Windows 8 Consumer Preview Thread

Anyone running dual screens? My second screen res is screwed for some reason. Works fine in Win7 - but not in Win8.
 
haha yeah my monitors are 1920x1200 res. i have a wallpaper folder full of 1920x1200 res and 3840x1200 res pics. It automatically knows if it should span the picture over both screens or put 2 seperate ones up. and it revolves around them all really nice :)
 
groen said:
I always immediately closed that and disabled all reporting to MS and i am sure most users who don't have 100 icons on their desktop did the same thing.

I use the start menu fairly frequently. I don't use the desktop. I think a lot of people use the pinned start menu items, well based on my experience.
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I am an experienced user and am happy to allow anonymous reporting to Microsoft. It's typically paranoid people and network admins dealing with managed computers that disable it - the same people that usually disable automatic Windows updates. You certainly cannot claim to speak for all experienced users.

groen said:
Yes primary applications will be on the taskbar. But most people do not pin every application on their pc to the taskbar. They pin secondary applications to their start menu for easy access.

Unless you one of those people that just IE and go to facebook and check your yahoo mail. Then you would use windows 7 in a similar way.
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The taskbar is where your most used programs are pinned. I do use the Start Menu in Win7 to pin additional programs that I use less frequently but then the new metro Start Screen is much better suited to that - you can pin more apps, they have a larger area to click on, if they support Metro they can have additional notifications, they can easily be arranged through click & drag (in Win7 you have to pin them then drag them), etc. And again, you cannot dismiss everybody that uses computers differently to use as a IE / Facebook simpleton. It's completely unreasonable, baseless and childish.

groen said:
They also say people like jump lists, i have never met anyone who likes jump lists working within IT. jump lists on the start menu and the taskbar are extremely annoying, at least one positive thing about the new fullscreen mess of a start menu is no jump lists.
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I regularly use Jump Lists to access folders in Explorer, incognito mode in Chrome, recent games in Steam, to launch additional versions of an application, etc. You cannot claim to be an advanced user if you refuse to adapt to new features and instead live in the past. I don't think that Jump Lists are a hugely compelling feature but they are useful.

Having used the Consumer Preview for a few days now I can say that many of the new additions are incredibly welcome. The Control Panel is accessible as quickly as before by right-clicking on the bottom left of the screen, as well as quicker access to other important tools like Device Manager, Power Options, Command Prompt, Network Connections, etc. The Explorer ribbon makes it easier to operate the computer one-handed (for instance exposing the permanent delete functionality, select all and inverse selections), which is great when you're drinking a cup of tea or eating.

There's plenty that I don't like or I'm not yet used to but your complaints seem to revolve around resistance to change rather than legitimate concerns with the operating system, like the extra steps required to shut-down the computer, like the way you can't click the start popup unless you first move you mouse up the side of the screen and then back down, or the way the charm bar doesn't work at all well with multi-monitor setups. You just seem to be annoyed because you refuse to learn the new time saving functionality into Windows 8.
 
ok, sorry if this has been mentioned before, but am I the only one that has a noisy hard drive with windows 8?
every now and then you can really hear it, on both machines I had it installed, I put my spare desktop back to vista and the noise stopped.
 
Murray said:
How!!!?
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You have to set your desktop backgrounds as a slideshow, so for 3 screens select at least 3 pictures to use, and it'll set one for each screen - if 2 are the same right click on the desktop and click next desktop background (repeat if necessary).

Don't think there's a way of setting 3 different ones permanently, but you can set them to change every 24hrs, and of course you can now span backgrounds across screens so you could make a single image of the 3 wallpapers you want and set that as a single wallpaper. :)
 
I've installed it on my Acer Iconia Tab, it's much better than win7 on a tablet, far more usable

not sure I'll bother on my desktop though as I prefer the old style start menu / desktop for mouse use
 
Hmm, not sure how much I like this. Think it's slightly lacking drivers for my monitor at the moment. But I'm not getting all the touchscreen stuff that I'd hoped for :(

How are people on tablets finding the touchscreen? Does it do everything correctly?

(found shutdown btw)

kd
 
Hmm, yeah I have my doubts about Windows 8 to be honest.

It doesn't feel as smooth as I'd like it to, and things are too many clicks away. I was really hoping that this would mean that everything was two clicks away, but it just doesn't seem like it is.

Not being able to use some apps because of Region is a bit annoying at the moment, and it doesn't seem to be too fond of dual screens, because it doesn't like when I go into the corner to load stuff up - something which is arguably too slow a process in itself.. It pauses to check what you want to do. Which is nice, I don't want it popping up all the time, but on the other hand, when you do want to go to that, the pause is too long.

kd
 
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