I HATE Windows 8. This is the worst OS ever invented.

No, it's like buying a car and then finding that someone has replaced all the controls with single sphere.

No, it's like buying a car and then finding that someone has replaced all the controls with single sphere.

Don't forget to add the rest...  In order to do that you had to have been blind, deaf, mute and unable to feel anything so that you might have been able to figure out what you were buying (via 1 minute of google search or 15 minutes in a store 'trying before buying') and captive underground (or some other manner of restrained) with no hope of escape so you could not return it afterwards.

Otherwise - how'd you not only end up purchasing the car with only a sphere as a control for everything and kept it once you realized it wasn't for you?

Btw - spherical controlled car... That does sound cool. ;-)

OMG I wish I had read this before I bought a new laptop with Windows 8 on it.  I get so frustrated with this OS that I could spit nails.  Did you ever get used to it?????

OMG I wish I had read this before I bought a new laptop with Windows 8 on it.  I get so frustrated with this OS that I could spit nails.  Did you ever get used to it?????

Return it.  If this is the first thing you have read about Windows 8 that you wish you would have read before you bought it - Windows 8 is not for you.  Pretty straight forward.

OMG I wish I had read this before I bought a new laptop with Windows 8 on it.  I get so frustrated with this OS that I could spit nails.  Did you ever get used to it?????

 

Entangledandfree,

When Shenan suggested returning the new laptop he does have a point.  Are you able to, and are you willing to return your new Windows 8 Tablet PC ?

Another alternative which may work for you, as it did for me. I found a IT shop who were selling Windows 7 ($200to $250), and for a $60 surcharge they would install it to your windows 8 computer.

I am now running Windows 7, and I really appreciate the Windows 7 interface, much more now after having used Windows 8 for some twelve months. 

There are a few things in the Windows 7 GUI that I don't like, which I believe Windows XP did better, for example when I select a drive in the "Tree" view of Windows Explorer, it is nice to know how much free disk space in on that drive without having to right click the drive and select "Properties".  It is amazing how frustrating the loss of this one features is, but then Windows 8 is the loss of so many useful GUI features, Windows 7 is great in comparison.  Even if Microsoft wins again because I end up paying for both Windows 8 and Windows 7, I am very happy to be running Windows 7.

I hope to use Windows 7 for my desktop for as long as Windows 8 continues to use have its current GUI.  After Microsoft no longer supports Windows 7, I will have to re-evaluate my position (check out what Apple is like at that time).

I think Microsoft would have done a lot better if they had kept the Windows 7 GUI, and added Metro Apps for the Tablet users, allowing these apps to be used in either Full Screen mode or in Windows like other Windows applications. Then slowly we may have all accepted Metro Apps and, over time may have migrated to using the Metro Apps. 

I wonder if there are only a few of us who dislike Windows 8, and maybe even fewer of us will pay the extra money to get Windows 7 installed to our new Windows 8 computers ?  I did, will you ?