Jzero
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That's weird, my college uses Windows 7 and i noticed that i actually don't miss the glass look.Been using it for a month and a half now. I love it. So stable, so functional. Miss Aero though.
That's weird, my college uses Windows 7 and i noticed that i actually don't miss the glass look.Been using it for a month and a half now. I love it. So stable, so functional. Miss Aero though.
Yes it does.
Nice OT. I haven't paid much attention to Windows 8, so it was a good summary for me. I was waiting to fix my ram problem before installing it, so I think I'm ready to do it. Will probably do get around to it this weekend.
How is the metro interface when using multiple monitors? Do the tiles remain on one monitor, or can it be fully customized?
You know after i updated to the latest driver i got the BSOD. I had never gotten one until i updated the driver so that seems to be the cause of it.
Yep. So far, so good.
On another note, is there a quicker way of clicking the shutdown button? Right now, I have to log out, then click the power icon at the bottom right of the screen.
press the power button once on your computer (don't hold it) .Yep. So far, so good.
On another note, is there a quicker way of clicking the shutdown button? Right now, I have to log out, then click the power icon at the bottom right of the screen.
Yep. So far, so good.
On another note, is there a quicker way of clicking the shutdown button? Right now, I have to log out, then click the power icon at the bottom right of the screen.
Move your mouse to the bottom right corner to bring up the Charms bar (or Win+C) then click Settings. Shut down is in there. You can also Alt+F4 from the desktop.
press the power button once on your computer (don't hold it) .
Press the hardware button power
how likely do you think the store will hit 100k apps before january
Thanks. Alt+F4 is what I do if I don't click on the shut down button. I really just wanted to know where it is to begin with.
Hardware button? HARDWARE BUTTON?!Yes, yes, I know about the hardware button. I really just wanted to know where it is. It's become a habit for me to press Start, then click shut down.
I hope not. Windows Phone apps are kinda crappy in general.I doubt it unless MS is holding back a flood-gate of apps in certification. Then again, maybe they figured out a way to auto-port all the apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace :-/
Microsoft making it take so long to get to the power options actually made me start using the hardware power button. So much easierThanks. Alt+F4 is what I do if I don't click on the shut down button. I really just wanted to know where it is to begin with.
Hardware button? HARDWARE BUTTON?!Yes, yes, I know about the hardware button. I really just wanted to know where it is. It's become a habit for me to press Start, then click shut down.
how likely do you think it is that the store will hit 100k apps before January?
Microsoft making it take so long to get to the power options actually made me start using the hardware power button. So much easier
I hope not. Windows Phone apps are kinda crappy in general.
I think is unlikely, but there must be a shit ton of apps just waiting for the 26th to launch along with Win8 for MS to feel so confident in that 100k number, my bet is 50k in mid January
Microsoft doesn't want you shutting down Windows 8.
That's weird, my college uses Windows 7 and i noticed that i actually don't miss the glass look.
Windows 7 to Windows 8 should just bring the application along without having to reinstall. Still would best to back up your stuff just in case.I'm running Windows 7 with Office 2010 and I want to upgrade to Windows 8. Now my question is will I able to reinstall my copy of Office 2010?
Microsoft released a huge eBook on the development of Windows 8, explaining design decisions and things like that.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/15/welcome-to-building-windows-8.aspx
Have fun.
I must be blind but, I still can't find any mention of the ebook on that page.
Note to self: Should have read the GIANT PRINT that said the programs I installed were not part of "my files" for the Windows 8 Refresh.
Kinda lost all the Steam games I installed over the passed few days
By not putting a password. If you haven't already put a pin on it so you don't have to type your whole password in.Is there a way to just have Windows 8 load straight to the Metro screen and not ask for a login/password?
cool.
Is there a way to just have Windows 8 load straight to the Metro screen and not ask for a login/password?
It's still the same number of mouse licks as Win7... just in a different place.
No you cant unfortunately. As MS puts it: "There's no upgrade paths from preview versions of Windows 8." I believe the OP has some info regarding this. There's also a nice chart on Wikipedia.
Use more punctuations.
It takes me one single click to shut down W7. Click on the start button and while still holding down the mouse button move to the right over the 'shut down' button. I haven't found a way in W8 that is as easy and fast (under 1 second).
'Change PC settings' via the settings charm.How do you set a background image for the start/app screen?
Apologies if asked/answered already.
'Change PC settings' via the settings charm.
It takes me one single click to shut down W7. Click on the start button and while still holding down the mouse button move to the right over the 'shut down' button. I haven't found a way in W8 that is as easy and fast (under 1 second).
I saw that-- but can you change it to your own image? All I see are pre-chosen styles.
You should probably keep using Windows 7 then. It does offer you the fastest way to shutdown your system using a start menu. My appologies.
Yes, that's exactly how it works
I love Windows 7 but I think I've decided that Windows 8 is for me. I like some of the new stuff and the changes a lot of people hate (like lack of start button) don't bug me one bit.
Wouldnt RT Games have this support or do you mean more of desktop games? Touch on the windows desktop is mostly setup to emulate a mouse. I could see someone releasing controls that would somehow emulate a controller via an onscreen overlay though they will need to have some sort of way to inject the inputs back into the controller's input stack and they would also need to somehow get the overlay on screen and allow options that will hopefully allow users to select placements that don't interfere with the games built-in HUD. I know fraps somehow manages to cheese in on a game's frame buffer so the overlay thing may be possible but I don't know how to inject information into a controller's stack without driver level access. I never tried creating system-level hooks like I know you could back in the Win32 API days for keyboard and mouse journals but if the option exists for the controller then that may be easy as well.
There is. They use a small area around the corner of each monitor where the cursor is blocked and you can invoke the charms bar on monitor 1.1. I want a way to stop the cursor on the right edge of the screen of the first monitor. Like holding down the windows key will stop the cursor from changing screens.
This would fix the need to move to the second monitors far right to get the charms menu up. I find trying to hover over the right edge of monitor 1 without moving the cursor over the edge into monitor 2 which stops the charms from coming up fiddly.
Not sure i understood that completely, but you can add desktop shortcuts to the start screen. WinKey + Type also works for all installed desktop programs even if you haven't pinned them.As well It would let me quickly snap down to the show desktop bar in the bottom right. Now that there is no start menu you have to put all your shortcuts to desktop apps on the desktop but with a few programs open its a pain to minimize to launch a new program. I find the windows key + , isn't practical since it requires two hands to do it.
this is basically what I thought about. An overlay that basically works like the old on screen keyboard. Just for input controls that are universally usable.
Indie games, emulators and other simple games that dont require much precision could profit from touch input, even though they were not designed for that and you could play games on the run with your tablet without the need of hardware input methods!
Yep. So far, so good.
On another note, is there a quicker way of clicking the shutdown button? Right now, I have to log out, then click the power icon at the bottom right of the screen.