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No Start button. 'nuff said.
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I think you mix something up.
a) Windows 8.1 has a start button (only the first Windows 8 release was missing one -- at least by default)
b) The only ones complaining about a missing start buttons are usually fanboys of X or haters of MS / Windows
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c) Those of us who haven't found the option to reinstate the Start button yet.
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The start button is available (and instated) from the beginning in Windows 8.1. Therefore I assume you are talking about something different (either OS or functionality).
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Actually, I have two start buttons... One that opens the metro screen, and one (Third-party, pre-installed by Lenovo) that opens up an ugly-looking imitation of the Win7 start menu.
8.0 was missing the button... 8.1 put it back.
I don't use either of them... I just hit the windows key on the keyboard (Which opens the metro one), and type a few letters of what I want... Just like I do in Win7.
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I hated W8.1 for about the first two weeks. After finding all settings to make it looks like W7 (and also some behavior like W7) I would never go back to W7.
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Bruno Sprecher wrote: After finding all settings to make it looks like W7 (and also some behavior like W7) I would never go back to W7.
Uh, it sounds like you have. What about making W8.1 look and behave like W7 still gives it an advantage over W7?
Marc
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Bruno Sprecher wrote: My outdated Borland c++ 6.0 environment does work more reliable on W8.1 than with W7.
Now that's the first good reason I've heard!
Marc
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Thank you for your compassion 
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: my machine has downloaded updates and will restart in 15 minutes
We've had Windows 8 and 8.1 for about a year now (I honestly don't remember when we bought the laptop; it was when the last one died). I see notifications saying updates have been installed and Windows will restart the next DAY, but never in 15 minutes...
I've always been able to stop what I was doing and complete a clean restart.
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You must have fixed it already... A one day warning is acceptable... A 15-minute warning is not.
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We didn't change anything; it was preconfigured that way. It is an ASUS, so before they had that set up...
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Always liked Asus, ever since my TF101... Guess Lenovo just doesn't configure for geeks.
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Actually Windows 8(.1) has sucked for quite some time already
My blog[ ^]
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I thought Windows 8.1 sucked, everyday, not just today. 
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Well yeah, but "everyday" includes today... And I thought I'd stick with the standard subject format.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: I found you can manually create a specific registry key to disable this behavior...
After 8 versions (and numerous sub-versions), you still have to manually tweak the registry. 
Then again, at least it's configurable. In Linux, often enough your only option is to change the damn OS code!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: In Linux, often enough your only option is to change the damn OS code!
You must have a real misunderstanding of how Linux works... 
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And it was Windows Update which yelled so? (I cant believe it) 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I shudder to think of what this poor soul has been through, and can only hop that Santa will do the right thing to help him get back to, hopfully, a path to a good future ! [^].
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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Maybe it's really, really good at jumping? It's got the legs for it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I bet I know what he gets for Xmas ....
A jumper!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I knew her a couple decades ago, and we've recently become re-acquainted.
Back then I thought I understood her at least a little, but there were many things about her that I just couldn't fathom. Not entirely her fault, of course. I was new at all this myself. She was just so damn indirect about everything back then, and my mind just couldn't make the logical leaps that it needed to understand.
So fast forward to today. She's matured. We both have. I can handle the subtleties now, and she doesn't point so much any more (well, she does, but only if you dig too deep). So now our relationship is blooming to a level I never thought possible before. I think she's the one.
I love you, C++.
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