On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 08:22:17 +0000, JosephTang wrote:
Windows 8 was designed for tablets/touchscreen PCs, but mine is not a touchscreen. Now What? All these gestures and shortcuts?
Let me point out something that you perhaps don't realize: Windows 8
has two interfaces; the Modern/Metro Interface (which may be all
you've looked at) and the traditional Desktop Interface. The
Modern/Metro interface is designed for tablets/touchscreen PCs, but
the desktop interface is not, and you can use either one or both.
That traditional Desktop Interface is almost identical to Windows 7's
interface; the biggest difference is that there is no Start Orb to
click to bring up the Start menu. But note that you can get the Start
Orb back by using one of several third-party programs, either free or
very inexpensive (Classic Shell at
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ and Start8 at
http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/; my personal preference is
Start8, but they are both very good). And going from one interface to
the other is very easy; there are several ways, but simply pressing
the Windows key is perhaps the easiest.
I use Windows 8, almost exclusively with the traditional desktop
interface, and with Start 8 installed. If you were to look at and use
my computer, you would have a hard time realizing that it's not
Windows 7.
I also recommend that you read "How to Make Windows 8 or 8.1 Look and
Feel Like Windows 7" at http://www.howtogeek.com/elk/298/45121/4206