On 9/26/2015 8:57 PM, Ron wrote:
On 9/26/2015 5:58 PM, knuttle wrote:
On 9/26/2015 2:05 PM, Ashton Crusher wrote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:40:51 -0400, Ron wrote:

On 9/23/2015 10:14 PM, Ashton Crusher wrote:
On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:39:59 -0700, Old Guy
wrote:

I found a laptop I can afford and it has Win 8.1 but no touch-screen.

So how important is a touch-screen.

How similar to Win 7 is Win 8.1 ?
I can deal with Win 7 OK but not sure about Win 8.1 ?

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If you like Win7 and you buy a new laptop with 8.1 on it just
immediately upgrade it to Win10 and you will have Win7 back for all
practical purposes.


That is complete BS.

No it's not. In the same way Win 8 can be made to be like Win7 from
the user perspective, by installing add-ons, Win10 can be configured,
without addons, to give the user the Win7 "look" for all practical
purposes. Obviously what's under the hood is different.

Windows 8.1 can be configured to look like Windows XP and definitely
like Windows 7 Without any addons.

How?
It depends on what you mean by "looks like". My current Windows 8.1
desktop looks like the desktop that I had in Windows XP. When I want to
access the computer functions I right click (left Click in XP) the icon
on the left of the desktop task bar. I have a menu that allows me to
shut down the computer, access the task manager, the control panel, the
network and many other functions that I seldom use.

The primary difference is that in Windows 8.1, I access the programs for
a screen that has large easy to read icons that are easy to scroll
through instead of a series of folders that collapse once I go down
three or four levels.

In my mind that is an evolutionary change from Windows XP to Windows 8.1

As for accessing recently accessed files and folders, that are all there
with a right click on the program icon in the desktop task bar.

An you do not need any third party addons to get the arrangement