Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth

I thought 8.1 was going to fix a lot of things, but I still find it almost unusable. Honestly I can't even use the OS without classic shell installed. Although classic shell does make it very close to as good as win7.

For your tasks it might not matter, but from now on I will be choosing win7 whenever possible because I never realized they killed media center in windows8 unless you want to pay an extra $99. I was so pissed after I built a PC last month to use as a htpc when I found out I couldn't use mediabrowser 3 classic with it unless I forked out another $100 to get the wmc functionality back.