Thread: A View into Windows8

I have hit some snags with my WLM recovering and duplicating storage folders and causing a mess, twice now, so I will stick with Win 7 for checking my mail for now. I had both pointing to the same folders and found it started having hiccups. I guess I will just check mail less often and switch back when I do.

I like to use the most advanced editor in these forums and because of the Enter button snafu, find I have to switch to the Standard Editor to get the Enter button to actually work when moving to a new paragraph. This is a problem reported in and carried forward from Win 8 DP. I had hoped it would have been fixed. Many others have said they have the same problem.

When typing along, my cursor will suddenly jump backward to another section of the paragraph I am working on. You can imagine the mess that creates. Especially if you do not catch it quickly. This might be related to the Enter button but I suspect not because it happens in the Standard Editor as well.

Yes I realize these are little quirks and this is after all a beta, but the last 2 were happening and were reported in Win 8 DP and were not addressed. That is dissappointing. I will continue to work in Win 8 CP for much of my time for the reason Drew has alluded to above. My hope is that MS will start fixing some of these small irritations along with fixing what they see as the big things like the Metro apps only partly done.

I am not a natural typist, and have similar probs, Ted. I have a lazy tendency not to read too closely, what I have typed. When I follow up a post, I often find, because of these quirks, that I have words, and even lines, of gibbersish. I have adopted the habit now of writing first in notepad or similar and then pasting.
I feel the ribbon is a little too overendowed, for use in explorer, but, nevertheless, I opted to use "STDU explorer" in Windows 7, so that I have.
Installation. I installed both 7 and 8, with dhardware rivers, including a very old Laser printer, without my intervention. internet access was ready and waiting on arrival at the desktop, in both.
I have emphasised, before, that my testbed is a very average model stationary, dual partition boot, 4 gbs memory.
I have to confess that the performance on my 8 is a little (nothing significant) sluggish compared to 7. CVould be due to a low grade graphics card, as Windows 8 is much more graphic intensive.

These are my two resource monitors. Both are performing under exactly the same conditions. Axs you can see, nothing there of significant performance difference.

I wonder how to best report these minor problems to MS. There are some Metro apps that provide a feedback tool, but there do not seem to be similar feedback tools all over. I do not like and do not envision using the Metro IE 10 app at all. I suppose I should see if these Enter Button and typing problems occur in the Metro IE 10 app. Perhaps there is a feedback tool there. Maybe I will get a chance to do that, if I can get past my gag reflex when I start that monstrosity.

I give up. I cannot use the Metro IE 10. I cannot get LastPass to work. I cannot remember my signin info for sites. I cannot find feedback links anyway. I cannot find favorites. I cannot find ANYTHING in Metro IE 10. This must be in very early stage of build. I am surprised MS even placed it into the OS. It is terrible.

I will keep the Desktop version of IE 10, thankyou.

On the feedback, Ted. There are several MS employees, of different ranks, as well as several MVPs. They will, in many cases, use your information to post through their sources.
Meanwhile, you could try here:

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Just a precautionary word. At some stage, should you get accepted, they will ask if they can have access to your computer.

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You are welcome to pass things to me & I will submit them directly to the Windows8 Build Team. I am a MS Beta-tester & have an established direct reporting link. Would just need comments written up in a presentable form.

Drew

I will do both gentlemen. I have further work to do however. A while ago my Win 8 CP froze while sleeping and I had to do a hard power down to unfreeze. It zapped my Win 7 so that I had to recover from an Image again. I am thinking of starting my Win 8 CP installation over from scratch. Something is causing problems. Twicw now freeze ups have led to having to restore Win 7. This is not nice. I will keep you advised.

You are probably aware, ted, that there is an official Windows 8 forum, where you can also express your views.
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There is also one. more in depth, here.
https://msmvps.com/login.aspx?Return...2fdefault.aspx