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New to win8 - follow up Q - done
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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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New to win8 - follow up Q - done
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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