In message , philo
writes:
On 01/17/2018 07:28 PM, Paul wrote:
wrote:
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I turned on that computer and saw that butt ugly "metro screen". YUCK!
After that, I was lost. There isn't even a START button. How can
anyone use that POS?
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All I do know, is that I'd never buy anything with Windows 8 or 10.
I'll probably just keep using XP and Win98 for the rest of my life....
(Or maybe try Windows 7, if I can find it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...placements_for
_Windows_8 ** Classic Shell
** Start8
(Sometimes humorously known as "stardate".)
and so on.
That's for people who "let things bother them" :-)
** Paul

I was considering posting similar words, but Paul beat me to it (or
decided).


Yep. When Win8 came out a friend of mine brought her machine over here
so I could install Classic Shell. She absolutely could not use Win8.

When my brother's not-mother-in-law got a new laptop, that came with 8,
I too couldn't hack it (I too couldn't even see how to get out of
things, such as the video player). But installing Classic Shell made it
usable (for her too, AFAIK). Note that Classic Shell offers you the
choice of emulating XP, Vista, or 7, or did on that 8 machine.

MS should have used the Classic desktop by default, with the option to
switch to tiles. Of course for marketing purposes they had to come up
with something new.

I certainly felt that that was the problem with it. They _certainly_
shouldn't have made the tiles the default for machines without a touch
screen.

(OP: 10 isn't as bad as 8, though I still find it frustratingly
different-for-difference's-sake AFAICS. But, I'm pretty sure you can get
these two shells [I think it might be called Start10 for 10?] for 10. So
if you can haggle a good price on that machine, go for it - Classic
Shell is free [though make a donation if it helps you], and I think
Start8 - which some people say is a bit better - is I think about $4.95.
Or, if you find an acceptably-priced 7 machine [that started out as a 7,
not one that has been upgraded], go for that: for someone like me who
likes XP, 7 is OK to get along with after a _little_ learning, and will
be a more up-to-date machine.)
--
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.... the pleasure of the mind is an amazing thing. My life has been driven by
the satisfaction of curiosity. - Jeremy Paxman (being interviewed by Anne
Widdecombe), Radio Times, 2-8 July 2011.