Windows 8.1

**G4L4XY** · 19th October 2013, 16:28

Updated to 8.1 after seeing they will be adding a start menu, sounded rather exciting. 3.5GB later and being forced to use a Microsoft account, all done remotely via android and teamviewer so it was ready for me once I got home hehe.

Checked out the start menu, OMFG are you serious Microsoft you worthless POS. All it does is take you right back to the freakin' tiles, wow thats just pointless.

Now I don't really mind windows 8, sure I think it's gay as fuck but I can use it without any problems. I like how you just start randomly typing (on the tile screen) and it begins a search, so many people who have no idea how to work win8 are dumbfounded by that little feature.
Does anyone have a clue how to remove the pictures that show as a slideshow on the pictures tile? I've removed all pictures in the picture folder and yet they still show on the tile and I don't know how to get rid of that. I've turned off the slideshow feature to get around it though.

Still I'm glad I've got win7 on mah desktop.

**Gremlin** · 19th October 2013, 19:35

When 8.1 was announced, they did mention the start button would simply launch the metro interface.

Clearly Microsoft didn't listen / understand (no surprises there) when people said they wanted the Start button back...

I figure, if you try to turn Win8 back to look like Win7, it's failed. Thanks, I'll keep Win7. The whole wireless network setup and management on Win8 is painful as well, Win7 one much easier to use.

**pete376403** · 19th October 2013, 20:03

Multiple machines? Multiple 3.5gig downloads...
http://www.hngn.com/articles/15206/2...you-switch.htm

Going out of their way to piss people off. I'll stick with W7 as long as possible.

**kevfromcoro** · 19th October 2013, 20:53

yeah.. I just bought a new laptop. running windows 8.
its a pain in the arse. pops up all sorts of shit I don't want,,,
not sure wot I had before,, but it was a lot more user friendly than this.
think it was vista. it was ok......

**Hitcher** · 19th October 2013, 21:13

Download Start8. It costs less than $5 and it's worth every cent.

There's a bunch of stuff that Microsoft just doesn't get nowadays. MS Office is another casualty, particularly Word. Dear god.

**Brian d marge** · 19th October 2013, 21:35

must resist ....must resist .......

..

Stephen

**SPman** · 19th October 2013, 23:15

Download Classic Shell. It's free. It has a start button that starts to wherever you want. and all the standard windows themes. We use it on all the comps at work with W8 and I've got it on the W8 machines at home.

http://www.classicshell.net/

**Indiana_Jones** · 20th October 2013, 13:36

Originally Posted by pete376403

I'll stick with W7 as long as possible.

^^ What he said.

-Indy

**Winston001** · 20th October 2013, 20:52

Am happily browsing on with XP. Nice and stable and a gazillion experts out there.

My son has a flash MSI laptop with Windows 8. Every time I go to check it for spyware and routine maintenance I nearly throw it out the windows (see what I did there

). Hate it hate it hate it. Still have no idea how to quickly access programs etc and the bloody search icons on the left only come up after repeated attempts to take the cursor off screen at the bottom left. Whats with that for pitys sake??

**Akzle** · 20th October 2013, 21:33

xp still fucktional. I will never own win8.

**avgas** · 20th October 2013, 22:37

Originally Posted by Akzle

xp still fucktional. I will never own win8.

Did you pay for xp? or thief it?

**avgas** · 20th October 2013, 22:39

Originally Posted by AE4ME

Does anyone have a clue how to remove the pictures that show as a slideshow on the pictures tile? I've removed all pictures in the picture folder and yet they still show on the tile and I don't know how to get rid of that. I've turned off the slideshow feature to get around it though.

Delete all the hidden files in the pics folder. Its one of them. Used to be called "icons" now I think they call it "Desktop.ini". The restart the machine and see what happens.