"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message ...
XS11E wrote:
"Mr Simon" wrote:

And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off

It's easily switched off with Classic Shell.

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

With Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes a usable OS!

That is reassuring, but is it useful as well as usable? Does Windows 8
do anything non metro that Windows 7 doesn't, or do anything better?
--
Crash

A few things I've noticed, it's got support for iso and vhd files. Double-click on
an iso file and it will create a virtual dvd drive and mount it.
(4.8 M/B video)
http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/iso.mp4
I haven't done any measurements but file copying seems to be faster to me,
(and you get a real-time speed graph while copying!).
http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/copy.png