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Windows 8 for people who hate the Metro UI

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  • buglawton
    buglawton Posts: 9,246 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 21 May 2013 at 9:21PM
    I configured our Mac mouse - a big shiny wireless one - to have a right button. It works by detecting where your fingers are like a touch screen. Now most Mac functions have a right click context menu and no need to click pesky control key.

    Go to System Preferences > Mouse > Secondary click > select Click on right side.

    http://store.apple.com/uk/question/answers/product/MB829Z/A/does-magic-mouse-right-click/QP47HCCH2722Y7YA7
  • adamc260
    adamc260 Posts: 2,055 Forumite
    I was worried about making the move from windows 7 to 8... but after a few hours I really like it!

    I'm sure on a touch screen the experience is even better but I'm very happy with it, it's A LOT faster than W7 also
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    Just got a new laptop which naturally comes with Win 8 so thanks to Lum for the pointers to getting the start menu back etc. - call me a Luddite I felt lost without one. I picked "Classic Shell" and now don't see the Start screen at all which suits me just fine.
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