That's what the desktop app is for.

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

So you are not using it just because of the start menu... Surely that is insignificant to the majority of time you are spending on the computer?

with out the start menu my software icons either have to be on the desktop, which I hate or on the task bar ad you can only put a certain amount on there. sure you can stick them tot he Metro GUI, but that means going back to that every time I want to run something.


As for the Apps, just more gimicks and another way to get people to use MS cloud service.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

That's what the desktop app is for.

True, but once you get to the desktop what do you do then? All the icons are stuck on the Metro GUI, I not that fond of icons on the desktop.

Also the ribbon menu system puts me off. windows 7 does what I want, so no need to change anyway.

My PC has XP Pro x64 on one partition/HDD & Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on the other. I prefer XP.

_Vista_ was tried it - and denied it! Hated it that OS. NTFS is 'ok', FAT32 is more tweak-able (LOVELY!!), but Vista was complete [un-censored] crepe anyway.


The MacBook Pro gets PLENTY of my attention. There is not a lot of (guffaw) virus thingys... er, threat warnings. Oh happy days.


I may venture near Windows 8 but I DO prefer to W8. HAH! See what I did there?!?

Was only coming on here today to post about Diskeeper 12 Professional Upgrade - I now have so, job done!

FAT32 is more tweak-able?! what are you on about?

*points and laughs at the FAT(32) guy*

Running Diskeeper 12 here - new UI but let's be honest not much in the way of new technologies - their best technology so far has been InvisiTasking imho (what Automatic Defragmentation uses to not impact other processes) - does exactly what it says on the tin. IntelliWrite - jury still out on whether the file system filter affects performance negatively.

The main problem with Diskeeper is the price - not possible to achieve a RoI in many cases.

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

FAT32 is more tweak-able?! what are you on about?

*points and laughs at the FAT(32) guy*

Running Diskeeper 12 here - new UI but let's be honest not much in the way of new technologies - their best technology so far has been InvisiTasking imho (what Automatic Defragmentation uses to not impact other processes) - does exactly what it says on the tin. IntelliWrite - jury still out on whether the file system filter affects performance negatively.

The main problem with Diskeeper is the price - not possible to achieve a RoI in many cases.

> FAT32 is great for that, Pipexer. Tweaking IS just swell, man..

*LM-Flipping-AO at the non-Mac user.

DK12 has no interest to me ATM, maybe later. MBP comes first. My PC has 32GB RAM and no worries with slowdown.
The MBP has 8GB RAM & doesn't need it.

It's very good software and well recommended to all.

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

FAT32 is more tweak-able?! what are you on about?

*points and laughs at the FAT(32) guy*

I nearly spat a mouthful of tea at the screen when I read that as well. I thought the 'FAT is better'/'Do we trust NTFS' nonesense died out with the turning of the millenium. FATx is fine for removable media but who the bleep would still be using it for mainstream storage?

A Mac user, it seems!

In reply to a post by AEP:

A Mac user, it seems!

Understandable with BootCamp as that way you can write to the Windows partition from OS X. Sadly OS X has read only support for NTFS. (I guess Apple haven't seen NTFS-3G yet).

Who in their right mind would put windows on a MAC?