Remove metro all the way including all it’s apps:

In PowerShell

Get-AppxPackage –AllUsers
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –online

Add Start button:

http://www.classicshell.net/

Auto Logon:

http://www.howtogeek.com/112919/

Use Sysinternals to clean some more:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Add some reg tweaks:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Copy To]
@="{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Move To]
@="{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="1000"
"MenuShowDelay"="8"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="2000"
"LowLevelHooksTimeout"="1000"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]
"MouseHoverTime"="8"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=dword:00000001
"LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo"=dword:00000001
"NoResolveSearch"=dword:00000001
"NoResolveTrack"=dword:00000001
"NoInternetOpenWith"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="2000"

More of the same here:
http://www.askvg.com/master-tutorial-to-make-your-windows-8-super-fast/

Get your CD from M$

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only

You can use Task scheduler to run powercfg.exe

use a command window to run powercfg /? so you can see the various commands available

running powercfg /l lists the codes “GUIDs” for your power schemes

running powercfg -s sets the active scheme – this is the command you want to set up in Task scheduler & you’ll need to select the “Run with highest privileges” checkbox in task scheduler to run the command using admin rights [or a command line window opened with admin rights during testing]. All powercfg commands that do more than provide info will need admin rights.
I assume you are running Win7 [I think these items are the same in Vista but cannot check].

Do not serialize, just comma delimite your strings, and your SQL will be happy.
You need the FIND_IN_SET function:

SELECT ... WHERE FIND_IN_SET('1', field)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968605/EN-US

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html