Hi DavidR,

Yes, all the Win 7 options are still there; however, finding them is like going on an Easter Egg hunt and finding the same eggs that you found last year. Also, I agree that the Metro stuff is not for a seasoned Win 7 user; however, Start8 cured that for me! However, I must say that I really like Win 8 now because it is much faster than Win 7 and lighter on resources too! I also like the fact that Win 8 inherently recognizes SSDs as Solid State Devices and labels them as such in the defrag area. Of course I don’t ever defrag an SSD! One other thing I noticed is that Win 8 seems to interact better with a UEFI bios installation than Win 7, and since I now boot to my desktop in 6 seconds, I would say that’s also a major improvement over the Win 7 ready-boost option.

Cheers and thanks!