Brad Chacos has had a passion for gadgetry and gab ever since he was a young geek. You can find him debating the finer points of DIY PCs, BYOD tablets and PPC advertising.More by Brad Chacos After spending more than a year conquering the operating system's overhauled (and nonintuitive) interface in its various prerelease iterations, I've now entered a second stage of frustration: I find myself cursing at Windows 8's major changes less and less, but shaking my fist and swearing like a sailor at its little irritations more and more.Beyond its polished, tile-based surface, Microsoft's new operating system plays host to a legion of smaller annoyances—