Microsoft May Bring Full Start Menu Back in Windows 8.2

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METRO:
It has interesting features, even for a desktop. The MAIN problem aside from the Start Menu issue is that very few programs have been written for it. Thus it ends up as a place for SHORTCUTS that take you back to the regular desktop.

When using programs that are designed to work in the new interface it works VERY WELL.

I think the option of MERGING the screens is a good one, at least until more programs rewrite to work in METRO and they fine-tune the interface.

Having said that, I think I'll always want a bottom TASKBAR.
 
It doesn't work very well. It's much slower, it takes the "windows" off of Windows and is as ugly as a blind bitch, no disrespect for the poor animal.
 


I like Aero too. You can use Fraps to find out what FPS the desktop is running. 😀


In the Start Screen, move mouse to bottom left area, there will be a down arrow, click on that to go to All Programs.
When your in All Programs, in that same area, click on the up arrow to go back to Start Screen.
 
Windows 8.2 needs a "Smack upside the head" button that activates an hydraulic arm that smacks upside the head of the person who decided to remove the start button in the first place.
 
I honestly don't know if I would use the start menu again. I've learned how to navigate Windows 8 just as fast or even faster than my Windows 7 experience. The more stable framerates in games also make Windows 8 "not that bad."
 
If they do it, and I think the the PC manufacturers are going to make them do it, then I will actually upgrade to Windows 8.2 (from 7).

New and different does not always equal better.

While it's great that MS FINALLY made a version of Windows that works well with tablets, the end user should always have the option of turning this on and off.

No the option to do so should not be limited to desktop PCs. While many tablets will be used as tablets, many will also be used with a keyboard and a mouse, at least situationally. The end user should have the power to configure the setup however they want. They are the ones, after all, who pay for it.
 
I think microsoft should include an auto detect software that recognizes computer with or without touch screen control. If with touch, enable metro ui. If not, straight to start menu button and task bar.
 
I think microsoft should include an auto detect software that recognizes computer with or without touch screen control. If with touch, enable metro ui. If not, straight to start menu button and task bar.
 
Wow...it seems like I might be moving to Win 8 after all (I can get a license for free and I'm still sticking with my beloved windows 7)
 
If any average person who picked up the new Metro UI can do whatever they used to do in past "smoothly", then this is a piece of good inovation.
Matter of fact, I have to "google" to find out where is the "start" and the "shut down" are hidden.
Maybe it's because I'm stupid, not meeting the "recommended minimum spec" of Metro UI?
 
My main gripe with Windows 8/8.1 is simply that I think it looks goddamn ugly. I do not see the point of the Metro start screen (if you have lots of applications on your computer, finding that one icon you want on that screen is like "where's Waldo"), but I use Windows key+typing anyway, plus icons on the desktop. But the changes to the desktop look (Window borders, general "look and feel") are, to me, a MAJOR step back aesthetically. Like someone wrote here, it looks like old school X Windows or as if they found an old copy of Windows 1.0 and thought "hey, THAT looks nice!". I *much* prefer the Windows 7 Aero look.
 


It`s the bloody down arrow when you are on the Start screen, the difference between 8 and 8.1 is that the start now has only your desired programs, to access everything else you either push that down arrow to see everything installed or simply type what you look.

Saw some pics on google on how this new start might look and it`s terrible. I hope i`ll have the option to also have the current Start screen that 8.1 has.


This happens only in your mind dude. The fact that there are guys hating the missing start button and clumsy menu style didn`t make anybody jump any ship.
 
While they're at it, how about a Start Menu All Programs organizer and the option to use the Quick Launch toolbar without us having to Right-Click, add a toolbar to the Task Bar which is actually a folder, hiding the Text/Titles and dragging it over to its proper place.
 
I've run Windows 8 since the preview edition and bought it after, and have ran classic shell since the start and have never seen the tile interface and had my start menu since then as well. If it wasn't for Classic Shell, I would have went back to Windows 7. Can't stand the tiles on a desktop.
 
Windows 8, in my opinion, is good and bad. The unified interface is a good idea in theory, but not implementing this functionality across devices when this is what you're selling was a bad way to go.

Problems I've had with Windows 8:

For the fourth time, my Windows 8 install errors out when trying to use windows update with a general error. The OS is telling me there are important updates to install, but when I choose to do so, the OS fails to do so. In the past, I've referred to knowledge base articles that guided me through deleting the appropriate update log files that have become somehow corrupted.

My Windows 8 install constantly sees my 'sleeping' network printer as offline and won't wake it up.

When it does run updates, my Windows 8 install doesn't let me know when it's running automatic updates in the background so performance is severely degraded during the update but there's nothing explicitly telling me why.

When I open an Acrobat reader file from the desktop, it takes me to the metro edition.

A few times, upon login, my Windows 8 install provides me with the message that the login service is not currently running.

Updating the OS, printing to network printers, logging into a system with multiple users... These are all things we've been doing for 20 plus years in some Windows OS and they still don't work flawlessly in Windows 8.

I honestly cannot see where Windows 8 is an improvement over Windows 7. Windows 8 is the Windows ME or the Windows Vista of the modern day. It's a crap OS with a lot of good ideas that have been poorly implemented and unleashed on the public. There is currently no advantage to using this OS other than touch functionality if you want to hang out in the tablet-esque world of the metro interface.

If your primary use of a PC is shopping, playing simple games, engaging with social media channels, or simply browsing the web, just like with other tablet OS's, Windows 8 is a winner.

If productivity or development are more your speed, Windows 8 is definitely not for you and Windows 8 will provide you with a dysfunctional dual-personality OS. Even with the 8.1 update, the desktop is still bound to the metro interface in some ways.
 

Serves you right for using Acrobat Reader. Use a proper PDF reading application, like Foxit Reader.

 


Ha! Nice opportunity for a product plug. Did you create this reader by chance?
 
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