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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
I just read Kieth's post under "PS Windows 8.1" and came away with the
impression that, out of the box, Windows 8 only allows two concurrent windows to be open. This sounds so radical that, if true, it seemed to warrant it's own thread. Only 2 concurrent windows? Number of monitors? -- Pete Cresswell |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
On 1/19/2014 7:24 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
I just read Kieth's post under "PS Windows 8.1" and came away with the impression that, out of the box, Windows 8 only allows two concurrent windows to be open. This sounds so radical that, if true, it seemed to warrant it's own thread. Only 2 concurrent windows? Number of monitors? You have to remember that video systems and the drivers have an impact. When they are installed, Win is no longer "out of the box". |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
(PeteCresswell) wrote:
I just read Kieth's post under "PS Windows 8.1" and came away with the impression that, out of the box, Windows 8 only allows two concurrent windows to be open. This sounds so radical that, if true, it seemed to warrant it's own thread. Only 2 concurrent windows? Number of monitors? I wonder if there's a tutorial around somewhere with this info in it ? :-) This is a pretty lousy looking web page, because it has too much decoration on it. I was hoping the rules would be in Wikipedia, but they're not. http://blog.laptopmag.com/use-split-...ode-windows-81 These are some basic rules (modified via the Windows 8.1 update). 1) 1280x1024 screen. One operating mode only. Desktop mode shows N programs at once. Just like WinXP could. Metro mode shows one running program. As if your desktop was a tablet. Press Alt-F4 if you want to "fully exit" from the Metro program. Use some swiping jazz, if you want to go elsewhere, or have multiple Metro apps running, with just one Metro window on display. 2) 1366x768 or larger screen. Now you can do "Snap". You may view a Metro program on the right hand side of the screen, and the Desktop view (many windows) on the left hand side. 3) Two monitors. Now you can have the desktop on one monitor, Start/Metro on the other monitor. 4) More monitors. Well, who knows. Two Metro apps, one per screen perhaps ??? Who is rich enough for that many monitors ? Windows 8.1 adds more options, changes the rules a tiny bit. Not worth repeating. Just more variations of (1), (2), (3), without anything important happening. Windows 9 will allow a Metro program to run in a window on the Desktop mode. The way it should have been in the first place. Suffice to way, if you used WinXP and were used to opening N windows there, the new Windows 8/8.1/9 will still allow N desktop windows to be opened in Desktop mode. It means you will always have one mode, that looks like your old OS, when it comes to opening of windows. Paul |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:24:18 -0500, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
I just read Kieth's post under "PS Windows 8.1" and came away with the impression that, out of the box, Windows 8 only allows two concurrent windows to be open. This sounds so radical that, if true, it seemed to warrant it's own thread. Only 2 concurrent windows? Number of monitors? That's complete bull**** unless you use the Metro interface exclusively. There, it allows you to have two Metro UI windows side-by-side but all of those applications run in full-screen only so it kind of makes sense that you can only fit two. If you use the Desktop (in other words, the traditional Windows inteface), you can have a million of them open if you so desire. -- Silver Slimer GNU/Linux is Communism |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
Per Paul:
Suffice to way, if you used WinXP and were used to opening N windows there, the new Windows 8/8.1/9 will still allow N desktop windows to be opened in Desktop mode. It means you will always have one mode, that looks like your old OS, when it comes to opening of windows. That's what I was hoping (and expected...) to hear. Thanks! -- Pete Cresswell |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
On 1/20/2014, Silver Slimer posted:
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:24:18 -0500, (PeteCresswell) wrote: I just read Kieth's post under "PS Windows 8.1" and came away with the impression that, out of the box, Windows 8 only allows two concurrent windows to be open. This sounds so radical that, if true, it seemed to warrant it's own thread. Only 2 concurrent windows? Number of monitors? That's complete bull**** unless you use the Metro interface exclusively. There, it allows you to have two Metro UI windows side-by-side but all of those applications run in full-screen only so it kind of makes sense that you can only fit two. If you use the Desktop (in other words, the traditional Windows inteface), you can have a million of them open if you so desire. I think the actual limit is 291,732 windows open. You are definitely exaggerating. I agree. I've had no trouble opening any number of windows in the Desktop that I've wanted to (and of course, I pay close attention to that 291,732-window limit). -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:18:56 -0500, Gene E. Bloch
wrote: That's complete bull**** unless you use the Metro interface exclusively. There, it allows you to have two Metro UI windows side-by-side but all of those applications run in full-screen only so it kind of makes sense that you can only fit two. If you use the Desktop (in other words, the traditional Windows inteface), you can have a million of them open if you so desire. I think the actual limit is 291,732 windows open. You are definitely exaggerating. I agree. I've had no trouble opening any number of windows in the Desktop that I've wanted to (and of course, I pay close attention to that 291,732-window limit). Is there an actual limit? I'm curious now. -- Silver Slimer GNU/Linux is Communism The average GNU/Linux user: http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instanc...x/38314453.jpg "That is incorrect. GNU/Linux is worse then communism because at least in a communist country you would be paid a wage for your work. In GNU/Linux your work helps some fat cat on wall street earn bigger dividends in his stock portfolio because nobody had to pay for your work. Of course, Linus is a big winner since he earns millions of dollars on the sucker programmers free labor." - Michael Bachmann |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
On 1/20/2014, Silver Slimer posted:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:18:56 -0500, Gene E. Bloch wrote: That's complete bull**** unless you use the Metro interface exclusively. There, it allows you to have two Metro UI windows side-by-side but all of those applications run in full-screen only so it kind of makes sense that you can only fit two. If you use the Desktop (in other words, the traditional Windows inteface), you can have a million of them open if you so desire. I think the actual limit is 291,732 windows open. You are definitely exaggerating. I agree. I've had no trouble opening any number of windows in the Desktop that I've wanted to (and of course, I pay close attention to that 291,732-window limit). Is there an actual limit? I'm curious now. My guess would be no. Just keep opening windows until your computer starts to vaporize. More seriously: Somewhere along the line there will be no memory left to allocate or performance will begin to suffer - or both. As for a fixed limit: my guess above could easily be wrong. (You knew that!) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:35:37 -0500, Gene E. Bloch
wrote: My guess would be no. Just keep opening windows until your computer starts to vaporize. More seriously: Somewhere along the line there will be no memory left to allocate or performance will begin to suffer - or both. As for a fixed limit: my guess above could easily be wrong. (You knew that!) I did, but it got me wondering. It actually brought back memories of the old goatse.cx website which would open up a crapload of windows on your computer on top of taking it over. -- Silver Slimer GNU/Linux is Communism |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
On 1/20/2014, Silver Slimer posted:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:35:37 -0500, Gene E. Bloch wrote: My guess would be no. Just keep opening windows until your computer starts to vaporize. More seriously: Somewhere along the line there will be no memory left to allocate or performance will begin to suffer - or both. As for a fixed limit: my guess above could easily be wrong. (You knew that!) I did, but it got me wondering. It actually brought back memories of the old goatse.cx website which would open up a crapload of windows on your computer on top of taking it over. Ouch! Lucky for me I missed that (or else I repressed the memory). -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 1/20/2014, Silver Slimer posted: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:18:56 -0500, Gene E. Bloch wrote: That's complete bull**** unless you use the Metro interface exclusively. There, it allows you to have two Metro UI windows side-by-side but all of those applications run in full-screen only so it kind of makes sense that you can only fit two. If you use the Desktop (in other words, the traditional Windows inteface), you can have a million of them open if you so desire. I think the actual limit is 291,732 windows open. You are definitely exaggerating. I agree. I've had no trouble opening any number of windows in the Desktop that I've wanted to (and of course, I pay close attention to that 291,732-window limit). Is there an actual limit? I'm curious now. My guess would be no. Just keep opening windows until your computer starts to vaporize. More seriously: Somewhere along the line there will be no memory left to allocate or performance will begin to suffer - or both. As for a fixed limit: my guess above could easily be wrong. (You knew that!) I could find several threads on the topic, but one answer here covers a few possible limitations. Apparently, it's a desktop heap setting that has the most effect. And there is a registry key where on older OSes, you could adjust the allocation slightly. Still, in all the threads where I've seen limits suggested, they suggested a rather small number of windows. If would really depend, on whether modern OSes removed the desktop heap design, as to whether that had changed or not. http://www.vistax64.com/vista-genera...n-windows.html For you programmer types, all it would take is a certain one-line script, recursive, to test this :-) I'll wait for the howls of the first victim. When someone did that to a Unix machine at work (by accident, they tell me), the machine became inaccessible and had to be power cycled. We couldn't wait long enough to see if it would be possible to stop it somehow - the admin was there as well, invited for a good chuckle at the victims expense. Couldn't telnet in, couldn't enter commands, etc. It's known as a "fork bomb". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb Windows won't go that way, because it'll run out of windows first :-) Before it runs out of PIDs. It's probably got enough file handles as well. So maybe the reason for a low windows limit, is defensive in nature. Paul |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
On 1/20/2014, Paul posted:
Gene E. Bloch wrote: On 1/20/2014, Silver Slimer posted: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:18:56 -0500, Gene E. Bloch wrote: That's complete bull**** unless you use the Metro interface exclusively. There, it allows you to have two Metro UI windows side-by-side but all of those applications run in full-screen only so it kind of makes sense that you can only fit two. If you use the Desktop (in other words, the traditional Windows inteface), you can have a million of them open if you so desire. I think the actual limit is 291,732 windows open. You are definitely exaggerating. I agree. I've had no trouble opening any number of windows in the Desktop that I've wanted to (and of course, I pay close attention to that 291,732-window limit). Is there an actual limit? I'm curious now. My guess would be no. Just keep opening windows until your computer starts to vaporize. More seriously: Somewhere along the line there will be no memory left to allocate or performance will begin to suffer - or both. As for a fixed limit: my guess above could easily be wrong. (You knew that!) I could find several threads on the topic, but one answer here covers a few possible limitations. Apparently, it's a desktop heap setting that has the most effect. And there is a registry key where on older OSes, you could adjust the allocation slightly. Still, in all the threads where I've seen limits suggested, they suggested a rather small number of windows. If would really depend, on whether modern OSes removed the desktop heap design, as to whether that had changed or not. http://www.vistax64.com/vista-genera...n-windows.html For you programmer types, all it would take is a certain one-line script, recursive, to test this :-) I'll wait for the howls of the first victim. When someone did that to a Unix machine at work (by accident, they tell me), the machine became inaccessible and had to be power cycled. We couldn't wait long enough to see if it would be possible to stop it somehow - the admin was there as well, invited for a good chuckle at the victims expense. Couldn't telnet in, couldn't enter commands, etc. It's known as a "fork bomb". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb Windows won't go that way, because it'll run out of windows first :-) Before it runs out of PIDs. It's probably got enough file handles as well. So maybe the reason for a low windows limit, is defensive in nature. Paul You pointed out something I hadn't thought of, however. The PIDs are finite in length, so there is some kind of absolute limit on the number of processes that can run. Of course, not every process has a window open on the desktop. And of course, the number of PIDs is probably unrealistically large. In this discussion, I have the advantage of being unencumbered by the thought process [(C) Click & Clack], so I can speculate anything. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Windows 8: How Many Concurrent Windows/Monitors?
In the last episode of , "Silver Slimer"
said: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:35:37 -0500, Gene E. Bloch wrote: My guess would be no. Just keep opening windows until your computer starts to vaporize. More seriously: Somewhere along the line there will be no memory left to allocate or performance will begin to suffer - or both. As for a fixed limit: my guess above could easily be wrong. (You knew that!) I did, but it got me wondering. It actually brought back memories of the old goatse.cx website which would open up a crapload of windows on your computer on top of taking it over. Modern browsers usually limit the number of windows that a script can open to avoid just this type of annoyance. -- Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but teach a man to phish, he'll eat for a lifetime. |
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