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11 years ago
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Thanks to a very wonderful person I am good to get back to work on a new computer!
Thank you so much hun!!
Now with this new computer came windows 8.. this thing is a headache and a half lol
They obviously wanted to make everything simpler but in doing so makes it feel
more limited. Its gonna take some getting use to =\ How are you guys handling
windows 8 for those of you who have it?
Seriously. Windows 3, global success (earlier ones I was too young to know a thing about). Windows ME was a limp biscuit. Windows XP was OMG!! Windows Vista was WTF??? Windows 7 was OMG YAY! and now Windows 8 is WTF is wrong with life??
Windows 9 will likely be a total blast. And Windows 10 will be like eating nails coated in lava. Then Windows 11 will usher in a new era where Operating Systems are no longer visible to the user as you just give verbal directives to your personal AI assistant.
The only real trick is to use desktop format. It's like Windows 7 with a weird Start menu.
My parents got a new comp with windows 8, and i actually can't stand it. I can never get it figured out… I'm trying to get them to reform it back…
And gratz with the new comp <O uO>
and my fiance have win 8 and is handling it pretty well, and is more then happy to help if theres something you need help with when it comes to it <o uo>
If you have any questions give me a shout!
Really, though, I've heard that it's primarily designed for mobile devices; tablets and phones; and just doesn't work well for desktop and laptop style computers.
Honestly, at first, I absolutely hated Windows 8 and wanted to have nothing to do with it. I had beta-tested it so I used it long before it came out.
I had three monitors at the time (and now four, adding in my Cintiq tablet), and being forced to use the hot corners was just impossible, since they were only on the primary monitor (the middle one for me) and there's no way to effectively hit a one-pixel spot in the corner of a monitor when your cursor can actually move well past that spot ^^;
Well when Windows 8 was actually released, they put in an invisible "stopper" so that if you hit the corner, your cursor hangs for a second, so that you can actually use the corner, and if you keep pushing, it'll go past it, but it'll briefly stop to allow you to make use of it.
Then Windows 8.1 came out. If you don't have that already installed, DO IT!!! It's like a Service Pack but now it's being named more like everyone else's software (like iOS, OS X, Android, etc. use ".1" rather than "Service Pack 2" lmao). There were a few mostly minor things (tweaks to the Start Page allowing you to have several different sizes of buttons, a custom background, etc). One of the major things is the re-introduction of the START BUTTON. It doesn't replace the Start Page or anything, that's still a thing, but now the button is there again in the lower-left of the taskbar, rather than being hidden and only activated by a hot corner (again, was hard to do without the stopper things!) They also introduced some customisation options in the Taskbar Properties, called "Navigation", that allow, for example, you to SKIP the Start Screen when you boot or close a Metro app, while 8.0 always booted directly to the start screen.
If you want a really big, important, awesome tip to making the most of Windows 8.1, it's this:
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DISABLE ALL METRO-RELATED SHIT, GET -RID- OF ALL SHORTCUTS, RE-ASSIGN DEFAULT PROGRAMS, AND PRETEND METRO DOESN'T EVEN EXIST!!!!!
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Seriously. Windows 8.1 is literally just a major upgrade to Windows 7. It's still basically Windows 7 underneath!! If you go to your Start Screen, right-click EVERY SINGLE Metro app (pretty much everything) and click "Unpin from Start", or even "Uninstall", then you go and get iTunes or WinAmp to play your music, Windows Media Player or Media Player Classic for videos, Firefox or Chrome to replace IE, etc. etc., you will pretty much NEVER see a Metro related piece of shit again outside of the Start Screen. I use Windows 8.1 every day on two different computers. I LOVE being able to lock my computer with a simple PIN rather than my usual long-ass password. One really nice feature is the synchronisation of settings between computers running 8.1 that use the same Microsoft account. Thus, if I make setting changes on my desktop, they're reflected on my laptop.
Another thing to REALLY get to know is your new Windows key commands. WIN + I (just in case FA shows this in a font where lowercase "L" and capital "i" are the same - it's Windows Key + "EYE") brings up the "Charms". This gives you the Power button, network settings, access to the Control Panel, etc. DO NOTE: there IS a separate Metro control panel that is not actually tied in any way to the normal Windows Desktop one. It's accessible right below the Power button on the Charms, and says "Change PC Settings". I wish someone had pointed that out to me a long time prior, cause it's the only way to access it that I know of without the shortcut on the Start Screen (which I had since removed).
I really would recommend that advice. There's few things that are ACTUALLY different about 8.1, once those are taken into consideration, besides the new Start Screen. And in all honesty, I don't miss the old Start Menu. 19 years was a good run, but it's time we moved on. 19 MONTHS in the computer industry is a long time, but 19 years is an eternity. And if you REALLY want a Start Menu and just -cannot- get used to the new Start Screen, there are alternatives (albeit third-party) such as this one: http://www.pokki.com/windows-8-start-menu . More found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o....._for_Windows_8
Hope that helps!
~Kat the Foxtaur
PS. Thought you changed usernames...? x3;
ps. I know XD its just I still have more watchers here to help me with stuff >>
PS. Lmao, I figured as much :3