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**Chrissie Smiff** · 11-05-14, 22:11

I suspect that I have answered my own question. I found someone else on Google asking the same question and the only way was to download an app. When I tried though I ended up with the new type screen and it's taken me ages to get out of it. I am REALLY going to miss my Spider and I think hubby is going to miss his computer when I keep 'borrowing' it to play spider on:(

**Guest** · 11-05-14, 22:13

did you use this link Chrissie

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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-gaming/is-spider-solitaire-included-in-windows-8-i-cant/815838f9-f8d2-4e70-87cb-76bf3439b317

**Chrissie Smiff** · 11-05-14, 22:24

Yes Val, that's the one

**DavidNewton** · 12-05-14, 07:20

Hi Chrissie

Try this link http://www.123freesolitaire.com/download.htm this is a free light version of Solsuite and contains 3 Spider solitaire version. If you go to the link scroll down and make sure that you download 123 and not the trial version of SolSuite (which incidentally is a great buy).

The main (only!) disadvantage of 123 is that it does not keep game statistics - or at least it didn't the last time I used it.

If you Google Spider Solitaire there are numerous free versions, including some which you can play online.

David

**Chrissie Smiff** · 12-05-14, 09:51

Thank you for trying David

I got quite excited when I thought I could have one, but when I tried to download it McFee security said it was a potential risk and that it had quarantined it or something.

**DavidNewton** · 12-05-14, 14:16

Hi Chrissie

I think McAfee is taking the view "It is from the internet so potentially unsafe" and it is not my place to argue with that.

Going back to your problems with the full screen on Windows 8. Tapping the windows key on your keyboard should switch you from full screen to desktop and another tap will reverse the process.

If you have upgraded to Windows 8.1 (it's free and if you have not done it then you should) then the most recent update Update 1 through automatic updating addresses some of the problems you have. You can tell if you have that update by the presence of two icons on the top left of the screen - one for power and one for searching. To get back to the point (sorry) if you have that update then move your mouse to the top of any full screen app and a old style windows bar will drop drop with a close button at the top left which gives you a fast close down without all the rigmarole of grabbing the top of the screen and pulling it down to the bottom.

David

**Chrissie Smiff** · 12-05-14, 15:34

Thank you very much again David. Have now installed Win 8.1, which along with a multitudes of updates has taken until now to complete. Now I just need to download Spider - I hope

Another problem though - I have ended up with a dark screen and no amount of pressing Fn and F6 has helped. Even though the brightness is supposed to be at it's brightest. Before all this the screen was bright enough half way up.

**DavidNewton** · 12-05-14, 17:09

Chrissie

I guess you are using a laptop from your comment about F6. I am not, so I am a bit in the dark (sorry!) about the laptop settings. The main problem seems to be a hardware driver issue.

One solution from How-To Geek http://www.howtogeek.com/107173/disa...reen-problems/

and a second, more drastic but perhaps ultimately better solution from Yahoo Answers

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130826120835AAbpLMp

David

**Chrissie Smiff** · 13-05-14, 15:17

Thank you again David for all your help. Unfortunately those problems have now been solved by my hubby pressing refresh and taking the whole computer back to how it would have been before the computer supplier had set it up the way I wanted it - nuff said

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