Thread: Snap

Originally Posted by SupportTypeGuy

Also... as I posted in a different thread you can remove Metro UI without 3rd party apps... please see this link:

Remove Metro UI

The tip in the link does not work effectively in Windows 8final. (It is a very old tip!)

Dave, thanks for your reply. I haven't tried it because I actually like the interface; but HTG is usually pretty good about updating; and since the comments are all from October, I assumed that it was still relevant. Can you tell me when they were pulled out and I'll notify HTG so that they can pull this article.

Note to Dave: You are correct - I saw October and didn't look at the year of the comments which is 2011 not 2012... that was my bad.

Also, I watched the video posted by tanzanos... I did notice that they were using the beta to display the issues. There have been numerous changes from the beta as expected. Yes, I do agree with the image being a bad move initially - also I agree that the menus have been hidden quite oddly; but once I figured them out it's been quite simplistic to get around. Again, learning curve; I still don't get the hiding the access to control panel etc which you can get to by right clicking the start window from the desktop and see a context menu which shows numerous options.

I tried to do a search: I typed "device manager": Nothing! I typed "uninstall": Nothing! Closing applications by dragging them to the bottom? If this is not an OS strictly designed for touch screen.... Dear me! I spent 1 week at a friend's Win 8 and sorry but this OS totally lacks intuition. Has an even worse search than win 7 and it just isn't designed for PCs and certainly not designed for the professional in mind.

I tried and gave up. I will stick with win 7 until MS stops supporting it and hope that MS comes up with another OS designed for PCs and not smartphones. Sorry DREW, but I suppose I am just too stupid to be able to use Win 8.

Who said that you must like Windows 8? The world would certainly be a boring place if we all thought the same. If you don't like Windows 8 then fair enough, you tried it and didn't like it. Where's the wrong in that?

Personally I like it but I'm certainly not going to try and sway the minds of others.

of course you can dislike it; everyone is free to like & use whatever they want. That said, it is important be said, for the sake of other people, that are accurate, & fact based, not coming from subjectivity.

Ergo, w/out any intent to sway or argue, please, allow me to set the record straight & nothing is to be taken personally nor as an insult to on comment on anyone's intellect.

I, really, thought this ground had been covered, already...

1. One can search for Device Mgr but, in can be found w/out searching, @ all, on the Power Users menu - Rt Clk @ the Bottom-Left Corner.
2. I don't know where or how you were Searching that you get "nothing". IF one begins typing anywhere on Start it goes to Search. There is a Search icon in the Charms Bar. Win+Q > Search Applications, Win+W searches Settings & Win+F searches Files. And when at Search Applications one can simply move down to the other (2) categories. Windows 8, actually, searches, quickly & easily, w/ fewer steps & clicks than, before; plus there are more things that one can get to directly, w/out searching, @ all, than, before.
3. Closing APPs can be done by dragging down BUT, that is not the only way. I prefer just Rt Clicking an APP on the Switcher Bar & selecting "Close" there. I find it easier & more intuitive or natural (I'm old & conditioned to such methods, lol).
4. Windows 8 is not designed strictly for Touch. I, like many, have been using it for over 9 months, very easily & enjoyably on a non-Touch machine
5. Windows 8 is designed for ALL devices is just as happy on a PC as anything. Again, I, and many others, are, indeed using PCs and it's just fine on them.
6. One for the major focuses in terms of design goals w/ Windows 8 was enterprise. Many of the technologies, features and improvements in Windows 8 are for corporate concerns, interests & needs. W/out listing all the specifics, business environments are excited about Windows 8 because of increase ROI, less demands on IT man-hours, less demand on H/W and job-specific, helpful APPs, that as an added bonus, they can easily design & build for themselves.
Anyone is, of course free to use 7 until whenever but, that has no bearing of the fact that MS does not need to design another OS for PCs. Windows 8 has been, purposely, designed for both mobile devices and PCs. The same will be true for Windows 9 when it is released 3 years from now.

Personally, I like Windows 8, too. But, that, certainly, doesn't mean anyone else will or must. We can only state realities, not make horses drink. As long as they are happy horses.

Cheers,
Drew

OK! I guess I am in the wrong forum. The only replies I get here are basically that windows 8 is perfect and even business people are excited about it.

You people simply are doing what MS does. You are polite but you always support the product to the fullest as if your life depended on it; so much so that you totally fail to UNDERSTAND the problem!

The problem is NOT if windows 8 is good or not. The problem is NOT if windows 8 is powerful or not. The problem is MS REMOVED VITAL OPTIONS THAT MANY PEOPLE NEED AND WANT! It is about RETAINING the options we have had for over a decade now.

Do you people even bother to look at the lack of interest win 8 is generating? Why do you think 3rd party applications are in such demand? Applications that simply give users the OPTIONS that MS REMOVED. Applications that give the options yet retain the speed and other improvements.

Windows 8 is NOT intuition based. It is a Hide and seek OS designed for touch screen. Win 8 is win ME and Vista revisited!

I have to wonder at your astonishment that users in this forum like Windows 8. It is a Windows 8 forum after all.. No os is perfect and neither is windows 8 but rather than concentrate on the negatives I'd much rather go with the positives.
Windows 8 up to now has sold over 4 million copies which kinda throws your suggestion that no one is interested by the way side. You said yourself that you dislike windows 8 and I'm prepared to except your opinion that you think Windows 8 is trash, why can't you except mine?

Surely it's better to agree to disagree and move on?

You want to have your view; let us have ours. Both happy in them & it's all good. As is worthwhile discussion for people w/ interests regarding Windows 8. And hence, why we are here.

Cheers,
Drew