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Re: Windows 8 Is Entirely Unusable
As part of the research I carried out on my journey through Windows Hate hell I did find several programs which were able to replace the vandalised start menu. Classic shell is one, StartW8 is another.
That is not the most important issue by a long way. The “system” is designed so that it puts silly menus on the screen every time you move the cursor in from an edge. That would be annoying enough in itself, but it doesn't even work. In over a month of testing the vile thing, I never once managed to get a menu to appear deliberately. Instead, they just flash up on the screen whenever you try to move the cursor to do something useful on the PC you've just paid good money for.
The hardware I had was probably defective. That goes without saying, but nothing excuses Microbug's bloody mindedness, lecherous greed and total contempt for the consumer in the way the “operating system” has been designed. Software is supposed to be customisable so that people can use the features they want. Microbug have deliberately and maliciously engineered it so you cannot disable these so called “hot corners”. Would any Linux developer ever behave like that?
Both Classic Shell and Skip Metro Suite have menu options which are designed to disable these features and give people their PC back. They don't work. Microbug has somehow managed to thwart their functionality just to inflict their own misguided view of the future on the unsuspecting consumer.
The lack of a Start Menu means you have no direct access to any software which you may deem useful, instead you have a screen which looks like something from a £20 cell phone linking to irrelevances and Microbug spam. I assume they are in league with parasites such as Xbox who have managed to corrupt the system to such an extent that the spam site is now the default player for your audio files! That is easy enough to fix, but why the hell should anyone have to?
The most extreme malice of all can be found in the fact that Windows Hate PCs cannot even be “downgraded” to 7 or replaced with a usable operating system due to Microbug's malicious tinkering with the BIOS. If you bought a pair of shoes from Tesco, and had to return them because they didn't fit, would they chop your feet off at the ankles to stop you buying some from anywhere else? Microbug would.
Here is a useful link -
How to bring back the Start menu and button to Windows 8 | ExtremeTech
There are some vitally important comments at the start before it degenerates into the usual meaningless arguments. The bottom line is that you need to be VERY careful when buying new computer hardware.
I have to stress that I am not a Microbug hater, or someone with a grudge. I have used their operating systems for well over 95% of my computing life, and been satisfied with them. Having experienced the extreme vileness and sickening immorality of Hate, I hope it puts them in the bankruptcy court. If there was any justice in the world, it would put them in the criminal court as well.
SH
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That is not the most important issue by a long way. The “system” is designed so that it puts silly menus on the screen every time you move the cursor in from an edge. That would be annoying enough in itself, but it doesn't even work. In over a month of testing the vile thing, I never once managed to get a menu to appear deliberately. Instead, they just flash up on the screen whenever you try to move the cursor to do something useful on the PC you've just paid good money for.
The hardware I had was probably defective. That goes without saying, but nothing excuses Microbug's bloody mindedness, lecherous greed and total contempt for the consumer in the way the “operating system” has been designed. Software is supposed to be customisable so that people can use the features they want. Microbug have deliberately and maliciously engineered it so you cannot disable these so called “hot corners”. Would any Linux developer ever behave like that?
Both Classic Shell and Skip Metro Suite have menu options which are designed to disable these features and give people their PC back. They don't work. Microbug has somehow managed to thwart their functionality just to inflict their own misguided view of the future on the unsuspecting consumer.
The lack of a Start Menu means you have no direct access to any software which you may deem useful, instead you have a screen which looks like something from a £20 cell phone linking to irrelevances and Microbug spam. I assume they are in league with parasites such as Xbox who have managed to corrupt the system to such an extent that the spam site is now the default player for your audio files! That is easy enough to fix, but why the hell should anyone have to?
The most extreme malice of all can be found in the fact that Windows Hate PCs cannot even be “downgraded” to 7 or replaced with a usable operating system due to Microbug's malicious tinkering with the BIOS. If you bought a pair of shoes from Tesco, and had to return them because they didn't fit, would they chop your feet off at the ankles to stop you buying some from anywhere else? Microbug would.
Here is a useful link -
How to bring back the Start menu and button to Windows 8 | ExtremeTech
There are some vitally important comments at the start before it degenerates into the usual meaningless arguments. The bottom line is that you need to be VERY careful when buying new computer hardware.
I have to stress that I am not a Microbug hater, or someone with a grudge. I have used their operating systems for well over 95% of my computing life, and been satisfied with them. Having experienced the extreme vileness and sickening immorality of Hate, I hope it puts them in the bankruptcy court. If there was any justice in the world, it would put them in the criminal court as well.
SH
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