What I did for my Windows 8 Laptop, is I bought Startdock's Start8 program. It makes Windows 8 desktop look like Windows 7. It cost me about 9 USD. I don't know about ECS on your laptop, but on my desktop with an ASUS P8B75-m, it only partially works. I am trying to solve a couple of problems with it. I am waiting on ECS 2.2, which I hope will solve at least one of my problems.