Thread: Just for fun!

Ya got me! Yup, that was indeed a typo. It should have been .vbs and not .reg. My bad!

Thank you for catching that. I've corrected it in my original post.

But still, having a SATA III drive, on a SATA III controller really speeds up windows (any windows).

Happy Veterans Day!
The Doctor

I think to really compare the speeds fairly you would need a fresh install of Windows 7. Also you'd want to be running the same security software on both. Then factor in all of the updates that MS has issued for 7.
Joe

The test will only be reliable for the same user, on the same computer. There are many variables between boot up and desktop, and, even for the same user, the resulting figure can change. I regard the test as meaning from a cold boot (forget about hibernation etc), to the desktop, with, normally last for me, the internet/lan connection. By simple timing with my wristwatch, my original Windows 7 can vary by as much as 10 seconds either way.
It would be impossible to obtain realistic comparitive figures, among forum users, with vastly different hardware. I have even seen favourable comparisons for Windows 8 in a dual boot or even virtual environment. With Windows 8 as the boot manager, this is automatically flawed as it reboots into a second OS (7, for example)
BUT, as Drwho titles the thread, It's just for fun.

I believe the basic premise is that in most if not all configurations, Win 8 does indeed boot faster than Win 7. Comparing my boot times to davehc boot times to DrWho boot times is really pointless, and yes the boot times do vary (I can agree to the 10 seconds mentioned above). I do not think a good comparisson can be made to the day to day operating speeds yet because this version of Win 8 DP is lacking many features, and does have bugs, etc. Once we get closer to RTM these comparissons may make more sense.

As DrWho has done, I have my Win 8 DP set up to the desktop mode with the Metro UI disabled (using the reg. mod. Using Method 1 Captain Jack mentions caused many other problems.). I really could not get used to the tiles concept. We'll see in future iterations.

Once I used the batch file to delete the .dll file, (Method #1) I could not get icons to stay where I placed them on the desktop. There may have been other problems too, but that's all I can attest to.
Once I restored that .dll file and ran only the #2 option, the registry tweak, the desktop worked as it should and I was able to line up my desktop icons the way I want them.

I'm writing this from brand new install, on a PC that no-one should ever install Win-8 on.
It's an old Compag desktop about six years old, that a customer gave me last week.
It came with a single core AMD processor, 512 megs of ram and an 80 gig hard drive.
I increased the ram to 2 gigs, and the HD to a 200 gig, SATA II drive. The PSU shot craps on me
while I was making the improvements, so that's new too.

For some reason, when I hit the Enter key to make a new sentence or create a new paragraph, nothing happens.
I have to just keep typing.
Since I can't create paragraphs, I'll keep this short.
Win-8 came up with an acceptable video driver, but not optimal and I can't seem to find a Win-7 driver for that old
SiS Enhanced Graphics Port. (on-board video)

It could not find a sound driver either, so I spent a lot of time on my XP machine, searching for AC97 Win-7 Sound drivers,
but I finally found some that were written for Win-7, and they worked! Voila!
But it took several hours to find a Network connection that would work both on this old PC and with Win-8.
I finally settled on an Airlink 101, WiFi, (usb) adapter. It's new enough that it came with Win-7 drivers, which do work.
So here I am, finally on line, at wireless N speed. Not bad.
After a while, I did find drivers that worked for the On-Board LAN adapter. So now I have both, WiFi and LAN.

As expected, AVG errored out and would not load. Thunderbird loaded and works as expected.
I've not installed any anti-virus program yet. I'll probably use Malware Bytes Pro, as I know it does work with Win-8.
I won't be doing anything dangerous, like my banking, on Win-8, so minimal AV/AS protection should be adequate.

I downloaded the City Lights theme and it too is working great.
Now if I can just figure out, why I can't use my Enter key to create a new paragraph.
I've seen this before, but I don't remember how I corrected it. I'm on my XP-Pro computer right now and everything
is working according to plan. I'm using Firefox 8.0

Cheers Mates,
The Doctor

I'm back on my main computer and using Firefox 8.0 for my browser, to work this forum and to make
corrections to the above post.
I just couldn't leave it looking like something that a teenager did on his cell phone. Eh?
I'll go back to the old Compaq and check out my settings in Firefox.

The inability to use the enter key, seems to be unique to IE10 and the text editor used by this site. We noticed this a bit early on in the testing of Win8 DP. http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-...-not-work.html
And as for the AC97 Driver have a look at this thread, had to post it as I couldn't believe I got it to work. AC'97 Audio Driver

I don't use I.E. anything.
I had the problem with the enter key once before, but for the life of me I can't remember what I had to do to fix it.
Old age has taken its toll. Eh?

Sorry, I assumed that since you said

I'm writing this from brand new install

That it was a brand new install and that you were using the default (only) browser that would be available on a "brand new install".
I see you edited your OP and said you found

some that were written for Win-7, and they worked!

Any chance of getting a link to those drivers from you. I would like to give them a try myself.
Thanks
Randy

Links? Duh! Ya gotta be kidding! As usual, I just Googled the He** out of it!, till I found something that actually worked.
I can't tell you how many attempts to find the right drivers failed, or how many hours I spent on the search, with me being led to some bogus "Drivers for hire" sites.
Some sites were so bad that the built in Security software wouldn't even let me go there. Now, that's bad!

By the time I finally found something that worked, my brain was totally fried, like scrambled eggs.

Which driver did you want? I might be able to zip it up and put it somewhere for a quick and easy download.
Maybe!, if I can find the download files. The AC97, Sound drivers would be the most likely ones that I could find.

On my newer PC, with a MSI motherboard, Win-7 and Win-8 both installed without me having to load even one driver.
That was sure a breath of fresh air.

Cheers Mates!