Windows 9 release Date?

Thank you

I thought I already did that (meaning I was looking into a nice landscape on my desktop instead of having my nose against the wall)

But I will check it again. At one point I did a full restore from the shop's original installation, because MS had "hijacked"(*) my user account, just because I visited their website with free stuff for Windows 8.1. There I was hoping to find a version of Solitaire that would look a bit OK.

Since I had the choice of playing Solitaire in full screen (on a 27" display › not nice) or in a vertical way (on its side like if it were for crabs), so it became playing Solitaire on Windows 7 or Windows Vista when I'm online. I find Solitaire very relaxing while waiting for something or when I need to think out of (my) box. But it should be in a windowed mode, so that I can still see what is going on in another window.

(*) well that's how it felt and I didn't like it at all and I didn't find any other solution than to restore the original stuff. And of course I lost everything I customized.

And maybe I didn't adapt it again (it has been a few months now since I plugged in that PC)

Now I'm sure that I'm NOT using the "Modern" interface.

Well, I just experienced this annoyance:

I'm reading an explanation on Internet about Settings in Windows 8.1.

So I open the Settings Windows in Windows 8.1 in order to view them at the same time as the webpage I'm visiting. No way. PC Settings will open Full Screen.

And I have no clue how to get both things next to each other.

And I have no clue how to get both things next to each other.

guess you should learn how to use it, then.

Feedback about Classic Shell:

it offers a lot of things related to the Start Menu

In Explorer it added a Toolbar with some buttons from earlier Windows,

but apart from that, Explorer still looks FLAT and has a lot of space between the horizontal lines.