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That's easy. Just use Start8[^]. I also use a few registry hacks to make my Win8 look like Win7. Here's[^] what my Win8 task bar looks like.
/ravi
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Oooo! I am glad VS2010 still runs on it. I would hate to have to use VS2012 as well as W8!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yes, VS2010 runs flawlessly on Win8. It's still my favorite version of VS. 
/ravi
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Also you can install and use VS2008. I installed and i am using.
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Start8, StartIsBack and Classic Shell come to mind. Start8 and StartIsBack are pay for, but they're pretty inexpensive. Classic Shell is a freebie with lots of options.
I dislike the flat look (and lack of configuration) of the Win 8/8.1 desktop UI but the improvements to the underlying OS are welcome.
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Can we get Aero back?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Reinstalled Win7? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Using taskbar properties, you can make it mostly disappear. You can't get rid of it completely though
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expensive though. You can get classic shell for free
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It's only $5. Classic Shell is nice but doesn't give you everything that Start8 does.
/ravi
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Why pay, just get Start Menu 8. Gives all features of the above, takes out Metro completely (Heck it even did that with Win8), and it has the best price of them all, FREE!
It is one of IOBit's offerings.
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Thanks! 
/ravi
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I guess he means that you set your system up to boot directly to the Desktop. You also set it up to go to the Apps screen when you select the System button so you never need see the Start screen at all.
My Win 8.1 system looks exactly like my Win 7 system most days. There are odd times when I need the Apps screen to start a system app, or play a game or two over lunch, but I never go into the Start screen.
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Shameel wrote: ed welch wrote: After getting rid of Metro
How did you do that?
Installed ClassicShell? 
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coarse or course?
ahem.
Bryce
MCAD
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Lol
To remove metro from windows 8 is to remove all advancement in technology, while you use compatibility mode aka the desktop.
Brilliant: viva la resistance
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Metro is absolutely not an advance for PC users (maybe it is for tablet). It is a reversion to one-app-at-a-time computing which Microsoft correctly decided was outdated in 1990 when they brought out Windows. With two 1080p monitors and multi-core CPUs to play with it's even more nonsensical now than it was then.
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Indeed. I presume the Metro fiasco was the reason that Ballmer got sacked
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I can't find the article I read about it, but apparently he was fired over the Nokia deal. TL/DR: Ballmer wanted Nokia, board didn't, he threw a hissy fit and got his way, at least in the short run.
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You are uneducated.
I am using Two 1080p monitors and multi-core CPU.
Until windows 8 metro I have never seen a app use 64 bits correctly, let alone a single app correctly handle 200 GB.
The only reason not to like metro is the fact nothing is programmed for it yet.
Your opinion is not based on technology, but mere thin air.
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9 years of post secondary.
Tell me about an app that can utilize 200 GB please?
Every server environment I have ever worked on has to use virtual machines to utilize that amount of memory or more.
Having a masters degree means you can gets grades and follow society - that does not mean he is current on technology.
He is indeed uneducated.
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What does a single app using 200GB have to do with a terrible end-user UI? 64 bit has been available and (afaik) worked properly since Windows XP, not to mention non-Windows OSs. 64 bit is excellent technology, although beyond the needs of most applications, but it is totally different to Metro.
In your next post you talk about servers; you shouldn't even be interacting with a server through a graphical UI in most cases so it's completely nonsensical to talk about Metro wrt servers.
Metro isn't even technology, it's a design choice, and a terrible one at that.
Colborne_Greg wrote: The only reason not to like metro is the fact nothing is programmed for it yet.
No, the reason not to like it (as I've pointed out to you in this thread and others in the past) is that we moved forward from running one application at a time 25 years ago and it's just insane to force people back into a one-at-a-time model, particularly when computers are now powerful enough to easily run a lot of applications in parallel. Why do you think tabbed browsers are so popular?
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Do you understand what metro is?
Metro is not one application at a time model.
I suggest you take training on windows 8 to educate yourself on every aspect.
The only downfall to metro is the lack of programming for metro.
The way metro interacts with the user is limited by the applications you use not windows itself.
By the way so you understand what metro is:
It is Windows RT aka Windows Runtime aka the .net framework turned into an operating system.
Metro is a marvel of absolute programming perfection.
The desktop in windows 8 is a metro app.
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