OT, but I really must vent again about how much I can’t STAND Windows 8!

My mother in law loves playing online games. In the course of downloading some of those games she also installed some search/shop/toolbar crapware that I needed to get rid of.

I knew exactly what the program was called and how to get rid of it. Just go to control panel, then “add/remove programs”, find it and click “uninstall”. Simple, right?

Not in Windows 8.

After FIVE MINUTES of hopelessly searching through the desktop and those god awful tiles for the control panel without success, I finally went into the help section to figure out how to find the damned thing.

It gets better. When I search for “control panel” in the help section the first thing it tries to do is show me a VIDEO OF HOW TO FIND IT.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, if you skip the video, the help directions don’t actually tell you how to find the control panel, there’s merely a link that says “click here to go to the control panel”. I suppose I should be thankful the link actually worked.

My god, I can’t believe there was a group of people way, WAY above my pay grade who signed off on this thing as an acceptable design. I have yet to find one single thing I like about Win 8. Even relatively easy tasks like the aforementioned program removal or booting the system into safe mode are mind bogglingly complicated with this operating system.

I’d rather get kicked in the nuts ten times than get a computer with Windows 8 on it.