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Mark F[_3_] November 28th 12 04:49 PM

How do I do multiple visible windows in Windows 8?
 
How do I do multiple visible windows in Windows 8?

I went to Staples and couldn't see a way to do multiple visible
windows with Windows 8.

I've seen some stuff indicating that Windows 8 is supposed to be for
low power devices:
1. This shouldn't apply to the AC mains powered desktop machines I
tried
and
2. There is no valid reason why having multiple overlapping visible
windows would REQUIRE any more power use than having only one
visible window.

For that matter:
It seems like more than one process was active running anyhow on the
AC mains powered desktops that I tried, so having just one visible
didn't mean that the desktops were using significantly less power
due to only showing one window on screen.

Note: I used to write on-the-fly TECO programs more than 100
commands long on 10 CPS teletypes, but I was very happy to get
multiple windows in the 1980s so that I didn't have to remember
what was going on. (Now I'm lucky if I can remember if the
m a p q u e s t directions said "left, right", rather than
"right, left". I certainly can't remember a 60 character URL,
18 character random username and 32 character random password
that I need to type to find out what doctor appointment the
email from my HMO wants to remind me about. Why does Microsoft
think I can remember all of this stuff when I am trying to
read my email.)

Yes, the HMO
should be able to meet its security requirements by sending me
an encrypted message that I can decrypt by using the one
key that I do remember, but getting the HMO to implement
that is another issue.)

(I also don't see why any of the gazillion etail companies that I deal
with feel that I should have to sign on to their websites using
my of course unique password to see the status of orders,
when they also can and should be sending me
self-contained encrypted messages that don't require me to
use the web when I want to see the actual information and don't
require more from me than the one password that I do know.)

Zaphod Beeblebrox November 28th 12 07:04 PM

How do I do multiple visible windows in Windows 8?
 
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:49:52 -0500, "Mark F"
wrote in article ...

How do I do multiple visible windows in Windows 8?


Answered in alt.comp.os.windows-8

--
Zaphod

"So [Trillian], two heads is what does it for a girl?"
"...Anything else [Zaphod]'s got two of?"
- Arthur Dent

Justin[_18_] November 29th 12 06:15 AM

How do I do multiple visible windows in Windows 8?
 
On 11/28/2012 10:49 AM, Mark F wrote:
How do I do multiple visible windows in Windows 8?

I went to Staples and couldn't see a way to do multiple visible
windows with Windows 8.


Should have bought a mac.


Bob I November 30th 12 01:58 AM

How do I do multiple visible windows in Windows 8?
 


On 11/28/2012 11:15 PM, Justin wrote:
On 11/28/2012 10:49 AM, Mark F wrote:
How do I do multiple visible windows in Windows 8?

I went to Staples and couldn't see a way to do multiple visible
windows with Windows 8.


Should have bought a mac.


And also a side order of fries.


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