Win8 question

[Steve Fabian]

Win8 (or maybe 8.1 only) no longer has the Start button/tab. Anybody with suggestions how to emulate it? BTW, this is for my son, who does not have TCMD/TCC. He just wants easy access to programs without requiring him to learn where they are, the only way when using Windows Explorer, and without a multitude of hardly ever used desktop shortcuts. I own neither Win8 nor 8.1.

 

[samintz]

Rex commented about this quite a while ago. There are add-ons that can simulate the Start button. There should be a reference to it in the forums.
A quick Google search revealed this: http://blog.laptopmag.com/make-windows-8-like-windows-7

 

[samintz]

This article is a little older but addresses additional details:
http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/software-and-web-apps/how-to-make-windows-8-look-like-windows-7-50009546/

 

[Joe Caverly]

http://www.classicshell.net/

Joe

 

[Charles Dye]

http://www.classicshell.net/

I use that one myself. Makes life a whole lot easier.

(Microsoft even put that Playskool interface on Server 2012! I cannot fathom why they would do that to a server OS. But then, I can't fathom why they would do it to a workstation OS either.)

 

[Steve Fabian]

Thanks to all! I'll email all above to my son...
--
Steve

 

[ben]

Remember XP? It looked like the Teletubbies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_SHEhdP58Y

 

[TEA-Time]

Remember XP? It looked like the Teletubbies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_SHEhdP58Y

Yup. :-D