@Chris Doherty That's not entirely through. Several settings are only available through the Metro UI (changing profile pictures for one) and become inaccessible when the UI is forced into classic mode using the registry. Others, like changing wifi connected networks, bring up a horrible abomination of a Metro-eqsue look that takes up the entire corner (full vertical length) even on the classical destop. It's as if Microsoft was undecided where they wanted to go and just gave up halfway. You know what Windows 8 really is? Microsoft Bob 2.0. Microsoft hasn't been successful in their tablet business because they brought what was essentially a desktop OS on to a tablet system, and now they're trying to do the reverse, and for what? To kill their desktop business? After trying both the publicly available Windows 8 beta, the next thing I did was to get a hackintosh up and running, to prepare for the inevitable day where I would have to switch to OS X.