Install the free Classic Shell and you'll have the Start Menu back and make it much easier to create shortcuts/pinned programs for your favorite programs. There is a manual but PITA method to create one as is in Windows 8. For techies it's fairly easy, but it's just nowhere near as easy as installing Classic Shell. I don't have the patience to bother trying to explain how: someone else can if you or they really want. What I've tried, which isn't much yet, ran no worse and ran just fine. ROFL!
This cannot be true! Are they drunken? It is the best way with shortcuts to start your most use programs. No startbutton, no shortcuts. I cannot imagine that any company use this sh*t win8. Thanks for the information.
Of course you can start your programs with shortcuts. You can have shortcuts on the desktop or the taskbar or the Metro Start page. Personally I like shortcuts to my most used programs on the taskbar and nothing on my desktop but the recycle Bin so I can see my wallpaper.
I think he's just expressing that he doesn't like that MS made it more difficult to create shortcuts (or pin programs to the task bar), since there's no Start Menu. Of course anyone comfortable with Windows Explorer and navigating the "Program Files" folders of Windows doesn't have to install Classic Shell to get a Start Menu back to do this, but even I, who am very comfortable with that sort of thing, prefer just using Classic Shell because it's much quicker and easier not to have to go to Windows Explorer just to create the shortcuts in the first place.
I think you don't understand me. Metro is the new startmenu. I don't want anything in my taskbar nor on my desktop. I only want to shortcut anything from that ugly metro menu (the designer I want to k***.) Thanks in advance!
Since Windows 7 I've been pinning folders I need to get to frequently to Windows Explorer. Like so i.imgur.com/cd9cS.png
How can I shortcut on the metro start page (with shortcut I mean Ctrl+Alt+F for example). Thanks in advance.
All shortcuts to your programs are in the "Start Menu" folder which you can see I pin to Windows Explorer. That makes it easy to copy shortcuts to your desktop or pin them to your tasbar if need be. I remember when people bitched that Microsoft removed the quicklaunch toolbar in Windows 7. Eventually most people came to realize that the new windows 7 taskbar was better then the XP way of doing things. So now in Windows 8 we have the same great taskbar as Windows 7 but instead of using that, people are bitching about the start button. I remember when people hated the start button when it was added in win95 but we all got use to it. Now it's changed again in windows 8. People will get use to it as well. I personally never used the start button much so I'm glad they replaced it with Metro.
I think win8 blows so far but will install rtm on a good 4 core machine and then report on it. I have my doubts, I mean we can mod it as needed or desired but whats the point if win7 already works properly? Their going to backport anything imortant under the hood anyway. It's for tablets and touchscreens and kids IMO. Sure, corps are going to love 8, ya, right... b7
Yes, I know about the Start Menu folder. Actually there's two, one for All Users and one for your personal user account. It's much easier for me to just keep using the Start Menu via Classic Shell, though. I'm not one of those people who are complaining about MS removing the Start Menu. Since Classic Shell, it makes no difference to me, and Classic Shell is actually better than the original anyway. I agree, people might get used to Metro. I, for one, use the Start Menu all the time. I pin my very most common programs to my task bar, my second most common to the top of the Start Menu, then there's the frequently used programs below them, but I have it set in Classic Shell to show them in the opposite direction as Windows 7's does: the most used one at the bottom. I often wished it was that way in the Windows Start Menu. Then there's some programs I put on the Desktop, and then the rest of the Start Menu Programs.
Classic Shell is the only mod I need to make it even better than Windows 7, plus there's the benefit of how much faster W8 is (for me).
Looks like everyone that's gonna run Windows 8 is going to use Classic shell except for me I guess. I like the new clean looks and the Start screen and I'm not going to buy Windows 8 just so I can turn it into Windows 7 which was the case with Windows 7 sadly, I turned it into Windows 2000 but god I hate AERO.
Yep, until I get a real inkling to give Metro a longer and harder try, I'll keep using Classic Shell. I still get the other benefits of W8 so it doesn't bother me, and over the next few years I may eventually transition to Metro. I'm pretty set in my ways (although not as much as some on here ) so I always prefer to transition slowly.
I'm not going to use Classic shell either. Don't get me wrong, I think Classic shell is really well done but I like Metro and I have no problems getting anything done. I still use Windows 7 on my desktop at home but I will be upgrading it to Windows 8 as soon as it is released. I've been using windows 8 on my Netbook since the Developers preview. The speed difference on a netbook between Windows 7 and Windows 8 is very noticeable. I can have many programs and apps running at the same time without my Netbook slowing down like it did with Windows 7. The Netbook was actually a Windows Vista machine when I bought it but that was a complete joke. The thing was so useless for almost anything. I installed Windows 7 on it the first week and that made things much better but now with Windows 8 it feels like a laptop instead of a s**tty Netbook.
You know, it is kind of funny that people say Windows 8 sucks; yet a majority of the people here probably have a tablet or a smartphone with a similar interface. Being a pre-smartphone users, I thought touchscreens were stupid and unneeded. Now that I have an Android Smartphone, a Tablet and a touchscreen LCD monitor... I will never ever go back to the way it was before. Yes, there are some things in Windows 8 that make it harder for those stuck in the non-touchscreen past; but it still has the classic windows screen among other stuff. Windows 8 was made for the adopters, eventually down the road, a lot of people are going to get into the smartphone/tablet/touchscreen; and Windows 8 was made to pick these people up. At first I disliked Windows 8, but like others in the thread; I have had the chance to use it ever since the beta. It has actually been my main OS since then and I have learned to like it a lot. Windows 7 is great still though and a lot of people will just stick with it, that's fine. Windows 8 is a pretty big leap ahead but I think it's needed at this time. Hell look at all the corporate jobs out there that still use Windows XP Professional, my current job does and it's embarrassing when I can do twice the amount of work I am supposed to do on Windows 7/Windows 8. Granted I won't tell them that, but still. In the end it'll take awhile for everyone to like Windows 8, there are a lot of old school people out there in which it will take awhile to entice, but they will eventually jump on Windows 8 or Windows 9. I think this is the best step for Microsoft to take, to get current with technology with their OS. Kudos to them. At least everyone has a choice of what OS they want to run and both are equally great. Two great Operating Systems in a row? Microsoft what are you thinking! And that's my two cents.