Non metro startup

Is there an easy way to do this?

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On 28/04/2013 9:39 AM, Scott Labrecque wrote:
Is there an easy way to do this?

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Yes, Classic Shell (free) or Start8 (5 bucks). Both are good. There are
others too.

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Is there an easy way to do this?

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Download Skip Metro Suite (Windows 8) 3.0 for Windows

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download...ndows-8-,0301-
50006.html

Hi, Scott.

Not sure exactly what you want, but...

On the Metro screen, move the "Desktop" tile to the upper left position.
Then, on any Start or Restart, as soon as that screen appears, just press
the Enter key and you will be at the familiar Win7 desktop screen.

EXCEPT, of course, that there will be no Start button and no familiar Start
menu list. To get the new, unrecognizable Start menu, you'll need to press
the Windows key, which will send you back to the "Metro" screen, which is -
as others have pointed out - just the Start menu presented as tiles, rather
than as a list.

All this with no fuss, no muss, no expense. It's not Win7, but it doesn't
take long to get used to Win8. IF you seriously try.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3505.0912) in Win8 Pro


"Scott Labrecque" wrote in message ...

Is there an easy way to do this?

In article , says...

In article ,
says...

Is there an easy way to do this?

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Download Skip Metro Suite (Windows 8) 3.0 for Windows

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download...ndows-8-,0301-
50006.html


Another link

http://skip-metro-suite.en.softonic.com/

On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:32:13 -0400, Lemon wrote:
Yes, Classic Shell (free) or Start8 (5 bucks). Both are good. There are
others too.

How do they work for the latest Windows 8 (Windows Blue?) since it brought
back the Start Button (just the button). Did they just dump that *USELESS*
button and use theirs, or keep that button and simply add the Start Menu?

On 05/01/2013 03:32 AM, JJ wrote:
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:32:13 -0400, Lemon wrote:
Yes, Classic Shell (free) or Start8 (5 bucks). Both are good. There are
others too.

How do they work for the latest Windows 8 (Windows Blue?) since it brought
back the Start Button (just the button). Did they just dump that *USELESS*
button and use theirs, or keep that button and simply add the Start Menu?





Those utilities turn Win8 into something almost indistinguishable from Win7.

"Scott Labrecque" wrote in message
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Is there an easy way to do this?

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I like this one http://www.startisback.com/ . Only $3 for 2 PCs and
very customizable. It makes Win8 look, feel, and act like Win7. You can even
keep hot corners enabled, if you like, so you can play around in the Modern
UI when you're feeling particularly masochistic :-)
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SC Tom

On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:41:04 -0500, R. C. White wrote:

All this with no fuss, no muss, no expense.

What Windows8 is free?

On 01/05/2013 4:32 AM, JJ wrote:
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:32:13 -0400, Lemon wrote:
Yes, Classic Shell (free) or Start8 (5 bucks). Both are good. There are
others too.

How do they work for the latest Windows 8 (Windows Blue?) since it brought
back the Start Button (just the button). Did they just dump that *USELESS*
button and use theirs, or keep that button and simply add the Start Menu?


I simply do not know. I have yet to run a copy of a Windows 8.1 beta,
let alone try a Start8 on it.

According the the Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley the Windows 8.1 user
interface is not yet set in stone. It is only just recently the order
from the Microsoft big wigs went to the Windows 8.1 team to return the
Start Button, so we've yet to see if that includes the Start Menu.

If you want to follow that beta stuff, try www.winsupersite.com and Mary
Jo Foley's articles on www.zdnet.com

Lemon

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On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:41:04 -0500, R. C. White wrote:

All this with no fuss, no muss, no expense.

What Windows8 is free?

R.C.'s not saying Win8 is free, just that getting to the desktop and using
the MUI as a Start menu is free. IOW, he's saying, "Learn to use the OS as
is without any 3rd-party apps." YMMV :-)
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SC Tom

Hi, Tom.

Correct. Win8 is not free, but we already own it, so there's no need for
additional expense to learn to use it.

Isn't it amazing how much time and expense people will spend trying to go
backwards or stand still, rather than invest fewer hours (and no money) to
learn how to move forward? We saw this when they tried to make Win7 look
like Vista or WinXP, when they complained that WinXP was not at all like
Win98 - and so on. (My then 8-year-old son was quite upset in 1978 that the
TRS-80's Level II BASIC was so much more complex than the Level I BASIC that
he had spend a couple of months learning. But I'm glad he made the effort
to move forward; he's now a database programmer/analyst for the University
of Texas. They don't write those programs in Level I BASIC! g )

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3505.0912) in Win8 Pro


"SC Tom" wrote in message ...

"mechanic" wrote in message
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On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:41:04 -0500, R. C. White wrote:

All this with no fuss, no muss, no expense.

What Windows8 is free?

R.C.'s not saying Win8 is free, just that getting to the desktop and using
the MUI as a Start menu is free. IOW, he's saying, "Learn to use the OS as
is without any 3rd-party apps." YMMV :-)
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SC Tom

SC Tom has written on 5/1/2013 7:12 AM:

"Scott Labrecque" wrote:
Is there an easy way to do this?

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I like this one http://www.startisback.com/ . Only $3 for 2 PCs and
very customizable. It makes Win8 look, feel, and act like Win7. You can even
keep hot corners enabled, if you like, so you can play around in the Modern
UI when you're feeling particularly masochistic :-)

+1

On 01/05/2013 10:58 AM, R. C. White wrote:
Hi, Tom.

Correct. Win8 is not free, but we already own it, so there's no need
for additional expense to learn to use it.

Isn't it amazing how much time and expense people will spend trying to
go backwards or stand still, rather than invest fewer hours (and no
money) to learn how to move forward?


Because sometimes the move "forward" is towards some ugly pit.


We saw this when they tried to
make Win7 look like Vista or WinXP, when they complained that WinXP was
not at all like Win98 - and so on. (My then 8-year-old son was quite
upset in 1978 that the TRS-80's Level II BASIC was so much more complex
than the Level I BASIC that he had spend a couple of months learning.
But I'm glad he made the effort to move forward; he's now a database
programmer/analyst for the University of Texas. They don't write those
programs in Level I BASIC! g )



Well that would be a move forward on his part, something to be applauded.

People don't need to accept everything shoved in their direction. And
the rejection of Metro (that monetized UI, the virtual walled prison,
er, garden where Microsoft takes a 30% cut from the developers and
shoves ads at its customer base) *is* a move forward.

Lemon

On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:58:41 -0400, FD wrote:
Download Skip Metro Suite (Windows 8) 3.0 for Windows

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download...ndows-8-,0301-
50006.html

Doesn't seem to work (in x64). For initial test, I extracted the EXE and put
it on Desktop. After ticking the main checkbox, enable the start with
classic desktop, I rebooted then login. But Metro is still the startup
screen. Did I miss something?