nmillar: I hated Win 8 to start with, but have been using it at work for a few months and have now installed it at home as well. I never really used the Start Menu in Windows 7 anyway, so I guess it's not as big an adjustment for me as it is for some people.
There lies my problem, I used the start menu to the point where I really didn't look at my desktop background that much, rebooting the computer was when it saw the most time in my vision, so this is taking a bit of getting used to.