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Originally Posted by Blossom
Let's hope! I had about all of Windows 8.1 I can take. I have my laptop set up to boot directly to desktop so I never use the start screen at all. I have a start menu replacement installed so its look alot like Windows 7.
My main problems have been Jump lists are useless and they get corrupted every few weeks. Computer slowing to crawl after being idle really bad with web browsers crashing or just freezing after being idle. The need to reboot every day. Vista spoiled me where I had only to reboot like once a week. The memory manager in Windows 8.1 is a nightmare. It holds onto programs think you may want then later this is good when playing games with long loading times but not so good with other programs. If a program takes long time to do anything Windows 8.1 thinks the program is frozen and tries to fix it causing crashing. 
When I had Vista I never had anything crash but Windows 8.1 likes to crash alot programs, it worse than XP and almost right up there with ME.
There is so much running in a background on Windows 8.1 I can't do much power tasks without it thinking I am idle and then slows to a crawl.
I don't use Metro apps at all. Windows app are too buggy and not very good compare to Android. |
I use Windows 8.1 and the jump lists I have setup for Windows Explorer work perfectly. Memory usage is not a problem at all. I don't reboot all that often. Mostly for Windows Updates. I don;t have a problem with the computer slowing down because it's left idle. I have never had Windows 8.1 think a program that's running has crashed and try to fix it.
My only guess to your problems is that you did an upgrade from Vista. I'm using a clean install of Windows 8.1. When you have a crappy version of Windows such as ME or Vista, you never want to upgrade those. You want to start fresh.