billwboyd

Never understood why, when Microsoft realized it had a gigantic flop on its hands with Windows 8, that they did not license Start8 from Stardock and integrate it into Windows 8 or 8.1. I started (pardon the pun) using Start8 within days (?hours--as soon as I found out about it) of getting Windows 8, and it brought back the Windows 7 "look and feel," with Windows 8 running "under the hood." And for $4.99! And if for some crazy reason I wanted to experience Windows 8, all I had to do was hit th

Hard to beat the Windows 7 icons and desktop for intuitive usability, which is why I used Start8 when Windows 8 came on the computing scene, and STILL use Start10. The Xerox Alto was WAY too expensive for us regular folks back in the day. A friend and I put together an early personal computer in 1977 or 1978 with an S100 bus (that's what we called motherboards back then), and an Intel 8080 processor for the CPU. The computer had a massive 16K of RAM (you read that right--16K, not megs or gigs

I downloaded Windows 10 onto a Gateway laptop running Windows 8.1 with Start8. The install went fine, and I decided to upgrade to Start10. Upon upgrading and restarting, Start8 and Start10 seemed to be "fighting" for which one would run. The "start" button would switch back and forth from Start8 style to Start10 style, and I could not get into ALL PROGRAMS to uninstall either program. Finally with control-alt-del got into Task manager and stopped Start8 from running,