Try this and you’ll love it: http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/download.asp
It adds the start button back and it adds a few other features. So you can have your regular interface but all the improvements in Win8 too. Don’t downgrade.
Thank you! I will give that a try tonight and see how I like it. FReepers are the best.
It was terribly buggy when I tried it. Didn't work well at all.
Win8 has so many stupid design decisions that the only sane answer to it is downgrading to Win7. I don't want to list here all the problems with Win8, there are many helpful web sites on the Internet that will tell you more than you'd ever wanted to hear on the subject :-)
For purposes of full disclosure, I have a modern (but not touch) notebook here that runs the latest free -RC. It will expire in January, and then I will just install something usable there - perhaps Win7, perhaps Linux Mint, perhaps the latest Fedora. Win8 will not be considered - even if it is free. I'm not willing to lose productivity just to play MS' marketing games. What idiot there decided to replace hierarchical menu with a flat one, to begin with? But I promised to keep the list of stupidities secret, so I'm done here :-)