Posted on 01/30/2013 6:22:15 PM PST by daniel1212
You’ll be extremely sorry to replace your wonderful Windows 7 operating system with the execrable piece of crap knows as “Windows 8”.
I agree. Classic Shell is a big time saver with new Windows versions. Microsoft should have added its functionality to Windows a long time ago.
get a refund on that laptop and go buy a Dell Latitude E5530 or E6530 laptop with Windows 7 Pro pre-installed. Dell is being forced to offer ALL of their business class PC line with Windows 7 Pro as the pre-installed default option because the enterprise and government will NOT be “upgrading” to Windows 8. They’re skipping it just like the skipped Vista because the know it’s a total piece of crap. Vista was a disaster for Dell because they unsuccessfully tried to push it on the enterprise. Dell wishes to stay in business a few more months, so they’re selling Windows 7 to businesses. On the other hand, Dell continues to screw their consumer customers like they always have.
“W8 seems to boot faster than W7.”
That’s because W8 isn’t really booting. It’s just pretending to boot, while under the hood its really just going into and out of hibernate mode.
I have not has PCS as long, but learned a while ago that if i hit Alt and F4 (together) once or twice (or more if not at the desktop), then it will shutdown any present program in the way and bring up the shutdown dialog.
But i always used the free reliable PowerOff utility (http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwshutdown.html, and Snap files is a reliable source), since the days of W/9x, and it still works.
And i added the Quick Launch to the Task Bar, and also made a shortcut to the Send To folder and place it in it, and then send shortcuts to programs or folders such as the Quick Launch folder to it (right click), and so i can send whatever i want to whatever i put in there.
Plus you notice that i recommended the neat Right Click extender, which (unzip it and run) offers many options, including Shutdown, etc.
Pray and press. If you are thinking, "why doesn't Windows do this, then Google for an answer to for freeware. One time i was considering my keyboard, and thought, i wonder if anyone has turned this into a piano, and so is searched for freeware, turn keyboard into piano, and found KB piano, which was quite versatile. not that i can really play anything of course. And the free version does not work on anything past XP, even in compatibility mode.
If you want to just select a word and hyperlink it, or make paragraphs, etc., italics, get Firefox and use the BBCodeXtra add on. i can give you some scripts, even though i really do not know html.
“Maybe I’m missing something here .. I read this thread from top to bottom and I have only one question.. Why? There isn’t one instance cited as to this being any sort of an improvement or of this giving additional functionality .. all I’m seeing is people obsessed with having the latest toys and listing ways to fix it’s shortcomings so that it works as well as the old stuff.”
And ding, ding, ding we have a winner! You’ve read the situation perfectly correctly. Now magnify this little discussion by a million and you understand what’s going on in the technical chat rooms across the Internet.
“What’s this obsession with a frigging OS all about anyway ... it’s the apps that matter ... nobody ever wrote a proposal with Windows XP they used an office suite... or coded anything with Vista ,, they used a language and a compiler ... The OS just needs to be stable , allocate memory for you and control dataset/database access.”
This is the way I look at it; but you have to admit that Microsoft had to do “something”. They have to attract new customers without alienating the older customers. This is a very, very difficult needle to thread, but it must be done.
Firefox -is- a memory leak, and multiple tabs seems to aggravate the situation.
And sometimes i stated afresh, but still end up with lots. Praidse God. And then there’s them bookmarks! You can use Xmarks to sync. And SendTabs to copy all urls to tabs.
Bump for bookmark
And the Right click Extender and WinPatrol ought to be standard also. And a clock that digitally shows seconds in the system try. Its 2013!
“Maybe I’m missing something here .. I read this thread from top to bottom and I have only one question.. Why?”
Microsoft’s motto: Change for the sake of change with total disregard for actual improvement.
That is true, and i had rarely shut down under XP, but used the old Slawdog shutdown app which would go into standby after the time of nonactivity that you choose, and i still use it under W/8 (like XP, the native powercfg will not standby as programmed), but W/8 still boots faster to usability even from cold start.
W/7 on the laptop is fast booting though. I thank God for both.
I know. :(
I am... disappointed with the quality of "acceptable" software, being a programmer myself.
See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2983661/posts?page=19#19.
I should have it clear (despite my rush) that i was not recommending this for W/7 users at all, but that in my situation, and with support for XP ending in April 2014, then perhaps for some other users, the chance to upgrade to the latest Windows OS for about 42.00 makes sense, if they know it will run well on older PCs (unlike Vista).
You are correct, and sometimes the CPU will be up around 50% continually after coming out of stand by. And so i use Process Explorer to restart it and then it is OK, plus Session Manager saves multiple sessions well.
For me there has been no substitute for FF with the speed i still get having tabs all before me, plus other features. Chrome does not even do multiple rows, and besides other things, the width of tabs in Opera cannot be reduced to anything close to what i do in Firefox and ID them well. Thank God for all such wonderful tools!
Try VueScan to drive your scanner.
http://www.hamrick.com/
I was able to use it to drive a Nikon scanner that was no longer supported.
I went from windows 7 to 8..i do not like the fact that every tile on the start screen is sending back info to MS...you have to right click each one and turn off the live tiles...IN my opinion if you have 7 stay with it..
Pray and press is right lol
Thanks for the tips .
I really only use my laptop for listening to sermons and for my electronic Bible , surfing the net etc (have other computers for serious stuff as laptops are not really reliable )so it’s not so bad but I would not recommend anyone install it at all .
To me this os is not ready to go by any means.
It needs much tweaking to make things comfortable .
I don’t think it is worth upgrading to especially if you do any kind of serious work on the computer.Even as a cheap upgrade from Windows XP - it is worth to spend the extra and pick up a copy of Windows 7 for any kind of serious work.
Oh I almost forgot ... have you actually tried hitting alt F4 since you installed Windows 8 ?
It brings up a screen to switch/add a new monitor .
There is no reason to upgrade from Windows 7 , not one.
It’s not an upgrade for any kind of serious computer use.
Now if you are a social media kiddie you will love all the garbage apps it comes with .
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