Windows 8 who's buying/upgrading

kitch9 said:
It takes like a minute?
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That is pretty much irrespective though. I should not have to 'make' one in the first place. Incidentally, it does not even work anyway.

I am going to give this one last chance and am going to do a fresh install using the bootable USB. I can always go back to Win7 and get a refund as I have the retail disc.

I do have a couple of questions though. At the moment I boot up and have these tiles, but as soon as a click on let's say, Chrome, it takes me to my old desktop after I minimize it. What is the situation with a fresh resintall? Is there a desktop at all and if there is, why is there?

Also, it has 'found' my installed games, but only eight of them. Where are the rest? Some of them are off Steam and Origin as well.

The tiles will take a while to get used to but I know I can get them to do what I want, with time, which I am willing to put in. At the moment it seems to just be a front page for my desktop.
 
I was dubious about Win8 until I found out you can get it pretty much like Win7 but with added speed, new features etc.
Have it on my Audio Server (better audio latency) but not on my work machine.

Look at this; "Classic Shell"...its OpenSource, free and is fantastic.
http://www.classicshell.net/

It removed any doubt about Win8 for me.
Boots straight into Desktop, no Metro nonsense and the Start button is right there.
Lots of customisation options built in too.
 
PapaLazaru said:
That is pretty much irrespective though. I should not have to 'make' one in the first place. Incidentally, it does not even work anyway.

I am going to give this one last chance and am going to do a fresh install using the bootable USB. I can always go back to Win7 and get a refund as I have the retail disc.

I do have a couple of questions though. At the moment I boot up and have these tiles, but as soon as a click on let's say, Chrome, it takes me to my old desktop after I minimize it. What is the situation with a fresh resintall? Is there a desktop at all and if there is, why is there?

Also, it has 'found' my installed games, but only eight of them. Where are the rest? Some of them are off Steam and Origin as well.

The tiles will take a while to get used to but I know I can get them to do what I want, with time, which I am willing to put in. At the moment it seems to just be a front page for my desktop.
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My Firefox and Opera in Metro take me to desktop to so quite normal when you click on it or minimized it(to go to Metro just click bottom left corner on desktop or windows key etc) ,as to games what I did was look in File
Explorer and find the game in question,look for exe or launcher then right click on it and pin it to taskbar,you can also select "all applications" in Metro and pin to start as well for program or game in question..


Steam and Origin games are not a big deal because if you got the Steam or Origin launcher icon up on desktop taskbar you can right click on it and select game of your choice.

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I didnt get on with the metro interface, so instead of whining about it I read this thread and found someone reccommending start menu shells, so I downloaded one of them and now I have what is essentially a slightly better, faster windows 7. Job done.

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mmj_uk said:
In a way it's similar because Windows 8 will be widely snubbed in favour of Windows 7, like ME was with 98.
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Don't know about being snubbed but do know a lot of FUD and uneducated crap about Win8.

Win9 looks like Metro will still be here with no Start Button etc so looks like Microsoft want to make Start button way of the dodo,I can see them keeping Metro but with further refinements and improvements etc..

End of the day Win8 is not a bad OS just something new and not same old mould as the previous desktop operating systems we have seen from Win7,Vista,XP,ME,98SE,98,95 etc..you could argue time we had something new,quite scarey Microsoft have kept same desktop UI since Win95,damn too long IMHO.

Btw I'm happy with Win+X,(don't miss old start button at all)think I add a few more things later to it,great thing about Win8 is customization.

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Elevon said:
My Firefox and Opera in Metro take me to desktop to so quite normal when you click on it or minimized it
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Thanks again and that is cool, but why is there both a desktop and tiles?

The tiles are mean't to replace the more traditional dektop, so why does Win8 appear to have both? It does not make any sense.

If I fully customize my tiles I don't want a desktop. Can I not have one or the other?
 
PapaLazaru said:
Thanks again and that is cool, but why is there both a desktop and tiles?

The tiles are mean't to replace the more traditional dektop, so why does Win8 appear to have both? It does not make any sense.

If I fully customize my tiles I don't want a desktop. Can I not have one or the other?
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The way I look at Win8 is a hybrid OS ie designed for tablet,phone,laptop,desktop users etc...Metro part is really for phone, tablet,touchscreen users IMHO,desktop part well you know the answer to that desktop users,guess it a compromise in being an allrounder as they say.

Having said that Metro part is still quite usable for desktop users even with basic keyboard and mouse ....I expect Win9 will further refine that part for desktop users(I hope anyway).

Did a quick customization,added paint to Win+X and put shutdown at top .

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Removed Recycle Bin from desktop ,added it to taskbar so looks better now.

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So essentially Metro is just a front page for my desktop? My desktop is already my frontpage to my PC.

Just seems a bit pointless now. I can see how I could get Metro working very well for what I need and at the expense of a traditional desktop, which I have zero issue with. If Win8 forces both upon me, I don't really see the point of it myself.
 
PapaLazaru said:
That is pretty much irrespective though. I should not have to 'make' one in the first place. Incidentally, it does not even work anyway.

I am going to give this one last chance and am going to do a fresh install using the bootable USB. I can always go back to Win7 and get a refund as I have the retail disc.

I do have a couple of questions though. At the moment I boot up and have these tiles, but as soon as a click on let's say, Chrome, it takes me to my old desktop after I minimize it. What is the situation with a fresh resintall? Is there a desktop at all and if there is, why is there?

Also, it has 'found' my installed games, but only eight of them. Where are the rest? Some of them are off Steam and Origin as well.

The tiles will take a while to get used to but I know I can get them to do what I want, with time, which I am willing to put in. At the moment it seems to just be a front page for my desktop.
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I'm confused, are you asking if there's a desktop? Shut down shortcuts do work, I use them.

Metro is the new Start button, and desktop is still the desktop. Whereas clicking the start button used to open the small menu in the corner, it now is full screen instead.
 
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[RB];23608194 said:
Exactly the same thing happened to me on Sunday.

In the end, I had to reinstall W8 Pro, Do the upgrade straight away then call to activate (because it obviously thought it was still in use - tip to Microsoft, please make a de-activate/revoke key system! :mad:)

Now working correctly though :)
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Same problem for me to .roll back, reset nothing would work ended up have to to do a reinstall. then it would not activate had phone up, good job it`s a free number. I have to say that the longer I use windows 8 the more problems seem to be cropping up. It really was not ready for release yet.
At the end of the day I would say we are all beta testers
 
kitch9 said:
Metro is the new Start button, and desktop is still the desktop. Whereas clicking the start button used to open the small menu in the corner, it now is full screen instead.
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How can Metro be the new start button when it has shortcuts on it? That is the whole point of the shortcut, to be used to access the programs you use most. The rest can just stay within the start button. Metro is no start button. I also don't recall have some dumb weather, or news program (or 'tile') appearing in it which I had to delete when I first installed Win7.

So Metro has all my shortcuts in front of me for when I boot up, just like a desktop. It essentially provides the same service which is easy access to my favourite programmes, but now, when I click a tile to fire up Chrome, for instance, it fires it up and then takes me to the desktop? Why?

I have clearly stated I am happy to have one, or the other. I will get Metro working as I wish, but not if as soon as I click a tile it takes me to desktop anyway. It is retarded. Why can't you choose?
 
PapaLazaru said:
How can Metro be the new start button when it has shortcuts on it? That is the whole point of the shortcut, to be used to access the programs you use most. The rest can just stay within the start button. Metro is no start button. I also don't recall have some dumb weather, or news program (or 'tile') appearing in it which I had to delete when I first installed Win7.

So Metro has all my shortcuts in front of me for when I boot up, just like a desktop. It essentially provides the same service which is easy access to my favourite programmes, but now, when I click a tile to fire up Chrome, for instance, it fires it up and then takes me to the desktop? Why?

I have clearly stated I am happy to have one, or the other. I will get Metro working as I wish, but not if as soon as I click a tile it takes me to desktop anyway. It is retarded. Why can't you choose?
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What you are finding is that Windows 8 user experience is poor at best. Lots of people will shout at you and call you stupid because you can't "keep up with the times its a new way of doing it get used to it"

But just install classic shell or similar, gets your W7 experience back.

I love my Windows Phone 8 but Windows 8 on my laptop sucks :(
 
Izi said:
What you are finding is that Windows 8 user experience is poor at best. Lots of people will shout at you and call you stupid because you can't "keep up with the times its a new way of doing it get used to it"

But just install classic shell or similar, gets your W7 experience back.

I love my Windows Phone 8 but Windows 8 on my laptop sucks :(
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I'm the opposite love my Android Phone hate Win8 phone,happy with Win8 on my PC and laptop as well ,oh love my Andriod tablet as well ;) .
 
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PapaLazaru said:
How can Metro be the new start button when it has shortcuts on it? That is the whole point of the shortcut, to be used to access the programs you use most. The rest can just stay within the start button. Metro is no start button. I also don't recall have some dumb weather, or news program (or 'tile') appearing in it which I had to delete when I first installed Win7.

So Metro has all my shortcuts in front of me for when I boot up, just like a desktop. It essentially provides the same service which is easy access to my favourite programmes, but now, when I click a tile to fire up Chrome, for instance, it fires it up and then takes me to the desktop? Why?

I have clearly stated I am happy to have one, or the other. I will get Metro working as I wish, but not if as soon as I click a tile it takes me to desktop anyway. It is retarded. Why can't you choose?
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Only desktop applications will bounce you back to the desktop, windows store apps will run under Metro. That is why you can't chose one or the other. On my PC I treat the start screen as just a full screen start menu with live tiles; if I had a tablet it would be different because I would use Metro for the better touch optimized apps.

Fixed my activation by doing the phone activation which was stupid because all it did differently was prompt me for how many installs I had. Why the activation app couldn't just do that I'll never know.
 
Elevon said:
I'm the opposite love my Android Phone hate Win8 phone,happy with Win8 on my PC and laptop as well ,oh love my Andriod tablet as well ;) .
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I like my Android phone too :) Windows would come first if it had the same app store, but alas it needs time to mature.
 
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