[QUOTE=MaGGiFiXXX;34940591]Everything fine, but then I wanted to Open my Computer. But no Start Button (and no replacing function in the Consumer Preview!) and no Desktop Image of "My Computer" or the "User" Folder.
So what to do?
Lower Left Edge, Click there, Metro opens, select Windows Explorer App, and over the left side navigate to "My Computer"[/QUOTE]
Search for "Computer" and pin it to the home screen. Same functionality as having the Computer link in the start menu.
What I've started doing since Windows 7 is just tapping the winkey and searching for whatever I want and then pressing enter. I find it to be the quickest way to open any program.
And about all the dual monitor split metro/desktop, yeah there's definitely something wrong with that. I'd be surprised if they didn't do something about it between now and RTM, though.
[editline]1st March 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Panda X;34940541]Annoyingly they said they aren't going to allow this.[/QUOTE]
Wait, really? I was REALLY looking forward to a nicely laid out TortoiseGit tab in the future. Hopefully people figure out how to hack them in sometime soon.
I will not purchase Windows 8 if there is no option to use the same-old gui.
[QUOTE=KnightVista;34952263]I will not purchase Windows 8 if there is no option to use the same-old gui.[/QUOTE]
I got good news for you.
There is.
holy fuck no
I'm staying with windows 7 till windows 9 or some shit
As someone who has [b]actually used Windows 8 and is using it right now,[/b] I came into it thinking I'd be disappointed.
I REALLY fucking like it.
for a computer company that loves to make a billion versions of one software they make, it sure is odd that tablet and desktop features are melted into one OS
From what im seeing and hearing this looks terrible, so im probably not going to buy this, I don't want my computer to turn into a tablet with a keyboard.
Sure the reduced resource requirements and other improved bits and bobs is nice, but this app and metro shit basically throws me off the fence. I love windows how it always has been, its how the user WANTS it to be, and otherwise is basically a clean slate.
Instead, what this gives me is a huge useless menu (that removes the start menu, which basically cripples me) that I will NEVER use as I already am used to my windows 7 setup, and some sort of app store which will be completely useless to me as I don't need 1,000 single function money grabber apps when I could easily use this marvelous invention named Google to find something just as good.
Basically, this will be the only Windows OS I skip up completely.
I'll pass.
[QUOTE=Chessnut;34942601]Windows 8: Your computer is now absolute shit.[/QUOTE]
fixed.
The amount if misinformation from the posts in this thread is fucking annoying. If you don't know what you're talking about, please shut the fuck up.
Metro as a design aesthetic is well suited for phones or tablets, but it just doesn't work well for a computer for me. I understand they're trying to have a unified OS theme across all their platforms but it's not worth throwing away things that worked prior. Especially for businesses that don't really need app style interfaces.
I like that they're going with a minimalist design, but it could be done a lot better than it is. This for example
[url]http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/the-re-imagined-windows-8-metro-concept-that-you-wish-was-real/[/url]
Everything's clean, cut, and easy to understand and find. There's not useless clutter or pointless UI gates the user has to go through to get what they want. That and the new Windows 8 logo looks like it belongs to a pharmaceutical company.
Except minimalism and simplicity usually makes stuff harder to use (less buttons/information) and in many cases, uglier.
I don't like it.
Posting from win8 and I gotta say it's amazing.
I tried the Developer Preview earlier.... It was crap.
Just wondering.
Does Metro run in the background 24/7 or can you completely disable it?
If it does run in the background all the time, how many resources does it use?
[QUOTE=Daniellynet;34957769]If it does run in the background all the time, how many resources does it use?[/QUOTE]
It uses 2/10 resources.
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