If you’re attached to the search box in the Windows 7 Start Menu, a quick registry edit will return it but the unfortunate side effect is that Explorer and Task Manager will also go back to Windows 7 mode.
How to get a Windows 7 Start Menu in Windows 8 [Geek.com]
Tim
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 3:24 PMI dislike the searchbox immensely, its way too slow to be practical in my experience.
vik
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 5:51 PMThe keystroke behavior in win8 is still the same – press the Windows key, then start typing. The difference is that it shows up in the metro interface