>>I've spend 5 minutes to find how to start a RDP session in windows8. I could not find it. The windows startbutton emulator that came with the machine finaly gave me the possibility to type "MSTSC" in a run dialog box. If I can't figure it out quickly, what do I tell my clients I have to support?
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>Uh - type Remote Desktop on the start screen and there you are?

That would have worked with the English version... unfortunately I could not find it in the dutch version. Later I remembered the dutch translation and indeed found it without a problem.

>While that may not be obvious until you play with Win8 for a few minutes the Start Screen is just like the StartButton with a lot of icons. Type the name of any installed app or utility and it'll show as a filtered list on your start screen.

>>IMO, this is the very same mistake as they made with UAC in Vista (being to intrusive). People expect a start button, so give the at least the possibility to use it as an option.

>There are lots of things to like in Win8 and quite a few things that suck. But - I have UAC off on my Win8 box and I can't even run Metro apps (they won't work with UAC off), so nothing Metro shows up by default. Everything goes straight to the desktop which is a good thing...

>I don't use Metro and beyond that Win8 is just a faster and generally more efficient version of Windows 7 without Aero :-) (which I do miss as Win8 looks a lot less nice than Win7 did).

I agree. As for the speed, well, I installed a Samsung 830 SSD on it and its blazingly fast but I'd guess there would not be a lot of difference between windows 7 and Windows 8 in such config. My windows 7 laptop launches in a few seconds as well.

I just installed a 3rd party start button on it, and forces it to start in desktop mode. I guess I'm happy with that.

Walter,