New to win8 - follow up Q

On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:59:27 +0000 (UTC), "anotherpaul" file-box02@no-
hotmail.com.invalid wrote in article ...

On 2012-12-03, Tom Lake wrote:
"anotherpaul" wrote in message ...

On 2012-12-03, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:45:54 +0000 (UTC), Dominique wrote:

anotherpaul ??ivait news:k9g3vv$4u3
:


If on the Desktop, move mouse pointer to bottom left corner; when the
metro page icon appears, right click & a look-like old start column
appears where both the regular command prompt & the command prompt
(admin) appears for selection.

Also, the "run" command is on the list.


Didn't know, thanks

I'm still learning.

Me too. Sorry, I forgot that this was the Windows 8 newsgroup.

Thanks, anotherpaul, for saving the situation :-)

Me too! m$ seem to think that one has to learn about their OS until
it is no longer supported. Lots of hidden & changed stuff makes one
have to relearn. Just found that cannot map a network drive BUT have
to "mount" the drive & get a defaulted drive letter as looks like one
is not allowed to assign a preferred drive letter.

In Win 8 you can still map a network drive and assign drive letters.
What made you think you can't?

Tom Lake

Didn't find a place to do that for my MBL. Did a right-click on the
drive & see "mount" which I did & it showed up on my drive listing as
"Z:". The "mapping" allows me to go directly into the MBL while
without it I can still listen to music or view videos just like any
DLNA client compatible device.

Can you post the procedure to get into the drive mapping as I didn't
see anything in the network area like that in win7.

In Explorer (on the Desktop) right click Network int he left hand pane
and choose "Map network drive". There may be other places you can do
this, but that's the first one I came across.

--
Zaphod

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, ya know? - Gag Halfrunt

On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 17:25:53 +0000 (UTC), Dominique
wrote:


There is no Start Orb on my Windows8 installation,


Note that it's very easy to add the Start Orb yourself, with the free
Classic Shell, or with the somewhat better, very inexpensive, Start8.


--
Ken Blake

On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 08:13:42 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:

Sigh. OK, yes, you can do that but only because you've enabled
the built-in Administrator account. The idea is you can't delete
the last *currently enabled* administrator-level account.

What do you mean "Sigh"! You answered without mentioning this, I
expanded on your answer. Get over it.

On 2012-12-03, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:59:27 +0000 (UTC), "anotherpaul" file-box02@no-
hotmail.com.invalid wrote in article ...

On 2012-12-03, Tom Lake wrote:
"anotherpaul" wrote in message ...

On 2012-12-03, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:45:54 +0000 (UTC), Dominique wrote:

anotherpaul ??ivait news:k9g3vv$4u3
:


If on the Desktop, move mouse pointer to bottom left corner; when the
metro page icon appears, right click & a look-like old start column
appears where both the regular command prompt & the command prompt
(admin) appears for selection.

Also, the "run" command is on the list.


Didn't know, thanks

I'm still learning.

Me too. Sorry, I forgot that this was the Windows 8 newsgroup.

Thanks, anotherpaul, for saving the situation :-)

Me too! m$ seem to think that one has to learn about their OS until
it is no longer supported. Lots of hidden & changed stuff makes one
have to relearn. Just found that cannot map a network drive BUT have
to "mount" the drive & get a defaulted drive letter as looks like one
is not allowed to assign a preferred drive letter.

In Win 8 you can still map a network drive and assign drive letters.
What made you think you can't?

Tom Lake

Didn't find a place to do that for my MBL. Did a right-click on the
drive & see "mount" which I did & it showed up on my drive listing as
"Z:". The "mapping" allows me to go directly into the MBL while
without it I can still listen to music or view videos just like any
DLNA client compatible device.

Can you post the procedure to get into the drive mapping as I didn't
see anything in the network area like that in win7.

In Explorer (on the Desktop) right click Network int he left hand pane
and choose "Map network drive". There may be other places you can do
this, but that's the first one I came across.

Ahhh! THANK YOU! Gotta remember to do "right-click" more often. I
had expected that the prompt will appear like on win7 at the top of a
network screen.

Shows how much win8 hides more useful things than than in win7 or
change how to access stuff.

Still learning here also.

If a MSFT account was used for the initial account during installation the Windows logon name will be the MSFT account full email
address and the account name the MSFT Account user configured profile name.


--
....winston
msft mvp


"mechanic" wrote in message ...

You can delete the user/administrator account from the Administrator
account - I've done it. Of course you need to enable the
Administrator account first to do this. I used the Local Users and
Groups Policy Editor (lusmgr.msc) to do this. I needed to do this
because for some reason Win8 installed with the wrong user name even
though the user account name was correct. The Windows installer
isn't very helpful on this. This is all very much the same as it was
in Windows7.

On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 20:47:27 +0000 (UTC), "anotherpaul" file-box02@no-
hotmail.com.invalid wrote in article ...

On 2012-12-03, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:59:27 +0000 (UTC), "anotherpaul" file-box02@no-
hotmail.com.invalid wrote in article ...

On 2012-12-03, Tom Lake wrote:
"anotherpaul" wrote in message ...

On 2012-12-03, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:45:54 +0000 (UTC), Dominique wrote:

anotherpaul ??ivait news:k9g3vv$4u3
:


If on the Desktop, move mouse pointer to bottom left corner; when the
metro page icon appears, right click & a look-like old start column
appears where both the regular command prompt & the command prompt
(admin) appears for selection.

Also, the "run" command is on the list.


Didn't know, thanks

I'm still learning.

Me too. Sorry, I forgot that this was the Windows 8 newsgroup.

Thanks, anotherpaul, for saving the situation :-)

Me too! m$ seem to think that one has to learn about their OS until
it is no longer supported. Lots of hidden & changed stuff makes one
have to relearn. Just found that cannot map a network drive BUT have
to "mount" the drive & get a defaulted drive letter as looks like one
is not allowed to assign a preferred drive letter.

In Win 8 you can still map a network drive and assign drive letters.
What made you think you can't?

Tom Lake

Didn't find a place to do that for my MBL. Did a right-click on the
drive & see "mount" which I did & it showed up on my drive listing as
"Z:". The "mapping" allows me to go directly into the MBL while
without it I can still listen to music or view videos just like any
DLNA client compatible device.

Can you post the procedure to get into the drive mapping as I didn't
see anything in the network area like that in win7.

In Explorer (on the Desktop) right click Network int he left hand pane
and choose "Map network drive". There may be other places you can do
this, but that's the first one I came across.

Ahhh! THANK YOU! Gotta remember to do "right-click" more often. I
had expected that the prompt will appear like on win7 at the top of a
network screen.

Shows how much win8 hides more useful things than than in win7 or
change how to access stuff.

Still learning here also.

You are welcome. I'm also continuing to find / look for where MS has
moved things. I don't get their desire to rearrange the furniture - I
mean, what possible benefit is there?

--
Zaphod

Adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly),
manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships,
often thought to be completely out to lunch.

On 2012-12-03, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 20:47:27 +0000 (UTC), "anotherpaul" file-box02@no-
hotmail.com.invalid wrote in article ...

On 2012-12-03, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:59:27 +0000 (UTC), "anotherpaul" file-box02@no-
hotmail.com.invalid wrote in article ...

On 2012-12-03, Tom Lake wrote:
"anotherpaul" wrote in message ...

On 2012-12-03, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:45:54 +0000 (UTC), Dominique wrote:

anotherpaul ??ivait news:k9g3vv$4u3
:


If on the Desktop, move mouse pointer to bottom left corner; when the
metro page icon appears, right click & a look-like old start column
appears where both the regular command prompt & the command prompt
(admin) appears for selection.

Also, the "run" command is on the list.


Didn't know, thanks

I'm still learning.

Me too. Sorry, I forgot that this was the Windows 8 newsgroup.

Thanks, anotherpaul, for saving the situation :-)

Me too! m$ seem to think that one has to learn about their OS until
it is no longer supported. Lots of hidden & changed stuff makes one
have to relearn. Just found that cannot map a network drive BUT have
to "mount" the drive & get a defaulted drive letter as looks like one
is not allowed to assign a preferred drive letter.

In Win 8 you can still map a network drive and assign drive letters.
What made you think you can't?

Tom Lake

Didn't find a place to do that for my MBL. Did a right-click on the
drive & see "mount" which I did & it showed up on my drive listing as
"Z:". The "mapping" allows me to go directly into the MBL while
without it I can still listen to music or view videos just like any
DLNA client compatible device.

Can you post the procedure to get into the drive mapping as I didn't
see anything in the network area like that in win7.

In Explorer (on the Desktop) right click Network int he left hand pane
and choose "Map network drive". There may be other places you can do
this, but that's the first one I came across.

Ahhh! THANK YOU! Gotta remember to do "right-click" more often. I
had expected that the prompt will appear like on win7 at the top of a
network screen.

Shows how much win8 hides more useful things than than in win7 or
change how to access stuff.

Still learning here also.

You are welcome. I'm also continuing to find / look for where MS has
moved things. I don't get their desire to rearrange the furniture - I
mean, what possible benefit is there?


At least win8 let us have a different task bar color when a solid color
is used as the desktop color & not some fancy theme; haven't found the
place for changing the taskbar text color tho. May have missed the
taskbar color/text changing in win7.

Read on "The Inquirer" that someone leaked that microsoft will start
releasing a version of windows each year like apple & google. A way
to make more money from "upgrades" instead of having service packs.

On 4/12/2012 7:47 AM, anotherpaul wrote:
On 2012-12-03, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:59:27 +0000 (UTC), "anotherpaul" file-box02@no-
hotmail.com.invalid wrote in article ...

On 2012-12-03, Tom Lake wrote:
"anotherpaul" wrote in message ...

On 2012-12-03, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:45:54 +0000 (UTC), Dominique wrote:

anotherpaul ??ivait news:k9g3vv$4u3
:


If on the Desktop, move mouse pointer to bottom left corner; when the
metro page icon appears, right click & a look-like old start column
appears where both the regular command prompt & the command prompt
(admin) appears for selection.

Also, the "run" command is on the list.


Didn't know, thanks

I'm still learning.

Me too. Sorry, I forgot that this was the Windows 8 newsgroup.

Thanks, anotherpaul, for saving the situation :-)

Me too! m$ seem to think that one has to learn about their OS until
it is no longer supported. Lots of hidden & changed stuff makes one
have to relearn. Just found that cannot map a network drive BUT have
to "mount" the drive & get a defaulted drive letter as looks like one
is not allowed to assign a preferred drive letter.

In Win 8 you can still map a network drive and assign drive letters.
What made you think you can't?

Tom Lake

Didn't find a place to do that for my MBL. Did a right-click on the
drive & see "mount" which I did & it showed up on my drive listing as
"Z:". The "mapping" allows me to go directly into the MBL while
without it I can still listen to music or view videos just like any
DLNA client compatible device.

Can you post the procedure to get into the drive mapping as I didn't
see anything in the network area like that in win7.

In Explorer (on the Desktop) right click Network int he left hand pane
and choose "Map network drive". There may be other places you can do
this, but that's the first one I came across.

Ahhh! THANK YOU! Gotta remember to do "right-click" more often. I
had expected that the prompt will appear like on win7 at the top of a
network screen.

Shows how much win8 hides more useful things than than in win7 or
change how to access stuff.

Still learning here also.



Bottom left corner of the desktop screen when the start screen icon pops
up - right click that and more useful navigation aids come up in a menu.