Windows 8 Part II
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I can now increase my "people who actually like Windows 8" counter to 2. I'm still not convinced.
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It's a little faster to boot and does have a built-in iso mounter so I do not have to use a free external utility for that. I also like the ribbon on explorer. However in desktop mode I certainly miss Aero. Having to deal with an ugly desktop all the time does not make this an upgrade for me..
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John M. Drescher wrote:
I also like the ribbon on explorer
My only main annoyance is that the keyboard shortcuts for changing the viewing style are broken :sigh: Previously you could go Alt-V, D to switch to details view. With 8 you have to use arrow keys or click...
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Yes overall: Speed is better, a lot of decent, handy improvements. It is almost worth the cost of upgrading just because the wacko file explorer tree behavior introduced in Vista, whereby expanding a folder results in the folder whose contents you wanted to see jumping down to the bottom of the window (thus hiding exactly what you wanted to see by scrolling it off the screen), has finally been eliminated. Also, multi-monitor support is better (don't seem to need Ultramon anymore), bootup on my new laptop is almost indistinguishable in speed from waking up from sleep, and some other nice features. Task manager is better, some useful keyboard shortcuts for power users. Weaknesses: If you don't get about a half-dozen of those shortcut keys in your head, you'll spend way too much time wandering around because settings and actions are in some cases scattered weirdly. The Metro-style apps aren't all that useful unless you have a tablet, and often they have so few UI cues that you seriously have no idea how to navigate them, and they suffer from the disease introduced by Apple and Android of never wanting to quit, only switch away. You have to alt-F4 them all the time. (Well, if you use them anyway, which I don't all that much, since the whole paradigm is, when used on a normal computer screen, inferior to a windowed one.) The start screen itself is a red herring, everyone is afraid of "oh no, no start menu" but effectively the start screen is just a full-screen start menu, with the one main drawback being that it isn't hierarchical (well, except to a single level of grouping). The ISO mounting is handy but still needs a little tweaking- there's no way to control what drive letter is used. So if, say, you're installing something that comes on a whole set of discs, from ISO images, upon getting the "insert the next disc" prompt you'll unmount, then mount the next one, and only have about a 75% chance of getting the same drive letter and the installer being able to continue properly. Biggest engineering failure I've encountered yet on it: product keys are stored in the BIOS and then can't be seen or touched, which created one really stupid money waster for me. As I typically do, I bought my latest system intending to completely swap out the HD it came with and install Windows from scratch. To do this, I needed installation media, which practically nobody sells anymore with computers, so I separately ordered a Windows 8 Pro OEM disc. Having thus already paid for Windows 8 Pro once, I felt it was silly to pay extra t
Trajan McGill wrote:
wacko file explorer tree behavior
This was frustrating! Insane that they can add so much new stuff and actually break stuff which was fine before.
Trajan McGill wrote:
product keys are stored in the BIOS
interesting!... good to know
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Well, so far I am liking Windows 8, especially its built in multi-monitor taskbar, ability to mount and browse ISO files, and the fact that is absolutely blazing fast! I am NEVER going back to Windows 7.
Bob Dole
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:doh: 2.0.82.7292 SP6a
Brisingr Aerowing wrote:
I am NEVER going back to Windows 7.
Except if you want to watch a DVD movie? ;P This has gotta be their stupidest decision IMO.
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Well, so far I am liking Windows 8, especially its built in multi-monitor taskbar, ability to mount and browse ISO files, and the fact that is absolutely blazing fast! I am NEVER going back to Windows 7.
Bob Dole
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
:doh: 2.0.82.7292 SP6a
Brisingr Aerowing wrote:
absolutely blazing fast
The program search is *very* fast, but with explorer I haven't noticed much difference..
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote:
I am NEVER going back to Windows 7.
Except if you want to watch a DVD movie? ;P This has gotta be their stupidest decision IMO.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
VLC Media Player.
Bob Dole
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
:doh: 2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote:
absolutely blazing fast
The program search is *very* fast, but with explorer I haven't noticed much difference..
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
I have found Explorer is much faster on my machine. Although, I have a Intel Core i5 Quad-Core CPU and 6GB RAM, so that may explain at least part of it.
Bob Dole
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
:doh: 2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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VLC Media Player.
Bob Dole
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
:doh: 2.0.82.7292 SP6a
Yep.. easy solution. But if VLC can offer it for free why can't MS?
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Yep.. easy solution. But if VLC can offer it for free why can't MS?
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
I actually don't watch movies all that often.
Bob Dole
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
:doh: 2.0.82.7292 SP6a