Don?t need to banish it, I launch and select the app I want to use from the quicklaunch toolbar just like I do with 7 and only ever use the text box for the stuff I don?t use often enough to have pinned to the QL toolbar.
The charms bar also
Works fine here.
Like hell it does, that's how I use them.
Doesn?t do that either.
Its completely trivial to use the Win7 UI if you don?t like it.
For XP there was nLite; for Vista there was vLite - is there any equivalent for W7/8? My XP Pro has been pared down and has run well for about 10 years. I'm considering building a new PC and would like to butcher the new OS in the same way.
How else am I going to admin a Windows 2008 server over an RDP connection? And no, I do not have enough to be bothered with an AD domain, policies and management systems. Ironically most of them are to hold the VMWare infrastructure together (vCenter server which can be virtual[1], Veeam backup, Veeam Monitor and a general expendible server that spans the main and management vSwitches for installing "dodgey" software on (ie non core, such as temporary load assessing utils and the like).
I made the decision to not have AD there (apart from the learning curve) as I wanted zero dependencies on at least the 2 critical servers.
This is a VM BTW so technically headless, but it does still have a virtual "head"
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