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Windows 8 / RT |OT|
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Damon Bennet
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ok my hype is through the roof. W700 can handle more complex emulators
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCJ5-GRPF0s
Did not expect that at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCJ5-GRPF0s
Did not expect that at all.
Cosmic Dreams
Member
Sorry if this has been posted before. How do you put album art on mp3 files on Windows RT?
I checked online and some websites stated that you highlight songs without artwork, click
File, and supposedly there should be a "Get Info" choice. It doesn't show up for me. If
anyone can help clarify this I would be greatly appreciative.
I checked online and some websites stated that you highlight songs without artwork, click
File, and supposedly there should be a "Get Info" choice. It doesn't show up for me. If
anyone can help clarify this I would be greatly appreciative.
It doesn't warn you because it was a pointless warning to begin with. As I'm sure you know deleting a file doesn't actually delete it, it just sends it to the recycle bin. If you want you can easily retrieve the file from the bin, or empty it.
Emptying the recycle bin i.e. permanently deleting the file will give you a warning. Makes more sense to me.
To actually answer the question, I don't think you can bring it back.
OS X also works the same, did not see anyone complain about it.
Caught me off guard that it stopped warning us, but if you want it back, right click on Recycle Bin on your desktop, properties, then you should see a checkbox for giving you a warning before sending items to the recycle bin.
Well it's a UK site with negligible foreign traffic, so I'd discounted "Black Friday" as a thing. Don't think I've really seen any promotions using it here.
brotkasten
Member
I have to admit, that is pretty awesome. Not that I'd have any use for that, but still, very impressed by the performance.
Steelyuhas
Member
Threw me for a loop at first not asking me if I was sure I wanted to delete a file, but quickly grew accustomed to it and like not have to do the extra click.
BoboBrazil
Member
I installed Windows 8 after much postponement due to the new interface. As expected the new interface is horrible on a desktop and after using it I immediately installed start 8 to remove charm bar, corner clicks, and metro. Now it's pretty much just an uglier version of 7 with a few enhancements, but atleast it's useable again. I gave my email to Microsoft to get my free media center key. How long should I expect before I receive it? It's been 2 days...
Jayayess1190
Member
It says on the website, 72 hours.
BoboBrazil
Member
Ahh ok, thanks. Also, at this point there is no way to totally remove metro completely from the system is there? I'd rather it not even take up cpu or ram in the background.
Jzero
Member
BoboBrazil
Member
Lol, nice. If I do decide to downgrade can I do that without doing a clean install?
Iced_Eagle
Member
Nope, if you want to go back, you gotta start fresh.
From reading your post though, it sounds like you aren't even giving it a chance. Give it a week to get used to it. I'm using it on my desktop and I think it's pretty great. Granted, since I'm on a desktop machine I'm almost exclusively in the desktop mode. However, I do really like the Bing News app (Xbox Music is also pretty neat, I just dock it to the side when I'm doing browsing). Most of the other apps though definitely are best on my Surface / touch screen, but still not bad to use on a desktop.
BoboBrazil
Member
I tried giving it a chance and I kept mistakingly opening programs pinned to the taskbar trying to open the windows 8 metro start menu by clicking the corner and then when I was on websites scrolling up and down with the scroll bar the charm bar kept popping up on my screen. Plus the start menu in metro is really annoying seeing as how you have to go through several pages to find things which are much easier and quicker to get to using the windows 7 start menu.
You can do that too. Just open the Store, Settings, Your Account, and click Change User.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Wait, what? Several pages of what?
The Charms bar will only appear when you mouse into the upper or lower right hand corners. Also, why dont you use the scroll wheel on your mouse?
Swipe from the right side of the screen and use the search charm.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
At the main screen just start typing. By the way, the search on the charm bar is universal so you can search in the store without even launching it by using that and selecting Store from the list of apps underneath.
BoboBrazil
Member
On the metro start menu, there were several pages of apps that you had to scroll through left to right on my computer atleast.
I just feel more comfortable scrolling with the side bar. I do use the scroll wheel for some things when needed. Overall I'm not totally negative to the metro interface. I can see how this would be nice on a tablet that you use your fingers to touch things with, but it's pointless and frustrating on a desktop.
yn-neko hates a cat
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Feeling comfortable doing things the worst way isn't necessarily setting yourself up for success but oh well. Windows 8 isn't for everyone it seems.
You should customize your start screen to have the apps you want. You can also add an extra row on some higher res monitors
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
How many apps do you have installed? Are you talking about the All Apps screen? Like here is an example Start screen:
Even including all the double spaced tiles he has 42 visible and room for 9 more for a total of 51 apps without having to scroll and 66 if he replaced the double spaced with additional single spaced ones. That should be more than enough to account for stuff you use regularly. You can't tell me that twirling down inside folders in the old Start menu is faster than having 2 click access to well over 50-60 apps.
Yawn....
The whining gets boring. I see start for 5 minutes a day, and it's actually more useful now. Are people trying to run their pc from start or something?
Lol have I just seen someone complain that they only scroll up and down and will not scroll left and right?
Steelyuhas
Member
yn-neko hates a cat
Banned
Hate typically doesn't take on rational forms. You must understand, most people who are install the start menu software come to Win8 with the impression that the start screen and metro apps have no business on the desktop. A purely ideological stance since it lacks experience. Once you take that stance and are vocal about it, the chances you will approach it with an open mind or even give it a chance is greatly diminished. It's no longer about functionality, it's about being right.
Pretty much nailed it.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
Are there more impressive specced tabs out there?
Still surprised AMD hasnt jumped in on this yet...
Anton Sugar
Member
Guess I'm one of the few who likes the charm bar. I actually find it easier/faster to shut down now--just the click of a wrist to bring the charm bar up.
But if you're using a keyboard, nothing beats WIN -> Left Arrow -> Enter, on Win7.
Alx
Member
Xbox music is confusing as shit.
Before I signed up for the Music pass trial, adding a song to my music put it in the cloud, which is what I wanted. Now when I add a song it physically downloads it. So I have to find it and delete it to just keep it in my cloud? Really dumb, unless I'm missing something obvious.
I just want to make a cloud playlist, which I can then play on my Lumia 920. Spotify would make this super simple, not sure why it's so complex on Xbox Music.
Before I signed up for the Music pass trial, adding a song to my music put it in the cloud, which is what I wanted. Now when I add a song it physically downloads it. So I have to find it and delete it to just keep it in my cloud? Really dumb, unless I'm missing something obvious.
I just want to make a cloud playlist, which I can then play on my Lumia 920. Spotify would make this super simple, not sure why it's so complex on Xbox Music.
Because Xbox music is a more complete offering.
If you do not have an Xbox music pass, then you will only have a cloud collection.
If you do have a pass, the default behaviour is that when you add a song to your collection, it is also downloaded on the device for offline use. You can change that setting in the settings.
Creating playlist should just propogate throughout your windows 8 and windows phone 8 devices.
You can disable that through the settings charm. It was getting on my nerves as well.
Alt+F4, Enter?
My biggest gripe wasn't the design. I open most things by pressing windows key then typing to search for them. Yes, you can just start typing on the Tile Interface to search, however you have to manually click to change categories which I find extremely annoying. If there is a way to make it search Apps/Settings/Files all in the same window, then I'll give it another shot.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Why do you need to search all 3 at the same time? I've asked this question before and I've never been given a specific scenario where you don't know which of the 3 you need. It's just never something I've needed to do.
If you're searching for Apps it's Win > Start typing. For settings Win+W and for files it's Win+F although I always search for files in the file explorer personally.
Treefingers
Member
I don't like that I have to memorize 3 different shortcuts to search for different things. Would be so much easier to just start typing and have it show all results.
While I didn't know there were different shortcuts to different things, I still say it is unnecessarily harder than it needs to be.
It's nice to hit one button and search for whatever I want, with the most relevant things at the top and the rest sorted based on type below that, like it is with Windows 7 and Start8.
Why are there more shortcuts now? Why couldn't they have the function remain the same? I don't mind the interface, it's these little things that are attempts at making things simpler by making them more complicated.
Yes, I can memorize those additional shortcuts. But why? There is no reason they couldn't fit all categories in that huge, mostly empty void of a space where results now show up.
To answer your question specifically, I don't need to search all three at the same time; most of the time I do know what type of thing I am looking for. But in all cases, I should be able to hit one button to initiate the search.