WINDOWS 8.1 ...Help, Issues, Tips

Spinelli put me on to Classic Shell, works great.

http://www.classicshell.net/

Other start menus and bars
http://www.eightforums.com/customization/12971-list-start-menu-replacements-windows-8-a.html

 

Classicshell is nice, but don't forget to go into your taskbar prefs and set to start with desktop as well.

 

Yeah I have Metro skip start and deleted the start icon in classic shell.

 

W8.1 > W7 > W8.1 in 13 minutes.

Ingredients:

Tweaked W7 sim image ready to online, etc.
Tweaked W8.1 sim image ready to online, etc.
Parted Magic thumb drive ( 1GB+ )
True Image thumb drive ( 1GB+ )


Pic 1: W8.1 Time: 1:22

Disable FastBoot
Take screen capture
Save Screen capture
Insert Parted Magic USB
Reboot
Zero write SSD ( Attempt 1 fails SSD is asleep, disconnect SSD power , reconnect SSD power, Attempt 2 done )
Run Partition manager
Create MS Dos Table
Insert Trueimage USB
Reboot
Run true image recovery select W7_SIMS image, select all, restore
Remove USB
Tick restart when finished

Pic 2: W7 Time 1:28

Pic 3: W7 Time 1:29

Repeat same process apart from......

Create GPT Table
Run true image recovery select W8.1_SIMS image, select all, restore


Pic 4: W8.1 Time 1:35

 

So are your pedals fixed? Mush mush.

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I was mucking around with that Marcas ..................loooooool

It failed in W8.1, needed running in compat. mode was cool, added Duc's sounds have to give it a bash.

Then I do pedals give me a hour Mat

BTW images take 3 minutes like I said, not lying the other 3 minutes is doing screenshots and Parted Magic each time.