Windows 8 - 16 hours in ... Questions

Subliminal Aura · 7 Dec 2012 at 10:58

Hi chaps,

I'm going to be running Windows 8 on a test bench until I fully commit and so far so good.

Only issues I have were with an SSD stall (possibly fixed with the Intel drivers and windows updates) and aggressive CPU scaling (this may actually be a good thing for those on a laptop)

Here's my desktop at the moment

Modifications made

- Classic shell installed - all hot corners disabled metro is still running accessed via shift-windows key. Windows key goes straight to classic shell search

- Pagefile moved to separate partition, hibernate disabled - all these files removed

I was wondering if someone could help me with the following ?

Problems

- Fn function keys for sound do not work but other keys work

- Taskbar is set to autohide but I would prefer it to be quicker - Is there a regedit or something that I can use ? (IMPORTANT)

- Need a systray widget to show cpu usage and memory usage

- Systay clock - how the heck do I change it from 24hour to something else ? // EDIT: sorted via Regional Settings

Any help or pointers would be warmly welcomed

Subliminal Aura · 7 Dec 2012 at 11:43

Yep you're right and I'm all for the new start but it just does my head in having a full screen switch that that. Classic start will do the same in as many keystrokes

I've got windows 8 preview on the desktop and I use that exactly as it is meant to be used without classic start but on the laptop I'm use to a different layout and UEX that I'm trying to replicate.

I'll try to fudge some windows 7 drivers in there for the keys

......

So one issue left .... An app to show me cpu and memory usage ?

Argh - autohide !

Subliminal Aura · 7 Dec 2012 at 12:50

shuffle said:
Hi
you can pin the Resource Monitor to your start screen?
I like using the Disk Clean up too and have pinned that to my start screen instead of using CCleaner.
I'd like to know how to disable hotcorners in desktop too.

Yeah I've seen this trick.... Ugly to say the least.

Surely there's an app somewhere to do this ?

Disable hotcorners via the frowned upon classic-shell

What about autohide guys ?

Subliminal Aura · 7 Dec 2012 at 15:48

Nope I use the silly menu all the time to launch and find apps / settings. No way would I follow the tree hierarchy to find stuff but it's there nonetheless.

Yep install is only a day old so cpu-z etc will be there until the install settles and I can remove them

Subliminal Aura · 7 Dec 2012 at 17:28

NathanE said:
PS: I didn't know people still used SVN

Yes that's better .... stop jumping to conclusions mate.... I expected better from you

ps I also still maintain CVS 'yes I did say CVS' repositories going back 15 years. Don't judge too quickly

.... and if you read above I do use metro exclusively on my desktop without any third party apps. The work flow on my laptop however needs to be different thanks.

Rather than critique my setup ... back OT, anyone know how to tweak the autohide timeout ? Cheers

Subliminal Aura · 7 Dec 2012 at 17:38

NathanE said:
I was only joking

Yeah and I hope I get the job of configuration/release architect at your workplace and personally rape your ****

Subliminal Aura · 7 Dec 2012 at 20:12

thenewoc said:
Being a laptop, I would have thought you'd create a hibernate partition the same size as your ram so you could use intel rapid start.

That would be nice if my chipset supported it

I have tried rapid start on other machines and found it more beneficial for desktop where BIOS init can take ages.... it skips all that and gets to loading the image file straight away. However on a laptop the BIOS is done with in a very short period of time and boot via an SSD commences so in all fairness for laptops it's not a big gain.

The only benefit of it is to store system state.... Again habits curb me towards shutting down apps cleanly or suspending to RAM