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Install Linux then. Without an X Server. You should be very happy.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Spend an hour or so changing the default file associations from Metro to good old fashioned Windows ones, spend another 20 minutes fiddling around with the settings to push Metro as out of the way as possible and you end up with a rock solid (albeit slightly fugly) OS
I could never go back to XP, it's just awful!
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Reinstall Weven.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Step 1: install ClassicShell (for free)
Benefits:
- It provides a start menu and lets you boot into desktop without having to fiddle with Windoze settings
- it provides a fully functional task bar
- it lets you disable the screen hot spots that pop up the charm bar and other W8 GUI elements when mousing over
Step 2: find classic tools to replace the now "Metro" only applications such as image viewer and media player. Then fix the file associations of any types that are linked to "Metro" only apps.
Step 3:
profit!
The only thing you can't fix is the horribly messed up system settings dialog system. Settings are spread all over the place. Depending on what you are looking for, you may need to look in several different places. E. g. for energy savings settings I've found 4 different dialogs / dialog tabs that I needed to look at 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Hi, Thanks,
The most helpful msg yet.
However:-
Step 1: install ClassicShell (for free)
Benefits:
- It provides a start menu and lets you boot into desktop without having to fiddle with Windoze settings
OK
- it provides a fully functional task bar
OK. Sometimes
- it lets you disable the screen hot spots that pop up the charm bar and other W8 GUI elements when mousing over
How??
Step 2: find classic tools to replace the now "Metro" only applications such as image viewer and media player. Then fix the file associations of any types that are linked to "Metro" only apps.
Where do I find That! How do I do that!!
Step 3:
profit!
The only thing you can't fix is the horribly messed up system settings dialog system. Settings are spread all over the place. Depending on what you are looking for, you may need to look in several different places. E. g. for energy savings settings I've found 4 different dialogs / dialog tabs that I needed to look at
Thankfully, not a problem for me so far!
Bram van Kampen
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Disable screen hotspots:
unfortunately I can't tell you how from firsthand experience - I only recently read about ClassicShells more recent versions introducing that feature. I've made a quick google and found this forum thread which may be helpful: http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=54[^]
Replace Metro only apps:
a) I've googled for applications for email (mozilla thunderbird) to play my music (MediaMonkey and Audacity for the tricky stuff), view my images (IrfanView) and installed them
b) change the default file type association, so that double-clicking a media file will take me to the new installed apps rather than the built-in ones. Some tools may already offer to do that for you during installations. If not, here's a quick description on how to do this in Windows 8: http://www.wikihow.com/Associate-File-Types-in-Windows-8[^]
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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These are sentences exactly as typed by medical secretaries in NHS (National Health Service) Greater Glasgow
1. Patient has left her white blood cells at another hospital.
2. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
3. On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it disappeared.
4. The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.
5. Discharge status: Alive, but without my permission.
6. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.
7. While in ER, Eva was examined, x-rated and sent home.
8. Skin: somewhat pale, but present.
9. Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.
10. The patient was in his usual state of good health until his airplane ran out of fuel and crashed.
11. Mrs Evans slipped on the ice and apparently her legs went in separate directions in early December.
12. Patient was seen in consultation by Dr Jones, who felt we should sit on the abdomen and I agree
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Vivic wrote: exactly as typed by medical secretaries in NHS (National Health Service) Greater Glasgow
Strange that it sounds so American then.
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It's A&E here, in the UK, not ER.
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Cubby Checker wins lawsuit and Twists his hips. 
Sorry I'll get my coat!
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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The app author may ask for his app to be restored as "Free Willy".
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The app's approach using the shoe size for calculating is interesting. We don't need the latest IPhone anymore
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Here I am, sitting in the car with three kids for the past half hour, because yhe wife had to run into the dollar store to grab two things. She needed balloons ang goody bags for our daugjtets birthday party. Why does a quick dash into the store always have to take soooo loooooooooong?
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Cell phone keyboards suck
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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There's a mall in Barcelona that my wife enjoys a lot (it's like a palace inside).
In male restrooms there are some adverts on top of the urinals that explain there's the male parking were beers can be bought, TV's, consoles and other fun things can be used for free so meanwhile your wife is buying you can at least have a good time.
Never been there, but I've always found it funny.
modified 25-Jul-14 2:11am.
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Joan Murt wrote: beers
Joan Murt wrote: for free
Sounds like paradise. Can't be true.
Joan Murt wrote: Never been there,
Why not?!?
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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PJ Arends wrote: Sounds like paradise. Can't be true.
It is not true, my fault writing it...
I guess this answers your question... 
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Are you implying that there is the possibility that a woman can shop for short amount of time? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Wishful thinking; I know.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Unless you're in Barcelona.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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