Zero To Windows 8.1 In Ten Minutes

So, you upgraded to windows 8 and you lost all your programs and you hate the start screen?

Well, we can fix that in less than ten minutes!

1. Get back the start menu with [Classic Shell] (http://www.classicshell.net/) You can disable the start screen, tweak the finder menu (windows explorer) and a lot else!

2. Linux can download programs from the command line with apt-get. Well, so can Windows! It’s called chocolatey. Check out the site here, or just open a command prompt (windows + R, type “cmd”, OR windows key (to search) and type cmd) and paste this code

   @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command “iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString(‘https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1’))” && SET PATH=%PATH%;%systemdrive%\chocolatey\bin

3. Install all the software you might be missing with chocolatey! (from the command prompt:)

   cinst git.install
    cinst notepadplusplus.install
    cinst GoogleChrome
    cinst Firefox
    cinst flashplayerplugin
    cinst vlc
    cinst adobereader
    cinst R.Studioi
    cinst python2
    

   etc. Find more programs in this list of packages

4. My old compression software didn’t work so I downloaded [Pzip] (http://peazip.sourceforge.net/)

5. If you want to code, get a great console and everything else up and running with this great guide by Scotch.io

Please let me know if you have any suggestions!