Windows 8 discussion

Windows 8 is nice but I you have to travel more with my cursor to do some things and it's annoying if you use laptops touchpad. Also if I'm in browser (fullscreen) I have to minimize it first to open I.e. My Computer and W8s start screen makes it harded to multitask because it's fullscreen. Also when I want to shutdown in Windows 8 I have to hover mouse in the upper or lower right corner, click settings, click power and then click shutdown while on Windows 7 I just open Start menu and click Shut Down. Log off button in Windows 8 is separated from Shut down, Sleep and Hibernate options which makes no sense.

Really?
All I do is press Alt+F4 then press Enter for shut down - no mouse involved. You'd also find Hibernate, sign out, switch user and restart though the same two keyboard buttons.

I just hit the power button to shut down ...........

I was wondering if it could be so simple. I've not tried Windows 8, so I didn't know if it worked the same way as I use for powering down Windows 7.

Yes there is a shortcut, but that still doesn't change the fact that they made some things harder to find and you have to click and travel more to get to some options. Search is also harder because you have to go in corner, click search, type something like mouse, click Settings and click mouse. On 7 I open Start type mouse and hit Enter.

Still they separated search to Apps, Settings and Files and you must use your mouse to click on it and that is the most annoying thing in search for me. I'm sure that there are lots of shortcuts and hidden functions in Windows 8 but I wouldn't know about them unless I see them on a video or something.

Try this one.

Googling Windows 8 shortcuts will likely produce more than one viable result. There is actually a pretty good knowledge base sitting here at Techspot

It's a nice trick like many others but thats just what bothers me with this windows. Without lot's of tweaks, hacks, shortcuts - it's crap. Users have to make up for what Microsoft forgot to put...Like it's unfinished OS.

Get the Start button back by unistalling the gastly W8 and putting W7 back, or better still XP. Enjoy!

So why cant they split the operating system from the GUI and let users decide how they want to use their computer?
I like the XP GUI. W7 GUI has useability issues and W8 GUI sucks.

I purchased a new PC (ultrabook with W7 hp) a week before W8 was launched. I received a W8 pro download for free (£14.99 refunded). I installed W8 (took 4 hours) just to see if it was any good. I tried it and found it a complete disaster. As stated elsewhere, it makes your computer look like a Fisher Price toy! The W7 'app' is worse than W7 for real. So I re-installed W7 from the 5 DVD recovery disks I had made. TEN HOURS later I had my PC back where it was prior to the W8 fiasco!!!
I really must make a clone of the HDD on a spare 500GB drive.

Microsoft must separate the OS from the GUI so they can improve the OS as much as they like but not **** around with the GUI.

After all, 40% of PC are still running XP. I really like the XP GUI.

Perhaps W9 will lose the Metro and have a Start button and a choice of GUI.

These WEI can be changed by anyone who knows how to do it. Can put in any number you like up to 7.9 or higher. Then same look my system runs well. Overriding the settings for Windows 7 and 8. Still 8 TCP/IP is faster than Windows 7. MS has the patch for 7 but you have to contact them to get it. With the patch you can access RTO settings in Windows 7. I have that setup on all system here. No issues. So TCP Global settings shows about the same as it does under 8 and now under 7.

Also BCEDIT fixes 7 total RAM and usable RAM. So like with me I have 32GB of RAM but Windows 7 shows it as 30.4GB. Usable BCEDIT fixes that so now is shows 31.4GB Usable. out of the 32GB. I am sure the same issue is in Windows 8 too with corrupt memory total values.

Also Windows 8 can be installed on netbooks by changing the Intel Graphics driver so that it can read 1024x768 instead of 1024x600 where most netbooks are set as. I've tested this on ASUS Eee PC netbook and it works with Windows 8 now.

I'm not sure if I should get it, I like simple..

I sure hope that keyboards don't become completely obsolete, so we have to use an onscreen keyboard.

I'd put it this way, hopefully, they will leave a way to attach a keyboard/mouse for those who still want to use it. I don't care about start button or Metro UI (on desktop), I don't want either of them.

I think a more 'acceptable' solution for MS would have been to give user's the choice to select which environment they want their copy of OS to boot in. Anyway, it is very easy to make that change (Poki?), one more change I'd like is ability to have multiple apps visible on Metro UI desktop. Except for these the new OS is pretty solid upgrade.