I just installed Windows 8.1, as I had Vista 32 bit and needed a 64 bit operating system. Holy fucking god damnit this thing is fucking horrible.
Click on a picture file or sound file while on the desktop or in File explorer, and suddenly I'm in this horrible Metro crapfest where I can't access the desktop and the metro programs are awful and I wish I'd never clicked on that picture or sound file, but now it takes about 10 steps to get back to where I was on the desktop.
I knew that everyone hated Windows 8, but it's way worse than I imagined. As in, yeah, when I tried to view the 10 pictures I had in a directory on the hard drive, I did not want to be taken into Metro where I now had no access to the directory and so couldn't view any of the other 9.
Anyone got a general link on "how to make Windows 8 like windows 7/vista"?
Or, at least, anyone know how to stop windows 8 from sending me into its horrible Metro interface?
I'm guessing I need to install 3rd party programs to view pictures and movie files and sound files, and set these as the default. Any quick advice as to what a good general purpose picture file, sound file and movie file player would be?
And why the hell does every new window open behind the current one by default, so that I can't see what is going on with downloads and such?
"How bad could it be?", I thought....
Click on a picture file or sound file while on the desktop or in File explorer, and suddenly I'm in this horrible Metro crapfest where I can't access the desktop and the metro programs are awful and I wish I'd never clicked on that picture or sound file, but now it takes about 10 steps to get back to where I was on the desktop.
I knew that everyone hated Windows 8, but it's way worse than I imagined. As in, yeah, when I tried to view the 10 pictures I had in a directory on the hard drive, I did not want to be taken into Metro where I now had no access to the directory and so couldn't view any of the other 9.
Anyone got a general link on "how to make Windows 8 like windows 7/vista"?
Or, at least, anyone know how to stop windows 8 from sending me into its horrible Metro interface?
I'm guessing I need to install 3rd party programs to view pictures and movie files and sound files, and set these as the default. Any quick advice as to what a good general purpose picture file, sound file and movie file player would be?
And why the hell does every new window open behind the current one by default, so that I can't see what is going on with downloads and such?
"How bad could it be?", I thought....