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It's still a total pain to do all that in order to install an OS!
Iirc every os back to 2000 has required a local user setup at install? I can't remember but possibly 9x too.
It's still a total pain to do all that in order to install an OS!
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No option to ignore so had to make up a virtual person
Not alphabetical on XP, in order of install unless you manually initiate a sort.
Also do I need to see all the utilities and software I don't directly use?
How about a start menu with just the bits you want and use?
Yes 7 sorted it in most used, but it can take a while to be in the order you want and you can also pin things.
Windows 8 just makes life easier for non tech people and hides so much crap you don't need.
Windows - the program that when you want to stop using it, you press the Start button. Genius! :bonk:
No wonder it's so complicated to use.
Wow, that's new and original
Also in Windows 8 you don't click on Start to turn off the machine
technically the button hasnt said "start" (on a default theme) since XP..
I know. I just always thought it a backwards way of doing things.
I wouldn't know as thankfully I rarely use Windows anymore.
Ahh part of the global domination that is OSX (whose global share dropped last year )
It was the tone of.....thankfully I rarely use Windows and the smiley
Of course your aim when you posted in this thread was purely constructive....
Microsoft said:The Start menu is the main gateway to your computer's programs, folders, and settings. It's called a menu because it provides a list of choices, just as a restaurant menu does. And as "Start" implies, it's often the place that you'll go to start or open things.
So much this! I just don't get the hate for the "lack" of start button. If you press the Win key, or now the "new" start button in 8.1, it simply takes you to a tiled area where your key apps are located in groups of your choosing. Rather than a multi layered menu system with a myriad of apps some of which you will never use.Thanks god the start menu is not returning. Using Windows 8 is so much quicker without one.
I run basic computer classes and the stat menu is one thing new users really struggle with is using the start menu, especially one that cascades to 3 or 4 layers so I can understand why Microsoft have ditched the old fashioned start menu.
And unlike W7/XP you can tidy that up in W8. Right click and "Unpin from Start". Then move the one app you do want into whichever group of apps you wish. I have one called "Tools". Move that group wherever you wish too. The rest can always be found by Win+Q and a search.An example: my HP printer software install pinned eight tiles, and only one was for the actual program!
And unlike W7/XP you can tidy that up in W8.
Even after all these years, I can still see a certain irony in having to go to "Start" in order to stop the computer as that's where the Shut Down button is.
A bit like that time when I had a Tiny PC (*cringe*) which ran Windows 98 and once when I put in a new AGP graphics card, a BIOS type menu popped up saying "Keyboard missing - Press F1 to continue".
I think you will find there are still a lot of home users on XP.
Yes you can pin, but the tiles work better.
What works best on both 7 and 8 it is hitting the start key, type part if name and hit enter