Yes, I am still getting the "classic" version of Yahoo Groups when I log
in. Neo is only there not logged in. Earlier in the month I was
searching for articles on why this happens and ran across a business
user who was complaining about this because he has two accounts and one
is getting Neo and the other "classic" and he wanted Neo on both.
The tiled icons on Windows 8 are because they have consolidated the
mobile and desktop/laptop interface into one. Similar thinking behind
Neo of course.
On 01/31/2014 08:00 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote:
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*/It works great. Don't install any of the "includeware" that comes
with it, unless you really want it, but the basic program works like
gangbusters. No complaints, on any level. And, of course, you've still
got the Win8 interface if you want it. Nothing is taken away, just
your old Start menu and Taskbar capabilities added back in.
On Win7 I did most of my work out of either my Start menu links or the
Taskbar links at the bottom. Double-clicking icons is so passe. So
doing it with "tiles" that take over the whole screen and don't let
you see other parts of the Desktop is *really* not my cuppa tea. One
30-second install and I had my Start menu back, and thus my old way of
doing things back. Nerd Nirvana. :-)
For the information of (and possible infuriation of) people here who
are still bitching about Neo, I've always figured that I still had the
old classic interface because of existing settings on my computer that
called the old interface back whenever I logged into Yahoo. But I
installed new versions of Firefox and Chrome, navigated to FFL, and
sure enough, what I saw was Neo. But then I just logged in on that
screen, and I was right back to the old interface. Go figure.
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> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Win 8 blues...NOT!
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, January 31, 2014, 2:25 PM
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> laptop finally gave up the ghost the other day. It had been
> growling at me for some time, and finally just went dark and
> wouldn't restart, although the hard drive was spinning
> up. I figured out that the growling was the fan, not the
> drive (fortunate, because I was able to take it out and put
> it in a caddy and retrieve all my data from it), but the
> impaired fan probably caused the graphics card to overheat,
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> the lugging around I did with it, which banged and beat it
> up mercilessly. So to replace it I went for a new Acer
> laptop, with a faster 4th-gen Intel i7 chipset and a full HD
> screen. Both make a *tremendous* difference.
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> The one thing I was worried about was having to use Windows
> 8.1. I'm so NOT a fan of its "tile" look and
> feel. But it turned out that the folks I bought it from gave
> me a tip that is my reason for posting this. If any of you
> needs a new Windoze laptop but are resisting getting one
> because you're used to Windows 7 and don't want to
> "upgrade" (which is really a "downgrade"
> in terms of user interface and usability IMO), here's
> the solution. Just go to this site and download a simple,
> free utility, and voila! -- all your Windows Start menu
> capabilities are back.
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> http://www.classicshell.net
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