Hazel, LOL!!! I know, I know... 8's already great, don't be lazy, try the touch, etc...
But my netbook isn't touch, & the screens resolution is too small for tiles, & I wanna try 8 to see if it is any faster on it or better.
So, if this works like it looks, I will be able to have a de-metro'd 8 that works like 7 until I need the tiles, then I can add them back by uninstalling.
Crossing my fingers, & if anyone gets to try it before I do, please lemme know what you think...
* Please only try this on an experimental box, & only also if you are a bit experienced. You first have to obtain the Win 7 files as per instructions before applying it to 8. I intend to test on something like my netbook eventually, to see how things go.
Or perhaps, even experiment with other coolish ideas. Just to see what happens.
Sorry but putting hacked versions of key windows components onto a computer isn't a good idea. I cant imagine this will lead to anything but a buggy windows install.
I've been using windows 8 since it came out and I've gotten to know its good functions and bad functions. Some of what this tool is replacing is actually a real improvement(the ribbon interface in explorer is actually great).
I did buy start 8 and its a fantastic program. I'm all for customizing computers to your liking but what your link suggests will probably cause more harm than good.
It will all come to tears when you have to run SFC and it demands the installation disc.
Though, I can't tell you when I have needed to run that.
You also have a skip file (if you know its ok) option with SFC when it finds a "changed" file, do you not?
I forget. Long time since I used it.
Anyway, what do you think when someone uses 8's HDD pooling capability to combine nine 80 GB HDD as a single drive so they can store one of their precious gaming CD's in iso format, then one of the HDD dies (taking part of your image with it... forever)...
Or, Windows klutzes somehow, & your drive mapping scheme goes haywire.
Perhaps you accidentally bumped a wire (or 2) & Windows swaps drive letters on drive reconnect.
No need to tell you what would happen if Windows tried to complete a write to drive D (formerly drive E) during the swap.
Or if you put the copy on pause & add an external drive with partitions D/E/F/G/H on it via USB. Shudder to think of the horrors when you unpause copying!
Wonder which would cause more problems? SFC, or the new HDD pooling feature of 8?
not only that but you can create a pool with two drives (for ex two 40gb drives) and tell it the pool is a different size (continued ex instead of 80 you tell it that the pool is 500 GB) and (until you begin to approach 80GB in our example) the computer acts like has (500GB) at which point throw in another random (120gb) that your (homey) gave you to wipe and you're rolling again
not only that but you can create a pool with two drives (for ex two 40gb drives) and tell it the pool is a different size (continued ex instead of 80 you tell it that the pool is 500 GB) and (until you begin to approach 80GB in our example) the computer acts like has (500GB) at which point throw in another random (120gb) that your (homey) gave you to wipe and you're rolling again
Following on from Fake 64 GB Flash Drives
Could you sell on eBay a fake 10 TB Windows 8 system with those two 40 GB drives ?
not only that but you can create a pool with two drives (for ex two 40gb drives) and tell it the pool is a different size (continued ex instead of 80 you tell it that the pool is 500 GB) and (until you begin to approach 80GB in our example) the computer acts like has (500GB) at which point throw in another random (120gb) that your (homey) gave you to wipe and you're rolling again
This sounds like a bad thing.
How can it be good to make like you have 500 GB (if you really haven't)?
What happens if you get Windows to lie that you have 500 GB (& you've only 100), then Windows forgets you only got 100 when it is mirroring your files (or you install a 250 GB game)?
Personally I don't believe anything can be done to make 8 great.
I don't like the idea of specifying that a disk has more free space than it can actually have. And the more I read about windows8 the more I am truly scared of even spending time with it.
I have very little experience with it, if any, and now I read this --http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57551670-75/design-guru-nielsen-windows-8-ui-smothers-usability/
It says you can only focus on one application at a time when using the main interface? Why do we even *need* two interfaces in a desktop to begin with? How the hell am I gonna do programming on one monitor, itunes on the other, Matrix screensaver on the 3rd, and Playstation on the 4th?
This is absurd! And the author is right, there are too many hidden things. Too much minimalism in the presentation of the "desktop".