After installing the preview my system seems to be intact. I'm not sure yet, that this version being a preview, is completely optimized. But so far so good. I notice I can not exit the start screen with the pull down. I may need to do more research. 

John
After installing the preview my system seems to be intact. I'm not sure yet, that this version being a preview, is completely optimized. But so far so good. I notice I can not exit the start screen with the pull down. I may need to do more research. 

Well Done John.

bapu

John
After installing the preview my system seems to be intact. I'm not sure yet, that this version being a preview, is completely optimized. But so far so good. I notice I can not exit the start screen with the pull down. I may need to do more research. 

Well Done John.

Don't be so sarky Edwidge
 
Mind you, I'm still trying to work out why this is in the SONAR forum in the first place
 
 

I feel like w8 is faster than w7, but I so much hate the tile screen . I 1000% hate that ms is aggressively pushing bing . Eveywhere you go you can't get away from bing!
Osx im my opinion is light years ahead of MS. It just works and works awesome .. No bloat ware crap..
I really hope CW is developing sonar for osx . I am done with ms and there bing crap..

Yes 8.1 is Binged UP!! Just read the pdf about 8.1... And yes Bing is everywhere!! The windows search engine is powered by Bing. There's bing health app, Bing Travel, Bing food app.  MS is forcing you to use BING , there is no erasing bing either.
 
http://www.pcmag.com/arti.e2/0,2817,2421054,00.asp

I too find Windows 8 smoother and faster than Windows 7 x64 for my audio work. The Start Screen doesn't bother me that much as I'm rarely seeing it but the Charm Bar drives me nuts. I hate that thing.  As for Bing being forced on us, I'm not fond of that idea but considering all the privacy issues and security problems Google seems to be having lately, especially with Android, maybe Bing isn't so bad.
 
Google, with Google Now and it's integration into smart phones is getting downright creepy IMHO. It can be mostly turned off though. 
 
Anyway, overall Windows 8 has been fine for me.

ProjectM
Really? How do I do that? That's good news Soundtweaker!

PC Settings/PC & Devices/Corners & edges/Corner Navigation

I just installed 8.1 on my daughter's laptop. I had a heck of a time not setting up a Windows Account. I found that if I entered a bogus password and email address for my Windows Account, I could get logged in to the PC without creating one. I thought I'd share in case I'm not the only one who doesn't want M$ to monitor every time I log on and off the PC.
 
I guess I should be more clear. In Windows, you can now create an account that is on the Windows Cloud Servers. You can also create a local computer account. Using 8.1, I found it very hard to log in with a local account instead of the accounts on the Windows Cloud Servers.

Ugh. Bing? Cloud "services"?
 
Time to become a Linux nerd.

I'm totally A Linux nerd!