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Silly Windows 8 questions

dpnice said:
I think if I end up with too much on the "start" screen I will consider installing the old start button but at the moment I find everything easy and uncluttered.
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Installing the old start button? Is that using a third party software?
 
GamerBear said:
Installing the old start button? Is that using a third party software?
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It seems you can buy different ones to do this (seen on YouTube videos). I also came across a video explaining how to do it in Windows 8; but I forgot to copy the link.
 
dpnice said:
I don't really understand these problems. All I know is that when I was looking for something, eg. uninstall a program all I did was type on the "start" screen "control panel" and there it was. In fact all I typed was "con"

All I can say is that suddenly my computer is doing exactly what I want it to do rather than what Microsoft think I want to do.

I think if I end up with too much on the "start" screen I will consider installing the old start button but at the moment I find everything easy and uncluttered.
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I never kept more than six icons on my desktop in Windows 7 or before. So the Win8 start screen is insanely cluttered right off the bat.
 
Kuli,
It does have a lot of icons, and I'd like to be able to have more spacing - but I found the enlarge/shrink to make an icon a square (1/2 size) or a rectangle (full section).

I've played with arranging the tiles to where I want them so the items I'm most likely to use, are near at hand.
 
Kulindahr said:
I never kept more than six icons on my desktop in Windows 7 or before. So the Win8 start screen is insanely cluttered right off the bat.
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But the start screen is not your desk top.

My desk top is absolute clear apart from my calendar and the trash bin.

The start screen is your old start menu in a different configuration. Now your old start menu was chock full and the only difference is that you scrolled up and down.

All your regular sites and programmes you can pin to your task bar to keep the desk top clear and never have need to go to the start screen.
 
When I log in, the start screen is the default, but I click on my Firefox icon and it takes me to my desktop and launches FF.

I don't have much on my desktop, either - mostly what my son put on there when he was using it over the past month.
 
dpnice said:
But the start screen is not your desk top.

My desk top is absolute clear apart from my calendar and the trash bin.

The start screen is your old start menu in a different configuration. Now your old start menu was chock full and the only difference is that you scrolled up and down.

All your regular sites and programmes you can pin to your task bar to keep the desk top clear and never have need to go to the start screen.
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The start screen is the center of the action in Windows 8. It comers up automatically at the start. And it dominates even when not present, because all the crap Microsoft put on it steps in to do things, taking over and keeping you from doing anything else when it interferes. That's why I keep having to download other software and change the settings in Windows 8 -- to get things done. They've made the desktop just a tool, rather like putting a partition in front of the office desk so you can't get to it.

And many of my regular programs have been banished by Windows 8 -- e.g. their stupid decision to make simple games into elaborate affairs that take over the computer in order to play, and their building in a PDF reader that makes it harder to get things done.
 
Kulindahr Yours isn't the first criticism I have read about Windows 8 so I can understand you not liking it.

But for someone like me who doesn't play games, make videos or circulate on social networks it is working like a charm. I am absolutely adoring exploring and using it.

You are obviously not the only one who doesn't like it as I am certainly not the only person who finds it great.
 
dpnice said:
Kulindahr Yours isn't the first criticism I have read about Windows 8 so I can understand you not liking it.

But for someone like me who doesn't play games, make videos or circulate on social networks it is working like a charm. I am absolutely adoring exploring and using it.

You are obviously not the only one who doesn't like it as I am certainly not the only person who finds it great.
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I have yet to meet someone who uses the internet seriously to research and write at the same time who likes it -- if someone sat down to design a system that constantly got in the way of actually using the internet to do work, he couldn't do much better than Win8.
 
Why didn't I know about this?

http://www.eightforums.com/

I am getting all the answers I needed to my difficulties and problems. (!)

Password is now gone. (!)

Public folders no longer exist. (!)
 
Just another thought:

I still have so much to do to get this computer up and going:

Find a simple address book and enter all my contacts
Sort out how to add my mail address so that files are attached automatically
Get all the windows to open full screen by default
Learn how to back up the "start" screen
Find out what I do about backing up the whole computer; I can do the file backup by copying to a USB clé
etc;
 
dpnice said:
Just another thought:

I still have so much to do to get this computer up and going:

Find a simple address book and enter all my contacts
Sort out how to add my mail address so that files are attached automatically
Get all the windows to open full screen by default
Learn how to back up the "start" screen
Find out what I do about backing up the whole computer; I can do the file backup by copying to a USB clé
etc;
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You should have a Contacts place on your PC already... Look in an area similar to:

C:\Users\dpnice\Contacts
 
I never, ever thought I'd be saying this but thank God I have Vista running on my current pc.

No problems. At all. Smooth as a baby's bottom. That wasn't the case for the first few years.

I just hope Microsuck gets over their "fuck eveyone not using a touch screen/tablet" before I need a new pc.

I do not need or want a touch screen or tablet. I want a large screen full HD monitor and a loaded desktop pc. Which is what I have. When I need to replace the desktop pc, I don't want to replace a new HD monitor by paying for another, smaller screen on a laptop or tablet.
 
Adrock,
It's not that bad.

I've had 7 for years, and XP at work. 8.1 is fine w/out touch screen, once you turn off the swipe features designed for touch screen.
Then it's a question of getting used to the changes, like everything else. Start "button" is now a full screen.

Not that big of a deal.
 
Adrock-JD said:
I never, ever thought I'd be saying this but thank God I have Vista running on my current pc.

No problems. At all. Smooth as a baby's bottom. That wasn't the case for the first few years.

I just hope Microsuck gets over their "fuck eveyone not using a touch screen/tablet" before I need a new pc.

I do not need or want a touch screen or tablet. I want a large screen full HD monitor and a loaded desktop pc. Which is what I have. When I need to replace the desktop pc, I don't want to replace a new HD monitor by paying for another, smaller screen on a laptop or tablet.
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Vista is extremely slow now on my desktop PC. Windows 8 has been behaving nicely ever since I turned off their Windows Updates. I got that one update from Microsoft where it corrupted files and made my computer super slow. I long since turned off Windows Updates.
 
irydion said:
Hi
Sorry for troubling you, especially with such silly questions, but please, help me - dummy.
I have a new computer, with Windows 8.
I have a couple questions.
1) how do I search for stuff on my computer?
2) how do I find control panel?
3) how do I add another language?

Well, I guess when I find the control panel, I will be able to add another language, and if I know how to search I will be able to find the control panel, perhaps :)

Thank you for your answers.
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1. First download and install "Classic Shell". From there, you can search for stuff the way you would on an OS that isn't a complete piece of shit.
2. You can find it on Classic Shell's start menu that should have been on the pissing OS in the first place.
3. I honestly have no idea... but a Google search might help. Microsoft's website is rarely any help at all, and many times, they just tell you to google it, so don't even bother with their site.

When I first got Windows 8, I was very confused, and it felt like trying to learn how to use a computer all over again! I seriously wonder what they were smoking, snorting, or shooting up when they decided this was an acceptable OS to force upon us. After downloading Classic Shell, I was able to feel my way around a little better.
There's other programs that add a start menu to Windows 8, many of which you have to pay for... but fuck, who would pay for something they can get for free? That's like wasting money buying a low quality, re-recording on iTunes, when you can download the 320kbps original version for free.
 
"2) how do I find control panel?"

All I did was go to the start screen and type in "control panel".

You can do any number of searches on the start screen, just start typing and you will see it come up.
 
Move the mouse to the bottom-left corner so the "Start" rectangle appears. Don't left-click, but right-click instead. That brings up what I think of as a Power User menu, which has all sorts of commands to quickly get to things like Command Prompt and Control Panel.

The Windows 8.1 update will add more things to this menu.
 
Windows 8.1 upgrade came out about the day I bought this ultrabook.
I updated to it immediately, and, after turning off the "touch screen swipe" functionality, it's been working fine.

I even managed to adjust some of the programs and their places on the main screen to get what I wanted up front.
That was a bit daunting just because they dynamically shift, which can move things from where you "just put them" until you get something else moved.
 
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