Got Windows 8 and want the old look back?

[viking60]

Windows 8 is not popular - the changes have been to drastic. People simply want the look of the older classic shells back. And now they can thanks to FOSS.( Free and Open Source Software).

Prefer the Windows XP look? No problem. Is Windows 7 your idea of the perfect Windows experience? No problem there either.
Classic shell will take care of it


Open source comes to the rescue of Microsoft too. It is pretty much like switching a desktop environment in Linux.

[dedanna1029]

Man, I wish I'd known earlier on this. A good friend of my mom who lost her home in the Black Forest Fires recently was given a laptop by the gov't. and told to use it explicitly for communication with them for insurance purposes, and to file docs with whoeverall in the gov't.
Problem was, she couldn't. It was a Windows 8 brand new HP laptop, and she couldn't figure how to use a thing with it.
I went through it and gave myself a crash course in Win 8 for her, and manually found the buttons and everything so she could get to a more "normal" windows desktop.
It took just over four hours, but in her grief, she was going out of her mind, and in this case I decided it was worth doing for someone in so much pain.