Anyone use Windows 8?

[Midniteoyl]

Ah, that answers that. Yet another device we have to carry around, keep charged, etc... why didn't MicroSoft build cell service into the Surface? frustrating.

Because there would be 6 different versions just in the US.. .. Best thing in the world is to NOT build in Cell service..

 

[Midniteoyl]

I'm still running XP as it seems to be one of the best things they came out with. Kim Komando says on her radio show that when XP isn't supported anymore next year all of us holdouts will have to buy new boxes. Makes it sound like pirates will come right out of the screen and rape our faces and steal everything in the house. I wonder at how dire the vulnerability will be with current firewall and antivirus running. Also I wonder if MS might have thrown a few sabotage bugs in to help us along, as I sometimes have some unresponsive script hangups that pretty much render things unusable until a reboot.
If I have to, I'll get a Win7 box off ubid, but I hate the thought. Took ten years to get this one where I like it.

Kim is a joke.. You dont have to buy anything..

And your scripts hanging up are due to running old IE software... you wont get the newer stuff in XP.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Should just call this the 'whine about MS thread'... jeez, like any large company today didnt/hasnt/isnt buying people out, screwing up software, handing over personal info, raping our privacy, putting out crappy hardware, ets, ets, ets...

Yeah! Go Apple! Go Google! Go! Go! Go!

Steve had his way, we'd all be stuck in 1999 with one, white, pos to work on, and if Google gets its way, we'd all have androids and absolutely NO privacy.

 

[kidr]

I bought a new laptop with 8 installed. I had it configured to work like XP. A friend did it for me, so don't ask me how to do it. It took me an hour to figure out how to shut down 8.

 

[Bird]

Window's 3.11 was the best Window's program they ever made.

I don't think I ever used 3.11, but I'd sure like to go back to 3.01 which I thought was the best, and ME was the worst. And I've avoided buying another computer since they started coming with 8 installed.

 

[Ken]

I don't think I ever used 3.11, but I'd sure like to go back to 3.01 which I thought was the best, and ME was the worst. And I've avoided buying another computer since they started coming with 8 installed.

Don't buy the Win 8 or will take up drinking the strong stuff. Coffee no longer will help the thinking.
Purchased a Win 8 after the Sys 7 was unable to function due to McAfee and Win Essentials got in to a argument as to which will slow up the computer the longest .
So after a year still will not use for record keeping or pictures because of confusing conflicts.
Also being left handed the touchpad is terrible. have to reach over the left 1/2 to move curser and a finger curled will cause the left side to go in-to (Well they call children with the condition as ADHD) Then have to go the Win key to return where was before the left touch.
Tried to give to 2 different teen agers going to college. both said no prefer to use Apple instead.
Have the sys 7 fixed keep all record and tax information on it no problems .
For me wish it would just die and so I would be relived of the concern for its disposal.
ken

 

[dirt ditch]

My wife has a new i7 laptop with windows 8 and it took her a while to learn it. It really slowed down her work until she got use to it. I have used it and can't even find a way to shut it off except let the battery run down. My computer runs Vista and thanks to ebay just replaced the 1.8 GHz processor with a 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo... Impressive ain't it View attachment 335731

 

[Gator6x4]

I don't think I ever used 3.11, but I'd sure like to go back to 3.01 which I thought was the best, and ME was the worst. And I've avoided buying another computer since they started coming with 8 installed.

Bird I am like you. I started with DOS and have worked my way up the tree. I stopped with Win 7, Ultimate. I have looked at Win 8 and each time I come away with, that is just like Windows ME.

 

[LD1]

I'll admit, I'm not much of a computer geek, so I dont know much of the differences of windows versions, but it sounds like I lucked out skipping windows ME.

I went from 2000 to XP to vista and now 7. Never had ME, and I guess I am glad. I have 7 now installed on a computer that came originally with 64-bit vista. I honestly dont even notice much of a difference there for what I do. Which is basically internet, word, and excel as well as just some storage of pics and videos.

 

[droptop]

I bought the Wife a new notebook with Win 8 on it. Neither of us liked it. I found Classic Shell which makes 8 look and act like Win 7....much better.

Classic Shell - Start menu and other Windows enhancements

I would classify myself as a power user, but not a computer geek. So when I got my new Win 8 machine running and became frustrated:confused2:, I totally sympathize with any casual user hating the new Windows. After talking with our head IT guy at work, he said that he's planning on using the Classic shell program on any new machines that we buy to reduce he headaches in training people to use Win8.

I installed it at home and it made my new computer usable. Try it! You can have the menus look like XP, Vista or Win 7, and gets rid of the stupid Metro screen.

Also other hints to make it work like you are used to:

1. Download and install Adobe Acrobat, the pdf reader that is installed is terrible, you also need to go in and make Acrobat the default program to open pdf files.
2. Change the default program for opening pictures and videos to the old Windows media player, its already installed but they made the Metro viewer the defalut, again the Metro viewer is terrible.
3. If you already created a Microsoft user and don't want to have to enter the password every time, add a new user and Don't create a Microsoft user for that account. Give the new account administrator rights and you will not have to use the original account again.