VirtualLarry
No Lifer
- Aug 25, 2001
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Getting rid of the Start Menu, and giving us a Start Screen, is like taking a file cabinet away from an office, and replacing it with a gigantic bulletin board. Sure, it's different, but is it really better?
That being said, I bought an AIO with Windows 8, and I guess I hate 8 less now that I've had a chance to use it, but it is annoying.
There's some SoundBlaster software that loads at startup, and is in the systray area as an icon. Well, I double-clicked the icon, it appeared to do nothing, so I double-clicked it again, and then later on, two instances tried to load and they both crashed. So the icon disappeared. So I wanted to manually start the program.
In Win7, I would just click Start, All Programs, Creative, Sound Blaster App.
In Win8, click over to Start Screen. Nope, program not there.
In the end, I had to go to Desktop, open Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files (x86), Creative, and then double-click the .exe file to re-launch it.
Win8 is slower, because it forces you to do more steps in a roundabout manner.
That being said, I bought an AIO with Windows 8, and I guess I hate 8 less now that I've had a chance to use it, but it is annoying.
There's some SoundBlaster software that loads at startup, and is in the systray area as an icon. Well, I double-clicked the icon, it appeared to do nothing, so I double-clicked it again, and then later on, two instances tried to load and they both crashed. So the icon disappeared. So I wanted to manually start the program.
In Win7, I would just click Start, All Programs, Creative, Sound Blaster App.
In Win8, click over to Start Screen. Nope, program not there.
In the end, I had to go to Desktop, open Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files (x86), Creative, and then double-click the .exe file to re-launch it.
Win8 is slower, because it forces you to do more steps in a roundabout manner.