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Windows 8 / RT |OT|
- Thread starter Jzero
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Seems like the way to do it.
In many ways, Windows 8 really seems like a "work in progress". Hopefully, by the time 8.1 is out we'll have an OS that's a bit more usable.
campfireweekend
Member
if you have control panel pinned to your taskbar you can click it and drag up to reveal this menu. If devices and printers is one of your recently used options you click the little pin next to it so its always in that context menu.
So like two clicks. I'd say that's pretty damn efficient.
Steelyuhas
Member
Disagree on that, I started using IE 10 instead of Chrome because I think the text looks much better in IE.
Mine doesn't do this in w8. Is yours RT?
Here are the screenshots
Chrome
IE
Looks like Chrome is the only example I have at the moment. The difference though is really jarring between how IE10 looks and the way Chrome looks on Win 8.
Doesn't translate well in the screenshots, but the entire chrome application is noticeably blurrier.
Chrome
IE
Looks like Chrome is the only example I have at the moment. The difference though is really jarring between how IE10 looks and the way Chrome looks on Win 8.
Doesn't translate well in the screenshots, but the entire chrome application is noticeably blurrier.
Iced_Eagle
Member
It works the same in both.
Open Control Panel. Right click it's icon in the taskbar.
campfireweekend
Member
It doesn't even need to be open. Left click, don't stop clicking, and motion up with your mouse.
Convenientbox, that was a picture of it in RT, but it definitely works in windows 8 also. I also use that same context menu at home when I'm writing documents. Do the same thing with word to show all your recent docs or start a new one. Do it with outlook to set a new calendar date or write a new email. File explorer to show your most used folders or internet explorer to open a new tab in private mode or regular. The wonders of the drag up context menu!
Check your DPI settings.
Start Screen -> type "resolution" -> click "Settings" -> then click "Make text and other items larger or smaller".
Under "Change the size of all items" is "100% (default)" picked?
http://www.jkwebtalks.com/2011/03/enable-or-disable-hardware-acceleration.html
Old article but worth a shot.
The problem is that Chrome is not telling Windows that it knows how to draw itself at 150%, so the OS is scaling up its window for it. This is what is causing the blurriness.
This is something Google needs to update in Chrome. This is the same problem people who have Retina MacBooks had with Chrome until Google updated it.
You have two options:
1. Set the system back to 100%, log out and back in, and everything should return to normal. However this means the entire desktop will be drawn smaller. If you're ok with this, then just leave it at 100%.
2. You can also tell Windows not to scale up just Chrome.
Go to Start Screen -> type "Chrome" -> right click on the Chrome icon -> "Open File Location" -> Right click "Google Chrome" -> "Properties" -> "Compatibility" -> "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings".
Now everything else will render at 150%, and just Google Chrome will render at 100%.
I choose option #2 and it worked. The blurriness is gone, but yeah Chrome is drawn smaller than all the other apps which is something I guess I can live with until Google updates it.
Does anyone know what can make Devices & Printers slow to open in Windows 8?
When I click on it, I get a blank screen with a green progress bar at the top and it takes about 10 seconds before Devices & Printers fully opens.
I don't have a ton of devices: -
I Googled it and quite a few people were affected by this in Windows 7. Setting the "Bluetooth Support Service" to automatic fixed it for many people, but that doesn't do anything for me in Windows 8. I've found a handful of posts about this issue in Windows 8, but no solution.
When I click on it, I get a blank screen with a green progress bar at the top and it takes about 10 seconds before Devices & Printers fully opens.
I don't have a ton of devices: -
I Googled it and quite a few people were affected by this in Windows 7. Setting the "Bluetooth Support Service" to automatic fixed it for many people, but that doesn't do anything for me in Windows 8. I've found a handful of posts about this issue in Windows 8, but no solution.
You could also try setting display scaling to 125%, Chrome shouldn't look fuzzy at that scaling level.
Mr. Wonderful
Member
Had this exact same problem with Chrome, resulting me going from 150% to 125%.
Windows DPI scaling is still a joke in the year 2013. Hopefully "retina" screens will force a change soon.
Just changed to 125% and I think this will suit me for right now. 150% was kinda bigger than I'm used to anyway even though it looked nice.
hmm, I tried but all I get is this.
My other context menus work great.
Have you recently opened Devices and Printers? Or any other option under Control Panel? It will only show options if you've recently opened something.
Try opening Devices and Printers, close it, then try the Control Panel thing again.
Every website should do this in snapped mode.
http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/19/adapting-your-site-to-different-window-sizes.aspx
http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/19/adapting-your-site-to-different-window-sizes.aspx
Aside from the advice given above, right-click on the Taskbar and choose Properties, then click on the Jump Lists tab and make sure the relevant boxes there aren't unchecked.
That. Or MS should provide an option in IE to display the mobile version of sites when snapped.
Don't blame Windows, blame the developers that don't care to update their apps, like Google. Windows has had high DPI support in the OS for more than a decade.
OSX has the same issues (Chrome itself was one of those "didn't bother to update for Retina" apps until last year.)
BTW, Metro is designed from the ground up to deal with high DPI.
I think this is true because if I run Chrome in Metro mode I don't have any issues with blurriness.
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
When handling several folders at once, explorer.exe tends to crash and restart, closing all open folders. This only happens from time to time. Anyone experience this or know of a fix? It's very frustrating.
Do you have any codecs installed?
It could be anything really. explorer.exe might be slightly corrupted. Try following these steps to repair the file.
I know it's talking about Windows 7, but the instructions remain the same.
José Mourinho
cocknose
Just been reading a few posts from the last few pages of the thread. I had to go back to Windows 7 on my desktop because of some software issues. I'm still using 8 on my laptop though.
Anyway, I'm sort of baffled at the posts where people claim it's slower or more difficult to find something on Windows 8.
Using devices and printers as an example that somebody brought up. It's pretty straight forward. Win key, type the first few characters, arrow down to settings, enter.
It takes literally a few seconds and you can find anything like this. The only difference being that if it's not an application, you'll have to arrow down to either settings or files, which again, is the difference of seconds. Faster than Win+X and having to mouse over or key up to search too.
Anyway, I'm sort of baffled at the posts where people claim it's slower or more difficult to find something on Windows 8.
Using devices and printers as an example that somebody brought up. It's pretty straight forward. Win key, type the first few characters, arrow down to settings, enter.
It takes literally a few seconds and you can find anything like this. The only difference being that if it's not an application, you'll have to arrow down to either settings or files, which again, is the difference of seconds. Faster than Win+X and having to mouse over or key up to search too.
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Delusibeta
Banned
Doesn't exist in Windows 8.
Damon Bennet
Member
That sucks :/
Just read about it, something to do with battery life. Why not leave it optional..
brotkasten
Member
I don't think anyone expected something else.
Jzero
Member
I did, i wanted them to be released sooner.
By the way, do any of you know if i can format my hard drive that has 32 bit Windows 8 and install the 64 bit version with the same key that i already used? I know the key works for both 32/64 bit versions but not sure if it still works once the key is already used.