[citation][nom]SteelCity1981[/nom]Great so they didn't fix the navigation in the Modern UI for desktops and notebooks where you have to jam your mouse or touchpad into the bottom corner screen just so the navigation arrows appear so that you can scroll to get to things. No programs menu tab to get to your programs without having to go through the apps. No shut menu tab without having to jam your mouse or touchpad down in the corner first to wait until settings appear to then be able to get to the shut down menu. No way of booting right into the Windows desktop without having to go through Modern UI and no shortcut to get back to the Mordern UI without jaming your mouse or keyboard again at the lower corner of the desktop until the Modern UI window appears. So how is Windows 8 easier to use and takes shorter time to find things when you have to take 3 extra steps just to get to something in that you didn't have to do in Windows 7/Vista/XP/9x?????[/citation]
1) Scrolling on the start screen and metro apps can be done with arrow keys, multi-touch (you may need something other than the default driver to enable multitouch), or my moving the mouse 'past' the edge of the screen. If the touch pad has a scroll pad section you can also use that, or you can simply start typing the name of the program you wish to access. There should be no reason to 'have' to use the scroll bar at the bottom of the screen, it is just there as an assist if you cannot use the other ways.
2) Shutting down the computer can be done by closing the lid, pressing the power button, win+c settings and shut down, ctrl+alt+del lock the computer and select shutdown, or moving to the upper or lower right corner settings and shutdown. However, win8 is really not meant to be shut down, and in fact only goes into hibernate mode when you do. Restart is the only way to refresh the computer.
3) Yes, you need to press one button to go to the desktop (poor you). How is accessing the start screen any different from 'jamming your mouse down in the corner' to get to the start menu on win7? It is still there. you can also alt+tab, hit the win key, or hit the link on the charms menu. Besides, if you are mostly using desktop items there really is very little reason to ever access the start screen if you do not want to, so this is a rather moot point.
4) there is 1 extra step from win7, and it only has to be done when you first log onto the computer, which is clicking on the desktop. Personally I did find this annoying at first, but now that I have used it I have come to view the start screen like walking into the office and heading to my desk. On the way I get to see the weather, get a feel for how many messages are waiting for me, and I get to see the status of most of my friends which are pinned there, and when in a hurry it takes less than 1 sec which is hardly something to complain about. Other than that I have links on the desktop and superbar for my most used programs, and other programs are accessed by pressing the winkey and the first few letters of the program name which is exactly the same as it was in win7 so I am not sure exactly what the complaint is.
I'm not saying that you can't dislike windows 8, there is plenty to dislike; like the odd ADD color schemes, that the UI is too similar between apps and it is sometimes hard to tell what app you are in, the fear of becoming a closed environment, that it requires a relatively modern CPU (would not run on an old P4 even though it should be able to), that they require a higher resolution for absolutely no reason to run metro apps on an older netbook, that you cannot snap metro apps to take part of the screen on a 4:3 monitor even when you have plenty of resolution, that they have terrible organization of settings divided between classic and metro menus, that many of the classic menus have had things moved around for absolutely no reason, that there is no native DVD or BluRay support (or HDDVD support... which they developed and should be free to throw in), that it requires much more ram than is really nessessary to install the OS (previous builds ran 64bit just fine on 1GB of ram, and RTM has an even smaller footprint but requires 2GB), that the gadgets are gone (even though I only used the weather one... it is something I have gotten use to over the years), or genuine concerns about what happens if your MS ID is breached (which would potentially expose all your linked social accts, email, CC information, and files on skydrive!).
As much as I love win8 it is not all roses, but your complains have more to do with you not knowing how to use a computer, and less about a 'problem' with the OS interface.
), as well as my old little netbook with it's 1GB of ram and duel core Atom CPU and see how that runs (likely no different than the CP did).
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