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Offline OrangeCrate

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Re: Keeping Windows 7? Some good news
« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2012, 01:12:34 PM »
Interesting thread, thanks. I look forward to seeing Windows 8 on a production machine.
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Re: Keeping Windows 7? Some good news
« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2012, 03:21:56 PM »
I'll be getting mine from Technet the second it's available.  :)
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Re: Keeping Windows 7? Some good news
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2012, 05:51:02 PM »
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Re: Keeping Windows 7? Some good news
« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2012, 11:44:01 PM »
OS is moving toward it... Tablets and smartphones on mind...
The reading is good and worth. And there is a very good tool for tweaking: Right Click Context Menu Extender 2.0
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Re: Keeping Windows 7? Some good news
« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2012, 04:54:08 AM »
This works well:

Windows 8 Tip: Boot Directly to the Desktop with Start8

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-tip-boot-desktop-start8-143772
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Re: Keeping Windows 7? Some good news
« Reply #20 on: July 29, 2012, 01:15:14 PM »
Quote from: Marc57 on July 29, 2012, 04:54:08 AM
This works well:

Windows 8 Tip: Boot Directly to the Desktop with Start8

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-tip-boot-desktop-start8-143772
I prefer Classic Shell which has previously been discussed at length:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=85094.msg803480#msg803480
Skips Metro and does a whole lot more!
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Re: Keeping Windows 7? Some good news
« Reply #21 on: August 06, 2012, 07:12:25 PM »
Just got my wife a laptop, I was going to wait till Christmas, But wanted to get it with Windows 7.
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