Windows 8 DP (build 8102) suddenly started looking like 7

Alexium

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Hi!
I have just installed Win 8 the other day. All was OK, but today I had trouble booting and used boot recovery option from Win 8 boot menu. After that it started to behave like 7: it logs me in straight to old good desktop (not Metro UI), it shows circular "Start" button just like in 7 (it was looking a bit different yesterday), also Explorer and task Manager started looking exactly like in 7.
Any idea what happened and to get new features back?
Thanks in advance!
 

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    Win 8 DP
Are you sure you are still in Windows 8? You might have reverted back to Windows 7 ... somehow.
 

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    Taped on fan.
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    pfft, shocking.
Nope, I haven't reverted anything. It's just like someone flipped the switch somewhere deep within Win 8. I just have to know where that switch is (registry, perhaps?). And I only can blame boot recovery for this, since I didn't do antthing else when this happened.
 

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Have you tried any of the other recovery options yet?

"Refresh you PC", "Reset your PC"?

Have any system restore points you could go back to?
 

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    My toilet habits are a private matter, thanks.
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    She finds stuff to do.
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    XXX rated
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    Huh?
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    Monitors are lizards.
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Good point! No, I haven't tried that. And there might be a restore point. Thanks for the tip!
 
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    Win 8 DP
what does this key read on your machine? try changing it to 1 if it's 0
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RPEnabled"
“1″ win8
“0″ win7
 

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    win8
Hmm. If memory serves, that's the key I've set to 0 in order to get classic Start menu back. It only changed that, the Start menu, nothing else. But thanks for the tip, I'll try changing it back to 1.
 

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    Win 8 DP
Mind you this is a developer's preview version not even beta. When you change the Start menu back to W7 that's would pretty much changing it back to Window 7 (II)
 

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    CP
The ONLY thing changed after switching RPEnabled to 0 was the Start menu. I have rebooted several times since then and still had new task Manager, Explorer, etc.
 

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  • OS
    Win 8 DP
Grrr! My 8 stopped booting properly. Again, just like yesterday when I had to use automated repair. I have a Win 7 loader (created with Easy BCD) to choose between W7, W8 and Ubuntu. When I boot into W8 it shows me its own loader, where I can find W8 in "other operating systems" menu (I mean W8 isn't default there, W7 is). But when I choose W8 - it reboots me into the exactly the same state.
Any ideas how to fix that?
 

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    Win 8 DP
If you changed the registry and it still looking same something is wrong. Reinstall is inorder!!
 

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    CP
Mind you this is a developer's preview version not even beta. When you change the Start menu back to W7 that's would pretty much changing it back to Window 7 (II)

You noticed! I am wondering why I have two Windows 7 OS's on my computer. LOL
 

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    Windows 8.1
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    PC/Desktop
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    Use several different computers during a day, so specs are irrelevant.
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