8.1

well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected to
get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed. It's a
windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which can be had by
pressing the windows key. Apart from that there are a few differences I've
noticed so far but nothing major. But early days, just keep plodding along
and see what comes up.
housetrained

housetrained wrote:
well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected
to get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed. It's
a windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which can be
had by pressing the windows key. Apart from that there are a few
differences I've noticed so far but nothing major. But early days, just
keep plodding along and see what comes up.
housetrained

I had that fine feature, jam up on me !

I had that black bar on the left hand side exposed. The one
that shows metro apps hiding in the background. (You can kill
the metro apps from that strip.) Anyway, I had just exposed that
thing, when the GUI froze up. No input worked. The caps lock key
still worked the LED on the keyboard, so the keyboard still "worked".
But not even control-alt-delete would elicit a response. Mousing
did nothing. Clicking the mouse did nothing. After about 60 seconds
or so, it cleared itself, and I could finally get a response from it.
(The left-hand side of this picture, shows that black bar exposed.)

http://cdn3.mos.techradar.futurecdn....813-580-90.gif

So the GUI still has a few more bugs to be worked out.

The reliability monitor, did not contain an item referring
to the event at all.

And the NVidia driver was installed at the time. (The driver
is not present in the OS, initially. But I managed to get
it from Windows Update.) If you're running 1024x768 resolution,
then the driver isn't installed yet.

Paul

housetrained wrote:

well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected to
get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed. It's a
windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which can be had by
pressing the windows key. Apart from that there are a few differences I've
noticed so far but nothing major. But early days, just keep plodding along
and see what comes up.
housetrained

Well, Microsoft said explicitly that 8.1 would not include a traditional
"start" button. I don't know why people would think otherwise.
Wishful thinking? Perhaps, hopeful thinking?

Let's face it finally: Windows 8 was designed to run on a touch screen
tablet, specifically The Surface. The mouse/keyboard option is just a
hack, so they can con desktop users into upgrading. More money.

Microsoft has unilaterally decided that tablets are the future
and the desktop is dead. Stupid Microsoft. They've shot themselves in
the foot. AGAIN!!

Stef

housetrained wrote:
well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected
to get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed. It's
a windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which can be
had by pressing the windows key.

What f*ck were they thinking when they put it there? if it doesn't do
anything different then why bother to have it in the first place?

They really need to get penile extensions to get some confidence in
themselves. A small penis isn't a good penis in most women's mind and
men's mind in the case of fagots.



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Al Sparber-PVII has written on 6/29/2013 5:57 PM:

They really need to get penile extensions to get some confidence in
themselves. A small penis isn't a good penis in most women's mind and
men's mind in the case of fagots.

Al, for goodness sakes!!! Are you a homophobe??

On 29/06/2013 16:45, housetrained wrote:
well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected
to get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed.
It's a windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which
can be had by pressing the windows key. Apart from that there are a
few differences I've noticed so far but nothing major. But early days,
just keep plodding along and see what comes up.
housetrained


Has it got IE 11 beta with it?



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Al Sparber-PVII has written on 6/29/2013 5:57 PM:

They really need to get penile extensions to get some confidence in
themselves. A small penis isn't a good penis in most women's mind and
men's mind in the case of fagots.

Al, for goodness sakes!!! Are you a homophobe??

This waxes off-topic because the "Subject" should have
stated "Windows" thereby obviating "Inches" as any
plausible deductive reasoning choice or selection.
And, whereas Subway does NOT have 8.1-inch sub specials,
"some" folks are just "naturally" going to gravitate.

If someone hates homophobes, is s/he a homophobe-phobe?

Homophobe-friendly website :

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Queers

HTH.

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On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 17:24:50 -0600, Ken1943 wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:45:40 +0100, "housetrained"
wrote:

well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected to
get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed. It's a
windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which can be had by
pressing the windows key. Apart from that there are a few differences I've
noticed so far but nothing major. But early days, just keep plodding along
and see what comes up.
housetrained

What do you expect it's a BETA


KenW

When is the relase version supposed to come, anyway? August?

"Good Guy" wrote in message ...

On 29/06/2013 16:45, housetrained wrote:
well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected
to get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed.
It's a windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which
can be had by pressing the windows key. Apart from that there are a
few differences I've noticed so far but nothing major. But early days,
just keep plodding along and see what comes up.
housetrained


Has it got IE 11 beta with it?



didn't look, always use Firefox
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housetrained

On 29/06/13 22:57, Al Sparber-PVII wrote:
housetrained wrote:
well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected
to get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed.
It's a windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which
can be had by pressing the windows key.

What f*ck were they thinking when they put it there? if it doesn't do
anything different then why bother to have it in the first place?

have you right clicked it yet?

They really need to get penile extensions to get some confidence in
themselves. A small penis isn't a good penis in most women's mind and
men's mind in the case of fagots.

On 30/06/13 03:11, Good Guy wrote:
On 29/06/2013 16:45, housetrained wrote:
well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected
to get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed.
It's a windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which
can be had by pressing the windows key. Apart from that there are a
few differences I've noticed so far but nothing major. But early days,
just keep plodding along and see what comes up.
housetrained


Has it got IE 11 beta with it?



in virtualbox IE don't work

On 06/29/2013 10:45 AM, housetrained wrote:
well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected
to get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed. It's
a windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which can be
had by pressing the windows key. Apart from that there are a few
differences I've noticed so far but nothing major. But early days, just
keep plodding along and see what comes up.
housetrained



Best way to fix Win8 is with Classic Shell

"Darklight" wrote in message ...

On 29/06/13 22:57, Al Sparber-PVII wrote:
housetrained wrote:
well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected
to get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed.
It's a windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which
can be had by pressing the windows key.

have you right clicked it yet?

Ah, thanks for that, right clicking makes all the difference.
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housetrained

On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:03:38 -0500, philo* wrote:

On 06/29/2013 10:45 AM, housetrained wrote:
well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected
to get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed. It's
a windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which can be
had by pressing the windows key. Apart from that there are a few
differences I've noticed so far but nothing major. But early days, just
keep plodding along and see what comes up.
housetrained



Best way to fix Win8 is with Classic Shell

ClassicShell doesn't go nearly far enough. It's still obviously Win 8 under
there.

On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:06:09 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:03:38 -0500, philo* wrote:

On 06/29/2013 10:45 AM, housetrained wrote:
well, I've put 8.1 on my other desktop and I think those that expected
to get the old-style start button globe back will be disappointed. It's
a windows flag and when clicked it opens the metro screen which can be
had by pressing the windows key. Apart from that there are a few
differences I've noticed so far but nothing major. But early days, just
keep plodding along and see what comes up.
housetrained



Best way to fix Win8 is with Classic Shell

ClassicShell doesn't go nearly far enough. It's still obviously Win 8 under
there.


I think Classic Shell is pretty good, but Start8 is much better.

Ken

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