{"id":747004,"date":"2013-04-17T11:35:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=445730"},"modified":"2013-04-17T11:35:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:35:43","slug":"forget-windows-8-1-how-to-get-its-two-best-features-right-now-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747004","title":{"rendered":"Forget Windows 8.1: How to get its two best features right now, for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/17\/windows-8-1-start-button-desktop-how-to-445730\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/bgr-surface-pro-11.jpg?w=650&#038;h=580&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C580\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"How to get Windows 8.1&#039;s two best features right now, for free\" title=\"Windows 8\" \/><\/a><\/center>Windows 8 hasn't exactly been the huge boost PC vendors were looking for to reinvigorate the slumping PC market. In fact, a few reports suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/windows-8-pc-shipments-analysis-429262\/\">it's actually having the opposite effect on sales<\/a>. While some users seem to really enjoy the new tile-based user interface found on the Start screen, it's also mentioned in nearly every complaint about <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a> we have seen \u2014 many people would like to bypass it and boot directly to the Desktop. The lack of a Start button is also a big problem for a number of users, but both of these issues are rumored to be addressed in <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft's<\/a> upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8-1\">Windows 8.1<\/a> update. Of course, as we've discussed before here on BGR, there's no reason to wait: You can boot directly to the Desktop and get the Start button back in Windows 8 right now with one simple, free app.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/17\/windows-8-1-start-button-desktop-how-to-445730\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/3OwdMyFngcY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 hasn&#8217;t exactly been the huge boost PC vendors were looking for to reinvigorate the slumping PC market. In fact, a few reports suggest it&#8217;s actually having the opposite effect on sales. While some users seem to really enjoy the new tile-based user interface found on the Start screen, it&#8217;s also mentioned in nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821,12071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38ks","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}