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Well I guess, the Start Screen and the way that the “Apps” behave is not suited to Luddites like me. It seems that, by design, when running an “App”, it is supposed to run in “Full Screen”  and doesn’t have an easy or intuitive way to quit the “App”- can’t imagine why. I found out …

Initially, the start screen with the tiles seems a good idea. All your favourite “apps” available with one touch or a click of the mouse, great, saves having to hunt round looking for the “program” that you want to use and then the search function, great again. Just fire up the search function and start …

Before I upgraded my laptop and desktop to Windows 8, I knew that I would not be able to install Office 2003 but thought it would not be a problem because I could always install Open office – which is free! (www.openoffice.org). I have used Open office over the years and quite like it but …

OK, it’s early days, I’ve upgraded my wife’s laptop and my XP desktop to Win8 a few days ago but overall impression from us both is that there is something we both like about Win8 but we can’t put our finger on it. My wife uses Win7 at work and I have a laptop with …

As the upgrade to Win 8 went as smooth as chocolate on my Dell D620, I thought I would do the same procedure on my Dell Optiplex 755. This didn’t go as smoothly and I had to do a lot of Googling and trawling the Dell forums to find a solution, see below for the …