The "I like Windows 8 (and why)" Thread for people who like Windows 8
Monday, August 13, 2012 by NR2001 | Discussion: Windows 8
So, since a lot of posts around here are complaining about Metro / the new Windows 8 style I figured that I'd make a thread for people who actually appreciate the new things with Windows 8 (and don't say that it's terrible because of metro).
One of the really great things about Windows 8 is the Refreshing ability. I like it because it reinstalls Windows but keeps your personal files. This is useful for non-tech-savvy people.
The thing I like with refresh is the RECIMG.exe command line (for power users). RECIMG makes a WIM file (Windows Image Format File) that has all of your current settings in Windows and programs, too. When you refresh Windows, it uses the WIM image and effectively restores Windows to the time of when you made the image. If you want to make the image for yourself, open up CMD as admin, type recimg /createimage and in quotation marks "The place where you want the image here". This will make the image (takes around 15 minutes), and it takes up about 5 Gigs of space (for me it did).
Share what you like about Windows 8. (And no, I didn't say make a reply saying how Windows 8 is a piece of "Insert Insult to Windows 8 Here")
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Reply #22 Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:03 PM
the new taskmanger is one big thing the overall speed of the OS...new interface prior called metro for checking apps mails news
the new explorer - multi monitor support-
Reply #23 Thursday, January 9, 2014 8:53 AM
Win8 and free upgrade to Win8.1 was my only cheap chance to get for 19.99 EUR the opportunity to upgrade my Win7home32bit to a 64bit system. Of course I did detect only one advantage (faster booting) with Win8 but the rest are a lot of annoyances and bugs. The problems of color customization of Win8 high contrast themes with most browsers (IE, FF, ...) did turn me to a new happy WindowsBlinds customer. At least one big advantage for Stardock and me.
Reply #24 Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:02 PM
As I have just gotten a new laptop with win8 on it for Christmas, I am still undecided as per my full opinion. But I will say that in the short time I have had it I have become increasingly enjoying the stability of win8 over Vista, as well as it seems to run stuff a lot quicker than my vista machine * tho doubling the ram as compared to my old machine is prolly a contributing factor.
I will most likely stick with win8 rather than upgrade to 8.1 as I like being able to uninstall Sky drive and all its stuff, I dont need or want the cloud.. with win 8 I still have the choice..
* The start page sucked and with Start 8' ,DeskScapes and Windowblinds help I have gotten my regular desktop back..*
Reply #25 Sunday, April 27, 2014 2:34 PM
What is the view of Windows 8 here, are many on it or Windows 7 or a mix of both? As well as dual booting…
Reply #26 Sunday, April 27, 2014 2:59 PM
My main rig is Win7 Ultimate/ dual booting to Win8.1 which I need to have installed for diagnostics and troubleshooting computers which may have it pre-installed. As a matter of fact, I am currently working on a newish laptop with Win8, and I am updating it to 8.1. (The language is set to Spanish which makes it hard enough, so without an install of Win8 for reference, I'd be lost for sure.) 
I have nothing against Windows8, although it is harder for me to navigate than any previous version of Windows but since 7 does all I need it to do, it will remain my primary OS. I do like the file operations, task manager and multi monitor support of 8.1. I run two and the Panoramic walls are the bomb*.
*I found a way to use them on Win7 as well using DeskScapes.
Reply #27 Sunday, April 27, 2014 4:02 PM
Can also be done natively in Windows 8.1. 
One of the things I like about Windows 8.1.
....Mixed emotions I suppose 
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Reply #21 Tuesday, August 21, 2012 3:56 PM
O windows 8 não tem suporte para DeskScapes o que fazer ?