Steelyuhas
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Steam users love Windows 8.
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Windows 8 / RT |OT|
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Delicious.
You can change the default applications for files by using default programs utility
You can also completely disable metro and the hot corners using Classic Shell or Start8. I'm assuming there's an option for it in Startisback as well. If you set it up the way you want it it's like metro doesn't even exist.
Edit: I might have misunderstood. Are you seeing metro when you mouse to the corners, or use the windows button? Because that's what you can disable. If you're just up in arms because Windows has the nerve to have it's own default applications that go out of there way to ask you if you would prefer to use something else than I don't see there being much to complain about. Hardware incompatibilities suck though :S
funkystudent
Member
Just noticed I can navigate the start screen with keyboard arrows but for whatever reason I cant jump around using a xbox controller. Someone should get on that.
Well, Steam isn't a very good representation of the entire market. Web analytics would be more accurate (though still not great). And from there, you can see that it hasn't passed Vista.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
Just put the media center key in to reactivate it. For some reason it transfers the install to that key from the original windows 8 key. I have no clue why though.
Thanks for that, appreciate the help!
40% using XP....are these 5+ year old PCs? If not, these people are insane.
Koroviev
Member
Old dogs. There are more of them than you think.
Damon Bennet
Member
some just dont care to run the latest os, for what is basically an office and facebook machine
Koroviev
Member
Windows XP isn't even fit to run modern browsers at this point.
Damon Bennet
Member
which you dont need to run facebook!
Koroviev
Member
Is this the second time you've installed it? You might have to call MS customer service.
Stop >:T
I don't think so. It was activated prior to installing WMC, after that I got the activation error and have been unable to activate it since.
Koroviev
Member
Weird. I would still call. You're accessing this thread from the Win8 PC, right?
Damon Bennet
Member
Yep. I'll call them after class tomorrow, I guess.
Many companies (mine included) still use XP for their work environment.
Koroviev
Member
Oh, I know that. For the past three months I've been assisting the company I work for in upgrading all of the ancient XP machines to Windows 8 machines with i3s, 8GB of RAM, and SSDs.
brotkasten
Member
XP runs the latest Chrome and Firefox just fine.
If your new PC comes with Windows 8 you might be able to just plug in the code as an upgrade. I was able to apply an Action Pack 8 Pro code to an OEM 8 on a Dell.
Koroviev
Member
Chrome crashes all the time on the remaining XP machines where I work. Whenever you go to shut down one of those PCs, you get one of those stupid "Program not responding" dialog boxes.
That isn't representative of what I see on any of my XP machines.
Naked Snake
Member
Can the upgrade still be purchased for 14.99 with a promo code (since the price jumped to 199.99)?
Jzero
Member
I'm pretty sure you missed out buddy.
Edit: actually, i'm wrong.
$14.99 Offer said:
On my parents' old computer, that was bought over 7 years ago, recent versions of Chrome, Firefox and Opera work just fine. No crashing at all.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Just how low is your resolution? You don't need 1366x768 for Windows 8. 1280x800 works really well, but you can't use two Metro apps side-by-side. If the resolution is lower you might not be able to run Metro apps at all. But if you plan on turning it into Windows 7 anyway, that may not be much of an issue.
Deputy Moonman
Member
1280x800 is what my laptop can do.
José Mourinho
cocknose
I'm sure this has come up before. Is there a fix for the issue when Metro apps just decide to stop working? I uninstalled some and re-installed them and fine. But some, like weather, just load forever now.
1280x800 works just fine. My parents' laptop has the same resolution and runs Windows 8. Running two Metro apps side-by-side is a nice-to-have, but it's not essential. All Metro apps will still work full-screen.
SenorArdilla
Member
I got Windows 8 a while back. Any hidden/neat tricks that I may or may not need to know?
Mouse to the bottom left and right-click for the admin menu (or whatever they call it). Also works with Start button + X.
Bing My Lockscreen is a nice app.
BrownChickenBrownCow
Banned
Well I have used Windows 8 extensively for the past week with a 23" Dell Touch Screen monitor... and here are some short impressions.
Pros
OS ultra fast top down.
Feels like Windows 7 on speed.
Love some of the Metro Apps; USA Today, Paint, Travel, Bing, and IE10 apps are great about 28k apps available in my region.
Charms and Power User right-click on desktop is awesome.
Jumplist from start screen is ultra useful.
Cons
Cant easily redirect where apps install.
Big apps are non existant... I mean its WINDOWS FFS you can't get a Facebook/Youtube/blah blah blah app going, granted the web browsers is more than fine but still. Get on it.
The should allow a background creator that follows a certain template, so you can still customize, but retain the needs of the 'metro' environment.
Tutorial is useless. They really should have though that out more.
Pros
OS ultra fast top down.
Feels like Windows 7 on speed.
Love some of the Metro Apps; USA Today, Paint, Travel, Bing, and IE10 apps are great about 28k apps available in my region.
Charms and Power User right-click on desktop is awesome.
Jumplist from start screen is ultra useful.
Cons
Cant easily redirect where apps install.
Big apps are non existant... I mean its WINDOWS FFS you can't get a Facebook/Youtube/blah blah blah app going, granted the web browsers is more than fine but still. Get on it.
The should allow a background creator that follows a certain template, so you can still customize, but retain the needs of the 'metro' environment.
Tutorial is useless. They really should have though that out more.
I just upgraded to Windows 8 from 7.. on my Mac's bootcamp partition. I feel like this may have been a stupid thing to do as I'm now having trouble.
Upon initial upgrade it all worked fine and I was enjoying the OS. However I shut down and rebooted and now I can't get back in. I get a flash of the blue screen of death and then it restarts.
Occasionally it'll hang at the 'preparing automatic repair' but won't progress beyond that. I've tried to fn+alt+F8 into safe mode but no dice.
Contacted Microsoft support and they couldn't really help with the Mac side of things but said I needed to install W8 from the architecture pre-existent on the partition.
Any tips? I foolishly didn't create a media backup. Really don't want to purge and create a new partition.
Upon initial upgrade it all worked fine and I was enjoying the OS. However I shut down and rebooted and now I can't get back in. I get a flash of the blue
screen of death and then it restarts.Occasionally it'll hang at the 'preparing automatic repair' but won't progress beyond that. I've tried to fn+alt+F8 into safe mode but no dice.
Contacted Microsoft support and they couldn't really help with the Mac side of things but said I needed to install W8 from the architecture pre-existent on the partition.
Any tips? I foolishly didn't create a media backup. Really don't want to purge and create a new partition.
Dreams-Visions
Member
You're right: it was a stupid thing to do.
Hopefully you made an image backup so you can just drop Windows 7 back on the machine. Otherwise, you'll have to wait until Apple releases proper drivers to get back a lot of the basic Bootcamp features. That may not be until Summer. If you didn't make an image... considering how easy it is to do for the Bootcamp partition right in OSX...well that sucks.
You really should have googled "Bootcamp Windows 8" before upgrading or at least asked in one of the Mac/OSX threads. :-(
jediyoshi
Member
If you plan on using startisback, then resolution is only as important as how useful it is to you in desktop mode. You boot straight into it and won't have a single reason to swap back over. By the time you disable the charms, it's pretty much identical to windows 7 aside from lack of transparent window chrome
Kinky John
Member
I always disable the window min/max animations. I've never understood why Microsoft persevere with the fade-in animation; it makes the UI feel slower.
Wiz
Member
So after almost a week of having Windows 8 on my laptop, gotta say I am really loving it. It's actually a pleasure to use. I also got a 4-year subscription to Office 2013 for only $79.99. Good deal.
One question though, is Media Center worth the $4.99? I missed out on the free promo (I got Windows 8 on February 1st...promotion ended on Jan 31...), but would like to have a sort of hub on my computer for all my media stuff instead of going thru different sites/folder/music/video players etc.
One question though, is Media Center worth the $4.99? I missed out on the free promo (I got Windows 8 on February 1st...promotion ended on Jan 31...), but would like to have a sort of hub on my computer for all my media stuff instead of going thru different sites/folder/music/video players etc.
I know there were a few people who were interested in this, so I'm just letting people know that the mobile browser app that I was working on won't be making it to the store anytime soon. At least until MS have updated their WinRT APIs.
The whole point of the app was to obviously display the mobile site of websites. Since there's no "built in" way of doing this, I came up with my own solution, and it worked perfectly (on ARM and x86).
The problem being, it referenced an API that isn't officially supported by WinRT which of course meant it wouldn't pass certification. I spent the past few weeks looking for an alternative solution, but came up with nothing. So for now I'll be putting this project on hold and will start looking at something else.
If it turns out that in the future the app is able to pass certification, and anybody still cares enough, I'll submit it then.
The whole point of the app was to obviously display the mobile site of websites. Since there's no "built in" way of doing this, I came up with my own solution, and it worked perfectly (on ARM and x86).
The problem being, it referenced an API that isn't officially supported by WinRT which of course meant it wouldn't pass certification. I spent the past few weeks looking for an alternative solution, but came up with nothing. So for now I'll be putting this project on hold and will start looking at something else.
If it turns out that in the future the app is able to pass certification, and anybody still cares enough, I'll submit it then.
JetBlackPanda
Member
I have had a new PC since May'12 and my trial version of windows 8 is up. So now I have to make a decision.
7 or 8
ugh.. what do you guys think?
7 or 8
ugh.. what do you guys think?
D'ultimate
Member
So...can't you just put out a version that supports ARM and x86 only?
I thought RT was going to have apps specific to it anyway.
Well ARM and x86 are the only two architectures that you can support. When I said the API isn't officially supported by WinRT I was talking about the Windows Runtime not Windows RT (confusing I know).
Basically what I'm saying is the app runs fine across all architectures, x86 and ARM (which is essentially Windows RT), but WinRT has a certain set of API's that you have to use to create your app. The API that I referenced in my app is not officially supported by WinRT.
So although it runs fine across all architectures, it can't be submitted because it's using an unsupported API.
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