I didn't say it was a good GUI. It's horribly unproductive.
I have a Windows 8 tablet, and half the settings are burried in either Control Panel or Regedit, both of which are set to run in desktop mode, which is useless without a mouse, as even my small finger covers two or three checkboxes at the same time. How do I switch to metro mode?
Doesn't the tablet have a Windows button? Alternatively you can swipe from the right edge to get a Start button, which takes you to the metro home screen. But you highlight a different issue - the fact that some setting screens are metro apps, others are desktop programs and yet others have both metro and desktop versions. This is awful design, there is no argument about that.
Please tell me how to switch those to desktop mode, without the need to install Start8 or Classic Shell
Of course, click on the "Desktop" tile, but it seems to me that you want to switch them permanently. I don't think that's possible, nor did I claim it was (even with Start8, etc you will still be taken to metro mode when you launch a metro app).
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