Thread: Consumer Preview Download

Originally Posted by catilley1092

In that case, I hope that it's released this week, so that "you will not be able to use a computer any more". Then, we won't have to hear this crap.

New members comes to these type of forums looking for support & sees this kind of nonsense, and goes elsewhere in search of a place not full of this BS. Honestly, I can't say that I blame them.

Cat

Well it won't just be me who won't be able to use a computer if WINDOWS 8 NIGHTMARES PREVIEW is put out on sale. It will be millions of other people as well. Most computers users are just ordinary home users,families,and office workers. Who only just about know how to use Windows XP. But they can use Windows Vista and Windows 7 because it has a start menu. And looks similar to Windows XP.

But Windows 8 CP is NOTHING like Windows or even as good as Windows XP and Windows 7 was. So unless Microsoft at least make it like DP with the option to disable the Metro theme. Windows 8 CP will be THE OPERATING SYSTEM THAT NOBODY CAN USE. Well it already is. Andrea Borman.

Andrea
Go find a Microsoft Haters forum and do your whining there. Numerous people have suggested solutions. Apparently you are to stubborn or thick to try them.
Joe

Originally Posted by Joe S

Andrea
Go find a Microsoft Haters forum and do your whining there. Numerous people have suggested solutions. Apparently you are to stubborn or thick to try them.
Joe

No No. I love Windows. Not Windows 8 CP, but the REAL Windows,Windows XP and Windows 7 which I am using. And also I can use.

But this idea of making the next version of Windows with no start menu and the Metro theme is not a joke. It's not funny.

Because if it happens a lot of people including me will not be able to use a computer any more. And you don't like the Metro theme either.And like me you also want the Windows 7 start menu and desktop. We all do.

So is there anything we can do to talk Microsoft out of making the next version of Windows like this? And instead make it with a normal Windows 7 start menu and desktop? And no Metro theme?

A lot of people have complained about this version of Windows 8, not just me. Why don't Microsoft just let up and make Windows 8 with the normal Windows 7 desktop and start menu? Or not make Windows 8 at all. As we already have everything we want in Windows 7. But sadly it seems they don't want to do that. Andrea Borman.

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I see no advantage, to MS even including a "Desktop" in their Win-8/CP version and then crippling it to make it almost unusable.
What's up wit dat? Dumb, really dumb!

It's like selling a beautiful new car, but leaving out the steering wheel. Was that someone's attempt at humor, or was it just to spite those millions of people who have made Mr Wm Gates a billionaire?

Using what's available in the OS, I've constructed my own Desktop to pretty much approximate what I have in XP (I've never embraced Windows 7). But I've been using Windows since its first release in the early 90's, so I'm no stranger to it. I can pretty much do anything I want, with Win-?
Just a for-instance, I like having "System Restore" on my desktop where I can quickly get at it when I need it.
So I tracked down the .exe for it at:
C:\Windows\System32\rstrui.exe
And I just did the "Send to Desktop and Create a Shortcut" routine. So now I have it on my desktop.
I did the same thing for Notepad and Wordpad and put those shortcuts in my task bar.

You can no longer make a new restore point from the System Restore program. That's somewhere else. But I finally found it.
Control Panel > System > (I'll finish this once I'm back in Win-8. Currently in XP)

Cheers Mates!
The Doctor

Hmmmm! I've tried in vain, to go back into my last post and "Edit" it. The forum software just won't go there.
(I'm currently in Win-8/64)

Now, where was I? Oh, yes, talking about doing a manual "System Restore Point".
The path to that function is:

> Control Panel > System & Security > System > System Protection > Click the "Create" button in the lower right part of the window.
Type in a name for your restore point and finish the process by clicking the 'Create' button, Then the "Close" button, then the "OK" button. Finally, close the system window by clicking the "X" in the upper Rt Corner of the window.

I'm still looking for a "Create a Restore Point" script, like the one I use in Windows XP. The one for XP does not work in Win-8.

Cheers Mates!
The Doctor

Dr Who wrote-
I see no advantage, to MS even including a "Desktop" in their Win-8/CP version and then crippling it to make it almost unusable.
What's up wit dat? Dumb, really dumb!

It's like selling a beautiful new car, but leaving out the steering wheel. Was that someone's attempt at humor, or was it just to spite those millions of people who have made Mr Wm Gates a billionaire?

Well said. You are absolutely right. They should never have invented that horrible horrible Metro theme and taken away our beloved Windows 7 start menu and start orb. And it seems that a lot of programs like Classic Shell are dependant on the start orb in order to work. That is why they don't work on Windows 8 CP.

Dr Who wrote-
Using what's available in the OS, I've constructed my own Desktop to pretty much approximate what I have in XP (I've never embraced Windows 7).

Yes Windows XP is great but so is Windows 7. I recommend you keep both operating systems.Like I do. I discovered Windows XP last year and I love it. And I love Windows 7 too. As both are fast and very user friendly.

Dr Who wrote-
You can no longer make a new restore point from the System Restore program. That's somewhere else. But I finally found it.
Control Panel > System > (I'll finish this once I'm back in Win-8. Currently in XP)

Cheers Mates!
The Doctor :

What you can no longer create a restore point in System Restore like you can in Windows XP,Vista and 7? Well I am surprised at that. But I should not be. After all Windows 8 Consumer Preview is WINDOWS 8 NIGHTMARES PREVIEW.

So not being able to turn off the Metro theme and get the Windows 7 start menu. And the loss of other features we had in Windows 7. Is only the beginning of our nightmare of being stuck with the dreaded Windows 8. THE OPERATING SYSTEM THAT NOBODY CAN USE.

It is all very depressing. Andrea Borman.

"AU Contraire MON Ami" !

There is absolutely Nothing forcing you to ever use Windows 8. Just like nothing forces you to drive a certain brand of car or eat a certain food. That option is still up to you, 100%.
You can still run XP or Win-7 till the day you die, if you want. I probably will! (XP but never Win-7)

The only reason I'm even here and testing Win-8, is because I'm still in the computer business and I have to know how to set up and tweak the Win-8 PC's that my customers will buy sometime within the next year. At least 99% of my older customers will never warm up to Win-8 and the Metro UI. If I can give them something that will at least closely approximate their old Windows XP, they will be satisfied, if not happy. There's nothing I can currently do about the loss of their "Outlook Express" or address book. That's one problem they will just have to deal with.

I'm still looking for that script to force a new restore point.

Cheers!
The Doctor

Dr Who wrote-
There is absolutely Nothing forcing you to ever use Windows 8. Just like nothing forces you to drive a certain brand of car or eat a certain food. That option is still up to you, 100%.
You can still run XP or Win-7 till the day you die, if you want. I probably will! (XP but never Win-7)

Yes I certainly will use Windows XP and Windows 7 untill the day I die. To avoid being stuck with Windows 8. Unless they make it like Windows 7 like Windows 8 Developers Preview was.

Dr Who wrote-
The only reason I'm even here and testing Win-8, is because I'm still in the computer business and I have to know how to set up and tweak the Win-8 PC's that my customers will buy sometime within the next year. At least 99% of my older customers will never warm up to Win-8 and the Metro UI. If I can give them something that will at least closely approximate their old Windows XP, they will be satisfied, if not happy. There's nothing I can currently do about the loss of their "Outlook Express" or address book. That's one problem they will just have to deal with.

Well I hope that they and the rest of the public never have to face being forced to buy or use Windows 8.

If we could get our Presidents and Prime Ministers and The European Court Of Human Rights to sit up and take notice of out complaint. They will ban Windows 8 and the Metro theme. And then if Microsoft want to make a Windows 8,they will have to make it like Windows 7.With a normal desktop and start menu.

After all if Microsoft get their way,not even our Presidents or Prime Ministers or any government workers will be able to use a computer any more. And they won't like that any more than we will. Andrea Borman.