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petengail


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We have just purchased a new laptop computer and it is loaded up with the new Windows 8.  I am finding it almost impossible to navigate around.  Is it just me or are others having problems with the new operating system?  Cheers Pete



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install a free program called Classic Shell 

http://www.classicshell.net/downloads/ 

 



-- Edited by _wombat_ on Sunday 22nd of June 2014 02:22:20 PM

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yep , thats what I did too , W8 does take some getting used to,

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Have you got insurance or maybe a BIG hammer? Try the classic shell, it turns it back into a Win7 desktop. Free Download. Bill

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Pete, I bought a new system running Windows 8.1 in Jan this year, the people I bought it from gave me a quick run through, other than a couple of minor things I've found it all pretty straight forward, everything you need is there, just a few cosmetic changes.



-- Edited by Santa on Sunday 22nd of June 2014 03:35:32 PM

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Can't be that bad you came this far biggrin

as the others told you get the win7 look



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I thought that the latest version of W8 could be easily run as a W7 lookalike without any add on program,
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Win 8.1 is to be updated to Win 8.1.1 out soon, in beta at the moment, they may end up calling it Win 8.2



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I use windows 8.1 mostly through desktop which shows as one of the 'tiles' when you first enter. It then feels more like Windows 7 and gives you time to get used to it. But I also found I had to turn off the background refreshing data on some of the 'tiles' as it was using up my data allowance very quickly.

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I heard some where there was talk of microsoft actually bringing the proper start bar back
not sure when it was supposed to happen though..

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Neil
How do you turn off background data ??
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