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Win 8.1 has option to boot to desktop. Right click on task bar>properties>select options

http://blogs.computerworld.com/windows/22952/windows-8-shines-amid-shrinking-pc-sales-apple-get-whacked Windows 8, surprisingly, helped buoy the market. IDC said: "While shipments remained weak during the early part of the quarter, the market was somewhat buoyed by business purchases, as well...

Right click on the task bar>choose>Toolbars>new toolbar and navigate to the folder as listed below, choose your account where it says your name. Same as Win 7 does. You can fill it by dragging your short cuts there. Not that difficult and you'll only need to do it once. C:\Users\your account...

Drag and drop to Quick Launch on task bar, your short cuts. Technology is riddled with failures that bring refinement to the final product. In pharmaceuticals research, only 1 product out of a thousand gets past clinical trials. Success is the result of failures and it costs money. In general...

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

You can do that in Win 8 as well.

Mad, but not stupid Microsoft remains silent. It's apparently happy for developers to think that HTML5 and JavaScript are the only option for immersive Windows 8 applications, regardless of the distress and damage this is causing. And the longer the company remains silent, the more convinced...

Ready or not Windows 8.2 is coming in Jan. 2014

It was the same when I got internet. People would ask me what is it? What do you do with it? Eventually the sheeple come around. Prior to internet it was BBS. Before your time.

What has sales of the operating system have to do with the operating system it self? If you aren't running Win 8 what do you know about it? Kind of lame material to post to favour your opinion. Don't like it don't use it. The OP wanted assistance with upgrade not opinions on Win 8. Posting your...

Where are all these ads in Win 8 you are condemning? I know there's a lot of money in gadgets for the kids. And kids are mostly in their 30's.

That's about where most people's computer skills flatlined

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I don’t think a slowing operating system is attributable to the M$ hot fixes. For Win 7, I think I have over 250 hot fixes which add around 650 mb to the drive. In general I find that 90% of people don’t do any maintenance routines on their systems. Over time the system gets bloated with temp...

You can do the same in Win 8. Search in Win 8 is the same as search when on click on the start orb in Win 7 right at the bottom. That's where you type what you re lookin for.

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If you can't handle it it's your best option. Some people like what they are used to. Average users of computers have little knowledge of the operating systems and functionality. Change throws them into a loop b/c the just got programed to the system they've been using for 5 yrs. Personally...

A fresh install is best. If you use MSDN official iso for 8.1, Windows installer may not be able to detect the OEM key. So you need to use the generic keys to install appropriate edition & after completion install your OEM key. The Windows activates automatically if internet connection is...

Get this tool to find your key and info on your system. You might need your key for the upgrade. Tool Win TK To find out if you have the KB hot fix installed go to the action center and click on "Windows Update" on the new screen upper left corner, click on "Update History". Check the list of...