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Starcraft 2 is one of those games that wont run in 8, crash at startup.
Starcraft 2 is one of those games that wont run in 8, crash at startup.
Caesar 3 works fine for me. Use 98/ME compat mode with admin. Setup takes a little bit but it does work. Use SETUP.EXE not the flash based one.PP, I play some random older games that apparently don't like Win7.
Caesar III won't install/load in Win7 or XP compatibility mode .
Fallout 2 has graphics bugs in Win7, didn't try compatibility mode though, runs fine in XP.
Pretty game specific though, because Civ 2 runs fine in Win7 and I'm pretty sure it came out around the same time as those two (late 90s).
Start Is Back - beta 4 - MSFN ForumI'll upgrade to Windows 8 if Microsoft gives you an option to disable the start screen and use the start menu instead.
Actually, most of the code for the start menu is still there. Various jump menus and even search functionality use the same code.Okay no offense, but get over it already people. The Start Menu is gone and so is the code for it.
That's their plan.Microsoft is not going to bring it back and here is a real shocker for you, it wont be back for Windows 9 either. I will wager to bet that it wont be in Windows 10 or anything after as well.
From what I've seen, almost every start menu replacement is a replica. Not modifying the system files in any way.So use your 3rd party hacks to get the start menu back, complain that the OS isnt stable cause you hacked it up with software and blame Microsoft cause you are not using it as intended. I can see that next. It will happen. But stop begging for something that isnt going to happen. The Start Menu is gone for good. End of life, it is dead and buried. They are not bringing it back and in 3 years time, you will have forgotten it existed in the first place.
The nature of the changes are extremely different, too. Windows Vista/7 hardly replaced any functionality from Windows XP. Almost all the changes were just adding features or making subtle changes where they were still familiar.The UI change from 7 to 8 is substantially more than the UI changes from XP to 7. I would also argue that the upgrades to the UI from XP to Vista/7 increased productivity whereas the
"upgrades" from 7 to 8 decrease productivity, unless you're using a touch-screen. Windows 8 makes sense for a touch-screen computer but the metro UI is quite silly if you're using a mouse and keyboard.