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Recently bought a new laptop, from HP and I am so confussed with the new windows 8, I can't even use the darn thing, reminds me of the time I was stuck with an Apple Machine. Is there a way to change the screen and start up to look and behave like Windows 7?
Other wise, I'm giving this piece of junk a good toss out the window. And I don't mean Windows 8.
Thank you for any help you all can be, I just wanted a new computer not an operating system like this..
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Sure - if you have the time to learn all the new shortcuts... I want to be productive right away, not spend days frustrated while I relearn how to drive. This is a terrible interface and it is very sad that one has to go to a third party to find a work around.
I just got roped in on the windows 8 disaster as well. If I would have wanted a mac I would have bought a mac not a Microsoft that is imitating mac. There should be an option to buy and install windows 7 or some other earlier version that is actually functional for business purposes. Thanks for creating such a dysfunctional product.
I TOTALLY AGREE with you. I too, am SO DISAPPOINTED in Windows 8. I HATE IT.
On behalf of my wife, who wanted to toss her new Toshiba because she - like I - are older PC users, and hate the Metro UI (we don't do touchscreen phones, either), THANK YOU!!!
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Windows 8.1 is rumoured to include a boot to Desktop option and a Start button (not menu). MVPs here are not Microsoft employees and we cannot give official reasons of what happened why because we do not know them.
