I'll know by tomorrow (if the laptop gone through the window!)

Have some and on me! :)