How the hell do you find anything in Windows 8?

Windows 8 sucks...to be avoided at all costs...XP is better ffs.

its driving me crazy.

i want the calculator, takes me 20 minutes to find it!

now im trying to put a new album on to my blackberry playbook, it just wont show up at all in my computer. windows 7, even vista, it just worked. been pissing about for an hour with windows 8 and it just wont show up. just says "initializing device access" forever. fooking useless.

Windows 8 will never set foot in my house that's for sure.

I used Windows from Windows 3 up to XP. Windows 8 has me totally lost, I agree it is sh1t.

The head honcho at Microsoft wants everything to feel like Windows, but also wants a slice of the mobile and table market... which has resulted in Windows 8.

A good tip to remember is that Windows 8 is voice activated, just call out your instructions and it will promply do what you ask be it browsing, dictation or even complex coding. It does take a while to calibrate itself to your precise voice patterns so it may take some days to see results, so persevere for as long as it takes and resist the urge to operate it manually. t will be worth the effort in the end.
The microphones are not very sensitive so speak very, very loudly or shout where possible, the louder you shout, the quicker you will progress.

I've had it 3 weeks and self abuse has become a memory, just gets on my nerves lost interest in the laptop/internet just by using it laptop with old windows is being delivered this week so should be smiling again soon, my advice leave well alone.

Everything that has been said is correct. Bought this laptop with Win 8 just 3 weeks ago, big mistake.
Drives me nuts with the menu thing coming up every time I swipe my finger across the touch pad, lost count the number of times I've screwed up backing or laying in running when I have to return to my page because of this.
As has been said... where the fack are all the files located?
Might persevere with this or reload it with XP or Vista.
Does that make me a Luddite?

this has me thinking about putting a website up to show how easy it is to use linux.

installinux.com is taken, installinglinux.com is taken, but fackwindows.co.uk is available.

seriously though, for any of you with a spare hour and a spare USB stick... try
.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows

you can test drive Linux from a USB stick. A complete operating system on your USB stick is basically what it is.

It'll run slow from it (mainly the start up) but other than that, give it a go. If you like it you can install it alongside Windows.

I use a thing called classic shell which makes for windows 8 interface look like the old familiar windows 7. Just google classic shell fro windos 8. I seem to remember there's a short guide on its setup on youtube as well.

am struggling through with windows 8,getting better slowly but it truly is horrible,the amount of times i unintentionally bring up the touch screen menu when using the mouse pad makes you wanna throw it in the bin! Am slowly but surely getting the thing set up with tweaks here n there and 3rd party bits of software but i really wish i had bought a new windows 7 laptop tbh.

Quite simply,if you intend on using a laptop or pc,DO NOT buy a piece of equipment with this installed imo.

the louder you shout, the quicker you will progress

Does it help to chuck in a few profanities?

Bought a brand new laptop a month ago with windows 8,got rid of it after a week,drove me ****1ng nuts.

got a new desktop with windows 8 few months ago
takes a bit of getting used to but isnt the worst thing ever if u use it in desktop mode.  if u swipe ur mouse on the right of the screen and click search u can find calculator there

just had the misfortune of purchasing a new laptop
with windows 8 on.
not sure what to do with it now, got the one it was supposed
to replace back out, just look @ it as one useless piece of equipment.

xp good, vista sh1t, windows 7 good, windows 8 sh1t

I saw it on a laptop a while back, and took an instant dislike to it.
Vista was another head-wrecker, always asking wanna download a device driver for that.

bought a laptop for my 12 year old at xmas. She has no problem with the Windows 8 OS. Me on the other hand, I took about an hour trying to find the shut down button

classic shell is a must imo platini

yep xp was great, vista was crap, 7 was the best of the lot and 8 is the worst of the lot. i bloody hate it. its not even quick, no idea why but its virtually impossible to use sometimes. everything just slows down then freezes constantly. i have to reboot TWICE to get things working properly again. no idea why, but after one reboot its always still slow as hell.

i think it keeps things half open in memory that you havent closed, cos theres no way to close them. like when you go to the start menu and use something...then go back to the desktop. you havent closed it, but its not there anymore so you cant close it.

tbh i've not really spent much time looking into it,
but there must be plenty of pre-loaded sh1t on there
that can be removed

yeh probably. ive stopped a few things starting automatically after a reboot, its helped a bit. i have 2 laptops so ive generally just been using my windows 7 one. but it doesnt have a dvd drive, so i have to use my windows 8 one for certain stuff.

"Does it help to chuck in a few profanities?"

AP, yes I find this helps, as does banging on the table loudly and repeatedly. Note though that you need to be careful with profanities as some of them are actually default keyboard shortcuts, once while watching a particularly frustrating football game it printed the entire contents of a folder called "for Ken Hunt".

Reinstall windows 7 or XP and go from there

In the last 5 years I have bought two computers for >£500 each.

the first was windows vista and the second was windows 8. next time I am going to give PC World £500 and ask them to take my kidneys

that is what you call bad luck father!

Unreal

windows 8

should of called it lost an found

a nightmare to perform simplistic tasks,

it's my first new computer since 2001,the computor is great,acer,but windows 8 SUCKS,,I'm using apple iPad most of the time,how I wish I stayed with safari

I bought a new computer with Windows 8 - tried it for a month, not switched it on since. Simply unusable.

how did it get thru testing


or who did they test it on

I googled windows 8 probs---an there's so much abuse out there

at the moment when I turn computor on,it says choose browser,but I already hav one on default explorer it won't let me leave page

today when i went out i thought id leave it on but log off, just in case a burglar wanted to go through my passwords.

spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to log off, gave up and just shut it down. utterly hilarious really.