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The hot corners don't work well with multiple screens (even with the 6 pixel
"block" thing that stops the mouse moving onto another screen). Wouldn't mind the start screen so much if everything was just on one page - but having to right-click and go "all apps" makes it a bit of a pain. And when you view "all apps", there's far too much to quickly find what you want. Preferred the Start Menu where everything was in a folder until you opened it. (Winkey-Q does this a bit quicker, but means resorting to the keyboard) Having taskbars across multiple monitors would be far more useful if the buttons all remained in the same place (i.e., if all the taskbars were identical). If you've a load of windows open, a button might be right on the end of the first row on one screen, but mid-way through another row on another (because of movement caused by the tray icons and clock). So annoying, it's not worth having the feature on :-( And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off :-( |
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"Mr Simon" wrote:
And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off It's easily switched off with Classic Shell. http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ With Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes a usable OS! -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/ |
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XS11E wrote:
"Mr Simon" wrote: And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off It's easily switched off with Classic Shell. http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ With Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes a usable OS! That is reassuring, but is it useful as well as usable? Does Windows 8 do anything non metro that Windows 7 doesn't, or do anything better? -- Crash "I'm told that Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds." ~ Mark Twain ~ |
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"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message ... XS11E wrote: "Mr Simon" wrote: And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off It's easily switched off with Classic Shell. http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ With Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes a usable OS! That is reassuring, but is it useful as well as usable? Does Windows 8 do anything non metro that Windows 7 doesn't, or do anything better? -- Crash A few things I've noticed, it's got support for iso and vhd files. Double-click on an iso file and it will create a virtual dvd drive and mount it. (4.8 M/B video) http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/iso.mp4 I haven't done any measurements but file copying seems to be faster to me, (and you get a real-time speed graph while copying!). http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/copy.png |
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Dave-UK wrote:
"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message ... XS11E wrote: "Mr Simon" wrote: And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off It's easily switched off with Classic Shell. http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ With Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes a usable OS! That is reassuring, but is it useful as well as usable? Does Windows 8 do anything non metro that Windows 7 doesn't, or do anything better? -- Crash A few things I've noticed, it's got support for iso and vhd files. Double-click on an iso file and it will create a virtual dvd drive and mount it. (4.8 M/B video) http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/iso.mp4 I haven't done any measurements but file copying seems to be faster to me, (and you get a real-time speed graph while copying!). http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/copy.png In my tests here, file copying in Windows 8 is fast at first, and then slows down as the copy progresses. The initial copy phase seems disk limited, and runs slower than disk limited, nearer the end of the transfer. Mine tend to look like this example. And it's not necessarily the hardware, because other OSes don't do that. http://windows8transfer.com/wp-conte...ndows-8-06.png Paul |
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On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:33:36 -0400, Dave "Crash" Dummy wrote:
XS11E wrote: "Mr Simon" wrote: And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off It's easily switched off with Classic Shell. http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ With Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes a usable OS! That is reassuring, but is it useful as well as usable? Does Windows 8 do anything non metro that Windows 7 doesn't, or do anything better? Of course it does - http://redmondmag.com/Blogs/IT-Decis...sing-Info.aspx |
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"Mr Simon" wrote in message ... The hot corners don't work well with multiple screens (even with the 6 pixel "block" thing that stops the mouse moving onto another screen). As usual, it will be advisable to wait until Service Pack 2. :-) -- Brian "Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman." |
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Dave-UK wrote:
"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message ... XS11E wrote: "Mr Simon" wrote: And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off It's easily switched off with Classic Shell. http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ With Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes a usable OS! That is reassuring, but is it useful as well as usable? Does Windows 8 do anything non metro that Windows 7 doesn't, or do anything better? -- Crash A few things I've noticed, it's got support for iso and vhd files. Double-click on an iso file and it will create a virtual dvd drive and mount it. (4.8 M/B video) http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/iso.mp4 I haven't done any measurements but file copying seems to be faster to me, (and you get a real-time speed graph while copying!). http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/copy.png Those virtual drives are cool, although I wouldn't have much use for them. My real concern is Solitaire. Will I win more games in Windows 8? :-) -- Crash "I am not young enough to know everything." ~ Oscar Wilde ~ |
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"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message ... Dave-UK wrote: "Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message ... XS11E wrote: "Mr Simon" wrote: And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off It's easily switched off with Classic Shell. http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ With Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes a usable OS! That is reassuring, but is it useful as well as usable? Does Windows 8 do anything non metro that Windows 7 doesn't, or do anything better? -- Crash A few things I've noticed, it's got support for iso and vhd files. Double-click on an iso file and it will create a virtual dvd drive and mount it. (4.8 M/B video) http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/iso.mp4 I haven't done any measurements but file copying seems to be faster to me, (and you get a real-time speed graph while copying!). http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/copy.png Those virtual drives are cool, although I wouldn't have much use for them. My real concern is Solitaire. Will I win more games in Windows 8? :-) -- Crash I can't help you there. I hate the Metro start screen and I don't want a Microsoft account so I uninstalled all the Metro apps, including the Games. If I l had left the apps installed they wouldn't have run anyway because none off the apps work if UAC is turned off, which is what I want. (Also, the Administrators group is set to be in Admin Approval Mode by default. This means you have to right-click exe files and select run as admin or some will silently fail to run. You can turn that off to get back to Win7 usability). So I don't know anything about Win8's Solitaire ! :-) |
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If not using a touch screen, moving the mouse full left or right scrolls the start screen in the corresponding direction.
-- ....winston msft mvp mail "Mr Simon" wrote in message ... Wouldn't mind the start screen so much if everything was just on one page - but having to right-click and go "all apps" makes it a bit of a pain. |
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:02:31 +0100, "Brian Watson"
wrote: As usual, it will be advisable to wait until Service Pack 2. I completely disagree. I'm never in favor of waiting for a Service Pack. The point in time when a service pack is released is at the discretion of Microsoft and is completely arbitrary. Upgrades and fixes to any version of Windows are released when needed--once a month, normally, but more often when necessary. At some arbitrary point, Microsoft decides to roll up all those upgrades and fixes into one package and calls the result a service pack. There's no particular significance to when that service pack is released, and it doesn't mark a special point of stability. There were upgrades before it and there will be more upgrades after it. Since it has no particular significance, treating it as a special event, and waiting for it, is meaningless. -- Ken Blake |
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:02:31 +0100, "Brian Watson"
wrote in article ... "Mr Simon" wrote in message ... The hot corners don't work well with multiple screens (even with the 6 pixel "block" thing that stops the mouse moving onto another screen). As usual, it will be advisable to wait until Service Pack 2. :-) The trigger in the business community seems to be SP1 rather than SP2. Historically, SP1 seems to be the point at which new versions of Windows have reached a point of stability, both in the OS and in the drivers that support it, where things go smoothly enough that the upgrade is worth it in their eyes. Of course, the business community also has a habit of leapfrogging alternate versions of Windows entirely so Windows 8 is pretty well positioned to be skipped regardless of SP. -- Zaphod Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, ya know? - Gag Halfrunt |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:31:45 -0700, "Ken Blake"
wrote in article ... On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:02:31 +0100, "Brian Watson" wrote: As usual, it will be advisable to wait until Service Pack 2. I completely disagree. I'm never in favor of waiting for a Service Pack. You may not be, but a significant percentage of businesses disagree. The point in time when a service pack is released is at the discretion of Microsoft and is completely arbitrary. Upgrades and fixes to any version of Windows are released when needed--once a month, normally, but more often when necessary. At some arbitrary point, Microsoft decides to roll up all those upgrades and fixes into one package and calls the result a service pack. There's no particular significance to when that service pack is released, and it doesn't mark a special point of stability. I'm not sure that is accurate - MS typically releases the corresponding Server version at the same time as SP1 for the client OS so it appears that they place a certain amount of additional confidence in what is contained in SP1 as opposed to the RTM release. But even if it does not mark a special point of stability from MS standpoint, in general terms it is around that point in time where it *has* reached a point of stability, both in the OS and supporting drivers, where the hassles of migrating to it and supporting it have diminished to where it is worthwhile. At the very least, any issues are more likely to be reasonably well known and workarounds and fixes established by then. There were upgrades before it and there will be more upgrades after it. Since it has no particular significance, treating it as a special event, and waiting for it, is meaningless. True, updates will still come, but calling it meaningless is a bit much - from a business standpoint, it is in their best interest to wait a while for the larger kinks to be worked out before migrating. The term "bleeding edge of technology" exists for a reason... -- Zaphod "So [Trillian], two heads is what does it for a girl?" "...Anything else [Zaphod]'s got two of?" - Arthur Dent |
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 10:06:33 +0100, "Mr Simon" wrote:
The hot corners don't work well with multiple screens (even with the 6 pixel "block" thing that stops the mouse moving onto another screen). Wouldn't mind the start screen so much if everything was just on one page - but having to right-click and go "all apps" makes it a bit of a pain. And when you view "all apps", there's far too much to quickly find what you want. Preferred the Start Menu where everything was in a folder until you opened it. (Winkey-Q does this a bit quicker, but means resorting to the keyboard) Having taskbars across multiple monitors would be far more useful if the buttons all remained in the same place (i.e., if all the taskbars were identical). If you've a load of windows open, a button might be right on the end of the first row on one screen, but mid-way through another row on another (because of movement caused by the tray icons and clock). So annoying, it's not worth having the feature on :-( And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off :-( Add "removed full configuration of AV" to the list... ---//--- "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum." -------------------------- Comparisons of sizes: W40k vs other models http://www.pbase.com/hammerbolt/compare |
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"XS11E" wrote:
"Mr Simon" wrote: And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off It's easily switched off with Classic Shell. http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ With Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes a usable OS! Will take a look at some point. The main problem for me though with using 3rd party tools to make things usable is that I support a good few PC's across many sites. It's always a bit counter-productive to get lazy and start relying on doing things in a non-standard way, as it comes back to bite you later when you can't walk users through the normal/proper way of doing it! Also - it's a pain installing these third party things at sites :-( S. |
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