Win8 upgrade experience

ThrashZone said:

I had vista for less than 30 days/ win-7 was a joy that needed Zero tweaking,
8 is already more complicated,
But yes life goes on I'm on 8 now but that was just to kill the outlook.com connection,
Who knew what a local account was

The real bummer is Onedrive is stuck in win-8.1 forever,
It took 10 minutes to find the freaking snipping tool

You're just fighting it too hard.

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Once you accept Start is a fancy schmancy start menu, and you can pin things to it by right clicking, you will have a little more fun - cough, cough

Sorry about that, I sounded a bit gruff


Try this: on the desktop, unlock the taskbar and drag it up a little.
then go to All users Start menu
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
and right click what you need - pin to taskbar

that will make it more familiar to you, I think.

You could even move the taskbar to the left so it's more like a Win7 "start menu"
taskbar > properties > taskbar location on screen

Once you've built a pseudo start menu, you never have to go to Start
You can even put a shortcut on the taskbar for All Users start menu > programs

Just a thought

I'm wrestling with colors and sizes and an error of my own making when I moved an account off of c:
I do it every time - sheesh!

DavidW7ncus said:

I'm thinking I might prefer to run W8 in a VM with W7 as the host.
Not sure if my hardware is up for it, but I might try that sometime.

Try making a VHD version.
You are supposed to get better performance.

I ran the W8 previews that way.
They acted like they had been normally installed on my HDD.

I followed these instructions:
Mister Goodcat | Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview as bootable VHD

Obviously make sure you have backed up your valuable data before you start. :)

Additional
You can make the Windows key take you to "All Apps" instead of "Metro".
You need to change some options in the "Taskbar and Navigation properties" window.

Thanks Derek, Bill. I hate to look up acronyms when the author doesn't explain it, as, VUP (Version Upgrade Package).
Common ones that are universally known are okay, CD, DVD, HDD, SSD, PC, RAM, CPU, GPU, etc., and etc.
ESD is apparently an encrypted Windows Image (WIM) file.

ESD is also know for Electrical Static Discharge, little yellow label on ram, Hard Drives and other static sensitive parts

What is ESD or ElectroStatic Discharge

It looks like the upgrade to 8.1 can be shocking

Start8 looks like a winner although I only briefly looked at it,
Win-7 startup was slow as molasses this morning just getting to the win-7 login

I had got a popup before that win-7 wasn't compatible but I can still use it, allot longer message than that but I'll try to take a screen shot if it returns,
Didn't happen this morning though :/

I found all the taskbar options soon enough they were not enough neither were folder options,
And pinning to taskbar isn't at all what I'm looking for buddy,
Start8 is practically win-7 start button

Tony that is no lie buddy

One thing that was kind of disturbing,
Flash is not listed in the programs list so it doesn't look as though it can be uninstalled,
It showed the out of date version but does not show the current version

I don't believe that was the case in win-7 and ie11 flash showed up in the programs list and the control panel.

win8 deletes my win7 shadow copies, pretty annoying. A lot of annoyances and restrictions with 8. Taste of things to come as the tech companies push us into their online services. That is what win 8 is for.