You can make buttons for shutdown/reboot/hibernate in the new startmenu or on the desktop. I love how fast it is to find an app, press windows key and type it's name! Plus Windows 8 is much faster than Windows 7 and i'm perfectly happy with it on my old laptop Folder size hovering: Basically most of the things you hate seem to be user inflicted or otherwise exclusive to you.. It takes 10-15 seconds to hibernate my laptop and it's 6 years old.. File locks are the same for me like they were in XP, use unlocker..
Im sticking with Windows 8- ignoring the Metro start menu completely, I'm loving it. It's got a nice set of features that make it worth my while. Sounds are better and the theme, with no prior modification, looks up to date and classy- none of that glossy glass-like theme shit from vista/7. I liked it back then, but now... it's a dated look. Not to mention efficiency. Loving my SSD boot times. I have an issue with the 8.1 dev preview I have installed- the new start button covers up my Start8 button. Right click menu still works, which is sufficient.
You have to disable "hide protected operating system files" to see Desktop.ini. You'll also see it if you use a 3rd party file browser, or if you browse your computer with WinRAR. Those OS X folders are made by OS X for folder settings and thumbnails, they are created when a volume/directory is accessed by OS X.
Right, but going up a directory and waiting for a hover balloon is even less convenient than opening properties. I also know you can manually select every file as well, as long as you pick out every shortcut/URL/non-file... In XP you immediately get a quote. Well apart from my sleep/network issues (which shouldn't be a problem from a major OEM) they are a matter of preference, but coming from XP it's disappointing to LOSE functionality I'm used to. I also use Unlocker for hopeless situations, but there shouldn't be a need for it. XP is far faster at unlocking files so sometimes I actually organize media folders over a network share from an XP netbook! Another thing I thought of is that sometimes Win 8 will literally hang for a few moments while the HD spins up as if it's fetching virtual memory or crap for background processes, which it shouldn't be. This behavior is really inexcusable since there's no reason for blocking I/O today.
I've had problems like that occasionally, but I had the same problem in Windows 7. Windows 8 is exactly the same, windows key takes you to start screen, start typing and it starts searching, press enter and it launches.
Are you sure you can't do exactly this in Win 8 as well? At the start screen you can just type stuff so the workflow "Win key -> start typing name of application" is exactly like in win 7. Not sure if Enter then actually triggers the top suggestion but would be very suprised if not. Problem is like with pretty much erything else in win 8, there's not a single hint about that you can do this.
In the time that I used Windows 8, I never had problems (for the most part) with Windows 8 and I enjoy it. I don't see why Windows 8 gets all of the flack that it does. I get that people are turned off with the tiles look and the "tablet" feel but people need to take into consideration that Windows 8 is just that. Using Windows 8 is best experienced on a tablet/touch-screen because you take full utilization of the features that it has to offer. I only ever had one gripe with Windows 8 and that was with gaming. I might not have the most powerful machine but it has handled everything I've thrown at it on Very High/Max settings; however, on Windows 8, I get about half the frame rate and it seems like it throttles my system to a slow crawl. It wasn't my drivers or anything from what I saw, however that is the only true gripe that I had with Windows 8. I say had because I'm updating my motherboard since my Gigabyte mobo had a dead DDR3 slot and overall is dead. Everything else I did though on Windows 8 was speedy and efficient compared to Windows 7.
The major issue is that it mixes two COMPLETELY different Ui paradigms with different rules and it is impossible to stay within one of them. (in classic mode and want to start another application? go to metro. using a bunch of metro apps and want to use the calculator? sorry thats a classic app, off to classic mode you go.) just the fact that they couldnt be bothered making a metro version of the calculator says a bit of what a schizofrenic mess the thing is. Mandatory car analogy: windows 7 is a car. windows 8 is both a car and a bike - which would be terrific if you could choose when to use them, but in win 8, the car must always parked at least 300 m from your house and you, for inexplicable reaons, Must always take the bike to get between your house and your car. AND, there are several places you need to go that can only reached by car. Not only is it annoying to constantly switch vehicle, but a new user must for no logical reason (within the user's best nterest) learn, simultaneously, how to ride the bike AND to drive a car, at the same time, before anything useful gets done.
Hey, Hawanja, are you the same one that started the Ultimate Console Database. I still use that site for reference
Swicthed to Mac after trying to get used to Win 8, partially because it's a course requirement, but I will be sticking with it if Win8 is M$'s future. I didn't even like tiles on the XBox, I can't stand it on a non-touch device. It belongs on a phone or a tablet like the Win8 RT/Pro tablets. It's fast, I'll grant it that but previous Windows could have been just as fast if they took the time to remove the redundant bloatware. If they want to integrate like MacOSX and iOS they should perhaps do what Apple do and have OS with a similar style but different UI, using a compatible underlying kernel. IMO M$ have lost the plot, I think this will be the beginning of a long swan song for them. Especially now OpenGL is getting a grip again, Steam has gone over to OSX and Linux and they've killed off XNA. The only reason most home users keep hold of M$ OS is for games (DirectX), which will soon become optional.
Yep, but don't forget that Microsoft are still HUGE in the corporate world (Windows Server, Active Directory, SQL Server, BizTalk, SharePoint, Windows clients etc) so they wont be gone anywhere soon. To stay relevant in the consumer market though, they will have to start listening to what users actually want.
Somehow Apple can get away with dictating to consumers what they need and they accept it. Microsoft does it and the entire internet attempts a dual crucifiction and burning at the stake. Granted there are plenty of people who lambast Apple for the smallest of details but short of Apple Maps they don't get nearly the flak Microsoft does.
Exactly, no thanks. Though long rusty by now... My roots are things like the Commodore 64 and Windows 3x. Mobile phone type interfaces I'll never truly grasp.
Agreed, although I think the problem is what Apple gets away with rather than what Microsoft has to put up with. Microsoft certainly deserve the criticism they have amassed...
