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Well, in that case, Andrea, stick with Windows 7 and stop posting about an OS you are not going to use.
Well, in that case, Andrea, stick with Windows 7 and stop posting about an OS you are not going to use.
Hello Rosita and welcome to the forums.I installed Win 8 on my laptop that I use for tutoring Elements for members of a PC group. Installed the Customer review version as an updated to Windows 7. No problems. One small irritant, the ATI Catalyst message keeps showing up but I don't see anything that does not work.
I took me just a few hours to learn to navigate the Metro UI and although I don't have a touch screen I find it easy.
The only thing I wish is that it would be easier to find the Windows 8 Help. What surprises me is that after 2 weeks, there have not been any updates, unless they get installed automatically.
Switching betwee apps is very fast and I love the Sart live apps like Weather and Financials
I installed Win 8 on my laptop that I use for tutoring Elements for members of a PC group. Installed the Customer review version as an updated to Windows 7. No problems. One small irritant, the ATI Catalyst message keeps showing up but I don't see anything that does not work.
I took me just a few hours to learn to navigate the Metro UI and although I don't have a touch screen I find it easy.
The only thing I wish is that it would be easier to find the Windows 8 Help. What surprises me is that after 2 weeks, there have not been any updates, unless they get installed automatically.
Switching betwee apps is very fast and I love the Sart live apps like Weather and Financials
Yes, thank you Andrea. I think everyone is very well aware by this time as to what you would like. Unfortunately as best I can tell that is not going to be possible, not at least natively. And continuing to repeat it post after post is not going to make it happen. There maybe some better third party solutions coming at sometime in the future and I'm relatively certain that if and when that happens the information will be everywhere on the internet.Well I only want to use Windows 8 with the Windows 7 start menu like I did in DP. I don't want the metro theme at all. Andrea Borman.
Rosita, welcome to the forum! Hope that you're enjoying Windows 8 CP. Yes, it's quite easy to navigate around, putting forth a little effort to learn helps a lot.I installed Win 8 on my laptop that I use for tutoring Elements for members of a PC group. Installed the Customer review version as an updated to Windows 7. No problems. One small irritant, the ATI Catalyst message keeps showing up but I don't see anything that does not work.
I took me just a few hours to learn to navigate the Metro UI and although I don't have a touch screen I find it easy.
The only thing I wish is that it would be easier to find the Windows 8 Help. What surprises me is that after 2 weeks, there have not been any updates, unless they get installed automatically.
Switching betwee apps is very fast and I love the Sart live apps like Weather and Financials
Andrea, here's a place that sells legit Windows software. They have Windows 2000, XP, Vista & 7, and many Office packages. They also carry other branded software. Check it out.Well Windows 8 DP was all right because it was more user friendly,had no bugs, and you could disable the Metro theme. And I thought that Windows 8 CP was going to be the same, but it is not.
And if they bring out Windows 8, they may stop selling Windows 7, and we will be forced to buy Windows 8. I think Microsoft should just put all of the versions of Windows out on sale,Windows 95,98,Windows 200,Windows XP,Windows Vista and Windows 7. And then we can just buy the version of Windows we want.
And that would solve all our problems. Andrea Borman.
Andrea, here's a place that sells legit Windows software. They have Windows 2000, XP, Vista & 7, and many Office packages. They also carry other branded software. Check it out.
microsoft | RoyalDiscount.com
You want Windows 2000? You got it! But be prepared for driver issues with newer computers. Even those netbooks that runs XP. I have XP on my desktop, tried for 3 days to install Windows 2000 Pro. I was able to install & update. But could not get graphics to work. Even Driver Detective couldn't help me (I called them in advance), nor Raxco's Perfect Updater (the makers of Perfect Disk, which I have). The techs at Raxco said they couldn't help, even for their $29.95 fee. Good Luck with that one.
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Final warning before I start deleting irrelevant posts and issuing infractions.
The title of the thread is "Win 8 and me"
Not "Every conceivable Microsoft and Other Operating System and me"
I asked politely for your cooperation.
Randy
Creating extra Tiles in Metro
I have sorted out various extra tile, for programmes etc but does anyone know how to get a tile to shut down the computer. It would make for handy shutting down and I have seen some screen shots with this.
Andrea, Please DO NOT quote a post with pictures. No one needs to see it twice and it's extremely wasteful of HD space on the server.
I do remember this, and that is interesting. I wonder if this diminishes the WHQL certification process by any measure, or if they are simply listed as Microsoft Compatibility Drivers?Mike,
Right now, I'm testing the 32 bit version of Win-8/PP (public preview).
I have the 64 bit ver. on another HD, just for comparison purposes.
I don't know if you're old enough to remember, but years ago there were only two types of
printer drivers, for compatibility. Epson and IBM.
It would seem like MS remembers that when they put printer drivers into their OS's.
When I first started testing Win-8/DP, I had three different Epson printers sitting here with
the oldest one being about six years old. Win-8 loaded acceptable drivers for all three.
They will not show off the branding until the very end. For example, I sincerely doubt that the Metro UI backgrounds will simply encompass a color wheel. We will see the full extent of the product branding on the final release version, for certain, but unlikely before, unless a release candidate slips.MS did leave out a lot of things from their /PP version, maybe to make downloads easier.
Themes, sounds, wallpaper are all at a bare minimum, possibly to make room for more
drivers. Works for me! I'm anxious, to see just how big the final release is.
Uncertain. Especially if the structure of the registry is intentionally changing. It is possible that the CP was just a fork from a nightly build that seemed stable enough to show off. I doubt much preparation went into it outside of branching it off for public use and determining that it was reasonably stable. I am curious as to whether or not anyone has determined if the build was compiled with debug/checked code or is actually fully optimized. If it is a checked build many compiler optimizations will be disabled in favor of debugging support. Once Windows OEM's and retails, checked builds are usually still provided on MSDN and TechNet for testing purposes, but a final and full optimization is performed on the free build before it goes out the door. This is something I am still very curious about.I even went into the registry, to do some tweaking and I found many registry keys missing.
I assume that if I added them back in, that they would still work, but there's no guarantee
of that.